Los Alamos Science 1994 №22

High-performance computing. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1994, 146 p.
Popular science magazine about new achievements in physics, experimental techniques and computer simulation.
LANL has been at the forefront of scientific computing since before the invention of electronic computers. For several decades it collaborated with industry on the development of large-scale computers and in the early 1990's helped initiate the shift to massively parallel computing. LANL also pioneered the development of powerful algorithms for computations and simulations in the physical sciences. Beginning with a tutorial explaining how computers work, this volume covers some of LANL's best known software contributions, including a Monte Carlo code for particle transport, molecular dynamics software for materials science, and advanced tree codes for simulating the evolution of the universe. Finally, Paul Ginsparg, the creator of xxx.lanl.gov, discusses the motivation for the first electronic research archive.Windows on Computing: New Initiatives at Los Alamos - (David W. Forslund, Charles A. Slocomb, and Ira A. Agins).
Collaborations with Industry on Parallel Computing – (Bruce R. Wienke).
How Computers Work: An Introduction to Serial, Vector, and Parallel Computers - (Gerald A. Friedman, Douglas D. Lemon, and Tony T. Warnock).
HIPPI - The First Standard for High-Performance Networking - (Stephen C. Tenbrink and Donald E. Tolmie)
A Monte Carlo Code for Particle Transport - (John S. Hendricks).
State-of-the-Art Parallel Computing - Molecular Dynamics on the Connection Machine - (Peter S. Lomdahl and David M. Beazley).
Experimental Cosmology and the Puzzle of Large-Scale Structure – (Wojciech H. Zurek and Michael S. Warren).
Big Bang Cosmology and the Microwave Background – (Salman Habib and Raymond J. Laflamme).
A Fast Tree Code for Many-Body Problems – (Michael S. Warren and John K. Salmon).
Lattice-Boltzmann Fluid Dynamics - A Versatile Tool for Multiphase and Other Complicated Flows - (Shiyi Chen, Gary D. Doolen, and Kenneth G. Eggert).
Toward Improved Prediction of Reservoir Flow Performance - Simulating Oil and Water Flows at the Pore Scale - (John J. Buckles, Randy D. Hazlett, Shiyi Chen, Kenneth G. Eggert, Daryl W. Grunau, and Wendy E. Soil).
Concept Extraction - A Data Mining Technique - (Vance Faber, Judith G. Hochberg, Patrick M. Kelly, Timothy R. Thomas, and James M. White).
Clustering and the Continuous k-Means Algorithm - (Vance Faber).
The Digital Village Initiative - (John D. MacCuish, Susan M. Mniszewski, Gregory E. Shannon, and Bonnie C Yantis).
xxx.lanl.gov — First Steps Toward Electronic Research Communication – (Paul H. Ginsparg).