AMSTERDAM, April 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Amsterdam's Anwar Osseyran (SURFsara) and Urbana-Champaign's Merle Giles (University of Illinois) along with 40 contributors from 11 countries supply computer engineers and researchers with a state-of-the-art supercomputing reference. This book from CRC Press also keeps policymakers and industrial decision-makers informed about the economic impact of these powerful technological investments.

The publication, Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing: Best Global Practices, offers a global overview of high-performance computing (HPC) for industrial applications, along with a discussion of software challenges, business models, access models (e.g., cloud computing), public-private partnerships, simulation and modeling, visualization, big data analysis, and governmental and industrial influence.

"This new book gives a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the rapidly expanding field of the industrial use of supercomputers. It is just a pleasure reading through informative country reports and in-depth case studies contributed by leading researchers in the field."

-Jysoo Lee, Principal Researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information 

"Science, and therefore supercomputing, finds its way into industry around the world, affecting our lives in ways that are simple (cleaner clothes, faster speedboats, and more spin on a seven-iron) and profound (fewer drug interactions, safer cars, and new energy sources). Altogether, industry consumes more than half of all high performance computing usage worldwide. This book tells that story."

-Addison Snell, CEO, Intersect360 Research 

About CRC Press: CRC Press is a premier publisher of scientific, technology and medical resources, reaching around the globe to collect essential reference material and the latest advances and making them available to researchers, academics, professionals and students in a variety of accessible formats. CRC Press is a member of Taylor & Francis Group. For more information, visit http://www.crcpress.com.

ISBN: 978-1-4665-9680-1

€ 89,36 for hardback, € 40,50 for ebook

About SURFsara: SURFsara supports researchers and works closely together with the academic community and industry in the Netherlands.

SURFsara is the national High Performance Computing Center. It offers an integrated ICT research infrastructure and provides services in the areas of computing, data storage, visualization, networking, cloud and e-Science.

For more information, visit http://www.surfsara.nl

SOURCE SURFsara