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This concise, accessible text provides a thorough introduction to quantum computing - an exciting emergent field at the interface of the computer, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences. Aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in these disciplines, the text is technically detailed and is clearly illustrated throughout with diagrams and exercises. Some prior knowledge of linear algebra is assumed, including vector spaces and inner products. However, prior familiar...

This book presents the state of the art in modeling and simulation on supercomputers. Leading German research groups present their results achieved on high-end systems of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) for the year 2003. The reports cover all fields of computational science and engineering ranging from computational fluid dynamics via computational physics and chemistry to computer science. Special emphasis is given to industrially relevant applications. Presenting result...

In contemporary research, the supercomputer now ranks, along with radio telescopes, particle accelerators and the other apparatus of "big science", as an expensive resource, which is nevertheless essential for state of the art research. Supercomputers are usually provided as shar.ed central facilities. However, unlike, telescopes and accelerators, they are find a wide range of applications which extends across a broad spectrum of research activity. The difference in performance between a "good"...

Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems involving quantum mechanical physics, weather forecasting, climate research (including research into global warming), molecular modelling (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals), physical simulations (such as simulation of aeroplanes in wind tunnels, simulation of the detonation of nuclear weapons, and research into nuclear fusion), cryptanaly...

Weather forecasting and climatology have traditionally been users of the world's fastest supercomputers. The recent emergence of massively parallel supercomputers as likely successors to current vector supercomputers has created an acute need to convert weather and climate models to suit parallel supercomputers with thousands of processors. Several major efforts are underway worldwide to accomplish this. ECMWF has established itself as the central venue for bringing together operational weather...

This book addresses process variability and power management for embedded memories, which are becoming dominant components in today's Systems on Chip (SoCs). It provides thorough background on voltage scaling and the reliability effects on memories, while describing memory behavior at different voltages and frequencies. The authors describe a cross-layer approach, simultaneously targeting the manufacturing of devices, the inner-design of the memory circuits, as well as the way they are architec...

Background subtraction is a widely used concept for detection of moving objects in videos. In the last two decades there has been a lot of development in designing algorithms for background subtraction, as well as wide use of these algorithms in various important applications, such as visual surveillance, sports video analysis, motion capture, etc. Various statistical approaches have been proposed to model scene backgrounds. The concept of background subtraction also has been extended to detect...

Many applications in different domains need to calculate the shortest-path between two points in a graph. In this paper we describe this shortest path problem in detail, starting with the classic Dijkstra's algorithm and moving to more advanced solutions that are currently applied to road network routing, including the use of heuristics and precomputation techniques. Since several of these improvements involve subtle changes to the search space, it may be difficult to appreciate their benefits i...

A practical guide to building PIC and STM32 microcontroller board applications with C and C++ programmingKey FeaturesDiscover how to apply microcontroller boards in real life to create interesting IoT projectsCreate innovative solutions to help improve the lives of people affected by the COVID-19 pandemicDesign, build, program, and test microcontroller-based projects with the C and C++ programming languageBook DescriptionWe live in a world surrounded by electronic devices, and microcontrollers a...

There is a growing interest in programming languages and systems, and computational models based on intensional logics — such as temporal logic, interval logic and modal logic — and possible world semantics. In fact, a whole new programming model called intensional programming has emerged with applications in a wide range of areas including parallel programming, dataflow computation, temporal reasoning, scientific computation, software version control, real-time programming, temporal query langu...

Pocket PC: Visual QuickStart Guide is aimed squarely at the 3 million Pocket PC users (expected to be 6 million by the end of 2003) who don't take full advantage of their Pocket PC PDAs because, with little or no documentation, they simply don't know what the devices are capable of doing. In this visual, task-based reference, C. P. Collins and Tracy Brown help readers get up to speed quickly on everything they can do with their Pocket Pcs--checking multiple email accounts, synchronizing with p...

Publisher’s note: This edition from 2018 is outdated and does not include edge computing. A new second edition, updated for edge computing and the messaging protocols like MQTT 5.0 and CoAP, has now been published.Key FeaturesBuild a complete IoT system that is the best fit for your organizationLearn about different concepts, technologies, and tradeoffs in the IoT architectural stackUnderstand the theory, concepts, and implementation of each element that comprises IoT design―from sensors to the...

This book presents the state-of-the-art in modelling and simulation on supercomputers. Leading German researchers present results achieved on systems of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) for the year 2005. The reports cover all fields of computational science and engineering, ranging from CFD via computational physics and chemistry to computer science. Special emphasis is given to industrially relevant applications. Presenting results for both vector-systems and micro-proces...

The result of a lecture series, this textbook is oriented towards students and newcomers to the field and discusses theoretical foundations as well as experimental realizations in detail. The authors are experienced teachers and have tailored this book to the needs of students. They present the basics of quantum communication and quantum information processing, leading readers to modern technical implementations. In addition, they discuss errors and decoherence as well as methods of avoiding and...

Kinder und Jugendliche bewegen sich heutzutage wie selbstverst?ndlich im Internet - sei es mit dem Computer oder dem Smartphone. Dies ist auch durchaus unterst?tzenswert, da sie von zahlreichen Informations-, Kommunikations- und Unterhaltungsangeboten profitieren k?nnen. Die Vielzahl der M?glichkeiten bringt allerdings auch einige Gefahren mit sich - dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie Ihr Kind sicher davor sch?tzen. Sie erfahren, wie Sie den Computer oder das Smartphone kindersicher einrichten,...

Streamlined Design Solutions Specifically for NoCTo solve critical network-on-chip (NoC) architecture and design problems related to structure, performance and modularity, engineers generally rely on guidance from the abundance of literature about better-understood system-level interconnection networks. However, on-chip networks present several distinct challenges that require novel and specialized solutions not found in the tried-and-true system-level techniques. A Balanced Analysis of NoC Arc...

Building a computer ten times more powerful than all the networked computing capability in the United States is the subject of this book by leading figures in the high performance computing community. It summarizes the near-term initiatives, including the technical and policy agendas for what could be a twenty-year effort to build a petaFLOP scale computer. (A FLOP -- Floating Point OPeration -- is a standard measure of computer performance and a PetaFLOP computer would perform a million billion...