Recommended Reading

These texts are a good place to look if you want to learn more about topics covered
in this course. They may also be useful as you begin to do research for your final
paper. They are not required.


"The Grid : blueprint for a new computing infrastructure"
Ian Foster & Carl Kesselman
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999
(Overview of Contents Available)

"The Supermen"
Charles J. Murray
Wiley, 1997

"A Few Good Men From Univac"
David E. Lundstrom
MIT Press, 1987

"Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science"
William J. Kaufmann III & Larry Smarr
Scientific American Library, 1993

"The Supercomputer Era"
Sidney Karin & Norris Parker Smith
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987

CACM issue devoted to NPACI
Volume 41, No. 11, November 1998

CACM issue devoted to NCSA
Volume 40, No. 11, November 1997
 

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