Automatic Differentiation of Algorithms
Automatic Differentiation of Algorithms

Author: George Corliss

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1461300754

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A survey book focusing on the key relationships and synergies between automatic differentiation (AD) tools and other software tools, such as compilers and parallelizers, as well as their applications. The key objective is to survey the field and present the recent developments. In doing so the topics covered shed light on a variety of perspectives. They reflect the mathematical aspects, such as the differentiation of iterative processes, and the analysis of nonsmooth code. They cover the scientific programming aspects, such as the use of adjoints in optimization and the propagation of rounding errors. They also cover "implementation" problems.

Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition

Author: Dave Taylor

Publisher: No Starch Press

Published: 2016-10-15

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1593277830

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Shell scripts are an efficient way to interact with your machine and manage your files and system operations. With just a few lines of code, your computer will do exactly what you want it to do. But you can also use shell scripts for many other essential (and not-so-essential) tasks. This second edition of Wicked Cool Shell Scripts offers a collection of useful, customizable, and fun shell scripts for solving common problems and personalizing your computing environment. Each chapter contains ready-to-use scripts and explanations of how they work, why you’d want to use them, and suggestions for changing and expanding them. You'll find a mix of classic favorites, like a disk backup utility that keeps your files safe when your system crashes, a password manager, a weather tracker, and several games, as well as 23 brand-new scripts, including: – ZIP code lookup tool that reports the city and state – Bitcoin address information retriever – suite of tools for working with cloud services like Dropbox and iCloud – for renaming and applying commands to files in bulk – processing and editing tools Whether you want to save time managing your system or just find new ways to goof off, these scripts are wicked cool!

Evolutionary Multi-Agent Systems
Evolutionary Multi-Agent Systems

Author: Aleksander Byrski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-21

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 3319513885

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This book addresses agent-based computing, concentrating in particular on evolutionary multi-agent systems (EMAS), which have been developed since 1996 at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland. It provides the relevant background information on and a detailed description of this computing paradigm, along with key experimental results. Readers will benefit from the insightful discussion, which primarily concerns the efficient implementation of computing frameworks for developing EMAS and similar computing systems, as well as a detailed formal model. Theoretical deliberations demonstrating that computing with EMAS always helps to find the optimal solution are also included, rounding out the coverage.

Evaluating Derivatives
Evaluating Derivatives

Author: Andreas Griewank

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2008-11-06

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0898716594

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This title is a comprehensive treatment of algorithmic, or automatic, differentiation. The second edition covers recent developments in applications and theory, including an elegant NP completeness argument and an introduction to scarcity.

Parallel Computing Works!
Parallel Computing Works!

Author: Geoffrey C. Fox

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-06-28

Total Pages: 1012

ISBN-13: 0080513514

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A clear illustration of how parallel computers can be successfully appliedto large-scale scientific computations. This book demonstrates how avariety of applications in physics, biology, mathematics and other scienceswere implemented on real parallel computers to produce new scientificresults. It investigates issues of fine-grained parallelism relevant forfuture supercomputers with particular emphasis on hypercube architecture. The authors describe how they used an experimental approach to configuredifferent massively parallel machines, design and implement basic systemsoftware, and develop algorithms for frequently used mathematicalcomputations. They also devise performance models, measure the performancecharacteristics of several computers, and create a high-performancecomputing facility based exclusively on parallel computers. By addressingall issues involved in scientific problem solving, Parallel ComputingWorks! provides valuable insight into computational science for large-scaleparallel architectures. For those in the sciences, the findings reveal theusefulness of an important experimental tool. Anyone in supercomputing andrelated computational fields will gain a new perspective on the potentialcontributions of parallelism. Includes over 30 full-color illustrations.