Advanced Computational Infrastructures for Parallel and Distributed Applications [electronic resource]

This unique, cross-disciplinary reference investigates the state of the art in advanced computational infrastructures and the applications they support. It provides a comprehensive discussion of the requirements, challenges, underlying philosophies, and deployment of infrastructures that provide programming, execution, and runtime management for large-scale adaptive implementations. The information is presented from the perspective of system architects, software engineers, computational scientists, and applications scientists, making the book useful for practitioners and students in these fields.