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SUPERCOMPUTING AND SPATIAL STATISTICS: A RECONNAISSANCE.

The article focuses on spatial statistics and supercomputing. A supercomputer offers enormous central processing unit memory capabilities and achieves increased scientific computing speed in one of two ways. A supercomputer may have vectorization facilities, in which entire arrays, rather than indiv...

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Publicado en:Professional Geographer Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 481 - 493
Autor principal: Griffith, Daniel A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov90
Materias:
Supercomputers
Statistics
Computers
Parallel processing
Memory
Reconnaissance operations
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
Sumario:The article focuses on spatial statistics and supercomputing. A supercomputer offers enormous central processing unit memory capabilities and achieves increased scientific computing speed in one of two ways. A supercomputer may have vectorization facilities, in which entire arrays, rather than individual scalar numbers, are dealt with in a single operation. Additionally, a supercomputer may use parallelization of program code in which a computer program is decomposed into independent tasks that are executed in parallel by different integrated processors.