Writing Scientific Software
A Guide to Good Style
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- Authors:
- Suely Oliveira, University of Iowa
- David E. Stewart, University of Iowa
- Date Published: September 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521675956
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The core of scientific computing is designing, writing, testing, debugging and modifying numerical software for application to a vast range of areas: from graphics, meteorology and chemistry to engineering, biology and finance. Scientists, engineers and computer scientists need to write good code, for speed, clarity, flexibility and ease of re-use. Oliveira and Stewart's style guide for numerical software points out good practices to follow, and pitfalls to avoid. By following their advice, readers will learn how to write efficient software, and how to test it for bugs, accuracy and performance. Techniques are explained with a variety of programming languages, and illustrated with two extensive design examples, one in Fortran 90 and one in C++: other examples in C, C++, Fortran 90 and Java are scattered throughout the book. This manual of scientific computing style will be an essential addition to the bookshelf and lab of everyone who writes numerical software.
Read more- Gives tips, hints and guidelines for good style in C, C++, Fortran 90 and Java
- Covers important development tools such as profilers, version control and automated builds
- Describes template programming and techniques for high-performance software
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'Writing Scientific Software bridges the chasm that too often separates numerical analysis from real scientific computing. It is full of tips, tricks, and just plain interesting information. The reader will learn how to write code that takes advantage of many hidden features in modern computer architectures, programming languages, and compilers. This is a book that is full of good sense.' William H. Press, author of Numerical Recipes
See more reviews'The book is a useful tool working in the filed of scientific computations…' Zentralblatt MATH
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- Date Published: September 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521675956
- length: 316 pages
- dimensions: 174 x 246 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.549kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Numerical Software:
1. Why numerical software?
2. Scientific computation and numerical analysis
3. Priorities
4. Famous disasters
5. Exercises
Part II. Developing Software:
6. Basics of computer organization
7. Software design
8. Modularity and all that
9. Data structures
10. Design for testing and debugging
11. Exercises
Part III. Efficiency in Time, Efficiency in Memory:
12. Be algorithm aware
13. Computer architecture and efficiency
14. Global vs. local optimization
15. Grabbing memory when you need it
16. Memory bugs and leaks
Part IV. Tools:
17. Sources of scientific software
18. Unix tools
19. Cubic spline function library
20. Multigrid algorithms
Appendix A: review of vectors and matrices
Appendix B: trademarks
Bibliography
Index.-
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