1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459056703321

Autore

Levesque John M.

Titolo

High performance computing : programming and applications / / John Levesque ; with Gene Wagenbreth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla : , : CRC Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-429-14458-X

1-4200-7706-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Chapman & Hall/CRC computational science series

Altri autori (Persone)

WagenbrethGene

Disciplina

004.1/1

Soggetti

High performance computing

Supercomputers - Programming

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A Chapman & Hall book.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Multicore Architectures; Chapter 2. The MPP; Chapter 3. How Compilers Optimize Programs; Chapter 4. Parallel Programming Paradigms; Chapter 5. A Strategy for Porting an Application to a Large MPP System; Chapter 6. Single Core Optimization; Chapter 7. Parallelism across the Nodes; Chapter 8. Node Performance; Chapter 9. Accelerators and Conclusion; Appendix A: Common Compiler Directives; Appendix B: Sample MPI Environment Variables; References; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

High Performance Computing: Programming and Applications presents techniques that address new performance issues in the programming of high performance computing (HPC) applications. Omitting tedious details, the book discusses hardware architecture concepts and programming techniques that are the most pertinent to application developers for achieving high performance. Even though the text concentrates on C and Fortran, the techniques described can be applied to other languages, such as C++ and Java. Drawing on their experience with chips from AMD and systems, interconnects, and software from C



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792904003321

Autore

MacGregor Sherilyn <1969->

Titolo

Beyond mothering earth [[electronic resource] ] : ecological citizenship and the politics of care / / Sherilyn MacGregor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2006

ISBN

0-7748-5531-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 286 pages)

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Ecofeminism

Human ecology - Political aspects

Caring

Women and the environment

Environmentalism

Ecofeminisme

Humanite (Morale)

Femmes et environnement

Ecologisme

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Earthcare or Feminist Ecological Citizenship? -- Theoretical Interrogations -- The Roots and Rhetoric of Ecomaternalism -- "Down among the Women": Ecofeminism and Identity Politics at the Grassroots¹ -- From Care to Citizenship: Calling Ecofeminism Back to Politics -- The Problems and Possibilities of Ecological Citizenship -- Conversations -- Conversations with Activist Women: Towards a Counter-Narrative -- The Private, the Public, and the Planet: Juggling Care and Activism in Daily Life -- Activist Women Theorize the Green Political -- No Motherhood Issue: The Project of Feminist Ecological Citizenship -- Appendix: Research Process and Methods -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Women's environmental activism is often described in maternalist terms � as if motherhood and caring for the environment go hand in hand.



While feminists celebrate this connection, women and all those who care for people and environments are facing increasing burdens and decreasing time for civic engagement. In Beyond Mothering Earth, MacGregor argues that celebrations of "earthcare" as women's unique contribution to the search for sustainability often neglect to consider the importance of politics and citizenship in women's lives. Drawing on interviews with women who juggle private caring with civic engagement in quality-of-life concerns, she proposes an alternative: a project of feminist ecological citizenship that affirms the practice of citizenship as an intrinsically valuable activity while recognizing the foundational aspects of caring labour and natural processes that allow its specificity to flourish. Beyond Mothering Earth provides an original and empirically grounded understanding of women's involvement in quality-of-life activism and an analysis of citizenship that makes an important contribution to contemporary discussions of green politics, globalization, neoliberalism, and democratic justice. It will be of value to scholars and activists interested in the politics of environmental sustainability and the shifting meanings of citizenship in an increasingly vulnerable world.