Items related to Metropolos:frontiers Supercomputing (Los Alamos Series...
Search results for Metropolos:frontiers Supercomputing (Los Alamos Series...
Seller Image
Frontiers of Supercomputing (Los Alamos Series in Basic & Applied Sciences)
Seller: GuthrieBooks, Spring Branch, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-Library hardcover no dj (red boards) with all the usual markings, attachments, and library wear. Rough patch where library pocket has been removed. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Seller Inventory # GL17A33307
Stock Image
Frontiers of Supercomputing
Published by
University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1986
ISBN 10: 0520051904
ISBN 13: 9780520051904
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xxiv, 388, [2] pages. Illustrations. References. Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Security Agency co-sponsored a conference on the "Frontiers of Supercomputing" held in Los Alamos on August 15-19, 1983. The papers in this proceedings were presented at that conference. "8/20/90 Compliments of Buck Thompson at FOS II" in ink on fep. Name of previous owner (K. H. Speierman) present. Speierman, who was the Chief Scientist at the National Security Agency,had the initial idea for the conference and was the author of the Conference Summary chapter. Buck Thompson rose to be a Deputy Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This is one of the Los Alamos Series in Basic and Applied Sciences. Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 - October 17, 1999) was a Greek-American physicist. Robert Oppenheimer recruited him from Chicago, where he was at the time collaborating with Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller on the first nuclear reactors, to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He arrived in Los Alamos in April 1943, as a member of the original staff of fifty scientists. At Los Alamos he led the group in the Theoretical Division that designed and built the MANIAC I computer in 1952 and the MANIAC II in 1957. He was made a Laboratory Senior Fellow in 1980. W. J. Worlton was a senior leader in the Computer Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Seller Inventory # 74358