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Functional Programming for Java Developers: Tools for Better Concurrency, Abstraction, and Agility

O'Reilly, 2011

Why should a Java developer learn about functional programming (FP)? After all, hasn’t functional programming been safely hidden in academia for decades? Isn’t objectoriented programming (OOP) all we really need? This book explains why functional programming has become an important tool for the challenges of our time and how...

Bioinformatics Basics: Applications in Biological Science and Medicine

CRC Press, 1999

Scientists in the throes of research use an extensive data bank to access structural information on proteins and nucleic acids. Meanwhile, geneticists use a highly specialized form of software to analyze the hybridization pattern of DNA chips. The past decade has been tremendously successful for biotechnology and pharmaceutical...

Programming Perl: Unmatched power for text processing and scripting

O'Reilly, 2012

Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language. Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility, but quickly evolved into a general purpose programming language that’s helped hundreds of thousands...

Parallel Programming in C with Mpi and Openmp

McGraw-Hill, 2008

The era of practical parallel programming has arrived, marked by the popularity of the MPI and OpenMP software standards and the emergence of commodity clusters as the hardware platform of choice for an increasing number of organizations. This exciting new book, "Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP" addresses the needs of...

Nanoscale Materials in Chemistry

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Nanotechnology is almost a household word now-a-days, or at least some word with ‘‘nano’’ in it, such as nanoscale, nanoparticle, nanophase, nanocrystal, or nanomachine. This field now enjoys worldwide attention and a National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is about to be launched.

This...

MCITP Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administration (Exam # 70-647) (Mcts)

Course Technology PTR, 2010

MCITP Guide to Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator (Exam 70-647) provides in-depth coverage of the 70-647 certifi cation exam objectives and focuses on the skills needed to manage a Windows Server 2008 enterprise. The book contains approximately 85 hands-on activities and 40 skill-reinforcing case projects, so...

Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012

It has been said that data is the new oil. If this is so, then databases are the fields, the refineries, the drills, and the pumps. Data is stored in databases, and if you’re interested in tapping into it, then coming to grips with the modern equipment is a great start.

Databases are...

C++ AMP: Accelerated Massive Parallelism with Microsoft Visual C++

Microsoft Press, 2012

For most of computing history, we benefited from exponential increases in performance of scalar processors. That has come to an end. We are now at the dawn of the heterogeneous parallel computing era. With all applications being power-sensitive and all computing systems being power-limited, from mobile to cloud, future computing...

Computational Chemistry: Reviews of Current Trends (Computational Chemistry: Reviews of Current Trends, Vol 6)

World Scientific Publishing, 2001

There are strong indications that, in the 21st century, computational chemistry will be a prime research tool not only for the basic sciences but also for the life and materials sciences. Recent developments in nanotechnology allow us to detect a layer of single atoms. Researchers are able not only to image but also to manipulate molecules...

NumPy Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012

We, NumPy users, live in exciting times. New NumPy-related developments seem to come to our attention every week or maybe even daily. When this book was being written, NumPy Foundation of Open Code for Usable Science was created. The Numba project—NumPy-aware, dynamic Python compiler using LLVM—was announced. Also,...

Hadoop in Practice

Manning Publications, 2012

Summary

Hadoop in Practice collects 85 Hadoop examples and presents them in a problem/solution format. Each technique addresses a specific task you'll face, like querying big data using Pig or writing a log file loader. You'll explore each problem step by step, learning both how to build and deploy...

Monitoring with Ganglia

O'Reilly, 2012

In 1999, I packed everything I owned into my car for a cross-country trip to begin my new job as Staff Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley Computer Science Department. It was an optimistic time in my life and the country in general. The economy was well into the dot-com boom and still a few years...

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