A Scientist's and Engineer's Guide to Workstations and Supercomputers: Coping with Unix, RISC, Vectors, and Programming

By Rubin H. Landau

A scientist's and engineer's guide to Workstations and Supercomputers Crack the Unix code and put its power to work for you. If you're seeking such clear-cut guidance, your search will end with the first Unix survival manual designed specifically for practicing scientists and engineers like you. Avoiding the narrower concerns and complicated jargon of computer science, this guide shows you how to master the complexities of accomplishing computer projects--from start to finish--predominantly under a Unix operating system. With the help of clarifying examples and tutorials, you'll learn how to write and organize files and programs as well as run, debug, and visualize the results of scientific programs on workstations and supercomputers. At the same time, you'll discover how to complete these projects while working on other systems and on other versions of Unix. This user-friendly guide offers you the basics on Unix commands and on setting up and using workstations, and goes on to simplify the once-daunting tasks of transferring files between workstations and adjusting X Windows. You'll also gain a solid grasp of more advanced Unix tools, such as its sophisticated editing, filing, and debugging capabilities, and of programming computers with differing architectures. Complete with accompanying computer disk packed with practice programs and data files, this book will increase your creativity, productivity, and effectiveness on the job by demonstrating how you can quickly learn to wield one of your most formidable tools--the Unix system. Covers all major versions of Unix and systems from major hardware vendors, including: System V, BSD, IBM's AIX, SUNOS, HP-UX, Unicos.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471532711
• ISBN13: 9780471532712
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Very practical and useful book

As another reviewer has mentioned, the book is very practical. It treats almost all the topics you will sometime encounter in your scientific/research career, if you work on Unix systems. I could have saved a lot of time looking for freeware had I first looked in this book. The book covers the use of gnuplot, the free plotting program, and also mentions many very useful utilities. Personally, I downloaded xmgrace, a superb graphing free software. Customizing xterm windows and the motif window manager are some of the other things I found interesting. Now, my workstation menu features everything I will use in the course of the day. (Much like windows 95, only more powerful). It took me two years to learn through trial what is here!

It's a very good dollars

It's a wonderful book for both beginner and advanced users of UNIX system. Its comprehensive contents help me learn every aspects of UNIX needed in scientific field. I learned many new things by reading this book. I am very exciting.