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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• 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.