This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Advanced Computer Architecture, ACA 2014, held in Shenyang, China, in August 2014. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on processors and circuits; high performance computing; GPUs and accelerators; cloud and data centers; energy and reliability; intelligence computing and mobile computing.

This important book contains 284 original and not previously published research papers on all phases of heterogeneous materials. The comprehensive nature of the book is revealed in its nine sections: Nanomechanics and nanostructure; Micromechanics and mesomechanics; Multiscale modeling and scale effects; Multi-physics modeling; Microstructure-property relations; Plasticity and creep; Damage and failure; Material design and structure behavior; and Biomaterials.

Book offers refereed presentations on modeling and designing materials using multiscale methods that tie together nanoscale, microscale and full-scale data on properties of numerous materials.