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Thomas Ludwig reveals design characteristics when aiming at researching information infrastructures and their diverse information resources, types of users and systems as well as divergent practices. By conducting empirically-based design case studies in the domain of crisis management, the author uncovers methodological and design challenges in understanding new kinds of interconnected information infrastructures from a praxeological perspective. Based on implemented novel ICT tools, he derives design characteristics that focus on integrating objective and subjective queried insights into situated activities of people as well as emphasizing the subjective nature of information quality.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Supercomputing Conference, ISC 2014, held in Leipzig, Germany, in June 2014.

The 34 revised full papers presented together were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: scalable applications with 50K+ cores; advances in algorithms; scientific libraries; programming models; architectures; performance models and analysis; automatic performance optimization; parallel I/O and energy efficiency.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Supercomputing Conference, ISC 2013, held in Leipzig, Germany, in June 2013. The 35 revised full papers presented together were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: scalable applications with 50K+ cores; performance improvements in algorithms; accelerators; performance analysis and optimization; library development; administration and management of supercomputers; energy efficiency; parallel I/O; grid and cloud.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on the Parallel Virtual Machine, EuroPVM '96, the 1996 European PVM users' group meeting, held in Munich, Germany, in October 1996.
The parallel virtual machine, PVM, was developed at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in cooperation with Emory University and Carnegie Mellon University to support distributed computing. This volume comprises 51 revised full contributions devoted to PVM. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation of PVM; Applications: CFD solvers; tools for PVM; non-numerical applications; extensions to PVM; etc.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference, ISC High Performance 2015, [formerly known as the International Supercomputing Conference] held in Frankfurt, Germany, in July 2015. The 27 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: cost-efficient data centers, scalable applications, advances in algorithms, scientific libraries, programming models, architectures, performance models and analysis, automatic performance optimization, parallel I/O and energy efficiency.

Beethoven reveals himself in his own writings.