Performance Books

Great collection of specific and generic rubrics. Handy manual for novices or veteran teachers.

Fascinating personal accounts of Admiral Glover"s adventures, from time spent onboard the USS Enterprise during the battle of Leyte Gulf - Cape Engano, in October of 1944, through his significant role in the creation of NATO.

If you read one book on inproving your oral communication this year, make it this one! I recomend any Gerald M. Phillips book.

I found this book to do a fine job of meeting its stated objectives of giving general guidelines to the beginning and intermediate level racer. I would consider it a "must read" for anyone seriously thinking about buying or preparing a car for competition. While it is less technical than a Carrol Smith book, and it isn't a "how-to" cookbook, it does guide the reader through the thought processes which should be undertaken prior to spending hard earned money.

Mr. McBeath's writing style is both clear and entertaining. It takes the reader only a short time to realize he has "been there, done that". I first became aware of Mr. McBeath's skills after reading articles he has written for "Race Car Engineering" magazine. His understanding of the subject matter is evident and he teachs from the point of view that most racers can appreciate, that is, how to do things on a limited budget.

The book is geared towards road racers as opposed to the circle track or drag racing crowd and many of the references are for the UK audience. But the lessons to be learned can benefit anybody willing to take the time to give what he says some thought.

The photographs and the illustrations are used to clarify and are fine quality. It's worth the price.

I have being reading the most important literature about Innovation Management and I have found this book extremelly practical. Christiansen is the first author I have read that gives you advise on how to implement change to improve the innovation capability of your company and gives you a clear research-based approach about which management systems should be changed first and why. For me, something very revealing was the chapter on how innovation systems should be different depending on the industry and/or company you are. This book offers a great value.

I am intrigued by the a small school professor's ability to see strategy so clearly. The book is far better than most I have read from Harvard.

The author provokes thought in the reader. Thus, he endeavors to teach business people how to fish rather than gives us a fish as is the case in most Harvard type offerings.

Want to earn a great living as a musician in your own city? This is the ticket. Belleville's concise book covers how you can get involved in the growing house music movement now sweeping the nation. The audiences are incredible and you can make more money than the average major label artist.

I highly recommend reading "The Complete Guide To Soccer Conditioning" before tryout season comes around. It really helped me get into shape and gear. Paritally because of this book, I made the varsity girls soccer team freshman year. It'll help anyone stiving to succeed in soccer. A great buy. Making the team is totally worth the couple dollars that the book costs. Definately buy "The Complete Guide To Soccer Conditioning!"

The computational Aspects of General Relativity, by J. Frauendiener, is one of many rather interesting papers one would find in this book. This book covers the 2nd Russian-German Advanced Research Workshop which took place in March of 2005. The papers that were presented cover the applications of High Performance Computing (HPC) in research areas such as Fluid Mechanics and computational Physics. As one would expect, the underlying pattern of the types of problems faced by these area are the same as any other, mainly they must be parallelizable, but the effort taken by various researchers to essentially breakup a given problem is truly remarkable.

Particle methods in powder technology, by B. Henrich, et. al., is another paper which the authors use the HPC methods to simulate compaction, sintering and filling of a dispersed powder. The simulation, as one would expect, uses a molecular dynamics method which in turn follows Newton's equations of motions for simulating the time evolution of particles. As one would expect, the sheer number of simulations that must take place is simply staggering, and an HPC is required to get the job done is a reasonable amount of time.

There are a number of other paper that talk about the applications of HPC in Fluid Dynamics or Mechanics, but I was very interested in H. Brunst, et. al. paper, Parallel applications on large scale systems: getting insights, which the authors talk about the "scalability properties on moderns parallel computer architectures". The authors evaluate BenchIT, which is used for evaluation and presentation of performance data. BenchIT is used to compare difference architectures and programming languages against each other to determine their efficiency and performance numbers. BenchIT can be used for simply estimating what the gain would be if for example one programming language is used over the other given certain scenarios. It is a great tool for ROI (return on investments) calculations.

U. Kuster, et. al. paper, Sustaining performance in future vector processors, is simply fascinating! The authors present current performance numbers from a number of platforms, and tie the performance to the software architecture - which is very much true. Teraflops/sec performance is desired, but the authors argue that with current processor architecture, the only way to achieve such performance numbers one much re-architect the way we tackle the problem from the software architecture perspective. The authors then close the loop with possible improvements to the processor architecture that can aid in making the software design a bit simpler. The goal of this paper is show that software and hardware are more tied together than ever, and in order to "go to the next level", both need to work together instead of dispersed components.

I was very surprised at the quality of the papers that are in this text. As an architect that deals with Grid and HPC systems on daily basis, I found this text very informative and educational.

I have always liked Dr. Wilkinson's teaching. With the book written by the professor himself makes learning computer architecture a blessing.