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Present-day Computing Environment

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In the recent years high performance computing resources have been made possible the development of Problem Solving Environment (PSE). PSE characteristics and components are presented briefly as well as an application developed for the study of the large scale structure of the universe.

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Messina, A. (1995). Present-day Computing Environment. In: Batra, R.C. (eds) Contemporary Research in Engineering Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80001-6_19

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