Programming Languages for Scientific Computing

摘要

Scientific computation is a discipline that combines numerical analysis,physical understanding, algorithm development, and structured programming.Several yottacycles per year on the world's largest computers are spentsimulating problems as diverse as weather prediction, the properties ofmaterial composites, the behavior of biomolecules in solution, and the quantumnature of chemical compounds. This article is intended to review specficlanguages features and their use in computational science. We will review thestrengths and weaknesses of different programming styles, with examples takenfrom widely used scientific codes.