| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences |
| Editors | Sandra Lopez-Varela |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 5 Dec 2018 |
Abstract / Description of output
Archaeological research has an increasing need for computational power. The requirement is generated by the use of advanced algorithms with high computational costs such as simulation and spatial analysis. This is currently one of the biggest challenges for several scientific fields, as the speed of new computers cannot maintain the pace of computational requirements. The solution is to distribute the execution of these algorithms over more than one computer. Parallel computing methods are responsible for designing the hardware infrastructures and programming tools needed to achieve this task.
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- high-performance computing
- supercomputing
- cloud computing
- computational archaeology
- simulation and modeling
- big data
- machine learning
- agent-based models