Damn, I would have loved to have this book during my studies in Compuational Science and Engineering [CSE] (especially the chapters on Molecular Dynamics and the N-Body Problem, since these topics are great examples for the introduction of high-performance computing on a bigger scale or computational physics in general).
PS: In case some people are interested in these kind of topics (high-performance computing, simulations, and computational physics) and live in Switzerland (or plan to study there), the CSE major at ETH Zürich covers almost all the presented topics in Mr. Eijkhout's book: http://www.rw.ethz.ch/ Disclaimer: Got my degree in CSE from there.
Since it does not treat technologies but rather concepts, it is very much up to date. Everybody in HPC does Monte Carlo and parallel processing, these concepts are still fundamental to working in scientific computing.
Quite a few equations and pictures are not rendered correctly online; I found the PDF version of the book from Mr. Eijkhout's official site: http://pages.tacc.utexas.edu/~eijkhout/Articles/EijkhoutIntr...
PS: In case some people are interested in these kind of topics (high-performance computing, simulations, and computational physics) and live in Switzerland (or plan to study there), the CSE major at ETH Zürich covers almost all the presented topics in Mr. Eijkhout's book: http://www.rw.ethz.ch/ Disclaimer: Got my degree in CSE from there.