Material Covered in this Course

• Status of High Performance Computing and Computation HPCC nationally

  • Including web linked simulation examples

• What is Computational Science Nationally (and at Syracuse)

• Technology driving forces (until around 2010)

  • Moore’s law and exponentially increasing transistors

• Elementary discussion of Parallel Computing in Society and why it must obviously work in simulation!

• Sequential and Parallel Computer Architectures

• Comparison of Architecture of World Wide Web and Parallel Systems

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