Introduction
This CD-ROM contains a variety of educational and reference materials in
the general area of high performance computing and communications.
The core material includes the lectures for Syracuse University's course
CPS 615, Computational Science for Simulation Applications, as taught by
Prof. Geoffrey C. Fox, as well as the text of two recent books on HPC,
technical reports, and standards documents. The core material is designed
to be pretty much self-contained, but we also include hyperlinks to a wide
range of resources available on the Internet.
How to Use this Resource
This resource is designed to be approached in two different ways.
First, we offer the "conventional" vew, as a set of course lectures and
two books. Second, we offer a more topical organization, which allows
you to find resources, both on the CD-ROM and on the Internet, appropos
of a given topic.
The bulk of the material on this CD-ROM is designed to be accessed with
any relatively recent web browser (i.e. Netscape Navigator 3.0, or Microsoft
Internet Explorer 3.0, or higher). Support for frames and JavaScript are
required. Audio recordings of some of the lectures are included in the
CPS 615 course materials. To use these recordings, you will have to install
the RealPlayer,
which is freely available from RealNetworks.
Some of the technical reports included on this CD-ROM are PostScript
files. To view them, you will have to have a PostScript viewer, or
a PostScript-capable printer.
Obviously hyperlinks which point to Internet resources will require
that your computer have an active Internet connection if you want to follow
them, but an Internet connection is not required to view the core material.