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Foil 3 Why/What is Internetics in a Nutshell

From Computational Science Curriculum, Delivery, Certification Computational Science Panel -- November 12 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Computational Science is Interdisciplinary field in between Computer Science and "large scale Scientific and Engineering simulation-based" applications
  • Academic fields: Aerospace engineering, physics etc.
Internetics is Interdisciplinary field between CS and Information-based applications
  • Bioinformatics, Public Communication ...
Roughly it is difference between parallel computing and "The Grid" without necessary an emphasis on high performance ....
Enrollment in Classic Computational Science at Syracuse has dropped from 50 to 5; enrollment in Internetics has risen from 6 to 100 (95-98)



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