Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 24 August 98

Foil 7 Material Covered in this Course

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
Status of High Performance Computing and Computation HPCC nationally
What is Computational Science Nationally (and at Syracuse)
Technology driving forces
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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