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Foil 17 Basic Structure of Complete CPS615 Base Course on Computational Science Simulation Track -- I

From Remarks on Parallel Computing and HPCC Education Ohio Supercomputer Center Workshop -- January 24 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Secs 48
1 Overview of National Scene -- Why is High Performance Computing Important
  • Grand Challenges
2 What is Computational Science -- The Program at Syracuse
3 Basic Technology Situation -- Increasing density of transistors on a chip
  • Trends to year 2007 using Moore's Law (see UVC Video)
4 Elementary Discussion of Parallel Computing including use in society
  • why does parallel computing always "work" in principle
5 Computer Architecture -- Parallel and Sequential
  • Network Interconnections, SIMD v. MIMD, Distributed Shared Memory
  • vectorization contrasted with parallism
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