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From Technologies and Issues for Virtual University HPDC95 Tutorial Pentagon City -- August 1 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color GIF
- Computational Science is an interdisciplinary field that integrates computer science and applied mathematics with a wide variety of application areas that use significant computation to solve
their problems
- Includes the study of computational techniques
- Science and Engineering - Grand Challenges
- Society and Business - National Challenge
- Includes the study of new algorithms, languages and models in computer science and applied mathematics required by the use of high performance computing and communications in any (?) important
application
- At interface of (applied) computer science and applications
- Includes computation of complex systems using physical analogies such as neural networks and genetic optimization.
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