New CPS615Master Foils-- 28 August 95 CPS615 -- Base Course for the Simulation Track of Computational Science Fall Semester 1995 -- Lecture Stream 2 Geoffrey Fox NPAC Room 3-131 CST 111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244-4100 Abstract of Lecture Stream 2 of CPS615 This starts with a discussion of Parallel Computing using analogies from nature It uses foils and material from CSEP chapter on Computer Architecture to discuss how and why to build a parallel computer including synchronization memory structure and network issues SIMD and MIMD Architectures with a brief comparison of workstation networks with closely coupled systems A look to the future is based on results from Petaflops workshop