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Foil 2 Abstract of Computational Science Presentation

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
We Introduce Computational Science and Driving Forces
  • Technology Advances and Commodity Trends
  • Inevitability of Parallelism
  • Integration of Distributed and Parallel Computing
  • Comparison with Internetics
We give a simple overview of parallel architectures today with distributed, shared or distributed shared memory
We describe the growing importance of Java
We explain pragmatic choices
  • MPI with Fortran and C today
  • Java Grande is future?

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