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Foil 4 Abstract of Computational Science Presentation

From General Collection of Foils in Second Half of 1998 General Research -- July 98 -->. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 We Introduce Computational Science and Driving Forces
  • Technology Advances and Commodity Trends
  • Inevitability of Parallelism
  • Integration of Distributed and Parallel Computing
  • Comparison with Internetics
2 We give a simple overview of parallel architectures today with distributed, shared or distributed shared memory
3 We describe data, functional and pleasing parallelism
4 We describe principles of parallel programming using atmospheric simulation as an example
5 We describe the growing importance of Java
6 We explain pragmatic choices
  • MPI with Fortran and C today
  • Java Grande is future?
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