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Foil 2 Lecture 1: An Introduction to the Concepts and Issues

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Overview
2 A Brief History of Scientific Computing
3 - Performance of Supercomputers and Networks
4 Some Terminology (1 - 5)
5 The Need for Supercomputing - A Rationale for Metacomputing
6 - Some Examples
7 - Current Access to Resources
8 - Need for Alternatives
9 - Computer Architectures
10 - Why Use Parallel Computing Techniques
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Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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