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Foil 25 Summary of Application Trends

From Introduction to Computational Science CPS615 Computational Science Class -- Spring Semester 2000. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 There is a dynamic interplay between application needing more hardware and hardware allowing new/more applications
2 Transition to parallel computing has occurred for scientific and engineering computing but this is 1-2% of computer market
  • Integration of Data/Computing
3 Rapid progress in commercial computing
  • Database and transactions as well as financial modeling/oil reservoir simulation
  • Web servers including multi-media and search growing importance
  • Typically functional or pleasingly parallel
  • Traditionally smaller-scale, but recently large-scale systems of growing use for Internet (world-wide) resources

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