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Foil 2 Abstract of The Current Status and Futures of HPCC

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Secs 80
Overview of Course Itself! -- and then introductory material on basic curricula
Overview of National Program -- The Grand Challenges
Overview of Technology Trends leading to petaflop performance in year 2007 (hopefully)
Overview of Syracuse and National programs in computational science
Parallel Computing in Society
Why Parallel Computing works
Simple Overview of Computer Architectures
  • SIMD MIMD Distributed (shared memory) Systems ... PIM ... Quantum Computing
General Discussion of Message Passing and Data Parallel Programming Paradigms and a comparison of languages



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