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From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, (Some Culler, Koelbel material)
Status of High Performance Computing and Computation HPCC nationally
What is Computational Science Nationally (and at Syracuse)
Technology driving forces
Moore's law and exponentially increasing transistors
Elementary discussion of Parallel Computing in Society and why it must obviously work in simulation!
Sequential and Parallel Computer Architectures
Comparison of Architecture of World Wide Web and Parallel Systems

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