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Foil 26 Some Academic Areas and their Relation to Computational Science

From Initial CPS615 Course and Parallel Computing Overview CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

Computer Science -- Nationally viewed as central activity
  • Congress thinks Computer Science is activities such as NSF Supercomputer Centers i.e. Computational Science
  • Computer Scientists think of the field as less applied
Computer Engineering -- Historically Mathematics and Electrical Engineering have spawned Computer Science programs -- if from electrical engineering, the field is sometimes called computer engineering
Applied Mathematics is a very broad field in U.K. where equivalent to Theoretical Physics. In USA applied mathematics is roughly mathematics associated with fluid flow
  • Field teachs areas such as Scientific Computing even though ignore many issues needed outside differential equation solution
Computational Physics -- Practioners will be judged by their contribtion to physics and not directly by algorithms and software innovations.
  • Similar remarks about Computational Aerospace, Chemistry etc.



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