Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 29 August 1995

Foil 5 Basic Structure of Course -- I

From New CPS615Master Foils-- 28 August 95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Overview of National Scene -- Why is High Performance Computing Important
2 What is Computational Science -- The Program at Syracuse
3 Basic Technology Situation -- Increasing density of transistors on a chip
4 Elementary Discussion of Parallel Computing
5 Computer Architecture -- Parallel and Sequential
  • More focus on COWS and NOWS etc. -- Clusters or Networks of Workstations
6 Simple base example -- Laplace's Equation
7 Programming Models -- Message Passing and Data Parallel Computing -- MPI and HPF
  • Late breaking work -- use of the Web for Computing (WebWork)
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