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Master Material for Initial CPS615 Course and Parallel Computing

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science on Fall Semester 95. Foils prepared 29 August 1995

Overview of National Program -- The Grand Challenges
Overview of Technology Trends leading to petaflop performance in year 2015
Overview of Syracuse and National programs in computational science
Parallel Computing in Society
Parallel and Sequential Computer Architectures
Why Parallel Computing works
Message Passing and Data Parallel Programming Paradigms
Laplace Equation with Iterative solver in detail
Set (approximately 6) of application/algorithm snippets illustrating software, hardware and algorithm issues


Table of Contents for Master Material for Initial CPS615 Course and Parallel Computing


001 CPS615 -- Base Course for the Simulation Track of Computational 
    Science
    Fall Semester 1995 --
    Lecture Stream 1
002 Abstract of CPS615 Base Course of Computational Science Simulation
     Track
003 Basic Course CPS615 Contact Points
004 Course Structure
005 Basic Structure of Course -- I
006 Basic Structure of the Course - II
007 Status of Parallel Computing and High Speed Networks --
    The Grand Challenges and the National Information Infrastructure
008 Historical Whimsy --
    We will discuss Architectures later in more detail
009 What is NPAC ?
010 The Federal High Performance Computing and Communication 
    Initiative 1992--1996
011 Note the Trend from Large Scale Numerical Computing to the 
    Integration of Computing and Communication in the NII
012 The Federal Program Focusing on 1996 Highlights with many exciting
     Applications
013 The Application Motivation for HPCC
014 Come to CPS616 for a detailed discussion of the National 
    Challenges and the National Information Infrastructure
015 Current Important Parallel Computers --1995


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