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
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General Discussion of Message Passing and Data Parallel Programming Paradigms and a comparison of languages |