Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 10 Sept 1996

Foil 2 Abstract of The Current Status and Futures of HPCC

From New CPS615Master Foils-- 26 August 96 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox

Secs 80
1 Overview of Course Itself! -- and then introductory material on basic curricula
2 Overview of National Program -- The Grand Challenges
3 Overview of Technology Trends leading to petaflop performance in year 2007 (hopefully)
4 Overview of Syracuse and National programs in computational science
5 Parallel Computing in Society
6 Why Parallel Computing works
7 Simple Overview of Computer Architectures
  • SIMD MIMD Distributed (shared memory) Systems ... PIM ... Quantum Computing
8 General Discussion of Message Passing and Data Parallel Programming Paradigms and a comparison of languages

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