Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 10 Sept 1996

Foil 5 Basic Structure of Complete CPS615 Base Course on Computational Science Simulation Track -- I

From New CPS615Master Foils-- 26 August 96 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Secs 48
Overview of National Scene -- Why is High Performance Computing Important
  • Grand Challenges
What is Computational Science -- The Program at Syracuse
Basic Technology Situation -- Increasing density of transistors on a chip
  • Trends to year 2007 using Moore's Law (see UVC Video)
Elementary Discussion of Parallel Computing including use in society
  • why does parallel computing always "work" in principle
Computer Architecture -- Parallel and Sequential
  • Network Interconnections, SIMD v. MIMD, Distributed Shared Memory
  • vectorization contrasted with parallism

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