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Foil 6 Basic Structure of Complete CPS615 Base Course on Computational Science Simulation Track -- II

From New CPS615Master Foils-- 26 August 96 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Secs 72
Simple base example -- Laplace's Equation
  • How does parallel computing work
This is followed by two sections -- software technologies and applications which are interspersed with each other and "algorithm" modules
Programming Models -- Message Passing and Data Parallel Computing -- MPI and HPF (Fortran 90)
  • Some remarks on parallel compilers
  • Remarks on use of parallel Java
Some real applications analysed in detail
  • Chemistry, CFD, Earthquake prediction, Statistical Physics

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