Basic HTML version of Abstract of Foils prepared 10 Sept 1996

Abstract of New CPS615Master Foils-- 26 August 96

From New CPS615Master Foils-- 26 August 96 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Secs 80
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
  • SIMD MIMD Distributed (shared memory) Systems ... PIM ... Quantum Computing
General Discussion of Message Passing and Data Parallel Programming Paradigms and a comparison of languages


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