Title and abstract for

Master Set of Foils for 1996 Session of CPS615

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 on Fall Semester 96. Foils prepared 10 Sept 1996
which leads to edit sector initialized at overall parameters
Summary of Addons which lists all addon files pointed to in foilset
This is a SINGLE file Containing all Foils in nonIMAGE (i.e. HTML) form
This contains all WebWisdom links preceded by those referenced in this foilset
This contains an Index of Foilset Suitable for Printing (There is no easy way of Printing all foils -- just the index)
This just contains Title of Foilset and Links
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


© on Tue Oct 7 1997