Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 25 August 1997

Foil 7 Material Covered in this Course

From Master Set of Foils for 1997 Session of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Status of High Performance Computing and Computation HPCC nationally
  • Including web linked simulation examples
2 What is Computational Science Nationally (and at Syracuse)
3 Technology driving forces (until around 2010)
  • Moore's law and exponentially increasing transistors
4 Elementary discussion of Parallel Computing in Society and why it must obviously work in simulation!
5 Sequential and Parallel Computer Architectures
6 Comparison of Architecture of World Wide Web and Parallel Systems

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