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

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