We Introduce Computational Science and Driving Forces
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Technology Advances and Commodity Trends
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Inevitability of Parallelism
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Integration of Distributed and Parallel Computing
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Comparison with Internetics
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We give a simple overview of parallel architectures today with distributed, shared or distributed shared memory
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We describe data, functional and pleasing parallelism
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We describe principles of parallel programming using atmospheric simulation as an example
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We describe the growing importance of Java
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We explain pragmatic choices
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MPI with Fortran and C today
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Java Grande is future?
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