Introduction to High Performance Computing and Computational Science

Introduction to Computational Science course at Syracuse. It includes Technology Driving Forces for High Performance Computing, Computational Science, National HPCC Program with Grand Challenges and why Parallel Computing is natural.

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Recent Review of status of parallel computing technology by Geoffrey Fox at Syracuse. It is interesting to compare this 1995 paper with its 1992 predecessor.

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Application discussion (at Syracuse) focussing on industry with three application areas : Chemistry, CFD (at Chalmers, Sweden) and Monte Carlo Simulations (at New Mexico) covered as case studies.

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On-line Books and General Resources

Computational Science Education Project (CSEP), (at Oak Ridge National Lab) is a collection of computational science and computational engineering materials.

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Designing and Building Parallel Programs: Concepts and Tools for Parallel Software Engineering, by Ian Foster at Arrgonne National Lab approaches parallel programming from an engineering viewpoint.

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Parallel Computing Works, by G. Fox (at Syracuse), R. Williams and P. Messina describes a set of application and systems software research projects undertaken by the Caltech Concurrent Computation Program.

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On this server, you will find an interface to relevant network newsgroups and to the on-line book "Parallel Computing Works", by Geoffrey Fox, Roy Williams, and Paul Messina, and also to the on-line book from CSEP and other resources at Syracuse. This interface includes keyword search capabilities.

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Parallel Computer Architecture (pre-production draft) by Culler, Singh and Gupta at U.C. Berkeley is an online draft of an upcoming textbook covering most of the latest advances in hardware as well as parallel computing software.

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Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Research Groups is a comprehensive list of academic research groups working in the field of supercomputing and parallel computing worldwide, by the Scandal group at CMU.

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List of Parallel Computing Sites including supercomputing and parallel computing, supercomputer vendors, federal agencies, etc. Maintained by the IEEE Computer Society.

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Supercomputers and Parallel Computers is a list of product information for current parallel and vector supercomputers, by the Scandal group at CMU.

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Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) at Syracuse University. The content of these pages may be used freely for educational purposes. Some of the material is under individual copyright. Send comments to Saleh Elmohamed, saleh@npac.syr.edu. Last updated 5/24/97.