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This is a draft article about scientific computation, as is distinct from the computational sciences and computer science, at least as I see it. Content about scientific programming would form a considerable chunk of this article so could either be redirected here, or could alternatively form a seperate article. Comments welcome. As you can see, I haven't written very much yet!

Key questions to be addressed:

What is scientific computing?

How does it differ from conventional computing?

What are the specific issues of scientific programming? How does high-performance computing and numerical code help?

What are some typical example domains in which computation is critical? What academic disciplines? What commerical issues?

Preamble

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Computational Science

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Software Performance and Programming Languages

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Numerical Precision

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Programming Paradigms

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Language Features

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Parallel and Distributed Code

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Hardware Resources

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Blue Gene

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The Impact of Scientific Computation

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Grand Challenge Problems

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