Chapter 1: General Concepts
Reasons to Study
- Conquer servere memory limits
- Tackle larger datasets
- Real-time based problems
- Some problems are distrbuted in nature
- Examples
- quantum chemistry
- statistical mechanics
- relativistic physics
- cosmology
- astrophysics
- computational fluid dynamics
- turbulence
- materials design
- superconductivity
- biology
- pharmacology
- genome sequencing
- genetic engineering
- protein folding
- enzyme activity
- cell modeling
- medicine
- modeling of human organs and bones
- global weather
- environmental modeling
Flynn's Taxonomy