Computational Science
Traditional scientific and engineering paradigm
- Do theory or paper design
- Perform experiments or build system
Replacing both by numerical experiments
- Real phenomena are too complicated to model by hand
- Real experiments are:
- too hard, e.g., build large wind tunnels
- too expensive, e.g., build a throw-away passenger jet
- too slow, e.g., wait for climate or galactic evolution
- too dangerous, e.g., weapons, drug design
James Demmel is the author of this slide