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1. Introduction to Computational Science

  • 1.1 What is Computational Science?
  • 1.2 What Do Computational Scientists Do
  • 1.3 Computational Science and Other Disciplines
  • 1.4 Computational Science Education
  • 1.5 The History of Computational Science
    • 1.5.1 Supercomputing Centers
    • 1.5.2 Computational Grand Challenge Problems
      • 1.5.2.a Grand Challenge Problem: Simulation of X-Ray Clusters
      • 1.5.2.b Grand Challenge Problem: Groundwater Remediation
      • 1.5.2.c Grand Challenge Problem: The Human Genome Project
  • 1.6 Computational Complexity
  • 1.7 Introduction to the Remainder of the Book

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