With
the popularity of computer, scientific computing, known as computational
science, is becoming to one of the fundamental mode in scientific research. “Scientific computing is concerned with
constructing mathematical models and quantitative analysis techniques and using
computers to analyze and solve scientific problems.”(Wiki)
The features of scientific computing
are listed as follow.
1. The
first feature of scientific computing is to solve the wide range of data with a
large amount of calculation. It is difficult to deal with the big data, a collection
of data sets which are large and complex to process, by traditional data
application. Computer can easily solve
the complicated problems.
2. The
second feature is that the calculation is relatively simple. Using the
scientific computing application, scientists can easily get the solution without
hard work on hand calculation and formulas analyzing.
3. The
third feature is that the scientific computing involves not only data
calculation but also a lot of graphical interaction.
4. The
fourth feature is that scientific computing has high reliability and high
performance. It is hard to correct the issues in the traditional way. When one
data is wrong, people will re-calculate the formula and re-build the model from
the beginning. It will take a long time to correct a small data mistake. Using the
scientific computing application, the computer will help to finish all the calculation
and model building. The only thing people will do is to find the mistake and
correct it.
Yibei,
ReplyDeleteYour post is really informative. From it, I learned Scientific computing one more time. Everyone knows it is hard to write articles about boring science. But you are still giving readers a good post.
I agree with you that Scientific computing is being used in many fields. Especially, it can be used to reconstruct earthquake and sub-atomic particle behaviour. Scientists can also use it to predict future or unobserved situations.
In university, I took one course about scientific computing. we used computer to solve mathematics problems like differential equations. It is an interesting course but it is kind of boring. Ha-ha.