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Computational science applies computer science principles to solve scientific problems through simulations and modeling using hardware, algorithms, programming and databases. It is an interdisciplinary field that involves using high-performance computing to simulate complex physical phenomena at unprecedented scales to address research problems across many disciplines.

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Computational Science

Computational science applies computer science principles to solve scientific problems through simulations and modeling using hardware, algorithms, programming and databases. It is an interdisciplinary field that involves using high-performance computing to simulate complex physical phenomena at unprecedented scales to address research problems across many disciplines.

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Computational Science

Computational science is an application of computer science and software


engineering principles. It applies to solving scientific problems.
Computational science involves the use of computing hardware,
networking, algorithms, programming, databases and other domain-
specific knowledge to design simulations of physical phenomena to run
on computers. It crosses disciplines and can even involve the humanities.
It has led to exciting new developments. But the nature of the work was
exposing limitations in our ability to evaluate published findings. The
potential to serve a standard for judging scientific claims when full
independent replication of a study is not possible. Computational science
plays an indispensable role in scientific research. Now, researchers in
science have different problems, needs, and beliefs about computation
than professional programmers. In order to the progress of science,
computer scientists must understand these problems, needs, and beliefs.
This paper shows a survey about scientists from diverse disciplines,
practicing computational science at a doctoral-granting university with
very high research activity. The survey covers many things, prevalent
programming practices within this scientific community. The priority of
computational power in different fields, use of tools to enhance
performance and software productivity, resources leveraged, and
prevalence of parallel computation. The results show several patterns that
suggest interesting avenues to bridge the gap between scientific
researchers and programming tools developers. It is an interdisciplinary
area where science, engineering, computation, mathematics, and
collaboration become a key combination to address our research
problems. The exaflop machine computing on the horizon and current
computing capabilities, simulations can be performed on what were
before unthinkable scales. These resources are the core that we are
building and must be as powerful as our ingenuity can make them. This
development pushes us outside our comfort zone and forces us to think in
the new ways. It will produce graduates skilled in techniques such as
mathematical modeling, algorithmic design, computer simulation,
scientific visualization, statistical processing of big data sets, and high -
performance computing on parallel and distributed systems.
It is leading to an integrated knowledge base for effective solutions of
complex and diverse problems, high-performance and high-throughput
computing plays an imperative role. Scientists have been using computers
in their research since they were invented but the increasing power of new
hardware in recent years has made it possible to create simulations of
complexity that have been before unimaginable, such as particle physics.
It is the harnessing of knowledge of hardware, algorithms and other
scientific knowledge to simulate the physical world on powerful
supercomputers.
Computational science is involving scholars in the physical sciences,
computer scientists, software engineers, even people in the arts and
humanities. Techniques usually involve numerical simulations.

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