A CASE-STUDY OF PARALLEL-PROCESSING - INFORMATICS VS SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

Informatics and Scientific Computing approach parallel processing in a different way. We briefly describe the different points of view of bo th camps. Next we concentrate on a case study in the area of scientifi c computing. The problem chosen is from Physical Chemistry (self-consi stent field computation). We describe the problem, the sequential solu tion, the parallelization strategy and present the performance values we have achieved. Our implementation is based on a 60-node transputer system, available at the Parallel Processing Laboratory in Basel.