Supercomputers in Theoretical and Experimental Science

The International Workshop on "The Use of Super computers in Theoretical Science" took place from July 30 till August 1, 1984, at the Conference Center of the "Priorij Corsendonk", close to the city of Antwerpen, Belgium. During the past decade computational science has developed itself to a third methodology besides the experimental and theoretical sciences. This remarkable evolution was only possible due to a drastic increase of the computational power of present day computers. Indeed, computational physics and chemistry as such is certainly not new, but it was only during the past ten years or so that realistic problems could be solved numerically to a sufficient degree of accuracy. During this workshop the state-of-the-art in high speed computation was presented by a team of lecturers who are well known for their competence in this field. It is a pleasure to thank several organizations and companies who made this workshop possible. First of all, the main sponsors: the Belgian National Science Found ation (NFWO-FNRS) and the "Universitaire Instelling Ant werpen". Next, the co-sponsors: Agfa-Gevaert N. V., Control Data Belgium and the Belgian Ministry of Education. Special thanks are due to Dr. P.E. Van Camp and Drs. H. Nachtegaele for the practical organization of this workshop. I would also like to thank Mrs. H. Evans for typing the manuscripts and for preparing the author and subject index. v Last but not least I express my gratitude to Mr.

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I. Introduction.- Science, Simulation and Supercomputers.- II. SIMD Supercomputers.- Vector Processing on CRAY-1 and CRAY X-MP.- Vector Processing Techniques on CYBER 205.- Programming Discipline on Vector Computers: "Vectors" as a Data Type and Vector Algorithms.- III. MIMD Supercomputers.- MIMD Supercomputers for Numerical Applications.- IV. Applications.- Supercomputers in Theoretical High-Energy Physics.- The Use of a Vector Computer in Ab-Initio Phonon Calculations in Semiconductors.- Numerical Solution of the Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock Equation in the Electron Gas.- An Overview of Computing at Los Alamos.- V. Indexes.- Author Index.