User:Stewartadcock/Scientific computation

This is a draft article about scientific computation, as is distinct from the computational sciences and computer science, at least as I see it. Content about scientific programming would form a considerable chunk of this article so could either be redirected here, or could alternatively form a seperate article. Comments welcome. As you can see, I haven't written very much yet!

Key questions to be addressed:

What is scientific computing?

How does it differ from conventional computing?

What are the specific issues of scientific programming? How does high-performance computing and numerical code help?

What are some typical example domains in which computation is critical? What academic disciplines? What commerical issues?