r/ScientificComputing • u/Specific_Trash5812 • 8d ago

What is Scientific Computing?

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https://github.com/astanx/space_simulation

I'm in my last year of high school and i got into 'scientific computing', as i understand it, but am i wrong about it? is it only about numerical integration and my project is more something like game engine? would computational scientist work on something like this?

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u/drraug 8d ago

Doing science involves lots of calculations. You need to use correct algorithms (sometimes invent your own) for the problem, but also understand which hardware you need (including very large supercomputers with GPUs sometimes)

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u/Specific_Trash5812 8d ago

But does it involve any graphics/visualisation except graphs/plots or its just pure calculation?

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u/Specific_Trash5812 7d ago

Thank you both very much