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?