Lecture Notes

1. (Sept 1 & 3 & 8, 1998) -- Introduction: Course, Driving Technology, and High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Current Status and Futures

2. (Sept 8 & 10, 1998) -- Laplace Example -- Programming Models and Performance

3. (Sept 22, Oct 1 and 29, 1998) -- MPI Message Passing Interface

4. (Sept 22 & 29, and Oct 1, 1998) -- N Body Problems using Message Parallel Approach

5. (oct 6 & 13, 1998) -- Computational Science and N Body algorithms Illustrated by GEM: General Earthquake Simulation Project

6. (Oct 6 & 8 & 13, 1998) -- Solution of Simple Partial Differential Equations and Iterative Solvers

7. (Oct 20, 1998) -- Statistics and Random Numbers (In preparation for Monte Carlo)

8. (Oct 22, 1998) -- Numerical Integration Module

9. (Nov 3 & 5, 1998) -- Parallel Full Matrix Algorithms

10. (Nov 10 & 13, 1998) -- Some MPI Examples

11. (Nov 13, 1998) -- Notes on Parallel Computer Architecture

12. (Nov 17, 1998) -- Overview of Computer Architectures

13. (Nov 19, 1998) -- Overview of Computer Architectures - continued with Performance Issues

14. (Nov 24, 1998) -- Overview of Computer Architecures - continued with Parallel Memory Structure

15. (Nov 26, 1998) Thanksgiving Holiday.

16. (Dec 1, 1998) -- Introduction to Java Tutorial Aimed at Scientific Users covering until Java Features -- It's Somewhat Interpreted. Also, going pver the CFD Java applet at JavaCSE page. In addition, the link to Java Grande was pointed out. Also covered Java Grande (a.k.a. Java for High Performance Computing) in a Nutshell until Foil 32: Where are we now?

17. (Dec 3, 1998) -- Finite Element and Conjugate Gradient Methods

18. Designing and Building Parallel Programs 2: openMP Shared Memory Programming Language

19. Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction

20. Designing and Building Parallel Programs 3: MPI Message Passing System

21. Parallel Computation Illustrated with Adaptive Integration

22. Background in Partial Differential Equations with attention to CFD

23. (Dec 8, 1998) -- High Performance Fortran in Practice -- CRPC DoD Training Materials

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