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Introduction to Computational Science Tools
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This will (eventually)
be a required couse for the future Graduate Minor in
Computational Science, and can be used now for the
High Performance Computing Graduate Minor degree.
(see also
the
CSCI Spring Course)
Instructor:
Prof. Lyle N. Long
(lnl at psu.edu)
Location: 158 Willard Building
Dates/Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:35 - 4:25
Grading:
| Tentative Outline | |||||
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LECTURE NO. |
DATE |
TITLE (click on title for slides and symbol for audio) |
SPEAKER (email all @psu.edu) |
REQUIRED READING AND NOTES |
ORGANIZATION |
| 1 | Sept. 1 |
Course Introduction PSU Computer Facilities |
L. Long (lnl) V. Agarwala (v2a) |
High End Computing Report , GEARS Website, and BusinessWeek, June 7, 2004 (pg. 132-136) |
Engineering
ITS/ASET |
| 2 | Sept. 8 | PSU Central Computer Facility Tour |
J. Kalbach (kalbach) |
Meet on loading dock of Computer Building (rear of building), see circled building on this map. | ITS/ASET |
| 3, 4 | Sept. 13, 15 |
Linux and UNIX ( Click here for streaming media version of lecture 1) ( Click here for streaming audio version of lecture 2) |
J. Leous (leous) |
Think Unix Book
and
Running Linux Book
Unix Slides and Unix Utilities Slides |
ITS/ASET |
| 5 | Sept. 20 | Software development (Compilers, Makefiles, RCS, ...) |
J. Leous (leous) |
Unix Development Tools | ITS/ASET |
| 6 | Sept. 22 | Software Libraries (IMSL, GNU, LAPACK, SCALAPACK, ...) |
J. Nucciarone (nucci) |
Programming Languages and Compilers | ITS/ASET |
| 7 | Sept. 27 | Object Oriented Programming |
L. Long (lnl) |
OOP Intro Slides Java Book, C++ Book, and Java |
Engineering |
| 8, 9 |
Sept. 29, Oct. 4 |
Computational Mathematics |
Jinchao Xu (jinchao) |
Computational Math, Multigrid Algortihm, and Fast Multipole Method |
Math |
| 10 | Oct. 6 | Midterm Exam #1 | |||
| 11 | Oct. 11 | Stereographics, VTK, and Tcl/TK |
R. Masters (ray-masters) |
VTK Tutorial | ITS/ASET |
| 12 | Oct. 13 | Virtual Reality and Immersive Environments |
G. Otto (george-otto) |
Meet outside Room 140 in Computer Building Slides and VR paper and Additional Reading |
ITS/ASET |
| 13 | Oct. 18 | Virtual Reality Demonstration and Tour |
G. Otto (george-otto) |
Meet in Room 306 Engr. Unit C (behind alumni center) |
ITS/ASET |
| 14 | Oct. 20 | Web-Based Communities of Practice |
S. Schweitzer (sjs26) |
Slides |
IST |
| 15 | Oct. 25 | Databases |
A. Kumar (AkhilKumar) |
Slides |
Business |
| 16 | Oct. 27 | Evolutionary Algorithms |
P. Reed (pmr11) |
Slides ,
Coffee ,
FlatPlate ,
Wing ,
Excel http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xobitko/ga/ |
Engineering |
| 17 | Nov. 1 | Statistical Data Mining |
D. Lin (DennisLin) |
Slides |
Business |
| 18 | Nov. 3 | Midterm Exam #2 | |||
| 19 | Nov. 8 | Computer Networking and TCP/IP |
J. Kalbach (kalbach) |
Slides |
ITS/ASET |
| 20 | Nov. 10 | Wireless Networking and VPN's |
W. Burkhard (wjb3) |
Slides VPN Client |
ECS |
| 21 | Nov. 15 | Review of Parallel Computers |
R. Kunz (rfk102) |
Slides | ARL |
| 22 | Nov. 17 | Commodity PC Clusters (Beowulfs) |
R. Kunz (rfk102) |
Slides | ARL |
| 23 | Nov. 22 | Large-Scale Data Storage |
S. Kellogg (kellogg) |
Slides | ITS/ASET |
| 24 | Nov. 29 | Message Passing Interface (MPI) |
P. Plassmann (pep3) |
Slides and
Sample Code Book by Quinn and Book by Gropp et al |
Computer Science and Engineering |
| 25 | Dec. 1 | Grid-based Computing | Mark Green |
CCR Access Grid Webpage For this lecture we will meet in the IEL Lab, room 306 Engr. Unit C |
U. Buffalo |
| 26 | Dec. 6 | Web User Interfaces (WUI) |
Adam Focht (abf123) J. Sofo (sofo) |
Slides | MRI |
| 27 | Dec. 8 | Midterm Exam #3 | |||
Click Here to see a List of Seminars from Other Years
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