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Tentative Outline
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Lecture #
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Date
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Lecture Title
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Lecturer(s)
Email:
@ psu.edu
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Web based supporting material
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Lecturer
affiliation
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1
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Wed Aug. 31
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Course Introduction
PSU Computer Facilities
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Robert Kunz (rfk102 )
Vijay Agarwala (v2a )
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High
End Computing Report , GEARS Website,
and BusinessWeek, June 7, 2004 (pg. 132-136)
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ARL
ITS/ASET
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2
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Wed Sept. 7
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PSU Central Computer Facility Tour
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John Kalbach
(kalbach )
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Meet on loading dock of Computer Building (rear of building), see
circled building on this
map.
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ITS/ASET
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3, 4
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Mon Sept. 12, Wed Sept. 14
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Linux and UNIX
( Click here for
streaming media version of lecture 1)
( Click
here for streaming audio version of lecture 2)
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James Leous
(leous )
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Think
Unix Book and Running
Linux Book
Unix Slides and Unix Utilities Slides
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ITS/ASET
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5
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Mon Sept. 19
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Software development (Compilers, Makefiles,
RCS, ...)
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James Leous
(leous )
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Unix Development
Tools
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ITS/ASET
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6
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Wed Sept. 21
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Object Oriented Programming
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Lyle Long
(lnl )
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OOP Intro Slides
Java Book, C++ Book,
and Java
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Engineering
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7
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Mon Sept. 26
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Software Libraries (IMSL, GNU, LAPACK, SCALAPACK,
...)
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Jeff Nucciarone
(nucci )
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Programming Languages
and Compilers
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ITS/ASET
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8
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Wed Sept 28
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Databases
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Norita
Ahmad
(nua2@gv.psu.edu)
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Slides
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Penn State Great
Valley
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9
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Mon
Oct 3
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Neural Networks
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Lyle Long
(lnl )
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Neural Network Slides
Parallel ANN Paper
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Engineering
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10
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Wed Oct 5
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Midterm #1
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11
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Mon Oct. 10
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Stereographics, VTK, and Tcl/TK
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Raymon
Masters
(ray-masters )
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VTK Tutorial
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ITS/ASET
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12
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Wed Oct. 12
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Virtual Reality and Immersive Environments
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George Otto
(george-otto )
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Meet outside Room 140 in Computer Building
Slides and VR paper and Additional Reading
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ITS/ASET
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13
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Mon Oct. 17
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Virtual Reality Demonstration and Tour
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George Otto
(george-otto )
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Meet in Room 306 Engr.
Unit C
(behind alumni center)
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ITS/ASET
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14, 15
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Wed Oct. 19,
Mon Oct. 24
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Computational Mathematics
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Jinchao
Xu
(jinchao )
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Computational Math,
Multigrid
Algortihm, and Fast Multipole
Method
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Math
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16
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Wed Oct. 26
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Evolutionary Algorithms
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Patrick Reed
(pmr11 )
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Slides , Coffee , FlatPlate , Wing , Excel
http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/~xobitko/ga/
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Engineering
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17
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Mon Oct. 31
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Statistical Data Mining
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Dennis Lin
(DennisLin )
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Slides
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Business
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18
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Wed Nov.
2
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Midterm #2
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19
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Mon Nov. 7
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Computer Networking and TCP/IP
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John Kalbach
(kalbach )
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Slides
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ITS/ASET
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20
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Wed Nov. 9
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Wireless Networking and VPN's
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William Burkhard
(wjb3 )
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Slides
VPN Client
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ECS
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21
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Mon Nov. 14
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Review of Parallel Computers
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Rob Kunz
(rfk102 )
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Slides
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ARL
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22
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Wed Nov. 16
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Commodity PC Clusters (Beowulfs)
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Rob Kunz
(rfk102 )
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Slides
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ARL
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23
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Mon Nov. 21
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Large-Scale Data Storage
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Steven Kellogg
(Kellogg )
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Slides
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ITS/ASET
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24
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Mon Nov. 28
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Message Passing Interface (MPI)
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Padma
()
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Slides and Sample Code
Book
by Quinn and Book
by Gropp et al
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Computer Science
and Engineering
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25
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Wed Nov. 30
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Grid-based Computing
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Mark Green
mlgreen@ccr.buffalo.edu
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CCR
Access Grid Webpage
For this lecture we will meet
in the IEL Lab, room 306 Engr. Unit C
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U. Buffalo
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26
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Mon Dec. 5
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Web User Interfaces (WUI)
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Adam Focht
(abf123 )
Jorge Sofo
(sofo )
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Slides
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MRI
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27
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Wed Dec. 7
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Midterm #3
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