CSCI 4576/4586
 
High Performance Scientific Computing

This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation
under an Educational Infrastructure grant, CDA-9017953 and
developed as part of the High Performance Scientific Computing
(HPSC) project at the University of Colorado at Boulder.


Course Descriptions

CSCI 4576 (4 credit hours) High-Performance Scientific Computing 1

Description: Introduction to computing systems, software, and methods used to solve large-scale problems in science and engineering. Students use high-performance workstations and a supercomputer. First course in a two-semester sequence.
Prerequisites: CSCI 3656 or equivalent.

CSCI 4586 (4 credit hours) High-Performance Scientific Computing 2

Description: Introduction to computing systems, software, and methods used to solve large-scale problems in science and engineering. Students use high-performance workstations and a supercomputer. Second course in a two-semester sequence.
Prerequisites: CSCI 4576.

Course Materials:

Text: L. D. Fosdick, E. R. Jessup, C. J. C. Schauble, G. Domik, An Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing, MIT Press, 1996.

Textbook Chapters, Lab Manual, and Other Information available via the Internet


OnLine Tutorials and Lab Manual Chapters

Color in Scientific Visualization

Vector Processors

The IBM SP-2

Using IRIS Explorer

OnLine Lab Manual Chapters


Demos and Animations

The movement of three particles in a ring

How a vector pipeline does floating-point addition

Comments to ERJessup: jessup-AT-CS.Colorado.EDU or CJCSchauble: schauble-AT-@CS.Colorado.EDU
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