AMATH 583: High-Performance Scientific Computing

SLN 10225, MWF 3:30-4:20, Loew Hall 206

Instructor:

Professor Randall J. LeVeque
Guggenheim 415C
tel: 685-3037
fax: 685-1440
rjl AT uw DOT edu
Office hours: MW 4:30-5:30 and Thursday 3-4pm

TA: Grady Lemoine, gl AT uw DOT edu

Office hours: M,T 1:30 -- 2:30, W 2:30 - 3:30, F 1:00-2:00 in GUG 406

Course Description

Introduction to hardware, software, and programming for large-scale scientific computing. Overview of multicore, cluster, and supercomputer architectures; procedure and object oriented languages; parallel computing paradigms and languages; graphics and visualization of large data sets; validation and verification; and scientific software development. Prerequisite: either CSE 142 or AMATH 301.

Class Notes:

These notes will be updated frequently during the quarter. The version posted here may not be up to date with the repository.

html version
pdf version is not complete currently because table of contents not set up properly!
Also, the pdf version is not updated as frequently as the html version, and is here mainly to show what the latex output looks like when Sphinx is used.
Notes from 2010 These are being rewritten and reorganized this year.

Slides:

See Slides section of the notes

Catalyst tools:

Bitbucket repository:

Virtual Machine:

amath583vm.zip (716 MB)
Instructions for using the VM.

Video of lectures:

Moodle page (For registered students only.)
You may also gain access by registering as an auditor

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Mon Mar 28 08:19:06 PDT 2011