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Foil 17 CPS713 Case Study II) Further Computer Science Issues for CFD and NR Computational Toolkit

From Overview of Monte Carlo Case Study CPSP713 -- Autumn Semester 1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Paul Coddington
1 Domain Specific Software where user interfaces at level of mathematical equations -- not C++ or Fortran
  • Can build with Computer algebra tools such as Maple or Mathematica which then must be taught to generate efficient High Performance Fortran , Fortran77 + MPI or equivalent.
    • SINAPSE -- built from Mathematica at Schlumberger research
    • ELLPACK -- one of first and best PDE toolkits (for ELLiptic equations)
2 Runtime support and libraries
  • Schedulers and data decomposition tools
  • Scientific Libraries such as SCALAPACK which can be used directly to solve matrices coming from computational electromagnetics formulated with the method of moments
  • Parallel Compiler Runtime Consortium
    • Integrated support for many languages on many computers
    • Can mix programming paradigms such as
    • HPC++ for convenience and elegance with Fortran77 + MPI for efficiency
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