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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science on Fall Semester 95. Foils prepared 8 Nov 1995
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| This starts with a discussion of Parallel Computing using analogies from nature |
| It uses foils and material from CSEP chapter on Computer Architecture to discuss how and why to build a parallel computer including synchronization memory structure and network issues |
| SIMD and MIMD Architectures with a brief comparison of workstation networks with closely coupled systems |
| A look to the future is based on results from Petaflops workshop |
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CPS615 -- Base Course for the Simulation Track of Computational Science
Abstract of Lecture Stream 2 of CPS615
CPS615 -- Base Course for the Simulation Track of Computational Science
Abstract of CPS615 Numerical Analysis Presentation
CPS615 -- Base Course for the Simulation Track of Computational Science
Abstract of CPS615 Finite Element/Conjugate Gradient Presentation
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| Geoffrey Fox |
| NPAC |
| Room 3-131 CST |
| 111 College Place |
| Syracuse NY 13244-4100 |
HTML version of Basic Foils prepared 8 Nov 1995
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| This starts with a discussion of Parallel Computing using analogies from nature |
| It uses foils and material from CSEP chapter on Computer Architecture to discuss how and why to build a parallel computer including synchronization memory structure and network issues |
| SIMD and MIMD Architectures with a brief comparison of workstation networks with closely coupled systems |
| A look to the future is based on results from Petaflops workshop |
HTML version of Basic Foils prepared 8 Nov 1995
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| Geoffrey Fox |
| NPAC |
| Room 3-131 CST |
| 111 College Place |
| Syracuse NY 13244-4100 |
HTML version of Basic Foils prepared 8 Nov 1995
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| This is designed to augment the Fosdick and Jessup online resource called |
| A Review of Selected Topics from Numerical Analysis |
| situated at: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/95-96/courses/materials.hpsc.html |
| We focus on additional discussion of eigenvectors and eigenvalues which are used in CPS615 in discussing convergence of iterative PDE solvers |
| Also have small discussion of "functional analysis" with differential operators |
HTML version of Basic Foils prepared 8 Nov 1995
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| Geoffrey Fox |
| NPAC |
| Room 3-131 CST |
| 111 College Place |
| Syracuse NY 13244-4100 |
HTML version of Basic Foils prepared 8 Nov 1995
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| This derives the finite element method for a simple two dimensional Laplacian with triangular elements |
| We use this to motivate conjugate gradient as a variant of steepest descent for variational principle underlying FEM |
| We discuss preconditioning, parallelism and convergence of general conjugate gradient method |