General Resources (hardware and software)

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Hardware Resources

• Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Research Groups is a comprehensive list of academic research groups working in the field of supercomputing and parallel computing worldwide.
• Supercomputers and Parallel Computers is a list of product information for current parallel and vector supercomputers.
• List of Parallel Computing Sites including supercomputing and parallel computing, supercomputer vendors, federal agencies, etc.

Software Resources

• Parallel Computing Works! is an online book by G. C Fox, R. D. Williams, and P. C. Messina. A highly recommended book to read.
• Designing and Building Parallel Programs by Ian Foster is an online book, a collection of public domain parallel software tools, a collection of Web Tours providing access to other information on Parallel Computing, and various educational resources.
• Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Resources is a collection of pointers to various pages containing software resources.
• Computational Science Resources is a collection of online resources in computational methods, application areas, roadmaps, courses, hardware, and software.
• Parallel Computing is a one day course given by Minty, Davey, and Simpson of EPCC. There are also other related tools.
• Global Educational Resources for HPC is quite a comprehensive collection of resources in parallel computing education, courses and tutorials, books online, bibliographies, software online, and parallel research groups.
• Programming Tools--Languages and Libraries is a set of parallel software tools and libraries. Tools such as Scalable Unstructured Mesh Computation and libraries such as Chameleon, etc.
• NAS Parallel Tools Group Hotlist of useful tools in design/analysis , programming models and paradigms, process control, debugging and performance analysis/visualization, etc.

Areas of Applications

• Computational Fluid Dynamics for Astrophysics is a lecture was given by Univ. of Tennessee and Oak Ridge as part of the Computational Science Education Project.
• Earth Sciences Resources is essentially a collection of resources, etc. dealing with studies in Earch Science.
• Atmospheric Sciences Resources. Web resources maintained by the US Geological Survey.
• Biology Resources is a collection of pointers to resources in biology. Maintained by the US Geological Survey.
• Molecular Modeling maintained by the Center for Molecular Modeling of the National Institute of Health. It points to software and hardware resources in the field of Molecular Modeling.
• Computational Molecular Biology is a collection of resources and documents in Sequence Analysis, Molecular Biology Software, and other related resources. This page is maintained by the molecular biology section of NIH.
• Physics Resources is a link to Mike Guidry's collection of physics resources. This is part of the Computational Science Education Projects.
• Guide to Available Mathematical Software. NIST provides a comprehensive guide to wide range of available mathematical software listed by package name and module name with short abstracts of the module.
• UCB/NASA Earth Observing System, Distributed Information System as part of NASA's EOS."End-to-End Problems in EOSDIS" is a NASA-sponsored multi-year project investigating alternative data management strategies for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS).
• Atmospheric Chemistry Model is a NASA-sponsored model to develop a state-of-the-art Earth System Model (ESM) that will be comprised of a coupled atmosphere and ocean system including chemical tracers that are found in, and may be exchanged between, the atmosphere and the oceans.
• Real-World Solutions With Cray Research Systems is a sampling of case histories revealing the real-world impact of Cray systems in solving some challenging problems!
• Here is a very interesting page containing a set of Parallel Algorithm Animation for various parallel algorithms.

Computational Methods

• Monte Carlo Methods (by Guidry et al.) for integration are rooted in the concept that a part of the function to be integrated over may be thought of as a normalized probablity distribution over the region of integration.
• Lectures in Various Computational Science Methods for the physical and life sciences presented at ORNL by Guidry and Strayer.
• Presentations in Hypertext Format by Guidry et al. at ORNL as part of the CSEP.

General References and Roadmaps

• The NHSE HPCC Roadmap is a guide to High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) applications, algorithms, software and enabling technologies. It is developed as part of the National HPCC Software Exchange.
• Sequence analysis tools for Protein identification, DNA -> Protein, similarity searches, pattern and profile searches , primary structure analysis, secondary structure prediction, transmembrane regions detection, etc.
• Applications of Computational Geometry is a collection of various areas in which ideas from discrete and computational geometry (meaning mainly low-dimensional Euclidean geometry) meet some real world applications.
• The topic of computational gene recognition has become more and more important as long DNA being sequenced in the Human Genome Project. Here is a bibliography in Computational Gene Recognition.
• Supercomputing and Parallel Computing Resources of conferences, research groups, vendors, and supercomputers.

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