WSI Code Wiki

Monday

• Introductions
• What is Scientific Computing?
• Fundamentals (I still don't care for this here. Perhaps we could work it in with some relevance to the LCM machines? -K)
  • Parallelism
  • Shared memory model
• Historical context
• The Living Computer Museum: visit and discussion

Tuesday

• A Grand Problem
• Hands on: UNIX compiling using Make
• Why C++? FORTRAN?
• Hands on: C++ & FORTRAN

Wednesday

• High Performance Computing
  • What does it take to run your code elsewhere? Schedulers, jobs, batch mentality
  • Limitations on scaling
  • Hands on: Local parallel machines
• Post-Processing
• Hands on: Octave
• Hands on: Python
• do you want to touch on R? I would leave out for time reasons

Thursday

• Numerical (in)stability, computer representation issues
• How much model is in the simulation?
• Hands on: governing equations
• Partial differential equations (PDEs), the finite element method (FEM), multi-grid/adaptive mesh refinement
• Best practices, verification & validation

Friday

• Informal Workshop on Contemporary Issues in HPC, with Networking