CS 340 -- Section 01, Fall 2010, Ridgway Scott
Scientific Parallel Computing
The course will cover the basic concepts of parallel computing in the text
and will focus on one key question: to what extent do simulations of dynamical systems
require sequential computation.
Phrased more positively, we will ask under what conditions can we guarantee that a
dynamical system can be parallelized in time efficiently.
We will review the state of the art in algorithms for simulating chaotic dynamical
systems and explore the extent to which these can be parallelized.
The course will also explore the use of general purpose graphics processors
(GP-GPUs) as parallel computers.
- Time: 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm, Tuesday & Thursday
- Place: Ry 277
- Assignments
- The course text will be Scientific Parallel Computing by
L. Ridgway Scott, Terry Clark, and Babak Bagheri,
Princeton University Press, 2005.
- Here are some further comments
on the text
Some date changes:
- On Tuesday 19 October, there will no class; instead we will meet on
Wednesday 20 October at 10am in Ry 258
- On Tuesday 26 October, there will no class; instead we will meet on
Friday 29 October at 2:30pm in Ry 258