Here I collect links to various web resources of relevance to the course. I will keep on updating this webpage as we go along.

GENERAL STUFF

• Fortran links : more information about f95, and its predecessors, f77 and g77.                                                                                                                                       
• Links to web pages of well-known people in Scientific Computing                                                                                                                                                  
• IEEE real arithmetic Page from JD Stone's web page (Grinnell College, USA)                                                                                                       
• Cygwin     You can install this software on your windows PC, if you want to have a UNIX or LINUX - style shell. This means that you can use all the free UNIX and LINUX software while still running your PC under windows.
  

BLAS

• Netlib web page for BLAS Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms - from Lecture 3.

• Quick Reference guide to BLAS . Click here for a .ps file which you can print off.

LAPACK

• LAPACK Home Page .

• LAPACK FAQ's Frequently asked questions.

• LAPACK User Guide HTML version.

  LAPACK Search Engine .

SOFTWARE ON THE WEB

• Netlib , a collection of mathematical software, papers and databases
• GAMS: Guide to Available Mathematics Software, National Inst of Standards, USA
• HSL2000: Harwell subroutine library , Rutherford Appleton Lab, U.K.
• HPC-Netlib: High Performance Mathematical Software

BOOKS

• Numerical Computing with MATLAB, by Cleve Moler, The MathWorks, 2004.
• Designing and Building Parallel Programs , by Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, 1995 ( Mirror Site in the UK).
• Parallelization of numerical algorithms, by Gundolf Haase, University of Linz, Austria, 1999.
• Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods, by Richard Barrett et al., SIAM, 1994 (in the netlib data base).

MPI

• MPI Homepage, Argonne National Laboratory, IL
• MPICH Implementation, Argonne National Laboratory, IL (the implementation we will use).
• MPI Routines (1.1 Standard) a list of all the available MPI routines and their syntax.
• MPI Manual Pages a list of all the available MPI routines and their syntax (local site on MSc cluster).

PETSc

• PETSc Homepage, Argonne National Laboratory, IL

HYPRE

• HYPRE Homepage, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA
• HYPRE Users Manual

ScaLAPACK

• ScaLAPACK Home Page (in the netlib data base).
• ScaLAPACK Users' Guide
• Introduction to ScaLAPACK (easy introduction from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center).

Parallel NAG Library

• Parallel NAG Library, Home Page

Guest Lectures in Previous Years

• Bill McLean's lecture on Python for Scientific Computing   (2006/07, Lecture, Week 8)

• Sven Hammarling's lecture on An Introduction to the Quality of Computed Solutions   (2006/07, Lecture, Week 9)

• Sven Hammarling's lecture on New Developments in LAPACK and ScaLAPACK   (2006/07, Seminar, 25th April 2007)

Other Links

• SPEC Homepage, Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation of modern high performance computers (Mirror site in Italy)
• More performance evaluation (actually for computational chemistry, but that doesn't matter) at the Daresbury Lab

Last updated 08/02/2010