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CS6404 . Modern Computational Science Alexey Onufriev Departments of CS and Physics VT. Computational Science now: a paradigm shift. Experiment. From the Greeks to the recent past, e.g. figuring out Earth’s radius. theory. Now. Computation. How it works.

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CS6404

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  1. CS6404 Modern Computational Science Alexey Onufriev Departments of CS and Physics VT

  2. Computational Science now: a paradigm shift Experiment From the Greeks to the recent past, e.g. figuring out Earth’s radius theory Now Computation

  3. How it works Image credit: http://www.physics.orst.edu/~rubin/INSTANCES/index.html

  4. Computational Science/Scientific Computing in the grand scheme of things. Natural Science Computer Science Computational Science Math Applied math Computational Science: solving science problems with computers Pure CS: software and hardware, Stand-alone algorithms (just like math)

  5. Examples • Human Genome • Stealth Fighter • MRI • LHS • Weather Forecasts • Protein Folding • ??? (input from class)

  6. What can computational science accomplish? • Speed up finding a solution • Find additional solutions • Find solutions otherwise impossible to find • Discover new fundamental laws???

  7. What is this class about? • Gives you a taste of what computational scienceis, via realistic hands-on project (and homeworks). • Shows you how computational scienceis different from programming or math. • Introduces a number of useful tools and concepts • Teaches you how to work as part of a team • Introduce the paradigm of parallel computing on GPUs – supercomputer on the desk.

  8. What this class is not: • In-depth parallel computation course (e.g. CS5234) • In-depth numerical methods, where you learn everything there is to know about one or two common methods (e.g. finite elements, CS5484). • Focused on high performance libraries (e.g. LINPACK), though you will get a good idea of what these are.

  9. Specifics. Course structure. • Class website http://courses.cs.vt.edu/cs6404/S14/

  10. The nitty-gritty • By next class: • Gain access to a unixmachine (talk to me if this becomes and insurmountable problem). • Install latest Mathematicaon your laptop(VT network software)

  11. Enjoy!

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