Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D., MSW, FGSA, FCSBC
VCU Life Sciences Building Trani Center, Room 102
Phone: 804.827.7371 | Website

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Week 14:  [preparing for week 14 class]     [week 14 lecture evaluation]    

1. Multi-scale and High Performance Computing and Modeling

Details:

• High Performance Computing at VCU
• Vector and Parallel Computing, Cluster Computing, The Grid and Grid Computing
  • Vector vs. Parallel Computing
  • Clusters and Grids
• Examples of HPC Modeling
• Software (Maple, Mathematica, etc)

Downloads:

• Read Supercomputing1.pdf
• Read Supercomputing2010.pdf
• Read SupercomputingBiologistsThinkBigger.pdf
• Read SupercomputingInMedicalResearch.pdf
• Read through the Wikipedia discussion of supercomputer a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
  Read through but do not dwell on detail for SupercomputingTeraGridPrimer.pdf
• Explore the following website: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/
• Read one of the articles in the pop up list

Faculty: Dr. Tarynn M. Witten     Mike Davis                                                          

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