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| These lecture notes #under development and constant revision, like the #eld itself # have been used at MIT in a graduate course #rst o#ered by Alan Edelman and Shang-Hua Teng during the spring of 1994 #MIT 18.337, Parallel Scienti#c Computing#. This #rst class had about forty students from a variety of disciplines which include Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Aeronautics and Aerospace, and Applied Physics. Because of the diverse backgrounds of the students, the course, b y necessity,was designed to be of interest to engineers, computer scientists, and applied mathematicians. Our course covers a mixture of material that we feel students should be exposed to. Our primary focus is on modern numerical algorithms for scienti#c computing, and also on the historical trends in architectures. At the same time, wehave always felt that students #and the professors # must su#er through hands-on experience with modern parallel machines. Some students enjoy #ghting new machines; others scream and complain. This is the reality of the subject. In 1995, the course was taught again by Alan Edelman with an additional emphasis on the use of portable parallel software tools. The sad truth was that there were not yet enough fully developed tools to be used. The situation is currently improving. | |||||||||||||||
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