Course: PHY1610 Scientific Computing for Physicists (Winter 2024)

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- PHY1610 Scientific Computing for Physicists (Winter 2024)
  This course is aimed at reducing your struggle in getting started with computational projects, and make you a more efficient computational scientist. Topics include well-established best practices for developing software as it applies to scientific computations, common numerical techniques and packages, and aspects of high performance computing. While we will introduce the C++ language, in one language or another, students should already have some programming experience. Despite the title, this course is suitable for many physical scientists (chemists, astronomers, ...).
  This is a graduate course that can be taken for graduate credit by UofT PhD and MSc students. Students that wish to do so, should enrol using ACORN/ROSI.
  This is an in-person course.
  Teacher: Ramses van Zon
  Start date: 9 Jan 2024
  End date: 12 Apr 2024
  Scientific Computing Credits: 28
  High Performance Computing Credits: 8
  Events:
  PHY1610 Scientific Computing Lecture - Tuesday, 9 January, 11:00 AM » 12:00 PM
  PHY1610 Scientific Computing Lecture - Thursday, 11 January, 11:00 AM » 12:00 PM
  PHY1610 Scientific Computing Lecture - Tuesday, 16 January, 11:00 AM » 12:00 PM
  A full list of course events can be found here.
- Lecture Location: SciNet Teaching Room, 11th floor on the MaRS West Tower, 661 University Ave., Suite 1140, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1
  Date and Time: Tue/Thu 11:00 am - 12:00 noon EST
  Office Hours: In-person Wed 1-2 PM EST; Virtual Fri 12-1 PM EST
  Also virtual on March 13, 2024
- Page
  
  Syllabus Page
- Forum
  
  Question forum
- Forum
  
  Announcements Forum
Lecture Slides
- File
  
  Slides for lectures 1-4 on C++ File
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  5. Debugging and Make File
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  6. Modularity File
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  7. Version Control with Git File
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  8. Testing and Libraries File
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  9. Objects and Arrays File
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  10. Numerics File
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  11. Solving Ordinary Differential Equations File
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  12. Solving Partial Differential Equations File
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  13. Linear algebra File
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  14. File I/O and NetCDF
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  15. Performance Profiling File
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  16. Fast Fourier Transform File
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  17. Randomness File
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  18. Introduction to Parallel Computing File
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  19. Shared memory parallel programming with OpenMP File
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  20. Shared memory parallel programming, part 2 File
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  21. Introduction to MPI File
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  22. More MPI File
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  23. Hybrid MPI+OpenMP File
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  24. GPUs with OpenMP File
Lecture Recordings
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  1: About the course and C++ File
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  2. C++ by example File
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  3. C++ Details File
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  4. More C++ and assignment File
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  5. Debugging and Make File
- File
  
  6. Modularity File
- File
  
  7. Version Control with Git File
- File
  
  8. Testing and Libraries File
- File
  
  9. Arrays and Objects File
- File
  
  10. Numerics File
- File
  
  11. Ordinary Differential Equations File
- File
  
  12. Solving Partial Differential Equations File
- File
  
  13. Linear Algebra File
- File
  
  14. File I/O and NetCDF
- File
  
  15. Performance Profiling File
- File
  
  16. Fast Fourier Transform File
- File
  
  17. Randomness File
- File
  
  18. Introduction to Parallel Computing File
- File
  
  19. Shared memory parallel programming with OpenMP File
- File
  
  20. Shared memory parallel programming, part 2 File
- File
  
  21. Introduction to MPI File
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  22. MPI, part 2 File
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  23. Hybrid MPI+OpenMP File
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  24. GPUs with OpenMP File
Assignments
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 1: C++
  
  Opened: Thursday, 18 January 2024, 11:30 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 25 January 2024, 11:59 PM
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 2: Modularize 1D Game of Life
  
  Opened: Thursday, 25 January 2024, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 1 February 2024, 11:59 PM
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 3: Test of Life
  
  Opened: Friday, 2 February 2024, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Friday, 9 February 2024, 11:59 PM
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 4: GSL Library for root finding
  
  Opened: Friday, 9 February 2024, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Friday, 16 February 2024, 11:59 PM
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 5: Laplace solver
  
  Opened: Friday, 16 February 2024, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Friday, 1 March 2024, 11:59 PM
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 6: Inhomogeneous PDE using LAPACKE
  
  Opened: Thursday, 7 March 2024, 11:00 PM
  
  Due: Thursday, 14 March 2024, 11:59 PM
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 7: Gravitational Waves
  
  Opened: Thursday, 14 March 2024, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 21 March 2024, 11:59 PM
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 8: Parallelized Laplace solver
  
  Opened: Thursday, 21 March 2024, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 28 March 2024, 11:59 PM
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 9: Distributed random numbers
  
  Opened: Monday, 1 April 2024, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Monday, 8 April 2024, 11:59 PM
- Assignment
  
  Assignment 10: Two-dimensional Game of Life with OpenMP
  
  Opened: Monday, 8 April 2024, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Monday, 15 April 2024, 11:59 PM
Additional Material and Links
- Page
  
  Submitting your repo as a zip or tar file Page
- URL
  
  MobaXterm: terminal for Windows with X11 server and SSH client and more URL
- URL
  
  GSL Documentation URL
- URL
  
  Teach Cluster Quickstart URL
- URL
  
  C/C++/Fortran Compilers for Macs URL
- URL
  
  cplusplus.com C++ tutorial URL
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  Learncpp.com: Lessons to learn C++ URL
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  NetCDF C++ Interface Guide URL
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  NetCDF C++ example with 'unlimited' dimension File
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  LAPACK reference documentation URL
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  Intel MKL cblas documentation URL

Topic outline

General

PHY1610 Scientific Computing for Physicists (Winter 2024)

Lecture Slides

Lecture Recordings

Assignments

Additional Material and Links