Course: PHY1610 Scientific Computing for Physicists (Winter 2025)

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  PHY1610 Scientific Computing for Physicists (Winter 2025)
  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: 7 Jan. 2025
  End date: 11 Apr. 2025
  Scientific Computing Credits: 28
  High Performance Computing Credits: 8
  Upcoming events:
  Assignment 9: Parallel histogram computation with MPI is due - Monday, 7 April, 11:59 PM
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  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 11 AM - 12 PM EST
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- Select activity Lecture 11: Ordinary Differential Equations
  
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- Select activity Recording 3: C++ details
  
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- Select activity Recording 13: Partial Differential Equations
  
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- Select activity Recording 14: Linear Algebra Packages
  
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- Select activity Recording 15: Measuring Performance
  
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- Select activity Recording 16: Fast Fourier Transform
  
  Recording 16: Fast Fourier Transform File
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  Recording 21: MPI (part 1) File
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  Recording 22: MPI part 2 File
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  Recording 24: OpenMP GPU Programming File
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- Select activity Assignment 1: C++ coding
  
  Assignment 1: C++ coding
  
  Opened: Thursday, 16 January 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 23 January 2025, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Assignment 2: Modularization
  
  Assignment 2: Modularization
  
  Opened: Thursday, 23 January 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 30 January 2025, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Assignment 3: Testing and Version Control
  
  Assignment 3: Testing and Version Control
  
  Opened: Thursday, 30 January 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 6 February 2025, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Assignment 4: Numerics and Teach Cluster
  
  Assignment 4: Numerics and Teach Cluster
  
  Opened: Saturday, 8 February 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Saturday, 15 February 2025, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Assignment 5: Partial Differential Equations
  
  Assignment 5: Partial Differential Equations
  
  Opened: Thursday, 27 February 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Thursday, 6 March 2025, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Assignment 6: PDE with Fourier Transform
  
  Assignment 6: PDE with Fourier Transform
  
  Opened: Friday, 7 March 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Friday, 14 March 2025, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Assignment 7: Percolation
  
  Assignment 7: Percolation
  
  Opened: Friday, 14 March 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Friday, 21 March 2025, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Assignment 8: Parallel histogram computation with OpenMP
  
  Assignment 8: Parallel histogram computation with OpenMP
  
  Opened: Friday, 21 March 2025, 11:59 PM
  
  Due: Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:59 PM
- Select activity Assignment 9: Parallel histogram computation with MPI
  
  Assignment 9: Parallel histogram computation with MPI
  
  Opened: Monday, 31 March 2025, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Monday, 7 April 2025, 11:59 PM
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- Select activity Teach Cluster Quickstart
  
  Teach Cluster Quickstart URL
- Select activity Submitting your repo as a zip or tar file
  
  Submitting your repo as a zip or tar file Page
- Select activity MobaXterm: terminal for Windows with X11 server and SSH client and more
  
  MobaXterm: terminal for Windows with X11 server and SSH client and more URL
- Select activity GSL Documentation
  
  GSL Documentation URL
- Select activity C/C++/Fortran Compilers for Macs
  
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- Select activity cplusplus.com C++ tutorial
  
  cplusplus.com C++ tutorial URL
- Select activity Learncpp.com: Lessons to learn C++
  
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- Select activity NetCDF C++ Interface Guide
  
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- Select activity NetCDF C++ example with 'unlimited' dimension
  
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- Select activity LAPACK reference documentation
  
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- Select activity Intel MKL cblas documentation
  
  Intel MKL cblas documentation URL

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PHY1610 Scientific Computing for Physicists (Winter 2025)

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