MN475 Linear Algebra
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- Professor Kevin Burrage
- Room 636 Priestley Building
- Email: kb@maths.uq.oz.au
- Phone: (07) 3365 3487
- Fax: (07) 33651477
Introduction
There have been many new and exciting developments in high performance computing (HPC) at this institution with the arrival of the 22 processor IBM SP2 as part of a Queensland Universities parallel computing intitiative and a 20 processor Silicon Graphics Power Challenge at the University of Queensland. Both these machines have a peak perfpormance of about 7 Gflops.
In addition the newly devloped visualisation laboratory (ViSAC) has 20 INDY SGI workstations plus an Onyx reality engine. All lectures and tutorials will take place in ViSAC.
How the course will run
For the first time this course will be run in a web based environment within ViSAC. MN475 is 100% internally assessed with no exam. There is just one assignment with a number of parts to it.
You will be expected to do your assignment in a combination of tex and html.
The asssignment will be evaluated by myself over the web using netscape.
Course notes, tools and supplementary material have been set up on the web under http://www.acmc.uq.edu.au. The main references will be Templates.
NEW: Lectures will be in VISAC from 10-12 on Friday.
Contents
The main contents of the this subject are
- Iterative methods in linear algebra, including Conjugate Gradient, GMRES and Multigrid techniques
- Programming in Fortan and Matlab
- Scientific visualisation using Khoros of outputs
What you will achieve from the course
- Some familiarity with web based technologies and html
- Introduction to advanced computing and visualisation through the solution of large scale problems in linear algebra
- Ability to work independently and write web-based assignments
0. Working through the notes
1. Course notes
2. Fortan and Matlab codes
3. The Assignment