Scientific Computing Links

Centers:

• Center for Advanced Computing Ressearch (Caltech)
• NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
• NCSC: The North Carolina Supercomputing Center.
• NERSC: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. Entry to NERSC Information Management (NIM) is here.
• Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center.
• San Diego Supercomputer Center.

• ICASE
  • ICASE (Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering)
  • ICASE electronic library, including ICASE technical reports (ITRS).
• NIST: National Institute of Science and Technology.
• SCOREC: Scientific Computational Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Emphasis on parallel adaptive meshing.
• SIAM: Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Graphics:

• 3D:
  • Internet Ray Tracing Competition.
  • OpenGL:
    • MESA: free OpenGL library
    • OpenGL.org.
    • OpenGl tutorials from NeHe for several platforms.
    • SDL: Simple DirectMedia Layer.
  • Alice 3D interactive graphics environment.
  • 3dgate: 3d learning resources.
  • Bryce design software.
  • CellarDweller.
  • Cult3D 3d web graphics.
  • Poser Forum Online
  • Renderosity.
  • ZBrush: 2d, 3d painting and modeling program.
• Better plots:
  • Pictures of Numbers by Mike Dickison.
• colorbrewer.org, online tool for choosing good color schemes for various graphics.
• Creation Engine, software for 2d and 3d graphics and modeling.
• The GIMP.
• GLE: professional graphics language.
• Gnuplot.
• Grace plotting package.
• Graphviz, program especially for plotting networks.
• HiVision, free visualization software.
• IDL: Interactive Data Language.
• ImageMagick: public domain image processing software.
• Khoros software.
• NCAR Graphics library.
• Otter Tool for Topology Display, Java program for visualizing arbitrary network data.
• PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library.
• QScimpl, Qt-based scientific modeling and plotting library (free for non-commercial use).
• Scientific visualization sites.
• SuperMongo plotting software.
• Visualization Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
• Visualization Toolkit (VTK), public-domain visualization softare.
• VPython, 3D programming for ordinary mortals.
• XFig and documentation.
• Xgraphics library.
• XV imaging software.

Journals and Books:

• J. Comp. Phys.
• SIAM Journal Applied Mathematics
• SIAM Journal Numerical Analysis
• SIAM Journal Scientific Computing
• SIAM Review

• Chebyshev and Fourier Spectral Methods J. P. Boyd (PDF format). Online version of out-of-print book.
• Finite Difference and Spectral Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, online book by Nick Trefethen.
• Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems by Yousef Saad. Online version of out-of-print book.
• Numerical Computing with MATLAB, online book bd Cleve Moler.
• Numerical Continuation Methods, by Gene Allgower and Kurt Georg (Springer, 1990). Online version of out-of-print book.

Languages and Compilers:

• C:
  • Complex Variables in the C Language.
• C++:
  • CC++: parallel C++ language.
  • C++ Peer-reviewed free libraries.
  • C++ IO tutorial.
  • C++ scalar, vector, matrix, tensor class library.
  • G++ home page.
  • HCL: Hilbert C++ Class library (vectors, linear and nonlinear operators.
  • Kai CC++ compilers.
• Fortran:
  • Fortran Library: Guide to online Fortran resources.
  • G95: free Fortran 95 compiler is available through http://www.g95.org
  • Portland Group compilers.
• Java:
  • JMP, sparse matrix library mor Java.
  • JavaSoft.
  • Java site (Sun).
• Jessie SGI Linux debugger
• Modelica: language design for modeling physical systems.

Libraries:

• ARPACK++ sparse eigenvalue C++ library
• Aztec parallel iterative package
• BLAS:
  • ATLAS BLAS library for Intel chips.
  • K. Goto high-performance BLAS libraries for Pentel chips.
  • Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) for BLAS.
• Blitz++: efficient numerical library for C++ codes.
• Code Cogs, open source scientific library and database of C/C++ codes.
• eLib: library of mathematical software.
• FISHPACK library.
• Free numerical linear algebra software.
• GMM++ C++ generic matrix library.
• GSL: GNU Scientific Library.
• HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) Library.
• High-precision C/Fortran software by Yozo Hida.
• HSL: Harwell Subroutine Library).
• IML++ Iterative Methods Library.
• JAMA: Java Matrix Package
• LAPACK graphical interface.
• LiSS Fortran package for 2d CFD.
• LPARX C++ parallel MIMD iterative solvers
• MPI message passing library
• MUDPACK software for elliptic pdes
• Multigrid algorithm library
• Netlib: library of numerical algorithms.
• Numerical Recipes:
  • Numerical Recipes home page, commercial library of numerical algorithms.
  • Reasons for not using Numerical Recipes
• OptSolve++ library for nonlinear optimization.
• Pentium chip libraries.
  • Fast DGEMM for PIII processor.
  • Pentium chip libraries
• PETSc: Portable extensible toolkit for scientific computation
• PIM (Parallel Iterative Methods) package
• PSPARSLIB: portable libraryof parallel iterative solvers
• Statlib: Library of statistical functions and codes.
• Taylor Series Integrator for ODES.
• Template Numerical Toolkit (TNT): libraries for C++ scientific computing.
• The Trilinos Project, software for parallel object-oriented numerical solution of engineering and science problems.
• Winteracter: commercial Windows/Linux GUI for Fortran 9x codes.

Miscellaneous:

• Computational Science Education Project (CSEP).
• FFTs
  • djbfft (D. J. Bernstein's fast FFT)
  • FFTPACK from NCAR.
  • FFT source code links.
  • FFTW, "fastest Fourier Transform in the West".
  • Harminv, presumably better way to extract frequencies from a time series than via FFT.
• ICASE Technical reports.
• Intro to Conjugate Gradient Methods (J. Shewchuk)
• Linux numerical binaries, including BLAS.
• Linux scientific applications.
• Linux software for scientists.
• Marker and Cell (MAC) incompressible fluid solver (source code, examples).
• Mathematica (Wolfram Research).
• Mathtools.net: collection of many sites related to scientific computing (Matlab, Excel, C++, Java, applications, and education).
• MGNET: Muligrid web page
• Object-oriented Numerics Page
• Pseudospectra Gateway.
• Random number generator (C, Fortran versions).
• SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing.
• Software Bugs
• SPAI parallel preconditioning software
• Top500 Supercomputing sites
• Wavelet Digest.

Parallel Computing:

• Companies:
  • Orion Multisystems.
• Distributed computing:
  • Climateprediction.com.
  • Distributed Net.
  • Folding at Home (Internet protein folding code).
  • SETI At Home.
• Grid technologies:
  • Globus project: technologies needed to build computational grids.
  • Grid projects.
• Rocketcalc, compact Linux cluster for parallel computing.
• IBM SP User's Guide (Scientific Computing Ltd of Finland).

Researchers:

• Marsha Berger: Adaptive mesh techniques.
• Phil Colella: Computational fluid dynamics.
• Michael Drexler: Global Newton methods and Newton basins of attraction.
• Paul Fischer (spectral element methods, incompressible flow simulations)
• William Kahan: high priest of floating point arithmetic.
• David Keyes
• Ming-Chih Lai, computational mathematics.
• Kurt Lust: Methods for calculating unstable periodic orbits of pdes.
• Peter Macneice: Adaptive mesh techniques, fluid dynamics.
• Christiane Marliani: Adaptive mesh computations for fluids and plasmas.
• Yousef Saad.
• Jie Shen: Spectral methods for complex geometries.
• Paul Swarztrauber.
• Boleslaw Karl Szymanski: Parallel and distributed algorithms, parallel compilers, adaptive meshes.
• Laurette Tuckerman.
• Stephane Zaleski: Computational fluid dynamics.
• Jun Zhang: 3d multigrid, 4th-order compact finite-differences.