Lectures on supercomputing in February 2001 in KarlsruheKarlsruhe 10 Nov 2000 A general course on scientific supercomputing will by held in Karlsruhe, Germany, in February 2001. At the Universitaet Karlsruhe and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe an IBM RS/6000 SP and a Siemens/Fujitsu VPP300-5000 with totally 400 Gflop/s are installed. At LRZ Munich a Hitachi SR8000 with more than 1 Tflop/s is available for German scientists. Students will get acquainted with the usage of such supercomputers.
Supercomputers are built by connecting vector pipelines or
microprocessors by a communication network. The theoretical peak
performance now is more than 1 Tflop/s . These parallel computers are used for the
numerical simulation in all technical and scientific areas: crash tests
for automobiles, weather forecast, elementary particle physics, drug
design etc. The progress in science and technology is essentially
determined by this new "Computational Science". The contents of the lecture and how to obtain the manuscript
can be seen via the URL
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~rz03/book/ External participants should send an e-mail. Information about the
Computer Center is under the URL
http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/
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