---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nathan Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 20, 2007 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Teaching Scientific Computation (looking for the perfect text) To: Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Michael, I encourage you to find a copy of "Classical Fortran" (M. Kupferschmid, ISBN 0-8247-0802-4) and read the first chapter. The clarity of purpose in this book, "simply using computers to do scientific work", is actually what convince me to initially adopt F77 as a teaching language. Nathan On Nov 20, 2007 1:24 PM, Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:33:43PM -0600, Nathan Moore wrote: > > I regularly teach a college course in a physics department that deals > with > > scientific computation. After students take the course, I expect that > > they'll be able to write simple "c-tran" style programs for data > analysis, > > write basic MD or MC simulations, and be fairly fluent in Mathematica. > <snip> > > I have a related (I hope) question. > > I don't teach a course, but some colleagues and I are in the position > of "computation ambassador" to a range of researchers (faculty, grad, > and undergrad). Our semi-imaginary "classic case" is a professor in the > humanities who might have an abstract sense that large-scale computation > could aid their research, but no idea how to actually apply the > available technology. In the worst case, this person regards anything > with a command line as terra incognita, and will require some serious > hand holding early on. > > We can provide the hand holding, and we know a fair amount about > computers, clusters, what's (im)possible, but none of us have a deep > technical background in the "research" part of research computing, so > we've spent a lot of time lately asking ourselves how to bridge the gap. > > So I hope I'm not hijacking the thread, but beyond issuing a "me too" to > Nathan's textbook question I'd also like to know if anybody has some > general tips on how to get started, a sort of "adult primer" on research > computing which we could benefit from ourselves as well as passing along > to the curious. > > Thanks, > -j > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nathan Moore Assistant Professor, Physics Winona State University AIM: nmoorewsu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nathan Moore Assistant Professor, Physics Winona State University AIM: nmoorewsu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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