Foundation of Scientific Computing- SE371 Tapan K. Sengupta
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[email protected] Phone: X-7945/7253 Contact hours: Call and/or Just drop in! (In the afternoons) URL http://home.iitk.ac.in/ tksen Course URL http://spectral.iitk.ac.in/ Grading & Exams: Mid-Sems & End-Sem would account for 80% of marks Projects/ Home Assignments: Rest There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjectures out of such a trifling investment of fact - Mark Twain High Performance Computing Lab, Dept. of Aerospace Engg., I.I.T. Kanpur – p. 2/37 Relationship Between Computing & Science Applied computer science is now playing the role which mathematics did from seventeenth to twentieth centuries: providing an orderly formal framework and exploratory apparatus for other sciences - I. Foster (Nature, 440, March 2006) It is because science is becoming less reductionist and more integrative i.e. we are moving away from modeling. Move from models to actual dynamical system incorporating interactions of sub-systems. This requires high-fidelity simulations involving advanced technologies for hardware, software, algorithms and theoretical models. High Performance Computing Lab, Dept. of Aerospace Engg., I.I.T. Kanpur – p. 3/37 Relationship Between Computing & Science (cont.) Computational scientists should know: (i) principles of information handling; (ii) scope/ limitations of simulations; how large codes are written and tested.