From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom8=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Tue Apr 1 04:07:17 2014 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 352C6358648; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 04:07:17 +0200 (CEST) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from mail.jpl.nasa.gov (sentrion3.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.139.109]) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EBC835690D for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 04:07:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [137.79.7.57] (math.jpl.nasa.gov [137.79.7.57]) by smtp.jpl.nasa.gov (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id s3127AlA020315 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256 bits) verified NO) for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:07:12 -0700 Subject: FYI from NADIGEST V14 #08 From: Van Snyder Reply-To: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov To: sc22wg5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Yes Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:07:10 -0700 Message-ID: <1396318030.8584.81.camel@math.jpl.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 (2.32.3-30.el6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-Sender: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov X-AUTH: Authorized Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: NA Digest Editor .... ------------------------------------------------------- From: Randy LeVeque rjl@uw.edu Date: March 27, 2014 Subject: Coursera Class, High Performance Scientific Computing I've been teaching a class for the past several years that has been video taped for our online Masters degree program, and last year the videos were cleaned up a bit for a Coursera version. This class will run again this year starting on Monday, March 31, 2014: https://www.coursera.org/course/scicomp Like most of us probably, I find it painful to watch myself lecture so I recommend this with some trepidation, but last year several colleagues at other universities told me they found it useful for their students. The course is very much an *introduction* to high performance computing, with the goal of taking students who have some experience programming (e.g. in Matlab) and teaching them about compiled languages (Fortran 90 in particular), Makefiles, OpenMP, MPI, IPython notebooks, and version control using Git. A bit about my philosophy on MOOCs: My primary reason for agreeing to do this was similar to why I've written a couple of textbooks. After putting so much effort into developing material for a class it's nice if it can be useful beyond the handful of students I teach at UW. But like a textbook, a MOOC doesn't eliminate the need for courses with live instructors, it only gives a another tool to help educate. All of the lecture notes and slides to accompany the videos are also openly available on my webpage from last year, http://faculty.washington.edu/rjl/classes/am583s2013/ and the notes will be updated this Spring Quarter, http://faculty.washington.edu/rjl/classes/am583s2014/ (I'm flipping the class and using last year's lectures.) Many things I borrowed from generous colleagues, so I hope some of these materials are also useful to others.