Reference List:

• Books on this topic include (those with * are available in VisLab for you to use but not to take away)

  * Computational Physics, R. Landau & M. Paez (Wiley)

  * High Performance Computing, K. Dowd (O'Reilly)

    Projects in Scientific Computation, R. Crandell

  * Supercomputing and Science, W. Haufmann & L. Smarr (Scientific American)

  * The Algorithmic Beauty of Seashells, H. Meinhardt (Springer)

  * Computational Fluid Dynamics, P. Roache (Hermosa)

    Numerical Recipes, W. Press et al (Cambridge)

• On-line manuals are available for many of the tools you will use:

  Start in the VisLab Support & Services area or the Local use only area for the Scientific Computing course.

• the following URLs are particularly relevant for this course:

  Boston University's Scientific Comptuting and Visualisation Group SCV maintain a very useful hotlist of servers in SCV.