I’m happy to announce the initial public release of boostmpi, an MPI wrapper for Python.
boostmpi is a high-quality Python wrapper around the Message Passing Interface (MPI). MPI is a standardized interface to libraries such as OpenMPI and MPICH that provide high-performance inter-process communication for distributed-memory computing.
boostmpi uses …
more ...Tim Warburton, Jeff Bridge, my advisor Jan Hesthaven and I have recently submitted an article detailing our efforts to accelerate Discontinuous Galerkin computations by using Nvidia CUDA GPUs. DG seems to be a good fit for these machines.
Get it while it’s hot: Arxiv, Brown SC reports, JCP
How should scientific codes be constructed? Scientific codes are often experimental in nature, and therefore need to be easy to change, and, of course, quick to develop in the first place—who wants to invest any more than necessary into an idea that might not work out after all? On …
more ...Since the semester at Brown starts back tomorrow, I was a little concerned about my total lack of writing material. I still have my non-standard ruled paper from last year, but since a) it’s not a standard size, not even US-Letter, much less A4 and b) I don …
more ...If you are like most everybody else, you keep music on your computer, be it in MP3 or some other format. Then, most likely, not all of that music got to your hard drive in ways approved by the recording industry. You feel bad for that, don’t you? You …
more ...Just in case you are interested, Functional Analysis II Summary is a PDF link to my (German) summary of Dr. Christoph Schmoeger’s Functional Analysis class of 2001. While those that have taken that particular lecture and need to take an exam on it may be a dying breed, I …
more ...Hi people, greetings from the Flying Pig in Amsterdam. I completed my degree! Did that last Monday at 10:47. (The last exam could have been better—I got a 1.7. But who cares now? }:)) Then, I completed my applications to grad schools in the US. Did I ever …
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