CS 575 - Overview
Computational science methods and techniques are
presented to students in the CS 575 course through lecture
and enhanced through their computing projects. Each student
selects a science based problem that is of interest to
them, tailoring it to their particular academic background.
The students become familiar with the computational
characteristics of their program by running it on the
educational mainframe machine at SDSU, a SUN Sparc 10. The
student writes a formal report describing the problem, the
performance of their code and the implications of their
results on the "science" of their problem. Once students
are familiar with their own science projects, they port the
code to the Cray, extend the problem and write a final
report on the "science" as well as the "performance" of
their project on the Cray compared to Sun Sparc 10