RUI: Mathematical Software for Parallel Computers

这项活动源于佛罗里达理工学院六名教员的共同兴趣，他们对具有先进架构的计算机感兴趣，这些计算机能够进行矢量和并行处理，并开发相应的数学软件来运行这些计算机。这项工作的目标机器位于阿贡国家实验室和康奈尔超级计算机中心。建议并行计算机软件开发的领域：(1)多处理机调度问题(2)常微分方程边值与特征值问题(3)若干线性代数算法的并行版本(4)偏微分方程问题的蒙特卡罗算法(5)计算流体力学中的多重网格方法。这些研究活动有望激发本科生对这一热门研究领域的兴趣，并吸引他们进一步进行研究生学习。

This activity arises from the common interest of six faculty members at the Florida Institute of Technology in computers with advanced architectures which enable vector and parallel processing, and in developing attendant mathematical software to run on them. The target machines for this work are at the Argonne National Laboratory and the Cornell Supercomputer Center. The areas in which software development for parallel computers are proposed: (1) Scheduling Problems for Multiprocessors (2) Ordinary Differential Equations, Boundary Value and Eigenvalue Problems (3) Parallel Versions of Certain Linear Algebra Algorithms (4) Monte Carlo Algorithms for Problems in Partial Differential Equations (5) Multigrid Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics. These research activities are expected to stimulate undergraduates' interest in this popular area of research and attact them into further graduate study.