Animated Graphics: Interpreting Solutions to Numerical Models on Supercomputers

一个包含3100台运行ULTRIX的计算机的实验室正在被用来支持一门新的课程，超级计算机的数值方法。学生们正在学习设计利用矢量和并行架构的程序，向远程超级计算机提交作业，在他们的家庭校园实验室中，他们正在将大量输出数据合成为动画图形显示。通过关注建模过程的最后阶段-解释-学生们正在学习评估他们的数学和数值模型的解决方案，以便他们熟悉整个建模过程。

A laboratory containing DECstations 3100 running ULTRIX is being used to support a new course, Numerical Methods for Supercomputers. Students are learning to design programs that exploit vector and parallel architectures, submitting jobs to a remote supercomputer, and in their home-campus lab they are synthesizing large quantities of output data into an animated graphical display. By focusing on the last stage of the modeling process - interpretation - students are learning to evaluate the solutions to their mathematical and numerical models so that they become familiar with the entire modeling process.