1. Introduction to Scientific Computing

• 1.1. What is Scientific Computing
  • 1.1.1. Non-scientific computing:
  • 1.1.2. Scientific Computing
• 1.2. The Scientific Computing Environment
  • 1.2.1. Scientific Computing Hardware
• 1.3. The OS and Unix
  • 1.3.1. Unix: The Scientific Operating System
  • 1.3.2. Unix running natively on a PC: = Linux
• 1.4. The Scientific Software Stack
• 1.5. Homework