Computing for Scientists

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CDS 130 - 001 -- Fall 2011

 Computing for Scientists

Dr. Jie Zhang

computing power

Resources (Last Modified: Aug. 28, 2011)

Relevant IT courses at GMU
- CDS130 current and past: a single webpage holding current and previous CDS130 courses starting from Fall 2010.

Books, References and Online Courses
- There is no required textbook for this class. The following is suggestive for interested readers.
- "Head First Data Analysis" by Michael Milton, Publisher: O'Reilly Media Inc, ISBN-13: 978-0-596-15393-9, 2009.
- CDS 101 at GMU- Introduction to Computational and Data Sciences
- "Informatics" class at University of Sydney

Matlab
- A guide to Access Matlab at GMU (to be updated)
- Matlab Tutorials
- Install Cygwin, to access matlab remotely from your laptop using X-window and SSH
- Install Octave and Introduction - an alternative software package to Matlab, which is free.

Topic - Computer Fundamentals

Topic - Scientific Simulation

Topic - Data Analysis