One of the goals of the course is to bring together computer scientists and physicists to collaborate on parallelization projects. Driven by a set of physics problems of interest to the Bartol Research Institute and other UD departments, we have created the following set of projects. Each work group consists of an advisor (faculty or postdoc) and a set of students. The group assignment is based on your questionaires completed the first day of classes, with the aim of forming strong groups with a wide variety of backgrounds in programming, MPI, and physics. The advisor of each project group has a good understanding of the project.

Work Group Project Descriptions and Assignments
Number	Description	Advisor	Members
0	3 Dimensional FFT for Spectral Method Fluid Codes	W. Matthaeus	P. Dmitruk
1	Self Scheduling Algorithms for Trajectories Calculations: test particles, field lines, stream lines, etc. Final Report	S. Parhi	G. Qin, Simon Yan, R. Liu S. Khan
2	Optimization of Algorithms for Molecular Structure Calculations Final Report	K. Szalewicz	O. Akin-Ojo, G. Murdachaew, Z. Yang, N. Seenu
3	MP ZEUS - testing and performance analysis of the message passing ZEUS fluid simulation package Final Report	H. Muller, S. Parhi	A. Ud-doula, S. Kalet, J. Pellegrino, K. deKoning
4	Wave Scattering simulation using finite elements and domain decomposition Final Report	P. Monk, L. Milano, P. Dmitruk	J. Sun, E. Fellows, M. Jochen
5	3D hydro simulation using spectral method and Lattice Boltzmann method: accuracy and performance analysis Final Report	L. P. Wang, P. Dmitruk	O. Ayala, B. Breech, P. Gao
6	Parallel Fast Fourier Transform for Large 1D Arrays Final Report	W. Matthaeus	K. DeKoning, S. Khan

The Overall Project Tasks

• Analysis of the problem
• Strategy for solving the problem
• Implementation of the strategy
• Testing and Performance Evaluation

Deliverables

• Initial Problem Description: (due in class on 9/21/00)
  The group should submit a 1-3 page summary of their project description, (in html to be put on the course web page) including:
  • Motivation - Why is this an important problem to investigate?
  • Problem Statement - What research question(s) are you trying to answer?
  • Plan of Investigation - What potential strategies do you plan to investigate?
• Class Presentation of Application Code (date given on course schedule)
  The group should prepare a presentation that takes approximately one class period that covers the following aspects:
  • an overview of the science behind the problem targeted to a non-physicist
  • an overview of the computational aspect of the problem
  • the targeted components for parallelization and justification for this selection
  • your plan of investigation
  • initial thoughts on the challenges/issues
  • discussion
  We encourage using either overhead transparencies or a laptop for your presentations. The physics experts (students) should give the majority of this presentation for their lecture presentation grade in the course. Each physics expert should participate in some way in the presentation. This presentation should be targeted to an audience that has folks with little computational background and folks with little physics background. You should set up an appointment with with one of the co-instructors one week prior to the presentation to show your prepared presentation so you can get some feedback and make changes for improved understanding by the audience.
• Final Presentation of Project (date given on course schedule)
  The group should prepare a presentation that takes approximately one class period that covers the following aspects:
  • Quick Review of the Problem and Motivation
  • Your Strategies - what you actually did
  • Justification for your strategies - what others have done, why you believed your strategy was a good one,...
  • Your Results - what you observed
  • Reflection/Discussion/Conclusions - problems you came across, conclusions from your results, tradeoffs you observed...
  • Directions for future work in the area
• Final Project Written Report (due last day of classes)
  Each work group should prepare a written report that covers the same material covered in the final oral presentation. In particular, each report should include sections that cover introduction and motivation, problem statement, analysis of the problem, strategy for parallelization, implementation details, testing and performance study sections, reflection, and future directions. Please follow the formatting instructions for latex, word, or whatever word processor you use.
  Local Latex Formatting Instructions for Final Project Report