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<p><font face="serif">Good evening research team!<br>
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<p><font face="serif">So tomorrow there is a CLA faculty meeting
that I am required to attend -- it is at 3:30. Therefore I will
not be around for afternoon research hours and there is no group
meeting. <br>
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<p><font face="serif">Maggi and Lauren -- I am assuming that you two
will be at the Kolbe Center sometime tomorrow. I have put in a
request to have Vizard installed in lab 405 -- but I have no
idea how long that will take. <br>
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<p><font face="serif">Mark and Sahid -- we need to see if we can get
the same results from C++ that they got from the Java code for
the demo genetic algorithm. You can either work on this in the
GSC or work on it in CSC lab 200.</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">Hannah -- see if you can get the Vandermonde
matrix and its inverse built so we can multiply them together
via cuda. Based on our conversation last week it might be
worthwhile to build the Vandermonde matrix with coefficents
ranging from ±1.00001 to ±1.01. That should help with the numerical
stability. This type of matrix could be a great starting point
for your numerical methods research project.<br>
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<p><font face="serif">Avery -- I did some work this weekend trying
to get the Google Pages fixed, but am waiting on a response from
Google. Once that is fixed I think you will be able to help me
with some of the mapping stuff. In the meantime, Hannah is
working on a Fortran version of the Vandermonde problem. You
might want to attempt to take her code and write it in C.
Ultimately I would like to try both C and Fortran with CUDA and
the OpenBLAS for this problems as well as the eigenvalues of the
Vandermond matrix. I would also like to see your "tiny paper"
on the matrix multiplication using CUDA on the systems in
Godsay.<br>
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<p><font face="serif">Lastly -- I have been in consultation with the
Library and one of the librarians has offered to give us a tutorial
on searching the ACM digital library. I would like for us to
do this soon. I'll provide more feedback as I have it.</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">Okay -- one more thing. Right now GSC_405_01
is not booting. Please make sure that you do not use this
system. I have a call into IT -- the system should still be
under warranty if it is a hardware problem.</font></p>
<p><font face="serif">Stay safe out there...<br>
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Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pounds_aj@mercer.edu">pounds_aj@mercer.edu</a>)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj">http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj</a>
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