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  MIcrowave Data Analysis for petaScale computers

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Useful on-line resources:

Cosmology

• Overview of cosmology - its today and the past from American Institute of Physics.

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General CMB websites

• general theory
  • Wayne Hu's CMB physics pages;
• experiments
  Operating:
  
  • BICEP - ground-based B-mode experiment;
  • WMAP - NASA CMB satellite;
  • Planck - European CMB satellite;
  Forthcoming:
  
  • QUIET - CMB B-mode ground-based observatory;
  • PolarBeaR - Berkeley led, CMB B mode ground-based observatory;
  • QUBIC - ground-based CMB B-mode interferometer;
  • EBEX - UMN led, CMB B-mode balloon;
  • Spider - Ultra long-duration CMB B-mode balloon;
  Concepts:
  
  • CMBpol - potential future NASA CMB B-mode satellite;
  • B-Pol - potential future ESA CMB B-mode satellite.
• archives & one-stop resource pages
  • NASA Lambda website - comprehensive collection of data products;
  • Tony Banday's CMB resources - useful CMB links and resources;
  • CMB at NERSC - Julian Borrill's CMB resources - a parallel take.
• blogs
  • interdisciplinary blog of the ADAMIS group @ APC;
  • Andrew Jaffe's blog on CMB, cosmology, and other stuff.

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CMB software:

• -map-making codes
• MADmap - optimal map-maker by MADCAP;
• mapCUMBA - optimal map-maker by the IAP group;
• MADpre - "naive" map-maker and preconditioner code by MADCAP.
• -power spectrum estimation
• polSpice - pseudo-spectral estimator;
• pS2HAT - pure Spherical Harmonic routines.
• -theoretical CMB power spectra codes
• CMBfast - computes CMB power spectra;
• CAMB - computes the CMB spectra together with displacement potential and its derivative;
• Cross-CMBfast - upgraded CMBfast including ISW-correlation calculation;
• LensPix - computes the gravitational lensing effects on the spectra and maps.

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General computing links:

• the present and the future of supercomputing ...
  • "Berkeley view (1)"
    • The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley;
  • "Berkeley view (2)":
    • A view of the parallel computing landscape by K. Arsanovic et al.
      in Communications of the ACM (Oct 2009);
  • Extreme-scale computing by A.Hoisie and V.Getov in IEEE Computer (Nov 2009);
  • Supercomputers for the masses - New York Times commentary (2009/11/23);
  • The trouble with multicore by D. Patterson in IEEE Spectrum (July 2010).
• supercomputing centers:
  • NERSC - National Energy Research Supercomputing Center, USA;
  • BSC - Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain;
  • CINES - Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Superieur, France;
  • IDRIS - Institut du Developpement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique, France;
  • GENCI - Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif, France;
  • PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe;
  • Top500 - supercomputer ranking.

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Numerical software:

• Spherical Harmonic Transforms:
  • HEALPix - analysis package on a sphere, including transforms;
  • ccSHT - parallel scalar-only transforms;
  • S²HAT - parallel arbitrary spin transforms;
  • HPIC - analysis package on a sphere.
• FFTs:
  • FFTW - portable serial and parallel FFT package;
  • SPIRAL - platform-adaptable FFT package.
• linear algebra resources:
  • LAPACK - linear algebra routines (serial);
  • SCALAPACK - parallel linear algebra routines;
  • SuperLU - sparse matrix LU solver.
• general numerical methods:
  • Numerical Recipies - diverse serial numerical routines and algorithms.

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