In this course, simple but realistic examples of scientific computations are used to introduce basic algorithms and modern hardware and software environments for numerical computing.
Principles and practices of basic numerical computation as a key aspect of scientific computation. Visualization of results. Approximation by splines, fast Fourier transforms, solution of linear and nonlinear equations, differential equations, floating point number systems, error, stability. Presented in the context of specific applications to image processing, analysis of data, scientific modeling.
All TA office hours are held in DC3594
MidtermOne way to use MATLAB from home is to connect remotely to linux.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca.
This assumes you have the ssh binary in your path. If you do not know what that means, do not worry! You probably do.
ssh -X USERNAME@linux.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca, where USERNAME is your WatIAM username.matlab -nodesktop -nosplash.The -X allows you to do X forwarding. This allows you to spawn windows on your local machine that are being rendered on the remote machine. In short, you will find this useful because you will be able to see the figures you make in MATLAB remotely.
If you are already familiar with the Remote Desktop Client on Windows, you may consider using that to log on to windows.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca.
This tutorial is on how to use PuTTY for Windows. There are other SSH clients available, but we will talk about this one.
linux.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca.
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