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Technical reports and preprints of papers on all aspects of scientific computing and their applications are welcome for inclusion in this preprint server. Please send your submissions in PDF form to the chair of the user committee, Matthias K. Gobbert, gobbert@math.umbc.edu. In particular, reports on the use of the machines of the HPCF are required to be submitted for inclusion here and will be flagged accordingly.

2009:

1. Neeraj Sharma and Matthias K. Gobbert, Performance Studies for Multithreading in Matlab with Usage Instructions on hpc, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-1, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.) PDF
2. Amanda K. Gassman and Matthias K. Gobbert, Solving a Two-Dimensional Elliptic Model Problem with the Conjugate Gradient Method Using Matrix-Free SSOR Preconditioning in Matlab, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-2, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. PDF
3. Guan Wang, Aaron Churchill, Matthias K. Gobbert, and Thomas I. Seidman, Efficient Computation for a Reaction-Diffusion System with Fast Reaction with Continuous and Discontinuous Initial Data Using COMSOL Multiphysics, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-3, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. PDF
4. Noemi Petra and Matthias K. Gobbert, Performance Studies with COMSOL Multiphysics via Scripting and Batch Processing, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-4, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.) PDF
   Files for download with this report: poisson2d.m, poisson2d_graphics.m, poisson2d_matlab.m, poisson2d_infile.mph, qsub-COMSOL_with_MATLAB, qsub-COMSOL
5. Guan Wang and Matthias K. Gobbert, Performance Comparison between Blocking and Non-Blocking Communications for a Three-Dimensional Poisson Problem, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-5, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.) PDF
6. Zana Coulibaly, Michael Muscedere, Matthias K. Gobbert, and Bradford E. Peercy, Long-Time Simulation of Calcium Waves in a Heart Cell to Study the Effects of Calcium Release Flux Density and of Coefficients in the Pump and Leak Mechanisms on Self-Organizing Wave Behavior, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-6, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.) PDF
7. Aaron Churchill, Matthias K. Gobbert, and Thomas I. Seidman, Efficient Computation for a Reaction-Diffusion System with a Fast Reaction in Two Spatial Dimensions Using COMSOL Multiphysics, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-7, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.) PDF
8. Andrew M. Raim and Matthias K. Gobbert, Parallel Performance Studies for a Maximum Likelihood Estimation Problem Using TAO, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-8, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.) PDF
9. A. Szatmary and C. D. Eggleton, Modeling Fluid-Structure Interactions in Non-Periodic Viscous Flow with the Immersed Boundary Method and Chorin's Projection Method in Fourier Space, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-9, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.)
10. S. G. DeSouza-Machado, L. L. Strow, B. Imbiriba, K. McCann, R. M. Hoff, S. E. Hannon, J. V. Martins, D. Tanre, J. L. Deuze, F. Ducos, and O. Torres, Dust Studies Using AIRS Infrared Data: A Comparison of Infrared Dust Column Optical Depth and Height Retrievals from AIRS against PARASOL, MODIS, OMI and CALIPSO Retrievals, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-10, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.)
11. Michael J. Reid, Parallel Performance Studies for a Numerical Simulator of Atomic Layer Deposition, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-11, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.)
12. Yushu Yang, Parallel Studies for Chemically Reacting Systems, Technical Report number HPCF-2009-12, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009. (HPCF machines used: hpc.) PDF

2008:

1. Matthias K. Gobbert, Parallel Performance Studies for an Elliptic Test Problem, Technical Report number HPCF-2008-1, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, 2008. (HPCF machines used: hpc and kali.) PDF
2. Michael Muscedere and Matthias K. Gobbert, Parallel Performance Studies for a Parabolic Test Problem, Technical Report number HPCF-2008-2, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008. (HPCF machines used: hpc and kali.) PDF
3. Michael J. Reid and Matthias K. Gobbert, Parallel Performance Studies for a Hyperbolic Test Problem, Technical Report number HPCF-2008-3, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008. (HPCF machines used: hpc and kali.) PDF
4. Shiming Yang and Matthias K. Gobbert, Convergence Order Studies for Elliptic Test Problems with COMSOL Multiphysics, Technical Report number HPCF-2008-4, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008. (HPCF machines used: kali.) PDF
5. Robin Blasberg and Matthias K. Gobbert, Parallel Performance Studies for a Clustering Algorithm, Technical Report number HPCF-2008-5, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008. (HPCF machines used: hpc and kali.) PDF
6. Samuel Trahan, MPI Performance on the hpc.rs.umbc.edu Cluster, Technical Report number HPCF-2008-6, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008. (HPCF machine used: hpc.) PDF
7. Robin Blasberg and Matthias K. Gobbert, MVAPICH2 vs. OpenMPI for a Clustering Algorithm, Technical Report number HPCF-2008-7, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008. (HPCF machines used: hpc.) PDF
8. Robin Blasberg and Matthias K. Gobbert, Clustering Large Data Sets with Parallel Affinity Propagation, Technical Report number HPCF-2008-8, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008. (HPCF machines used: hpc.)
9. Michael J. Reid, Comparison of Parallel Performance between MVAPICH2 and OpenMPI Applied to a Hyperbolic Test Problem, Senior Thesis, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Technical Report number HPCF-2008-9, UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008. (HPCF machines used: hpc.) PDF
10. Matthias K. Gobbert and Shiming Yang, Numerical Demonstration of Finite Element Convergence for Lagrange Elements in COMSOL Multiphysics, In: Vineet Dravid, editor, Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference 2008, Boston, MA. (HPCF machines used: kali) PDF

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