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ROBERT VAN DE GEIJN: This is Stampede, one OF the fastest
supercomputers in the world.
Located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, it has over 100,000
compute cores.
It is used to model all sorts of complicated systems, from early galaxy
formation, to Hurricane movement, to the cells inside the human heart.
What does Stampede do, day in, day out?
Linear algebra.
Linear algebra is at the root of scientific computing and other real
world problems.
It's basic to the education of mathematicians, engineers, scientists,
and anyone who works with big data sets.
Hi, I'm Robert van de Geijn.
I've been working with my camera shy wife Dr. Maggie Myers and a team of
students to bring this MOOC to you.
In addition to teaching linear algebra for the last few decades, Maggie and I
have been at the forefront of linear algebra software development, through
a National Science Foundation-sponsored
project called FLAME.
While you'll learn the foundations of linear algebra through this MOOC, you
will also be taken to our frontier of software development.
Through short videos, exercises, visualizations, and programming
assignments, you will learn all the standard topics that are talking in a
typical undergraduate linear algebra course.
But together we will explore so much more.
What makes this course differenent is the way we connect mathematics with
programming, to help you gain a deeper understanding.
This is the Texas Advanced Computing Center's
Visualization Lab at UT Austin.
From the analytical models being displayed to this visualization code
itself, everything you see requires linear algebra.
So what does the Vis Lab day in and day out?
Linear algebra.
Shouldn't you?