Introduction to week 5

There is a rich ecosystem of libraries that implement important algorithms for scientific computing, e.g.,

• linear algebra,
• fast Fourier transforms,
• partial differential equation solvers.

Some data formats such as HDF5 and netCDF have been specifically designed to address issues a researcher encounters when storing and sharing data.

You also get an overview of the options you have to write parallel code, although you won’t get the details here.