Computing Centers I currently use

• CINES (Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur)
• CC-IN2P3
• CCRT (Centre de Calcul Recherche et Technologie)
• GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif)
• IDRIS (Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique)
• MCIA (Mésocentre de Calcul Intensif Aquitain)
• ULB [old HYDRA] [new HYDRA] [library]

Computing Centers I used to use

• HRZ Uni Frankfurt
• NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) [Seaborg]
• HPC (MSU)
• JAZZ

• top500 Supercomputer Sites

Essential reading before starting a computational project

• Brooks's law (from wikipedia)
• The mythical Man-Month (from wikipedia)
• Worse is better (from wikipedia)
• Moore's law (from wikipedia)
• Moore's law (from INTEL)
• The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations (preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912202v1)
• Ten Commandments of Software Development Slackerism
• (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society

Useful Mathematics

Definitions and References

• The Matrix Reference Manual by Mike Brookes, Imperial College, London, UK
• The Matrix Cookbook by Kaare Brandt Petersen [pdf]
• Templates for the Solution of Algebraic Eigenvalue Problems: a Practical Guide Edited by Zhaojun Bai, James Demmel, Jack Dongarra, Axel Ruhe, and Henk van der Vorst
• Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science Lecture notes by Jean Gallier
• Wolfram MathWorld
• Arndt Brünner's Mathekurse (in german) [Calculator for Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors]
• The Unapologetic Mathematician Mathematics for the interested outsider
• List of linear algebra topics (from the english wikipedia)
• Numerical linear algebra (from the english wikipedia)

Online Utilities

• SolveMyMath
• Matrix Calculator by SolveMyMath (Calculate the Determinant, Trace, Transpose and Inverse Matrix of a Matrix)
• Online Matrix Calculator (up to 32*32)

Numerical Libraries and Utilities

Scientific Journals devoted to Numerics

• ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
• Computer Physics Communications Program Library
• Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Libraries

• Netlib
  • BLAS [quick reference (pdf)]
  • EISPACK
  • LAPACK [User's Guide (html)]
  • LINPACK
• Numerical Recipes
• NAG
• gsl (GNU scientific library)
• The Data Analysis Briefbook (from CERN)
• FFTW

Documentation

Linux

• The linux Cookbook
• The linux information project

UNIX shells

• bash reference manual
• sh reference manual

FORTRAN 90/95

• The g95 project
• GNU Fortran 95
• cours de FORTRAN 90 (from the CNRS, in french)
• Fortran 77 tutorial
• FORTRAN 90 Resource List (from Manchester)
• Michel Olagnon's Fortran 90 List
• FORTRAN 90/95 texts (from Linköping)

C and C++

• gcc
• Programming in C
• the C++ Resources Network [tutorial]
• cpp.range.dk

awk

• GNU awk user's guide
• awk manual
• An awk primer
• Brian Kernighan's home page
• awk tutorial

sed

• sed [seder's grabbag]
• sed introduction and tutorial
• sed & awk (from O'Reilly)

Python

• www.python.org

HTML

• HyperText Markup Language home page [HTML 4.01 Specification, character entities]
• special characters
• lynx

GNU

• www.gnu.org

Utilities

• GLE (Graphics Layout Engine)
• GLE 3.5 for Linux

• gnuplot
• gnuplot -not so frequently asked questions

• Postscript tutorial
• Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview
• Overview of ghostscript
• pine
• alpine

• LaTeX
• AMSTeX
• www.dante.de
• The LaTeX Beamer Class
• Donald Knuth's home page
• (La)TeX navigator
• Text processing using LaTeX (from Cambridge)
• packages
• LaTeX Style and BiBTeX Bibliography Formats

• Netscape

• Mathematica

Some links with Mac OS X specific stuff

• FINK
• Mac OS X for physicists
• Mac OS X for Oceanographers and Atmospheric Scientists
• Mac OS X for Astrophysicists