AMSC663

Advanced Scientific Computing I

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Prerequisite: CMSC660 or AMSC660; and (CMSC661 or AMSC661). Restriction: Permission of instructor. Cross-listed with CMSC663. Credit only granted for: AMSC663 or CMSC663. In the sequence Advanced Scientific Computing I & Advanced Scientific Computing II, (AMSC663/CMSC663 and AMSC664/CMSC664, respectively) students work on a year-long individual project to develop software for a scientific task in a high performance computing environment. Lectures will be given on available computational environments, code development, implementation of parallel algorithms.

Spring 2026

Haizhao Yang

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Spring 2025

Maria Cameron

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Past Semesters

Maria Cameron

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Howard Elman

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Tobias von Petersdorff

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Abhinav Bhatele

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Howard Elman

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Maria Cameron

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Jacob Bedrossian

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Radu Balan

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Thomas Goldstein

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Kayo Ide

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.41 between 82 students*

AMSC663 Grade Distribution+-051015202530354045505560657075% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 14.63%
A: 53.66%
A+: 2.44%
B-: 1.22%
B: 12.2%
B+: 6.1%
C: 1.22%
W: 8.54%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.