Physics 21 Reading List #9

Finally the last assignment! (Matt is away, but Michele will be in the lab on 5/24, and Pavlin on 5/25 and 6/1). We've enjoyed having all of you in our lab. Don't forget to turn in your course evaluations: in the past, this lab has benefited greatly from such feedback. I would also welcome your direct comments about the assignments, the software and hardware environment in the lab, the TAs, and whatever else you want. Just e-mail me (replace the spam-avoiding {at}).

Here are your readings/browsings for this week:

- A handout on Load Balancing and Termination Detection in parallel applications, from B. Wilkinson and M. Allen, Parallel Programming (2nd ed., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ, 2004).

- The original Wator (then Wa-Tor) article by A. K. Dewdney (Scientific American, December 1984), given as a handout in the lab.

- The Wikipedia about the Lotka-Volterra equations.

- Larry Leinweber has a decent Java Wator applet.