Weekly plans and update for week 45

Hi everybody, we hope you all are well and staying healthy!

Here comes the weekly update with ditto plans. 

First, our labs, in-person and online are all open. Hopefully we can keep all in-person labs open for the rest of the semester.

Last week we derived and discussed the Metropolis algorithm and Markov Chains (chapter 12 of the lecture notes,  https://github.com/CompPhysics/ComputationalPhysics/tree/master/doc/Lectures) and we discussed the basics of project 4 on the Ising model. This is described in chapter 13 of the same lecture notes. 

This week we will spend most of the lectures (Thursday and Friday) on discussing project 4. The relevant material is found in chapter 13, in particular sections 13.3 and 13.5-13.7.

We will also, on Friday discuss how to parallelize our codes using MPI (OpenMP will be discussed next week).  The material on parallelization can be found in the slides at http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics/doc/pub/codeoptimization/html/codeoptimization.html

If we get time on Friday, we will also discuss the basic algorithms for generating random numbers. This is discussed in section 11.3 of the same lecture notes.

Best wishes to you all