piotr luszczek's collection of links

C/C++	Fortran	E-Publishing	Grid Computing
(La)TeX	Linear Algebra	Linux	Math
MPI	News	Numerical Software	PostScript
Programming	Search the Internet	Theory of Computer Science	Python

Politics

Mobile

PhoneScoop has news, reviews, comparisons of cell phones.

Linear Algebra

Netlib (numerical software repository)
Matrix Market (set of test sparse matrices) and Sparse BLAS
Tim Davis: Sparse Matrices (UMFPACK/MA38 sparse unsymmetric multifrontal solver)
Jack Dongarra's linear algebra software list
SuperLU - sparse unsymmetric supernodal solver (serial, multithreaded and ditributed memory versions are available)
MUMPS (MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver), PARASOL's matrix collection
Sparskit (sparse linear algebra package)
OO libraries (new location; Matrix Template Library)
Parallel Mathematical Libraries Project
Linear Algebra at CSEP
Iain Duff's Webpage (HSL library, some Technical Reports)
Gupta's Site (includes information on Watson Sparse Matrix Package)
LAWRA (Linear Algebra With Recursive Algorithms)
Symbolic algebra systems
Henk A. van der Vorst page
Sparse matrix links
ELA The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
The Magma Computational Algebra System for Algebra, Number Theory and Geometry
Sparsity project
UbikSolve is a preconditioned Krylov subspace solver
Free books (avilable on-line): Iterative methods for sparse linear systems and NumericalMethods for Large Eigenvalue Problems by Prof. Yousef Saad

Numerical Software/Problems

Numerica
OO Scientific Computing
Numerical Analysis FAQ
W. Kahan's web page
InterTools (interactive tools for graph partitioning, SAT, MAX-CLIQUE, ...)
METIS - graph partitioner (Scotch has a similar functionality)
PETSc library
GSL GNU Scientific Library (old link)
ETNA Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
Nickle - flexible replacement of UNIX bc, dc, expr with arbitrary precision arithmetic and C-like syntax

Math

Mathematical programming glossary
Optimization Software
The Mathematical Atlas
Favorite Mathematical Constants
Wolfram Researcher's world of mathemtics (from the authors of the Mathematica).
Units used in CS
Famous Math Problems
Desmos Graphic and Scientific Calculators
Gamma Symbolic Calculator based on SymPy

Theory of Computer Science

Compendium of NP-complete problems.
Standard textbook on the matter

Grid Computing: Netsolve, EveryWare Toolkit, Globus, Legion MetaComputer, Harness, Cumulvs, Nimrod, AppLeS (Application-Level Scheduling), Gridforum, CrossGrid (x#) Network Weather Service

Internet Search

FTP Search (old link)
Google Search Engine (hacker search, bork search, Google API)
Ixquick (metasearch engine)
Vivismo - document clustering
Open Web Directory
Search engine for online research papers
Technical Report Search
Computer Science Research Paper Search Engine
Maps, driving directions: MapQuest, MapBlast, Maps@Yahoo!,
Digital US map (old site),

C/C++ programming languages

C library reference
C page at Bell Labs
GCC web site
Cygnus C/C++ resources (Cygwin)
LCC-Win32 (small C compiler based on lcc)
Winsock info: API ver. 1.1 Specs, Development tools, API 2.0.8 Specs, Tutorial
C99: list of new features
Source code documentation tools: doxygen, DOC++, grdoc, cpp2html, indent, all tools
Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs
Old Borland tools for free
Interpreters: CINT C/C++ Interpreter, Extensible Interactive C, Internet C++, CH (is also here) a C interpreter, C/C++ interpreter, C Scripting Language, S-Lang is an embeddable C-like language, Pike an interpreted (but suprisingly fast) language with syntax resembling of C/C++/Java,
Boost C++ Libraries
Thinking in C++(2nd edition) electronic book
Standard C++ library Home Page at Rogue Wave
The C Library Refernce Guide
C++ Home Page
ITtoolbox C and C++ Knoweledg Base
Safe C
The C++ resources network
A must-have book by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
An introductory book on C by Bharat Kinariwala and Tep Dobry
D Languaguage resembles C and C++ but is neither
C++ for you

Programming

GNUish

News

Slashdot
Freshmeat
Doctor Dobb's Journal
BYTE
Hacker News Network
Linux Today
LWN Linux news
ZDNet (Ziff Davis)
CNET
DevX
internet.com (the Internet and IT network)
TechRepublic
DevShed (The Open Source Developer Site)
developer.com
TechWeb (The Business Technology Network)
- Business Intelligence Pipeline
- CRN
- Desktop Pipeline
- Developer Pipeline
- Information Week
- Intelligent Enterprise
- IT Utility Pipeline
- Internet Week
- Linux Pipeline
- Mobile Pipeline
- Network Computing
- Security Pipeline
- Server Pipeline
- Small Business Pipeline
- Storage Pipeline
- Telecom Pipeline
- Windows Developer Network
- Web Services Pipeline
eWeek (The Enterprise Newsweekly)
Webmonkey (The Web Developer's Resource)
NewsForge
The Register
New Yourk Times (requires e-mail registration)
High Performance Computing Channel
MozillaQuest
MozillaZine
Freshmeat articles
vnunet.com
Ars Technica: The PC's enthusiast resource
Sys Admin Magazin
The Artima Developer Community
MIT Technology Review
Silicon Valley

Fortran

Python and friends

Python Homepage
Speeding/Modyfying/Packaging Python:
Py2cmod (or http://py2cmod.sourceforge.net/), psyco (or http://sourceforge.net/projects/psyco/), Pyinline, Pyrex, (p2c p2c), Squeeze, Py2exe, Pyco, Pirx, Stackless Ctypes
User Interfaces:
Pyui, Tkdvi, pgui, anygui, WxWindows, WxWindows, PyGTK, PyOpengl, PMW, PyGame,
Documenting python:
Pydoc, Epydoc, Happydoc
Parsing:
XML, Tools
Varia:
Cookbook, links, AI, Weave, , Utils PyChecker (catches common mistakes)

MPI links

MPI Forum web page hosts MPI standard documents
MPI at Argonne National Lab (with its portable implementation of MPI)
MPI at Missisippi State University
PVM - a famous predecessor of MPI
MPI Python (a Sourceforge project), a different attempt, yet another one, and another one
LAM MPI production quality implementation
MPI Tutorial at Boston University
MPI: The Complete Reference

Cluster computing

E-Publishing

ivtools for drawing (other drawing tools)
xfig - X Window interactive vector drawing tool (additional site)
Dia GTK+ based diagram creation program
ImPress drawing/presentation program
Vector drawing; Postscript export (for Windows)
Graphviz graph drawing software
Lout formatting/typesetting system
Mediabuilder (Web designs)
HTML links (more, and more)
DocBook - documentation standard
Data visualization: Gnuplot, Gri (very simple language, PostScript output), Ploticus, PGPLOT, PLplot, PSPLOT, epsTk, Biggles, PyChart, JpGraph, KMatplot, SciGraphica, PyX a PostScript/LaTeX generator matplotlib GTK+-based plotting library, outputs JPEG and PNG
Magick Point creates presentations in X11 environment and exports to HTML and PostScript
Sodipodi is a GPLed SVG editor
Inkspace fork of Sodipodi (converted to C++)
Presentation program (supports animation and vector graphic; requires Java)
OpenOffice,
Scribus,
cairo (foremerly Xr or Xr/Xc) library renders vector graphics

HTML5, CSS, JavaScript

HTML 5 resource guide

Web Design Resources

Mozilla HTML 5 and Web 2.0 documentationincluding HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Graphics, HTTP, APIs/DOM, and MathML.

(La)TeX

Documentation:
- Text Processing Using LaTeX: a set of links (packages, intro, advanced, ...); also standard documentation
- LaTeX documentation v1.1 (by environment), LaTeX(2e) documentation v1.4 ( alternative site,
- a guide,
- LaTeX help by subject command environment from NASA
- References for TeX and Friends
- LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (October 2015)
The Latex Project home
AMS Latex home
TeX Users Group (TUG)
(La)TeX Navigator
LaTeX standard docs (the pages are in German though)
LaTeX2HTML
TeX to GIF converter
T_TH: a T_EX to HTML translator( commercial version)
IDVI - Java applet DVI renderer
LaTeX Primer
BiBTeX bibliographies for many scientific journals (ls -l; journal titles beginning with: F S)
Useful styles
Hyperlatex package provides both HTML and LaTeX output
PDF presentations with pdf(La)TeX
MetaPost examples
Prosper is a presentation package that requires seminar, pstricks, hyperref, dvips and ghostscript
ePix allows creating 2D pictures in LaTeX
mftrace improves quality of fonts in generated PDF files

PostScript

Quantum computing

Linux

Linux.org
Linux.com
Linux kernels
Linux software
Linux Documentation Project (LDP) The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP)
Irish Linux group
Distributions (DistroWatch): Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, slackware, Linux Mandrake, Small Linux, WinLinux 2000, Linux Pro, Trans-Ameritech Linuxware, Bastille, Gentoo, Gnoppix (bootable CD, uses Gnome by default), Knoppix (bootable CD, uses KDE by default), [dyne:bolic] (bootable CD) - for artits, PHLAK (bootable CD) - for hackers, TopologiLinux (coexists with Windows/DOS without repartitioning) Cooperative Linux (Linux on Windows XP), Ark Linux, ditribution from Poland, GoboLinux Commercial: Libranet
Linux software encyclopedia
Scientific applications on Linux
Linux Applications and Utilities
About.com on Linux
Linux on a floppy Linux on a floppy, Linux on a floppy + svncviewr
In Linux we trust.
RealTime Linux.
Napster client for Linux.
Access Control Lists for Linux.
High Availability for Linux.
Essential Linux book
Linux Security
Linux Performance Tuning
CE Linux
Linux on a laptop
Windows -> Linux conversion
linux Cult web page

Media

Textbooks

New: Varsity, Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Efollet, Bookpool, Ecampus, Textbooks, K12, Classbook, big words Textbook Land Book Price Comparison Chegg.com
Campus bookstores: College store
Comparison: Viva smart
Used: Bibliofind, Powells, Zamster, Book swap, College book service, Ex book, Text swap
Any: Direct Textbooks

GUI/Graphics

OpenGL on SGI systems
Amulet GUI
AWT (with gcj)
FLTK
Fox
Fresco
GTK (Gimp Toolkit); Glade; (Python, Perl)
NetBeans
Qt (Gimp Toolkit)
Swing
SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit)
Tcl/Tk (Python, Perl)
WxWindows (Python, Perl)
V GUI library

Bookmark files

English Writing

WordNet a Lexical Database for English
FAQ of the alt.usage.english newsgroup
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary:

Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus:

dictionary.com:
dictionary thesaurus
dict.org:

DVD

Various links

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