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| Credits |
I have benefited greatly from the following sources.
DETAILS
INSTITUTES |
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0400386. |
PEOPLE |
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Implementation |
The database and most of the MAGMA code to compute the data was designed and implemented by William Stein. |
Design |
Harvard Undergraduate Dimitar Jetchev has been extremely helpful with all phases of the design and implementation of the database. |
Feedback |
Kevin Buzzard, John Cremona, Helena Verrill |
Users |
That's you. Thanks! |
SOFTWARE |
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Server Software |
The Zee Object Publishing Environment, from Zope Corporation |
Database Software |
The ZODB: Zope Object Database, from Zope Corporation, along with the ZEO server. |
Programming |
PYTHON |
Table Computations |
MAGMA: All computations that I did were done using the MAGMA Computer Algebra System. |
On-the-fly Computations |
PARI -- many of the on-the-fly computations, e.g., conversion of q-expansions from their internal format to what you see on the screen, is done using the PARI calculator. |
SOURCES
OF DATA |
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John Cremona |
I intend to included all of the data from Cremona's tables of elliptic curves of conductor up to 20000. |
Mark Watkins |
I intend to include some of the tables of elliptic curves that Mark Watkins and I computed. |
HARDWARE |
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Web Server |
Barry Mazur purchased modular.fas.harvard.edu for me using his NSF grant. |
Computation Cluster |
The MECCAH cluster; purchased using a Clark-Tozier grant and money from William Randolph Hearst, III |
Large Memory Server |
Neron, a Sun Fire V480 Server, received from the Sun Academic Education Grant Program |