r/ScientificComputing

4k members
r/ScientificComputing is a subreddit with 4k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses scientific computing, computing, scientific, performance, and boinc.
Welcome to Scientific Computing, Scientific Programming, Computer-Aided Science, whatever you wanne call it. Share an exciting thing you're working on, raise any issues you think affect us all, whatever scientific or technological domain you are in.

Popular Themes in r/ScientificComputing

#1
Advice Requests
: "Just started my doctoral studies in scientific computing"
6 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Free quantum computing software and quantum hardware access"
1 post
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Is Intel MKL / CUDA performance worth the expensive hardware?"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "Project ideas or areas to study to help with getting industry jobs later?"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Master in High Performance Computing is looking for students"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/ScientificComputing

#1

Scientific Computing

: "Any tips for finding open source Scientific Computing projects to collaborate on in Github?"
8 posts
#2

Computing

: "Just started my doctoral studies in scientific Computing"
5 posts
#3

Scientific

: "Just started my doctoral studies in Scientific computing"
4 posts
#4

Performance

: "Myths and Legends in High Performance Computing"
4 posts
#5

Boinc

: "Boinc 7.22.1 is available for testing on Windows, MacOS and Android"
4 posts
#6

Linear Systems

: "What is a reasonable matrix size for LU decomposition research? "
4 posts
#7

Fft

: "[Blog post] The Fft as a sparse matrix factorization"
3 posts
#8

Numpy

: "Scipy/Numpy with AOCL-BLIS (Windows)"
3 posts
#9

Internships

: "Looking for Internships in scientific computing (grad student)."
3 posts
#10

Lu Decomposition

: "Time Complexity Analysis of Lu Decomposition Variants"
3 posts

Member Growth in r/ScientificComputing

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+2k members(69.9%)

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Last updated: June 7, 2026