Purdue Team wins DoE PSAAP award
Purdue University has been selected by the Department of Energy as one of five Centers of Excellence whose primary focus
will be on the emerging field of predictive science.
The new Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems, or PRISM, will be led by Prof.
Jayathi Murthy from Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering. The Center will receive $17 million each over a five-year
period under the Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP). PSAAP is managed by the DoE's NNSA.
Predictive science is the application of verified and validated computational simulations to predict the behavior of complex
systems where routine experiments are not feasible.
In addition to developing models and software for large-scale simulations of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), Purdue's
PRISM project will also develop methods associated with the emerging disciplines of verification and validation (V&V) and
uncertainty quantification. The goal of these emerging disciplines is to enable scientists to make precise statements about
the degree of confidence they have in their simulation-based predictions.
The other universities funded under this program are the California Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan,
Stanford University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
The lead P.I. of the PRISM project, Prof Jayathi Murthy, and project team member, Prof Alexandro Strachan (MatSE) are both on
CRI's Steering Committee. Faisal Saied from CRI and the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing is also part of the project team.
IWOMP 2008 Registration now open
The 2008 International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP 2008) will be held on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
IWOMP is the premier opportunity to learn more about parallel programming with OpenMP, and to interact with OpenMP users and developers.
The workshop also serves as a forum to present the latest research ideas and results related to OpenMP.
IWOMP 2008 will be a three-day event. The first day will consist of tutorials focusing on topics of interest to current and prospective
OpenMP developers, suitable for both beginners as well as those interested in learning of recent developments in the evolving OpenMP
standard. The second and third days will consist of technical papers and panel session(s) during which research ideas and results will
be presented and discussed.
Purdue team wins NSF PetaApps award
Gerhard Klimeck from Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Network for Computational Nanotechnology
received a $1.6 million dollar NSF PetaApps award. This NSF program "seeks proposals to develop the future simulation,
optimization and analysis tools that can use petascale computing to advance the frontiers of scientific and engineering
research". The proposal entitled "Accelerating Nano-scale Transistor Innovation though Petascale Simulation" will add new
capabilities to existing codes for modeling nano-electronic devices such as quantum dots and nanowires for the next generation
of petascale computers. The use of the atomistic, quantum mechanical (QM) models like the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function
(NEGF) leads to very large scale computations. The principal investigator developed NEMO1D, the first NEGF-based
commercial-grade device simulator, and NEMO3D, which calculates electronic structure (no NEGF) for systems larger than 52
million atoms. The codes have been shown to scale to more than 16,000 and 8,000 cores, respectively. The project expects to
extend the NEGF capabilities of NEMO1D with the NEMO3D electronic structure description to form the next generation engineering toolkit, OMEN.
Thomas Hacker from the College of Technology and Dongyan Xu from Computer Science are co-PI's on this award. Faisal Saied
from CRI and RCAC is also part of the project team.
HPC Registration Now Open!
"The Purdue-Industry HPC Workshop, will be in West Lafayette, IN, on April 7-8, 2008 in Stewart Center. This workshop will bring
together High Performance Computing (HPC) researchers at Purdue University and industry experts using parallel and high-performance
computing technology.
The goals of the workshop are to highlight existing uses of HPC in industry, to explore new possibilities for broadening this area
in the enhancement of economic competitiveness, and to identify new projects where Purdue can partner with industry in expanding the
role of HPC.
April 7, 2008 there will be a Vendor Forum which will include:
Promotional materials
Student posters
Opportunities to speak with vendors
Reception that evening for vendors and attendees
April 8,2008 will include:
Technical Presentations
Keynote Speakers
Purdue Faculty Speakers
Round Table discussions
Along with the Keynote speakers, Purdue faculty, Dr. Jayathi Murthy, Dr. T.N.Vijaykumar will be presenting on HPC applications
and systems. There will be round table break out discussions regarding the state-of-the-art and the future of High Performance
Computing.
CRI on the move
Our offices have been relocated to
Ernest C. Young Hall
Room 409
302 Wood Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108
Please feel free to stop by and see our new space!
Purdue CFD code scales to over 16,000 processors
Steven H. Frankel, Professor of Mechanical Engineering has successfully run a computational simulation code his research group
developed on 16,384 processors of an IBM Blue Gene/L computer. The code simulates turbulent flows with an emphasis on the
development and application of "Large Eddy Simulation" to turbulent reacting flows, aeroacoustics, multiphase, and biological flows.
"We were not yet able to run the largest job we set as our ambitious goal (8192^3 mesh) due to memory", Frankel said. However,
running on up to 40,000 processors is now a next milestone, his group is working towards. For more information on
Professor Frankel's research, see http://ristretto.ecn.purdue.edu/.
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