Architecture-aware Algorithms and Software for Peta and Exascale Computing

Dr. Jack Dongarra

An RDI2 Distinguished Speaker Seminar Event 

Please join us on March 24th from 11:00 - 12:30 pm as we present "Architecture-aware Algorithms and Software for Peta and Exascale Computing" with Dr. Jack Dongarra. 

In this talk, Dr. Dongarra will examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software.  Some of the software and algorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as management of communication and memory hierarchies through a combination of compile--time and run--time techniques, but the increased scale of computation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, and increased run--time environment variability will make these problems much harder.  

About the Speaker

Jack Dongarra holds an appointment at the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the University of Manchester. He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, use of advanced-computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004; in 2008 he was the recipient of the first IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing; in 2010 he was the first recipient of the SIAM Special Interest Group on Supercomputing's award for Career Achievement; in 2011 he was the recipient of the IEEE IPDPS Charles Babbage Award; and in 2013 he received the ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

We hope to see you on March 24th! And to see the full schedule of Distinguished Speaker and HPC @ Rutgers Seminar Series events, please visit the RDI2 website.