Computational Science at the Petascale and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities
Members of the MSI/RSCS Petascale Algorithms Project (The Australian National University and Fujitsu Laboratories Europe )
COMPUTER SYSTEMS SEMINARDATE: 2012-02-13
TIME: 13:00:00 - 17:00:00
LOCATION: Ian Ross Seminar Room
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ABSTRACT:
This workshop will comprise of the following two sessions:
I. Petascale: computers and applications (chair Alistair Rendell, RSCS, ANU)
13:00 Alistair Rendell (RSCS, ANU), Welcome and background
13:15 Ross Nobes (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe), The K computer, an example of a real petascale system
13:35 James Southern (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe), Tsunami propagation modelling with Fluidity
13:55 Steve Roberts (MSI, ANU), Tsunami inundation modelling with ANUGA
14:15 James Southern (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe), Cardiac electrophysiology modelling using Chaste
14:30 Christoph Kowitz (Technical University Munich), Plasma physics and the GENE code
14:50 TEA BREAK
II. Exascale: challenges and opportunities (chair Richard Brent, RSCS & MSI ANU)
15:20 Peter Strazdins (RSCS, ANU), Architectures for exascale computing
15:40 John Taylor (Computation and Simulation Science, CSIRO), The international exascale project, relevance to CSIRO and Australia more broadly
16:00 Ross Nobes (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe), Exascale initiatives in Europe
16:20 Markus Hegland (MSI, ANU), Developing new approaches for the robust solution of PDEs on petascale systems
16:40 Richard Brent (RSCS & MSI, ANU), Wrap-up
17:00 DRINKS and GENERAL DISCUSSION
