The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are hosting a new lecture series featuring national authorities on ultrascale scientific simulation.

The availability of supercomputers capable of sustained petaflops performance within the next several years will create numerous opportunities to advance scientific and engineering knowledge by computer modeling of previously intractable problems.

The “Distinguished Lecture Series on Petascale Simulation” will draw attention to the scientific breakthroughs that will be enabled by petascale computing, and the modeling, algorithmic, and architectural challenges that must be tackled to achieve science at the petascale level.

Lectures will be held at 3:30pm (Central) in the Avaya Auditorium in the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences building (ACES 2.302) on the UT Austin campus, and will be broadcast live via the web and archived for subsequent viewing.

Webcast URL: http://livewebcast.theacesbuilding.com

To view the webcast, click here for the necessary plug-in:
http://theacesbuilding.com/building/webcast/UTivo/Natural_Sciences/envivio_Intro_kbh.swf

Archived content URL: http://petascale.theacesbuilding.com
(Each recorded webcast will be listed at this URL; it will be updated after each lecture is posted on the server)

April 10, 2008: "The Greening of HPC - Will Power Consumption Become the Limiting Factor for Future Growth in HPC?" Abstract | View WEBCAST

Horst Simon is Associate Laboratory Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for Computing Sciences, Division Director for the Computational Research Division, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in the development of sparse matrix algorithms, algorithms for large-scale eigen value problems, and domain decomposition algorithms. His recursive spectral bisection algorithm is a breakthrough in parallel algorithms honored with the 1988 Gordon Bell Prize. He has served in senior management positions at Silicon Graphics, the Computer Sciences Corporation, Boeing Computer Services, and was a faculty member at the State University of New York. Currently , he serves on advisory boards at research organizations located throughout the world, is a member of many journal editorial boards, and is one of four editors of the twice-yearly "TOP500" list of the world's most powerful computing systems.

January 31, 2008: "What Can Petascale Direct Numerical Simulation Contribute to the Solution of the Turbulence Problem?" Abstract | View WEBCAST
Dr. Robert Moser
Robert D. Moser of mechanical engineering
Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

May 10, 2007: "Petascale Computing in the Biosciences - Simulating Entire Life Forms" Abstract | View WEBCAST
Klaus Schulten
Swanlund Professor of Physics
Department of Physics and the Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

April 12, 2007: "High Performance Computing and Modeling in Climate Change Science"Abstract | View WEBCAST
Dr. John Drake
Computational Earth Sciences Group Leader
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

November 30, 2006: "Computational Drug Diagnostics and Discovery: The Need for Petascale Computing in the Bio-Sciences" View WEBCAST
Dr. Chandrajit Bajaj
Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization
Professor of Computer Sciences
Director of Center for Computational Visualization
Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

October 31, 2006: “Towards Forward and Inverse Earthquake Modeling on Petascale Computers” Abstract | View WEBCAST
Dr. Omar Ghattas
Jackson Chair of Computational Geosciences
Jackson School of Geosciences and Department of Mechanical Engineering
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

October 3, 2006: Discovery through Simulation: The Expectations of Frontier Computational Science Abstract | View WEBCAST
Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov
Director
Advanced Simulation and Computing
National Nuclear Security Administration

June 22, 2006: “Modeling Coastal Hydrodynamics and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita” Abstract | View WEBCAST
Dr. Clint Dawson
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin

May 23, 2006: “Petaflops, Seriously” Abstract | View WEBCAST
Dr. David Keyes
Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Columbia University