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NCPST Researcher invited to speak at two prestigious International Supercomputing Conferences
Dr Turlough Downes, researcher at the National Centre for Plasma Science & Technology and Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematical Sciences, is to speak at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany in June 2010. http://www.supercomp.de/isc10/
Dr Downes who, with collaborators in DCU, designed and developed a code called HYDRA, which is designed to investigate some of the fundamental physics surrounding the formation of stars such as our sun.
"The calcuations carried out by this code are incredibly demanding and require massive computational power. However, it is not easy to make efficient use of the power available in today's biggest supercomputers. In fact, only a handful of codes worldwide can perform well on the most massive supercomputers where several hundred thousand cores are linked together into one system. HYDRA has now joined this group of codes", Dr. Downes said.
Dr Downes presented a paper on "Molecular cloud turbulance" at IBM's "Blue Gene Consortium" at the 21st International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking Storage Analysis (SC09), held in Portland Oregon in November 2009. This Conference is recognised globally as the premier international conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. (http://sc09.supercomputing.org/)
A full morning during this Conference is being dedicated to the "PRACE (The Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe) Open Dialog with European Tier-0-Users". Dr Downes is the only user to be invited to share his experience of using the PRACE Infrastructure at this event.
About PRACE: The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) prepares the creation of a persistent pan-European HPC service, consisting of several tier-0 centres providing European researchers with access to capability computers and forming the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE is a project funded in part by the EU's 7th Framework Programme. The PRACE projct receives funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number RI-211528.