Fernbach Award Presentation: Particles, HPC, and the
Ukulele Syndrome
Presenter
Event Type
Awards Presentation
TimeWednesday, November 15th8:30am -
9:15am
LocationMile High Ballroom
DescriptionThe recipient of the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Sidney
Fernbach Award is Steve Plimpton from Sandia Lab.
In the first part of my talk, I'll give some vignettes of different flavors of large-scale particle simulations (molecular dynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo, direct simulation Monte Carlo) that run efficiently on current HPC platforms. They span length scales from microns to centimeters, and timescales from milliseconds to seconds. In the second part, I'll share some observations about the 30-year journey from gigaflops to teraflops to petaflops to exaflops, and explain what I think ukuleles have to do with high performance computing.
In the first part of my talk, I'll give some vignettes of different flavors of large-scale particle simulations (molecular dynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo, direct simulation Monte Carlo) that run efficiently on current HPC platforms. They span length scales from microns to centimeters, and timescales from milliseconds to seconds. In the second part, I'll share some observations about the 30-year journey from gigaflops to teraflops to petaflops to exaflops, and explain what I think ukuleles have to do with high performance computing.
Presenter
