[Crib-list] COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR -- Friday, Feb. 3, 2006

[Shirley Entzminger]

COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR

DATE:           FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2006
TIME:           12:30 PM
LOCATION:       Building 32, Room 144 (Stata Center)

Pizza and beverages will be provided.

TITLE:  HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING WITH THE IMSL LIBRARIES USING
 	OpenMP AND MPI

SPEAKER:	EDWARD STEWART (Visual Numerics, Inc.)


ABSTRACT:

Over the past 35 years the computational capabilities of the IMSL Libraries 
have evolved along with the advances in high performance computing technology. 
>From the "high-powered mainframes" of the late 1970s to the vector processor 
systems of the 1980s to the shared and distributed memory parallel systems of 
today, modifications have been incorporated in IMSL to adapt to the 
architectural changes.  The changes are not limited to the improvements in the 
performance of the mathematical and statistical algorithms of IMSL but also in 
the usability of the libraries within a parallel computing environment.  The 
usability features cover a wide range of computing tasks from the compilation 
step to programming techniques that significantly reduce debugging time.  The 
presenter will discuss some of the programming issues that developers face 
today within parallel processing environments when using OpenMP and MPI 
protocols and how features in the IMSL Libraries help to alleviate some of 
these issues.  Examples will be presented illustrating the use of these IMSL 
features.


Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA  02139


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