[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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