[Crib-list] Friday, July 28, 2006 -- Computational Research in Boston Seminar (CRiB)

[Shirley Entzminger]

		COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH IN BOSTON SEMINAR

DATE:		Friday, July 28, 2006
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 144 (Stata Center)

(Pizza and beverages provided.)


TOPIC:		An Interactive Environment for Combinatorial Supercomputing

SPEAKER:	John R. Gilbert (University of California, Santa Barbara)

ABSTRACT:

High-performance computing is being used to understand large data sets 
that are combinatorial rather than numerical in nature, in applications as 
diverse as sparse matrices, knowledge discovery, machine learning, search 
and information retrieval, and computational biology.

Compared to numerical supercomputing, the field of high-performance 
combinatorial computing is in its infancy.  How can combinatorial methods 
be used by people who are not experts in discrete mathematics? How can 
supercomputers be used by people who need to explore huge discrete data 
sets interactively?

We are building a flexible, scalable interactive environment for 
high-performance computation on discrete structures that will be used both 
as a rapid-prototyping tool for exploring and experimenting with different 
approaches to analysis, and as a scalable system for performing analysis 
on real, dynamic, discrete data.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Department of Mathematics
Cambridge, MA  02139