[Crib-list] SPEAKER: GAURAV KHANNA (UMass, Dartmouth) -- Computational Research in Boston Seminar -- Friday, April 9, 2010 -- 12:30 PM in Room 32-124.

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		   COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR


DATE:		FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124  (Stata Center)

Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM outside Room 32-124.


TITLE:		Cell BE and GPU Compute Technologies for Black Hole 
		Astrophysics Simulations


SPEAKER:	GAURAV KHANNA  (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)


ABSTRACT:

This talk is about the motivation and the potential of the use of hardware 
accelerators (such as the PlayStation's Cell processor and GPUs) in 
Computational Science.  In particular, I will present my work in the area 
of Black Hole Astrophysics that makes use of such hardware accelerators, 
yielding order-of-magnitude gains in metrics such as performance, 
performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar.  I will briefly introduce 
my research area, the algorithms involved and the techniques used to 
achieve such gains using the Cell BE and Nvidia Tesla GPU.

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