Title: Combinatorial Scientific Computing: Enabling High-Performance Computing and Petascale Simulations

Speaker: Dr. Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories

Date/Time: Thursday, January 3, 2008, 9:00 am - 10:15 am MST

Location: CSRI Building, Room 90 (Sandia NM)

Brief Abstract: Combinatorial and discrete algorithms play an important role in scientific computing. I will give an overview of the CSCAPES SciDAC institute and then focus on one important area of combinatorial scientific computing: partitioning and load-balancing. The Zoltan toolkit, developed at Sandia, is the leading software tool in this area. Finally I will present new models and algorithms to reduce communication in sparse matrix computations.

CSRI POC: Scott Collis, (505) 284-1123