[CSEE-colloq] talk: Adapt3D: a Framework for Supporting CFD and MHD Modeling, 1pm Fri 10/21 ITE231, UMBC

[Tim Finin]

      Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Colloquium

     ADAPT3D: A FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORTING CFD AND MHD MODELING

                     Professor John E. Dorband
       Research Associate Professor and MCC Chief Scientist
            Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
             University of Maryland, Baltimore County

               1:00pm Friday 21 October 2011, ITE227

Adapt3D is a software framework that supports 3-D computational
fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics modeling on an
unstructured mesh.  It facilitates adaptive refinement and
execution in a parallel computing environment, either on shared
memory or distributed memory computer architectures.  The
framework was designed primarily to support parallel computing of
simulations on a continuum expressed by an adaptively refined
unstructured mesh.  It was designed to cleanly differentiate the
code that manages an unstructured mesh on a parallel computer and
the code that performs the numerics on the components of the
mesh.  The intent is to ease the burden of the engineer or
scientist when it come to understanding parallel computing or
adaptive refinement, allowing him to spend his time understanding
the computational science rather than the computer science.

Dr. John Dorband received a BA in Math and Physics from Northwest
Nazarene University in 1972 and a PhD in Computer Science from
The Pennsylvania State University in 1985.  He work for NASA for
21 years doing research in parallel and high performance hardware
architectures and software.  He has developed parallel compilers,
algorithms and applications.  He was a member of the group that
developed the concept of developing high performance computing
architectures from commodity components (the Beowulf
project).

Host: Yelena Yesha