[CSEE Talk] talk: Computational Science at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, 3 p.m. Thurs 11/1, ITE 456 UMBC

[Anissa Elmerraji]

Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR) Distinguished
Computational Science Lecture Series



*Computational Science at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility*

 Paul Messina
Director of Science Argonne National Laboratory

http://www.alcf.anl.gov



3:00 p.m. Thursday, 1 November 2012, ITE 456, UMBC





 Abstract:
The goal of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is to extend
the frontiers of science by solving problems that require innovative
approaches and the largest-scale computing systems. ALCF’s current
production computer has over 150,000 cores, and the system currently being
readied for production – Mira, an IBM Blue Gene/Q system -- has nearly one
million cores.  How does one program such systems?  Are current software
tools such as MPI and OpenMP available for such systems. Are scientific and
engineering applications able to scale to such levels of parallelism?   Is
resilience a new concern for 1,000,000 production codes on Mira This talk
will address these questions and describe a sampling of projects that are
using ALCF systems in their research.  Finally, the ways to gain access to
ALCF resources will be presented.

 Bio:


 Paul Messina is Director of Science at the ALCF. Dr. Messina guides the
ALCF science teams using the IBM Blue Gene systems. In 2002-2004, he served
as Distinguished Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne and as Adviser to the
Director General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
Previously at Caltech, Dr. Messina served as Director of the Center for
Advanced Computing Research, as Assistant Vice President for Scientific
Computing, and as Faculty Associate for Scientific Computing. He led the
Computational and Computer Science component of Caltech’s research project
funded by the Academic Strategic Alliances Program of the Accelerated
Strategic Computing Initiative. He also acted as Co-principal Investigator
for the National Virtual Observatory and TeraGrid. At Argonne, he held a
number of positions from 1973-1987 and was the founding Director of the
Mathematics and Computer Science Division.
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