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Prof. Kale to Lead Project for Advanced Computing Institute

HPC Wire (01/11/08)

An inaugural project of the new Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will focus on the development of petascale parallel programming tools and petascale applications. Computer science professor Laxmikant Kale will team up with materials science and engineering professor Duane Johnson for an initiative that could combine codes for astrophysical (FLASH) and biomolecular (NAMD) simulation and for determining the electronic-structure of materials (QMCpack and MECCA) with computer science research. Adaptive runtime systems that automate dynamic load balancing and fault tolerance, best-practice software engineering to petascale applications via refactoring tools, productive programming environments that integrate performance analysis and debugging tools, and automatically tuned libraries will also draw the attention of researchers. "Our major goal is to focus on applications having impact on challenging physical problems of broad community interest and that could really show sustained petascale performance given the right computer science tools and libraries on the planned hardware," Johnson says. "Concerted effort between the physical and computer scientists is critical for this to happen--not all square blocks fit into the same round hole."

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