Date/Time
Date(s) - 16 Feb 2012
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location
Kingston University, Roehampton Vale Campus
Category(ies)
Overview of HECToR service and case studies
Speaker: Dr Ning Li
The Numerical Algorithms Group
Chair: Dr Yufeng Yao
Abstract
In this talk, I will first give an overview of HECToR, UK’s national supercomputing facility for open science. I will tell success stories on how our Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) team help academic users improve their applications to achieve better productivity on HPC systems. I will then concentrate on technical topics, in particular on my work on 2DECOMP&FFT, a numerical framework that supports the build of large-scale distributed algorithms (such as FFTs and PDE solvers) and the creation of robust, scalable, portable and maintainable applications.
Brief bio:
Dr Ning Li graduated from University of Maryland with a PhD in mechanical engineering. He came to the UK in 2003 and worked at the Imperial College London as a Research Associate on turbulence and computational aerodynamics. His current research interests are in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). He briefly worked for the STFC Daresbury Lab as a Computational Scientist, before moving to the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) where he is a Technical Consultant and key member of the CSE team supporting HECToR. He looks after academic clients and helps them use HPC to conduct cutting-edge research.