COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND (CRIBB)
| Date | Apr. 9, 2010 |
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| Speaker | Gaurav Khanna (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) |
| Topic | Cell BE and GPU Compute Technologies for Black Hole Astrophysics Simulations |
| Abstract: | This talk is about the motivation and the potential of the use of hardware accelerators (such as the PlayStation's Cell processor and GPUs) in Computational Science. In particular, I will present my work in the area of Black Hole Astrophysics that makes use of such hardware accelerators, yielding order-of-magnitude gains in metrics such as performance, performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar. I will briefly introduce my research area, the algorithms involved and the techniques used to achieve such gains using the Cell BE and Nvidia Tesla GPU. |
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We thank the generous support of MIT IS&T, CSAIL, and the Department of Mathematics for their support of this series.