COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND (CRIBB)

Date Apr. 9, 2010
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.

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