[aspect-devel] CIG Webinar: TOMRROW @ 2pm featuring Renee Gassmoeller

[John Naliboff]

Hi Cedric,

Rene's talk will indeed be recorded.

Cheers,
John

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John Naliboff
Assistant Project Scientist, CIG
Earth & Planetary Sciences Dept., UC Davis

On 11/10/2016 12:09 PM, Thieulot, C.A.P. (Cedric) wrote:
> Hi Lorraine,
>
> is Rene’s talk recorded ? I am of course interested but his talk is at 
> 11pm local time here  :(
>
> Ce/
>
>
> On 09 Nov 2016, at 22:10, Lorraine Hwang <ljhwang at ucdavis.edu 
> <mailto:ljhwang at ucdavis.edu>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Don’t miss a chance to learn from the expert...
>>
>> Rene Gassmoeller will be delivering tomorrow’s CIG webinar *Thursday 
>> November 10 @ 2pm PT* talking to us about a key feature of ASPECT - 
>> particle implementation.
>>
>>     *Intricacies of particle-in-cell methods in convection models
>>     with adaptive meshes: Using ASPECT's particle *implementation
>>
>>     /Rene Gassmoeller, CSU Fort Collins/
>>
>>     Particle-in-cell methods have a long history in modeling of
>>     mantle convection, lithospheric deformation and crustal dynamics.
>>     However, their efficient parallel implementation and application
>>     in models - in particular combined with adaptive meshes - is
>>     involved due to the complex reassignment of particles to cells
>>     and frequent parallel communication.
>>
>>     In this webinar, I present the implementation of a flexible,
>>     scalable and efficient particle-in-cell method for the massively
>>     parallel finite-element code ASPECT. I discuss the complexity of
>>     the implemented algorithms, present scaling tests and discuss
>>     load-balancing strategies like balanced repartitioning for
>>     particles in adaptive meshes with their strengths and weaknesses.
>>     Additionally, I will show an application tutorial on how to
>>     convert a model with compositional fields into one using the
>>     particle advection scheme, and which consequences follow from
>>     this conversion for model runtime and accuracy.
>>
>>     *Connect: *http://uc-d.adobeconnect.com/r28i3av93ti/
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> -Lorraine
>>
>> *****************************
>> Lorraine Hwang, Ph.D.
>> Associate Director, CIG
>> 530.752.3656
>
>
>
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