[CIG-ALL] CIG WEBINAR: May 16, 2013 @ 2pm PT - Nick Featherstone

[Lorraine Hwang]

Dear Colleagues:
 

Please save Thursday, May 16 @ 2pm PT for our next CIG Webinar featuring
Nick Featherstone from HOA NCAR. Nick's webinar will begin with a brief
overview of recent efforts to model convection and dynamos in the Sun and
other stars. Such models (massive stars in particular) share many
fundamental aspects in common with geodynamo models. Until recently, stellar
dynamo studies that employed pseudospectral methods involving spherical
harmonics also faced the same fundamental challenge as geodynamo models;
scalability. After describing how this obstacle has been overcome within the
last year for the Anelastic Spherical Harmonic code, he will present the
essential elements of a scalable pseudo-spectral framework (based on MPI)
that CIG is now assembling into a community dynamo model. He will conclude
with some thoughts on how this framework may be extended to incorporate GPUs
and/or a hybrid OpenMP/MPI approach. 

 

Examples of his work can also be found on CIG's youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CIGeodynamics?feature=g-high-u

You may connect to the meeting through the link provided below or through
the home page at  geodynamics.org.  More complete instructions can also be
found at:
http://www.geodynamics.org/cig/community/Webinar
 
Remember to test your connection before the beginning the webinar.
 
All webinars will be recorded for later viewing at the above url and on our
YouTube Channel, CIG Geodynamics
(http://www.youtube.com/user/cigeodynamics).  Navigate to either to view
previous webinars. Sarah Minson's webinar Bayesian Earthquake Modeling is no
available for viewing.
 
Please forward to friends and colleagues.
 
Regards,
-Lorraine

 

 

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