[CIG-ALL] CIG Webinar: Stellar Scalable Pseudospectral Methods and the Geodynamo May 16 ***TOMORROW

[Lorraine Hwang]

15 May 2013

 

Dear CIG Community:

 

Please save ***TOMORROW *** Thursday, May 16 @ 2pm PT for our next CIG
Webinar featuring Nick Featherstone from HOA NCAR on Stellar Scalable
Pseudospectral Methods and the Geodynamo. His 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. 

 
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/webinar
 
Remember to test your connection before the beginning the webinar.

 

Thanks,

-Lorraine

 

 

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Lorraine Hwang, Ph.D.

Associate Director

Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics

2215A EPS

One Shields Avenue

Davis, CA 95616

w: 530.752.3656

e: ljhwang at ucdavis.edu

http://www.geodynamics.org/cig

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