Robert (Bob) Techentin is Principal Software Engineer in the Special Purpose Processor Development Group at Mayo Foundation (Rochester, Minnesota). Robert is one of the first users of the new Cray XMT supercomputer specially designed to analyze large amounts of data. The Mayo Clinic is a large clinical practice for medicine and is specialized on medical […]
Ulrich Schättler is working for Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). He started at DWD as software engineer. Years ago he has been asked to parallelize the weather forecast model on distributed memory computers. Since then he is getting involved in weather forecasting and operational forecasting. In his actual function he is responsible […]
While the peak performance and energy efficiency of computing hardware are constantly growing, the development of fast scientific software is experiencing an important paradigm shift. Efficient algorithm implementations face rigid constraints about memory layouts, access patterns and FLOP/Byte ratios. Diego Rossinelli (ETH Zurich) discusses the design of wavelet-based adaptive solvers for compressible flow simulations that […]
MeteoSchweiz invites you to attend its research colloquium FOKO 2011-2: How much high performance computing does meteorology need? 29 November 2011, 10:30 am – 4:30 pm at MeteoSwiss, Krähbühlstrasse 58, 8044 Zurich, Room for events 353 – 354 No registration is required; participation is free of charge. Download as PDF Agenda» Short abstracts » Agenda […]
NOAA is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the USA and is present at SC11 with a large booth. We were very impressed by their NOAA Science On a Sphere exhibit: a big suspended sphere on which changing information regarding the Earth are projected: e.g. the actual weather, the weather forecasts or the location […]
