Access Grid Event

Future Directions of Advanced Computation

9.00am Australian Eastern Standard Time
Thursday 20 January 2005

As part of the APAC Summer School in Advanced Computing we will be holding an Access Grid Event in which three eminent overseas computational scientists, Profs Jack Dongarra, Chris Johnson and David Keyes, will provide their visions (via the grid) for the future of Advanced Computing.

After their formal presentations, other visitors to the event will have the opportunity to be involved in a online forum.

Please feel free to join us in the APAC grid venue for this event. On the other hand, space in N101 CSIT will be limited and preference will be given to participants of the APAC summer school.

Overseas presenters

Jack Dongarra has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books.

Chris Johnson is a leader in computer-intensive scientific visualization. His Institute's freely distributed SCIRUN software is used for inverse modeling of electromagnetic brain activity including adaptive multi-grid methods. He will speak about advanced modeling of brain activity in the emerging grid computing environment. Movies associated with this presentation are available here.

David Keyes is the author or co-author of over 100 publications in computational science and engineering, numerical analysis, and computer science. He has co-edited 8 conference proceedings concerned with parallel algorithms and has delivered over 200 invited presentations at universities, laboratories, and industrial research centers in over 20 countries and 35 states of the U.S. With backgrounds in engineering, applied mathematics, and computer science, and consulting experience with industry and national laboratories, Keyes works at the algorithmic interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of partial differential equations, across a spectrum of aerodynamic, geophysical, and chemically reacting flows.