NYCCS/Computer Science Seminar

Tianshi Lu - Thursday, June 5, 2008 10:00 AM

Math Tower - S-240

"Introduction to Advanced Computational Software (ACTS) Collection"

The ACTS Collection is a set of software tools that hlep programmers write high performance scientific codes for high-end computers. The tools were mostly developed at DOE labs and univerisities. They are primarily designed to run on distributed memory parallel computers. The tools fall into four broad categories: numerics, framework, execution support, and developer support. Brief introduction to representative software packages in each category will be given. It will be followed by in=depth discussion of selected software tools, including Hypre, a library for parallel iterative solvers of sparse linear systems, SuperLU, a library for the direct solution of sparse linear systems, and more.