ERCIM News No.26 - July 1996 - CWI
Workshop on Parallel Numerical Algorithms and Applications
by Herman te Riele
The aim of this ERCIM Workshop on Parallel Numerical Algorithms and
Applications, organized by Herman te Riele (CWI) and Markus Tresch (SGFI)
in Zurich, Switzerland, 28 May 1996, was to present and discuss the state-of-the-art
in the above field within ERCIM and at connected institutes, and to identify
mutual interests within ERCIM.
Speakers came from the Institute of Scientific Computing of the ETH in Zuerich
and the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing in Manno (both participating
in the new ERCIM Member SGFI), CWI, and INRIA/IRISA.
Topic: Algorithms
- Peter Arbenz, Institute of Scientific Computing, ETH Zuerich: A parallel
solver for banded linear systems for the Intel Paragon
- Bernard Philippe, INRIA/IRISA Rennes: Parallel computation of satellite
trajectories
- Miloud Sadkane, INRIA/IRISA Rennes Parallel computation of spectral
portraits.
Topic: Implementations/Tools
- Margreet Nool, CWI Amsterdam: Parallel implementational aspects of
the Jacobi-Davidson algorithm for the generalized eigenvalue problem
- Brian Wylie, CSCS/SCSC, Manno HPF and MPI Parallelization of Applications
Supported by Integrated Program Engineering Tools
- Vaibhav Deshpande, CSCS/SCSC, Manno Parallel Library Support for Structured
and Unstructured Mesh Problems
Topic: Implementations/Applications
- Wolfgang Joppich, GMD Bonn: Coupled Problems on Parallel Computers
- Joke Blom, CWI Amsterdam: An evaluation of the Cray T3D pro-gramming
paradigms in atmospheric chemistry/transport models
- Matthias Schmidt, GMD FIRST Berlin: Parallelization of two Air Pollution
Models of Eulerian and Lagrangian Type
Topic: Applications
- Leonhard Jaschke, Institute of Scientific Computing, ETH Zuerich:
Parallelisation of the Simulation of the ABB Melting Oven
- Hans-Georg Galbas, GMD Bonn: A parallel multi-level proximity search
algorithm
- Herman te Riele, CWI Amsterdam: Parallel and numerical aspects of
the new world record for factoring large numbers (see
also article in this issue).
The discussion during and after the lectures showed that there is much mutual
interest among the participating ERCIM institutes on the subjects of the
workshop. Several promising contacts for future cooperation have been established.
The success of the workshop has enhanced the decision of the Steering Committee
of the ERCIM Parallel Processing Network
(which met one day after the Workshop in Zurich) to submit a TMR proposal
in Brussels at the first possible occasion.
Please contact:
Herman te Riele - CWI
Tel: +31 20 592 4106
E-mail: herman@cwi.nl
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