ACTS Toolkit 2001 News and Events




February

2/23-3/11 Visiting Scientist: Dr. Yves-Henri Sanejouand from the Centre de Recherche Paul-Pascal, Pessac, France, visited LBNL. This visit was the first phase of a joint work towards the optimization of a computer program allowing for the fast calculation of the low-frequency normal model of biological macromolecules (see event on March 5th).

25 Tutorial on High-Performance Numerical Linear Algebra: Fast and Robust Kernels for Scientific Computing (Jim Demmel, Jack Dongarra,and Osni Marques). This tutorial was organized during the NPACI All-Hands Meeting, San Diego.

2/26-3/8 Visiting Scientist: Dr. Jon Saenz from The department of Applied Physics, University of the Basque Country, Spain. Dr. Saenz has an interest on the functionality of some of the numerical tools under the ACTS Toolkit and use these tools inside his Python-based Toolkit for the analysis of climate data, PyClimate (see seminar event on February 28).

28 Scientific Computing seminar: Py-Climate: A Phyton based toolkit for analysis of large atmospheric and oceanic data sets, Dr. J. Saenz.
March

5 Scientific Computing Seminar, LBNL, CA: Dr. Yves-Henri Sanejouand, Centre de Recherche Paul-Pascal, France. Low-frequency normal modes of proteins.

31 New Vistas in Physics, Department of Physics, Standford University, CA: Tony Drummond chaired a session on Vistas on Computational Physics in which he presented the ACTS Toolkit project during a 3-day NSBP conference.
April

27 Grid Computing, Globus, and Java Interface to the Grid, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2001), San Francisco, CA.
May

8 Scientific Computing Seminar: Dr. Luc Giraud from CERFACS, Toulouse, France gave a seminar on: A relaxation strategy for inner-outer linear solvers in domain decomposition methods.

16-18 Parallel Tools Consortium Meeting, San Diego, CA: Osni Marques attended the meeting with the purpose of studying what are the tools available for performance tuning and analysis and how this technology compares with available tools under ACTS.
June

5 Scientific Computing Seminar, LBNL, CA: Dr. Roldan Pozo, "High Performance Java for Scientific and Technical Computing".

14 CCA Summer Meeting, Napa Valley Lodge, Yountville, CA.


Released version 1.2 of TAO (Toolkit for Advanced Optimization). The new features now include; an improved gradient based algorithm for bound constrained optimization, two new solvers for nonlinear complementarity problems, capability to interface with new classes of vectors, matrices, and linear solvers.

16-23 EuroGlobus The first EuroGlobus conference, Robinson club Apulia Village, Marina di Ugento, Lecce, Italy.

19 Talk: "Librerias para computacion de alto rendimiento: el proyecto ACTS" (Libraries for high-performace computing: The ACTS project). Tony Drummond, Departamento de Ciencia de la computacion e inteligencia artificial, Universidad de Alicante, Spain.

27 Talk: "Entornos para la computacion de alto rendimiento: direcciones de la siguiente generacion de codigos cientificos" (Frameworks for High-Performance Computing: Directions of the next generation of scientific codes). Tony Drummond, Departamento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion. Grupo de Investigacion en Redes y Computacion de Altas Prestaciones., Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.
July

3-6 Advanced School on Recent Developments in Large Scale Scientific Computing, Porto, Portugal. Talk: "Algorithms for the Solution of Large Scale Eigenvalue Problems", Osni Marques.

11 Talk: "Advanced Computational Testing and Simulation (ACTS) Toolkit", Tony Drummond, welcome lectures series to LBNL 2001 Summer students.

18 New beta release of Hypre version 1.5.0b. Changes from previous beta version (1.3.1b) include; a new draft of the IJ interface and added SetRelChange option to GMRES solver.

30 New release of Hypre version 1.6.0.
August

9-10 The 2001 Globus Retreat, San Francisco, California.

29-30 Talk on trends in the field of high performance computing and the ACTS Toolkit Project, Osni Marques. CENAPAD-SP, Campinas, Brazil.
October

10-13 ACTS Toolkit Workshop: Solving problems in science and engineering. Organized by Tony Drummond and Osni Marques at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California.

10 Overture named one of the 101 Most Important Discoveries supported by the DOE Office of Science in the Past 25 Years (entry # 67 in the list).

15-18 Second LACSI Symposium: Santa Fe, New Mexico.

18 ACTS Workshop: High Performance Libraries for Science and Engineering, organized by Tony Drummond and Osni Marques, during the LACSI Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
November

10-16 SC2001: Denver, CO.


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