Conferences and meetings – NLAFET

SIAM PP18 – SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing

Birgitte Brydso — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:31:04 +0000

NLAFET sent several participants to SIAM PP18 (March 7-10, 2018) at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, where they presented some of their ongoing research. Persons in italic made the presentation at the conference.

Talks

Dense Linear Systems for Extreme Scale Jack J. Dongarra, University of Tennessee, ORNL, and University of Manchester, USA
The Batched Blas abstract Sven J. Hammarling and Mawussi Zounon, The University of Manchester, UK
Task Based Robust Computation of Eigenvectors abstract Carl Christian Kjelgaard Mikkelsen, Lars Karlsson, Mirko Myllykoski, and Angelika Schwarz, Umeå University, Sweden
Sparse Solvers on Extreme-Scale Systems abstract Iain Duff, Science & Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom and CERFACS, Toulouse, France
Task-Based Sparse Direct Solver for Symmetric Indefinite Systems abstract Florent Lopez, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom; Iain Duff, Science & Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom and CERFACS, Toulouse, France
Robust Algebraic Preconditioners for Large Scale Applications abstract Laura Grigori, Simplice Donfack, and Olivier Tissot, Inria, France
Enlarged Conjugate Gradient Method for Reducing Communication abstract Olivier Tissot and Laura Grigori, Inria, France

Posters

Efficient Robust Multi-Shift Triangular Solves abstract Angelika Schwarz, Mirko Myllykoski, Carl Christian Kjelgaard Mikkelsen, and Lars Karlsson, Umeå University, Sweden

Swedish e-Science Academy 2017

Birgitte Brydso — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:31:50 +0000

At the recent Swedish e-Science Academy 2017, held at Umeå University 11-12 October 2017, NLAFET members presented 3 posters:

A Task-Based Algorithm for Reordering the Eigenvalues of a Matrix in Real Schur Form, Mirko Myllykoski
Blocked and Robust solution of triangular systems, Carl Christian K. Mikkelsen and Lars Karlsson
An Auto-tuning Framework for a NUMA-Aware Hessenberg Reduction Algorithm, Mahmoud Eljammaly, Lars Karlsson and Bo Kågström

As well, Bo Kågström chaired the first session and gave a welcome presentation.

PPAM 2017

Birgitte Brydso — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:06:12 +0000

NLAFET sent several participants to PPAM 2017 (September 10-13, 2017), where they presented some of their ongoing research. Persons in bold made the presentation at the conference.

On the Tunability of a New Hessenberg Reduction Algorithm Using Parallel Cache Assignment – Mahmoud Eljammaly, Lars Karlsson and Bo Kågström
Blocked Algorithms for Robust Solution of Triangular Linear Systems – Carl Christian Kjelgaard Mikkelsen and Lars Karlsson
Experiments with sparse Cholesky using a parametrized task graph implementation – Florent Lopez and Iain Duff
A Task-Based Algorithm for Reordering the Eigenvalues of a Matrix in Real Schur Form – Mirko Myllykoski

In addition, Jack Dongarra gave one of the keynote speeches: An Overview of High Performance and a Look at Energy Saving on the Intel Knights Landing for Linear Algebra Computations