Supercomputers, Analysis, and NASA Missions
Date: Friday, October 16th, 2020 @ 1pm Eastern
Dr. Olaf Storaasli is a supercomputer pioneer and author of several novel computation algorithms including GPS, which won NASA Software of the Year Award. His work on current and future high performance computing (HPC) systems harnesses accelerators (FPGAs & GPUs) to enable science discovery (i.e. rapid solutions of large matrix systems). Olaf earned his Engineering Ph.D. from North Carolina State University and held postdoc Fellowships at NTNU & Edinburgh University.
With theory and experiment, supercomputers are our 3rd leg of scientific discovery. Experiments are costly and slow, so now discoveries often rely on supercomputers, with accelerators performing > 90% of computations. Dr. Storaasli will describe analyses on past, present, and future NASA and ORNL supercomputers and projects future science and engineering discoveries possible on future ExaFLOP=1018 FLOP supercomputers.
http://olaftn.com/