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Bill Pulleyblank (right), Director
of Mathematical Sciences, IBM Research, recently visited the Supercomputing Institute
to discuss the Institute's research programs, IBM's plans for supercomputing, and
to explore areas for further collaboration. Pictured with Dr. Pulleyblank are Pat
Carey (left), Consulting Client Representative for IBM, and Donald Truhlar (center),
Supercomputing Institute Director. |
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| Mark Schure (left), industrial fellow
for the Center for Interfacial Engineering (CIE) and Research Fellow in the Computational
Chemistry group for the Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and H.
Ted Davis (right), Dean of the Institute of Technology, talk about lattice-Boltzmann
techniques being used at CIE to simulate chromatographic separation in packed beds.
The fellowship is allowing Mark to do research using parallel processing techniques
on machines such as the IBM SP. |
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| Tim Ward (left), Minneapolis Branch
Manager of Silicon Graphics Inc., and Derek Robb (center), Chief Scientist of Silicon
Graphics Inc., Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative Program, met with Donald
Truhlar (right), Supercomputing Institute Director, to discuss Silicon Graphics'
technology plans and their involvement in the United States Department of Energy's
Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) program. |
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Students from St. Cloud, Minnesota
visited the Supercomputing Institute as part of a two-year program in networking.
The program, sponsored by Cisco Systems, is teaching these students valuable skills
that will allow them to either enter the work force straight from high school or
be well prepared for pursuing a computer science degree. While at the Institute,
the students toured the supercomputing facilities and were given the opportunity
to meet and talk with the Supercomputing Institute's Network Administrator, Asish
Dash, who showed them how the networking and routing at the Supercomputing Institute
is set up and administered. |
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Professor David Yuen's
research team at the Supercomputing Institute added two major contributors recently
when Dr. Witold Dzwinel from the Computer Science Department of the Mining and Metallurgy
Institute in Krakow, Poland and Mr. Fabien Dubuffet, a graduate student from the
French Space Agency in Toulouse, France came to visit. Professor Yuen (left), Dr.
Dzwinel (center), and Mr. Dubuffet (right) worked on a number of geological simulations
and issues.
Dr. Dzwinel worked on multi-phase flow using molecular dynamics and dissipative particle
dynamics. Fabien Dubuffet worked on three-dimensional convection with variable thermal
conductivity using finite-difference methods. Results from these researchers' work
are shown below.
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Dr. Dzwinel's work (left) shows interface
layer dynamics for mixing driven by sedimentation in liquid. All six stages (three
on top and three on the bottom) represent particle system after following 500 x
Delta t
Dt timesteps (Delta t= 1). Mr. Dubuffet's work (above) shows that at intermediate Rayleigh
number convection, there is a strong nonlinear interaction between the radiative
heat transfer and the convective heat transport. The tree-like plume in the middle
resembles the plume detected recently under Iceland by researchers at Utrecht University
in The Netherlands. |
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Einar Rustad (left), Vice President
of Operations at SCALI Affordable Supercomputing in Skjetten, Norway, Max Tiede,
Program Manager of Systems & International Programs for Lockheed Martin in St.
Paul, Minnesota, Sjur Fjellbirkeland, Administrative Director for SCALI Affordable
Supercomputing, and Bob Sicafuse, Manager for Business Development for Lockheed Martin
(far right) met with Donald Truhlar, Supercomputing Institute Director, and Michael
Olesen, Supercomputing Institute Research Programs Administrator, to discuss high-performance
computing resources offered by SCALI Affordable Supercomputing. |
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Tom Ruwart, Assistant
Director for the Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering (LCSE)(left),
Professor Paul Woodward, Director for the LCSE, and Bill Humphrey and John Reynders
from the Advanced Computing Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos,
New Mexico are looking at the supercomputers at the Institute with Barry Schaudt
(far right), Manager of Systems and Operations at the Supercomputing Institute.
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