Talk on Monday, 5 February - Lennart Johnsson, University of Houston

[Margery Ishmael]

	    Monday, 5 February at 2:30 p.m. in Ryerson 251

	Computational Grids and High-Performance Computation:
	The ultimate environment for code portability and adaptivity.


			    Lennart Johnsson
			Department of Computer Science
			  University of Houston


	Computer networks are becoming pervasive and capabilities
	of local, metropolitan and wide area networks are improving
	at a rate that is even greater than that of processors.
	Using remote resources in transparent ways is increasingly
	realistic whether for capacity computing or in assembling
	resources into virtual machines across a network serving as
	a computational Grid.  We will describe one approach towards
	assuring code portability and good execution efficiency
	through adapting codes both to execution environments and
	problems to which the codes are being applied.  Results from
	applying this technique to software for the Fast Fourier
	Transform will be discussed.
	Bio: http://rodin.cs.uh.edu/~johnsson/

	(Talk will be followed by refreshments in Ryerson 255)