[Colloquium] Talk by Eunice E. Santos on Friday, April 27, 2007

[Margery Ishmael]

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE - TALK

Date: Friday, April 27, 2007
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Place: Ryerson 251

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Speaker:  EUNICE E. SANTOS, Virginia Tech.

Web page:  http://people.cs.vt.edu/~santos/

Title: Models and Architectures for Effective Deployment of Large- 
Scale Simulations across Parallel and Distributed Platforms

Abstract:
In order to effectively deploy large-scale simulations across  
distributed resources, it is vital that formal design models be  
developed for design and performance prediction. Currently, many  
large-scale simulations are being deployed across clusters of  
machines. Clusters fall into two broad categorizations: homogeneous  
and heterogeneous. In homogeneous clusters, resources are basically  
identical. For heterogeneous, resources can have great variations in  
structure and speciality. In this talk, we will focus on homogeneous  
clusters, and on hierarchical clusters, a type of heterogeneous  
cluster. We will present and/or introduce various general design  
models and architectures. We will show that our models are realistic  
and have wide-utility in a variety of arenas: as design models,  
performance models, and complexity models. Moreover, our models have  
been validated on a number of applications across a number of  
engineering and computational science applications, including spin  
system simulations (for example for quantum chromodynamics), network- 
centric operations, protein folding, numerical linear algebra (for  
example large-scale system solvers), tissue simulation (for example  
tumor growth), information retrieval, and social network analyses.



Bio:

Eunice E. Santos has B.S. and M.S. degrees in both Mathematics and  
Computer Science, and received a PhD in 1995 from the University of  
California, Berkeley in Computer Science. From 1995-2000, Dr. Santos  
was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and  
Computer Science at Lehigh University. Since 2000, Dr. Santos is the  
Director of the Laboratory for Computation,  Information &  
Distributed Processing, and an Associate Professor in the Department  
of Computer Science and in the Genetics, Bioinformatics and  
Computational Biology Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute &  
State University. Dr. Santos has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant,  
the Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Robinson Faculty  
Award. She is also currently named to the Top Ten Teacher's List in  
the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. She was recently program  
chair for IDPT'06 and is on a number of program committees. She is on  
the editorial board of Scientific Programming, and subject area  
editor for the Journal of Supercomputing. She is currently a member  
of the DARPA/IDA Defense Science Study Group.


***The talk will be followed by refreshments in Ryerson 255***

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Host:  Stuart A. Kurtz

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