WORKSHOP: GPU and MIC solutions for Multiscale Coupling and Multiphysics Approaches in Computational Sciences

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Energy and Minerals Institute at UWA, iVEC@UWA, iVEC, CSIRO and CESRE.

Measuring multiscale and multiphysics earth material behaviour on time scales ranging from days to millions of years transcends our current capability in the laboratory. Physics based virtual computer simulations will soar over the next few years as we see the passing of the petascale, and the dawning of the exascale era.

This workshop will focus on understanding the potential usage of GPU and MIC from a computational scientific user point of view, particularly for multiscale problems in Earth Science and Resource Engineering. In addition to algorithmic research, we will focus on high-level libraries and programming environments and visualization tools that can improve the performance and productivity of large- scale applications.

These advancements in GPU and accelerator research will be illustrated by both computational kernels and entire large-scale applications, which exercise these tools and libraries.