Portland Institute for Computational Science Research at Scale PICSRS
Abstract
We propose to initiate a first major step towards establishing a research institute at Portland State University (PSU) in the broad area of computational science that will offer the potential to enhance universityÕs ability to educate future scientists and engineers in these disciplines. In particular, with this proposal we will target areas of research that are the topics of two on-going projects funded by DoD (one by ARO and one by AFOSR), namely on space-time discretization techniques targeting simulations at extreme scale that are not feasible by the current state-of- the-art parallel solvers, and the second area on novel numerical methods for wave propagation. These two areas will greatly benefit from adequate computational resources to validate the proposed and theoretically analyzed algorithms, with the minimum requirement of a parallel multicore cluster with fast interconnect network and large enough RAM. While most of the proposed research can be simulated at moderate scale, the large 3D, and for space-time, 4D, simulations at as large-scale as possible are the key for demonstrating the feasibility for success of the proposed research. Secondly, once having adequate computational resources, the active MSc and PhD program at PSU, and at the mathematics department in particular, will become more competitive to attract talent in the area of HPC, which area is of key importance to the DoD mission, thereby contributing to DoD research-related educational objectives. More specifically, the proposed institute will provide the infrastructure and access to state-of-the- art hardware on which publicly available highly scalable specialized software libraries, such as ones needed for the specified on-going projects (MFEM, HYPRE, XBraid, FEniCS, PETSc, ParaMetis, and so on) can run with their full potential (using MPI and Open MP). Such a powerful working environment will be extremely beneficial for postdocs and graduate students that pursue career in the broad area of computational science.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Dec 04, 2018
- Source ID
- W911NF1610307
Entities
People
- Panayot Vassilevski
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- Portland State University
- United States Army