This is the first of a 5-parts interview with Prof. Parviz Moin. In addition to his role as Cascade Technologies's founder, Prof. Moin is the founding director of the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford and Ames. Professor Moin pioneered the use of direct and Large Eddy Simulation techniques for the study of turbulence physics, control and modelling concepts and has written widely on the structure of turbulent shear flows.
» continue readingAs part of a daily routine, Cascade Technologies runs Large Eddy Simulation on many different computational facilities. Among them, the Intrepid system at Argonne is one of the two leadership computing facilities supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and it currently stands at number 23 in the latest Top500 world ranking (November 2011). Intrepid consists of 40 Blue Gene/P racks of 4096 cores each for a total of 163840 cores. A visual snapshot of the daily activity on Intrepid can be seen below, where each of the smallest squares is made up of 128 cores, every larger block represents ...
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