Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and TechnologiesNext-Generation Acceleration Systems for Advanced Science and Engineering ApplicationsAccelerators Brown Bag SeriesWen-mei Hwu (Electrical and Computer Engineering/Coordinated Science Laboratory) leads a project to develop Next-Generation Acceleration Systems for Advanced Science and Engineering Applications. This project will develop application algorithms, programming tools, and software for the deployment of next-generation accelerators—including graphics processing units and field-programmable gate arrays—in science and engineering applications. The mission is to empower science and engineering researchers by enabling their applications to run 100 times faster and at much lower cost than traditional parallel processing techniques. Researchers will work on new algorithms and programming styles for taking full advantage of acceleration technologies in molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry, cosmology, and biomedical imaging. NCSA maintains a 32-node GPU/FPGA cluster to explore the potential of these architectures to accelerate scientific computing. Associated faculty and staff: |