[Lcefiec] Charla High Perfomance Computing

Esteban Mocskos emocskos@dc.uba.ar
Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:55:18 -0300


El próximo viernes 3 de Junio a las 14:30hs en el aula E24 del pabellón 1, 
David Barkai de Intel corporation dará una charla acerca del estado actual 
del campo de la computación de alto rendimiento y distribuida.
Adjunto va un pequeño resumen de sus antecedentes, como podrán ver es una 
buena oportunidad para conocer e intercambiar ideas con un experto del área.
Saludos.
Esteban Mocskos.
Departamento de Computación.
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David Barkai is an HPC (High Performance Computing) computational architect
for Intel corporation. He has also been a member of the Distributed
Solutions Lab of Intel's Corporate Technology Group, a content architect
for the Intel Developer Forum conference and a software scientist in the
Microcomputer Software Lab. Before joining Intel in 1996, David worked for
over 25 years in the field of scientific and engineering supercomputing for
Control Data Corporation, Cray Research Inc., Supercomputer Systems Inc.,
and NASA Ames Research Center. David holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics
and has more than 20 publications as papers, conference proceedings, and
textbook contributions on the subjects of physics, numerical methods, and
computer applications and architectures. Recently he authored the book
"Peer-to-Peer Computing: Technologies for Sharing and Collaborating on the
Net" (Intel Press, 2001) and other articles on related topics. In one of
his latest major projects David was central to the conception and
implementation of the largest supercomputer in production - the NASA
Columbia system. 
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