Bangkok--26 Feb--Software Park
Date: Thursday 5 March 2009
Time: 13.30 - 16.00 hrs.
Venue: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Software Park Building
Registration fee: No admission fee
::: Abstract :::
High Performance Computing are essential technologies for enabling breakthrough science and for advancing economic and business development, especially in today's digital world. Time to market, time to insight and time to discovery are prime objectives of HPC and grid applications. Examples of such applications are businesses, high-energy physic, computational fluid dynamic, bioinformatics, search engine, telecommunication services, military and space applications, drug discovery as well as perhaps critical warning systems (e.g., for tsunami or hurricane).
Nevertheless, there are many challenges lie in a wide spectrum of obstacles such as mismatches in the technological advancements of hardware and software components, programmability, system reliability, and robustness, especially in very large scale systems. In this talk, Dr. Chokchai will discuss a current trend and technologies in high performance computing. He covers from common cluster computing, multicore technologies to constellation architecture including Cell processor (PS3) and a mixed mode of GPU and traditional CPU.
::: Biography :::
Dr. Chochai "Box" Leangsuksun is the SWEPCO Endowed Professor and an associate professor in computer science and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology (CEnIT) at Louisiana Tech University. He is also the current president of Association of Thai Professional in America and Canada. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio in 1989 and 1995 respectively.
His research interests include:
- Resilience and High Performance Computing
- Intelligent Component based Software Engineering
- Service-Oriented Architecture, Service Engineering and Management
Prior joining Louisiana Tech University in early 2002, Box was a member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs Innovation, from 1995 - 2002 and was responsible in many key research and development roles in various strategic products. Within a short academic time span, Box has established his name and research recognitions by founding and co-chairing international high availability and performance & Resilience workshop, attracting multi-million dollars research funds from US Government Department of Energy, Department of Defense and National Science Foundation, serving as program committee in various international conferences/workshops, releasing open source software, writing articles featured in major technical journals/magazines, and giving presentations in highly-regarded conferences. He has also collaborated with various research groups and national and industrial labs, which include Oak Ridge National Lab, Los Alamos, Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, Dell, Intel and Ericsson etc. Since 2004, he has received equipment donations worth more than half million dollars from Intel.
In September 2003, he received an outstanding teaching award from the college of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University.
After Hurricane Katrina landfall, few phones worked and many people could not find each other. Box with a group of his students built a searchkatrina.org website that allowed people entering the name of someone they wanted to locate. The website had collected more than 25,000 entries and more than 10,000 visits in few days.
Agenda
13.30 - 14.00 Registration
14.00 - 14.10 Welcome Address
14.10 - 15.15 "Current Trends & Technologies in High Performance Computing"
by Dr. Box Leangsuksun
15.15 - 16.00 Q & A
End of Seminar
For more information please contact:
Poonporn Limpakom
Technology Transfer Department
Software Park Thailand
Tel: 02-583-9992 ext. 1421
Fax: 02-583-2884
E-mail: [email protected]