Summary of Computational Science Program
Computer Science Department
University of Tennessee
Objectives
- To support interdisciplinary programs in the sciences.
- To foster the exchange of knowledge and experiences between
universities, government laboratories and industry.
- To train and educate students and young investigators, as well as
established researchers, in the effective use of techniques and
equipment for advanced parallel
computational systems.
- To attract students into science and technology career paths and to
encourage educators to use high performance computing for teaching
and demonstrating scientific and mathematical principles.
- To encourage the advancement of computationally intensive science by
promoting the use of high-performance computers, visualization, and
other parallel computational tools.
- To work as partners with the computer industry for achieving major
advances in computer technology.
Faculty with direct research ties to Computational Science
- Mike Berry
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science at UTK
- Jack Dongarra
- Distinguished Scientist - 1/2 time at ORNL and 1/2 time in the Computer
Science Department at UTK.
- Jens Gregor
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science at UTK
- Mark Jones
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science at UTK
- Steve Lee
- Adjunct Professor
- Mike Leuze
- Adjunct Professor, - 1/2 time at ORNL and
1/2 time in the Computer Science Department at UTK.
- Noel M. Nachtigal
- Adjunct Professor
- Padma Raghavan
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science at UTK
- Mike Thomason
- Professor, Computer Science at UTK
- Bob Ward
- Professor and Department Head, Computer Science at UTK
In our program we have 6 post-docs, 3 faculty visitors, 11 research assistants,
14 graduate students, and 2 undergraduate students working on various areas of
computational science.
Courses Related to Computational Science:
Graduate:
- CS 530 Computer Systems Organization
- CS 594 Performance Evaluation
- CS 594 Iterative Solution of Linear Systems
- CS 594 Scientific Computing
- CS 594 Applications of Parallel Computers
- CS 690 Parallel and Distributed Computation
Undergraduate:
- CS 494 Parallel Computing
- CS 371 Numerical Methods and Software (co-listed with Math Dept.)
Research Project Related to Computational Science:
- PVM
- Parallel Virtual Machine, enable computers with widely different architectures
to work together on a single computational task.
- ScaLapack
- Linear Algebra software for high-performance computers.
- National Software Exchange
- Information repository for the HPCC Program.
- ParkBench
- Benchmarking activity for highly parallel computers.
- LUCAS
- Land Change and Analysis System for Landscape Management.
Large-scale map analysis algorithms and software for computational
ecology models.
- SVDPACK
- Sparse Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) algorithms and software
for large-scale applications.
- LSI
- Latent Semantic Indexing. Large-scale information retrieval methods.
- BlockSolve
- Portable parallel software for solving large sparse systems of
linear equations.
- PARS
- Scalable algorithms and software for adaptive mesh
refinement
- Scalable algorithms and software for a fully parallel solution of large
sparse linear systems using direct methods.
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- Medical Imaging
- parallel methods in tomographic reconstruction and
quantification in cardiac analysis
List of Collaborators in Computational Science:
- Argonne National Lab -- Paul Plassmann, Lori Freitag
- Bellcore -- Susan Dumais
- Bell Labs -- Eric Grosse
- Carnegie-Mellon University Comp Sci Dept. -- Adam Beguelin
- Cray Research Inc. -- Bill Harrod
- Emory Univ. Math and Comp Sci Dept -- Vaidy Sunderam
- Florida Marine Research Institute -- Richard Flamm
- Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd. -- Jeremy DuCroz, Sven Hammarling
- ORNL/ESD -- Monica Turner, Robert Gardner
- Rice Univ. Math Sci Dept. -- Danny Sorensen
- St. Mary's Medical Center -- Michael Eisenstadt
- Stanford University Comp. Sci. Dept. -- Gene Golub
- UCLA Math Dept. -- Tony Chan
- Univ. of California-Berkeley CS Dept. -- James Demmel
- Univ. of Illinois, CU CS Dept. -- Mike Heath
- Univ. of Tennessee Math Dept. -- Lou Gross, Tom Hallam
- Univ. of Tennessee Medical Center Knoxville -- Gary Smith
- Univ. of Tennessee ESM Dept. -- Howard Patrick
- Univ. of Washington -- Robert Naiman, Robert Lee
- USDA Forest Service -- David Wear
- Utrecht University Math Dept. -- Henk van der Vorst
Equipment:
The department has a substantial number of resources available to students and
faculty for educational and research purposes.
- Thinking Machine's CM-5 32 processors
- MasPar MP-2 16,000 processors
- Intel iPSC i860 - 128 processors
- Sequent Symmetry 16 processors
- 75 Sun Sparc workstations
- 5 Sun Sparc 10 workstations
- 2 SGI Challenge multiprocessors workstations
- 9 IBM RS/6000 workstations
- 5 HP 700 workstations
- 2 DEC Alpha workstations