Sparse Days and Grid Computing at St. Girons.

Journées sur l'algèbre linéaire creuse et le calcul sur la grille.


 

A four-day meeting on sparse matrix matters at St Girons in Ariege at foothills of Pyrenees, on June 10-13 2003.
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Monday 9th            Tuesday 10th            Wednesday 11th            Thursday 12th (Grid Day)            Friday 13th

 

Programme of the 9th June


  Reception at the hotel: "La Clairiere" all afternoon.
You can find the timetable for bus between Blagnac Airport or Matabiau Station and St Girons.

16.00 Bus Blagnac - Metro Station "Basso Combo" - Matabiau Station - St Girons
19.30 Dinner
20.00 Bus Blagnac - Matabiau Station - St Girons

Cold dinner served in the room for the persons who have made the request.
 

Programme of the 10th June


  At "La clairiere": Reception and Registration of participants by Mme Fontvielle (she speaks english)
This will concern only logistics of hotel reservation, etc and not conference registration, badges and so on ....


Schedule of the conference

08.30 Bus Blagnac - Metro Station "Basso Combo" - St Girons
09.45 - 10.15 Introduction and Welcome
10.15 - 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 - 11.30 G. Golub (Stanford, USA): Recent developments in iterative solvers.
11.30 - 12.00 G. Meurant (CEA, France): The norm of the error in the conjugate gradient algorithm.
12.00 - 12.30 M. Sosonkina (Duluth, USA): Parallel iterative and direct methods: a comparison.
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.00 V. Simoncini (Bologna, Italy): Inexact Krylov subspace methods: theory and applications.
Click here to download the ps of the talk (441 kB).
15.00 - 15.30
M. Bollhoefer (Berlin, Germany): Recent advances in inverse-based preconditioning techniques.
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 16.30 K. Vuik (Delft, The Netherlands): A parallel deflated Krylov solver for finite element problems.
17.00 - 19.00 J. Langou (Cerfacs): Thesis defence: Solving large linear systems with multiple right-hand sides.
21.00 Dinner

 

Programme of the 11th June


  Schedule of the conference

09.00 - 09.45 A. Pothen (Old Dominion, USA): External Memory Algorithms for a Sparse Direct Solver.
09.45 - 10.30 P. Henon, F. Pellegrini, P. Ramet and J. Roman (Bordeaux, France):
An efficient hybrid MPI/Thread implementation on a network of SMP nodes for the parallel sparse direct solver PaStix:
ordering / scheduling / memory management / out-of-core issues, and application to preconditioning.
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30 T. Davis (Florida, USA): A column pre-ordering strategy for the unsymmetric-pattern multifrontal method.
Click here to download the pdf of the talk (516 kB).
11.30 - 12.00 A. Guermouche (Lyon, France): Some Memory Issues in the Multifrontal Method.
Click here to download the pdf of the talk (555 kB).
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.30 - 15.00 S. Li (NERSC, USA): Use of parallel SuperLU in large-scale scientific calculations.
Click here to download the pdf of the talk (718 kB).
15.00 - 15.30 O. Schenk (Basel, Switzerland): On direct and iterative solvers for semiconductor device simulation problems.
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45 D. Sorensen (Rice, USA): Model Reduction of Passive Systems through Interpolation of Spectral Zeros.
Click here to download the ps of the talk (450 kB).
16.45 - 17.15 P. Arbenz (Zurich, Switzerland): Multilevel preconditioners for solving eigenvalue problems occurring in the design of resonant cavities.
17.15 - 17.45 P. Henon and Y. Saad: Preconditioning techniques based on a Parallel Hierarchical Interface Decomposition (PHIDAL).
17.45 - 18.15 Short introductory talks on poster presentations
19.00 Cocktail at the Mairie + Folk group "Bethmal"
Free evening

Programme of the 12th June

"GRID Day"

supported by the ACI-TLSE project:

  At "La clairiere": Reception and Registration of new participants by Mme Fontvielle.

Schedule of the conference

08.30 Bus Blagnac - Metro Station "Basso Combo" - St Girons
09.45 - 10.30
R. Tirler (European Commission): Grid computing in Framework 6.
Click here to download the pdf of the talk (488 kB).
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.45 C. Auderlik (University of Bergen, Norway): The EUROGRID project.
11.45 - 12.00 J. P. Prost (IBM, France): Grid computing at IBM.
Click here to download the pdf of the talk (1.6 MB).
12.00 - 12.15 O. Multon (SGI, France): Grid computing at SGI.
12.15 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.00
J. Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA): High Performance Computing, Computational Grids, and Numerical Libraries.
Click here to download the pdf of the talk (4.2 MB).
15.00 - 15.30 M. Quinson (ENS Lyon, France): Getting to know the Grid to use it better.
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45
C. Perez (INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France): Programming the Grid with parallel software components.
16.45 - 17.45 P. Amestoy and M. Pantel (ENSEEIHT-IRIT): Grid-TLSE: A Web expertise site for sparse linear algebra.
Click here to download the ps of the talk (1204 kB).
17.45 Table ronde
19.00 Bus St Girons - Metro Station "Basso Combo" - Blagnac
19.30 Banquet + Jazz Group

 

Programme of the 13th June


 
08.00 Bus St Girons - Matabiau Station - Metro Station "Basso Combo" - Blagnac

Schedule of the conference

09.00 - 09.30 Y. Sun, G. Golub and M. Saunders (Stanford, USA): Property G and Large Interior Eigenproblems.
09.30 - 10.15 N. Nichols (Reading, UK): Variational data assimilation for numerical weather forecasting.
10.15 - 10.45
 Coffee Break
10.45 - 11.45 Poster Session
12.00 Lunch
14.00 Bus St Girons - Matabiau Station - Metro Station "Basso Combo" - Blagnac







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