Where: Bldg. 20 Auditorium
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Description
A human brain or a supercomputer, better together?
Sunway TaihuLight is the fastest supercomputer in the world today. It can perform calculations at a rate of 93 petaFLOP/s where each 1 petaFLOP/s is 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. However, in comparison with the human brain this enormous rate of calculation is dwarfed by the processing speed of a human brain. On the other hand, the human brain remains slow in implementing floating point arithmetic. Nevertheless, considering the amount of power required by the fastest supercomputer to operate -it is found to be enough for a village the size of KAUST- the brain, nonetheless, requires only the power to make a light bulb glow!
In the first part of this lecture, Dr. Aseeri, will review these along with other wonders of the brain. In the second part, Professor Keyes will address future synergisms of supercomputers and the brain in a twofold manner: 1. brain simulations and 2. supercomputers constructed based on designs derived from the brain. Additionally, Professor Keyes will present some personal insights on the future of supercomputing at KAUST and in-Kingdom.
David Keyes
Professor Keyes is the director of the Extreme Computing Research Center at KAUST. He earned a BSE in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton University in 1978 and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984. Prof Keyes works at the interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of partial differential equations. Before joining KAUST as a founding dean in 2009, he led DOE scalable solver software projects and taught at Columbia University and Yale.
Samar Aseeri
Dr. Samar Aseeri is a Computational Scientist at KAUST Supercomputing Lab. Before joining KAUST in 2010, she received her training on supercomputing at IBM in New York. She obtained both her Masters and PhD in Applied Mathematics from Umm Al-Qura University in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Her current research interests focus on Fast Fourier Transform library benchmarks. Along with providing support to Shaheen users at KAUST, she is also involved with various research projects with the Extreme Computing Research Center.
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