Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications in Exascale Computing

10 Mar 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ananth Grama

The move towards exascale computing platforms (capable of 10^18 floating point operations) poses tremendous challenges, while presenting opportunities for foundational advances in a variety of application domains. In this talk, I will describe various technical issues that must be overcome to …

2010 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up

18 Jan 2011 | Workshops

Electronics from the Bottom Up seeks to bring a new perspective to electronic devices – one that is designed to help realize the opportunities that nanotechnology presents.

Illinois ECE 498AL: Programming Massively Parallel Processors

11 Aug 2009 | Courses | Contributor(s): Wen-Mei W Hwu

Spring 2009 Virtually all semiconductor market domains, including PCs, game consoles, mobile handsets, servers, supercomputers, and networks, are converging to concurrent platforms. There are two important reasons for this trend. First, these concurrent processors can potentially offer more …

Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union

29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Ratner

Huge problems of energy and sustainability confront the science/engineering community, mankind, and our planet. The energy problem comes in many dimensions, including supply, demand, conservation, transportation, and storage. This overview will stress the nature of these problems, and offer a few …

C.V. Raman and the Impact of Raman Effect in Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter, and Materials Science

18 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Anant K. Ramdas

Raman’s momentous discovery in 1928 that the spectral analysis of the light scattered by matter, illuminated with monochromatic light of frequency ωL, reveals new signatures at (ωL ± ωi) , ωi’s being the internal frequencies of the matter [Nature121, 501 (1928); Indian Journal of Physics …