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Certainties and Uncertainties in Our Energy and Climate Futures
Online Presentations | 06 Jun 2019 | Contributor(s):: Steven E. Koonin
I’ll first discuss the certainties and uncertainties in our understanding of the earth’s changing climate and its response to human influences. The historical record, climate models, and projections through the next century will be reviewed in ways not usually covered in...
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Data-Centric Models for Multilevel Algorithms
Online Presentations | 07 Feb 2016 | Contributor(s):: Samuel Guiterrez
Today, computational scientists must contend with a diverse set of supercomputer architectures that are capable of exposing unprecedented levels of parallelism and complexity. Effectively placing, moving, and operating on data residing in complex distributed memory hierarchies is quickly becoming...
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Task-Graph and Functional Programming Models: The New Paradigm
Online Presentations | 04 Feb 2016 | Contributor(s):: Ben Bergen
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is an example of a distributed-memory communication model that has served us well through the CISC processor era. However, because of MPI's low-level interface, which requires the user to manage raw memory buffers, and its bulk-synchronous communication...
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[Illinois] Biological Models with Combinatorial Spaces
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2014 | Contributor(s):: Bonnie Kirkpatrick
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Nano Roughness MEA - Day 1 Training
Presentation Materials | 29 Jul 2013 | Contributor(s):: Heidi A Diefes-Dux, Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Paul Branham, Krishna Madhavan
This is the first part of Day 1 (out of 3) Training for the NanoRoughness MEA. This training introduces Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs), the NanoRoughness MEA, and problem scoping.