You are cordially invited to next Wednesday's IIC Colloquium:
High-Throughput Science
September 16, 2009, 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Room 330 (**NOTE LOCATION CHANGE**)
Hanspeter Pfister
Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Abstract
How did the universe start? How is the brain wired? How does matter
interact at the quantum level? These are some of the great scientific
challenges of our times, and answering them requires bigger scientific
instruments, increasingly precise imaging equipment, and ever more
complex computer simulations. The traditional model is to process the
data on a remote supercomputer. However, low data transmission rates,
high energy consumption, and the high price of large parallel machines
are obstacles for many scientists. In this talk I will suggest that
commodity high-throughput computing is enabling high-throughput
science, where we process massive data streams efficiently and analyze
them rapidly, all the way from the instrument to the desktop. I will
present an overview of several projects at Harvard that leverage GPUs
for high-throughput science, ranging from radio astronomy and
neuroscience to quantum chemistry and physics.
About the speaker
Hanspeter Pfister received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1996 from
the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his M.S. in
electrical engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1991. Before
joining the Harvard faculty, he worked for 11 years at Mitsubishi
Electric Research Laboratories. His research lies at the intersection
of visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision and spans a
range of topics including scientific visualization, point-based
graphics, appearance modeling, face recognition, and computational
photography. He is the chief architect of VolumePro, Mitsubishi
Electric’s real-time volume-rendering hardware for PCs. Pfister has
taught courses at major graphics conferences including ACM SIGGRAPH,
IEEE Visualization, and Eurographics. Chair of the IEEE Visualization
and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) and editor of the 2006 NIH/NSF
Visualization Research Challenges report, he is a senior member of the
IEEE Computer Society and member of ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, and the
Eurographics Association. During the IIC's life as an Interfaculty
Initiative, Pfister served as Director of Visual Computing.
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