MPJ Express

Speaker: Ammar Ahmad Awan

Affiliation: NUST School of EE & CS, Pakistan.

Date/Time: 29th April 2009, 13:00-14:00.

Location: Room G74, Philip Lyle Building.

Map: http://www.info.rdg.ac.uk/maps/maps-display.asp

Abstract:

MPJ Express is an implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard in Java. This has been developed at Portsmouth University as an effort to provide messaging system which is portable and allows swapping of comm. protocols on runtime. Practical applications or real world applications are vital for any programming framework or model. MPJE also needed some real world app. To be justified as an HPC language. One such app has been developed already and its performance is quite comparable to C and Fortran counter parts. This app is a well known compute intensive scientific code called Gadget-2. Currently, we are implementing some popular numerical algorithms for MPJE, such as Gaussian elimination, conjugate gradient methods etc. Impact is a code for conducting finite element analysis. We are also developing an MPJE parallelised version of Impact FEM software in order to analyse performance of our suite.

Biography

Education: – Bachelors in IT ( NUST School of EE & CS, Pakistan) – Pre-Engineering ( High school)

Research and Development experience: – Optimizing N-body simulations for multicore compute clusters – MPJ Express - Real world applications and numerical algorithms – Network topology discovery – Thread performance comparison b/w Solaris, POSIX and Java threads – RFID based entry systems