LASER SEMINAR

Jeremy Kepner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lincoln Laboratory

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Computer Science Building, Room 140
4:00 PM

Faculty Host: George Avrunin

"DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems Program"

The DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program is focused on providing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for national security and for the industrial user community. HPCS researchers have initiated a fundamental reassessment of how we define and measure performance, programmability, portability, robustness and ultimately, productivity in the HPC domain. The value of a High Performance Computing (HPC) system to a user includes many factors, such as execution time on a particular problem, software development time, direct hardware costs and indirect administrative and maintenance costs. The HPCS program is developing systems that deliver increased value to users at a rate commensurate with the rate of improvement in the underlying technologies. This talk will provide an opportunity for the broader HPC community to see the latest results from HPCS Vendors and the HPCS Productivity team.

[This work is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration under Air Force Contract FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.]

Jeremy Kepner received a B.A. with distinction in Astrophysics from Pomona College (Claremont, CA). After receiving a DoE Computational Science Graduate Fellow in 1994 he obtained his Ph.D. from the Dept. of Astrophysics at Princeton University in 1998 and then joined MIT Lincoln Lab. His research is focused on the development of advanced libaries for the application of massively parallel computing to a variety of data intensive signal processing problems on which he has published over a dozen articles. Jeremy is the overall lead of the DARPA HPCS Productivity Team, the technical lead of the DUSD HPEC Software Initiative, the technical chairman of the High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) workshop, and the lead software architect of pMatlab and MatlabMPI.