High Performance Computing at SLAC
Speaker: Dr. Alf Wachsmann
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: Orange Conference Room, Bldg 40
Goodies: Tea and cookies provided
The May seminar explores the different areas of SLAC's computing infrastructure which makes data-intensive science possible. Topics include:
- The local and wide area networking necessary to support near real-time data processing of BaBar detector data;
- The storage (tape and disk) necessary to house the world's largest database;
- The computer configurations that enable physicists to run multiple thousands of compute jobs simultaneously;
- The increasing importance of parallel computing at SLAC.
A tour of the SLAC Computer Center will be available to attendees immediately following this talk. This tour will focus on the SLAC resources supporting high performance computing.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Alf Wachsmann is working in SLAC Computing Services' High-Performance Computing Group. He has a doctor's degree in natural sciences obtained in Computer Science at the University of Paderborn (Germany). He worked as post-doc in the computing center of DESY Zeuthen (Germany) before he came to SLAC in 1999.