In person or Webinar https://unm.zoom.us/j/94910700693

Title: A Not So Simple Matter of Software

Abstract: In this talk, we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 40-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a significant impact on our numerical scientific software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms are needed to effectively use dynamic, distributed, and parallel environments. Some of the software and algorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as management of communication and memory hierarchies through a combination of compile-time and run-time techniques, but the increased scale of computation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, and increased run--time environment variability will make these problems much harder.
 

Short Vita:  Jack Dongarra, the recipient of the 2021 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award -often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing.” 

Dongarra earned his doctorate in applied mathematics from UNM's Department of Mathematics and Statistics in 1980 under the supervision of Cleve Moler (the creator of Matlab and a former Professor in our Department that went to be the first chair of CS). His research was foundational to the field of computer science and in particular, high-performance computing. 

Jack Dongarra is a Distinguished Professor at University of Tennessee in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and  holds a joint appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory  news on 03/30/2022.

NYT aticle  on 03/30/2022  (if you don't have a subscription go through the UNM Library).

UNM President's weekly perspective on 04/04/2022

UNM News  on 04/04/2022

AMS article on 04/07/2022 (AMS= American Mathematical Society)