[hpc-announce] *UPDATE* Supercomputing Spotlights: by Tzanio Kolev, February 12, 2025

[Erin Carson]

Please see the below *updated* announcement about the upcoming SIAG/SC 
webinar. Please note the time correction! We apologize for the 
confusion!

Advancing Computational Science with High-Order Finite Elements
Presenter: Tzanio Kolev, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 4:00-4:40 pm UTC (30 min talk + 10 min 
questions)
8 am PST / 10 am CST / 11 am EST / 4  pm UTC / 5 pm CET / 1 am JST (Feb 
13)
Participation is free, but registration is required
Registration link:  
https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://siam.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tgb2dUwqRUeiQ0r7tUriqA__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ba3t2L1jm169r6u5AK7Am4g8rkRMP0s_SOODomupfhTwnGuqNohnxrNtMz3NmkcgVb7R_zG1JSdJQawe9EvRgEQF3pzFoLQ$ 

Supercomputing Spotlights is a webinar series featuring short 
presentations that highlight the impact and successes of 
high-performance computing (HPC) throughout our world. Presentations, 
emphasizing achievements and opportunities in HPC, are intended for the 
broad international community, especially students and newcomers to the 
field. Supercomputing Spotlights is an outreach initiative of 
SIAG/Supercomputing (https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://siag-sc.org__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ba3t2L1jm169r6u5AK7Am4g8rkRMP0s_SOODomupfhTwnGuqNohnxrNtMz3NmkcgVb7R_zG1JSdJQawe9EvRgEQFyu2aPjA$ ) …  Join us!

Abstract: The demand for modeling and simulation in large-scale 
computational science has consistently driven the development of new 
numerical algorithms that are tailored to new architectures. For 
example, exascale architectures favor algorithms, such as high-order 
finite elements, that expose fine-grain parallelism and maximize the 
ratio of floating-point operations to energy intensive data movement. In 
this talk we review recent work on GPU-oriented algorithms and software 
for high-order meshing, discretizations and solvers, and demonstrate 
their impact in several large-scale applications from the US Department 
of Energy.

Bio: Tzanio Kolev is a computational mathematician at the Center for 
Applied Scientific Computing of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 
(LLNL) where he works on finite element meshing, discretizations and 
solver algorithms for large-scale HPC applications. He joined LLNL in 
2004 after earning a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University. 
Tzanio is the project leader for the MFEM finite element library and was 
the director of the co-design Center for Efficient Exascale 
Discretizations (CEED) in DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP). 
Tzanio’s research interests include the development and analysis of 
finite element discretizations, high-order methods and applications, 
performance optimizations and scalability, discretization-enhanced 
multigrid solvers, and the design and implementation of large-scale 
scientific software.

Best regards,
The SIAG/SC officers for 2024-2025
Ulrike Meier Yang (chair)
Rio Yokota (vice chair)
Hartwig Anzt (program director)
Erin Carson (secretary)