Dr. Thomas Sterling, renowned professor of computer science at Louisiana State University, will kick off IU’s Peebles series. Sterling’s development of Beowulf clusters — supercomputing clusters made up of groups of Linux servers — created and popularized the technology that underlies many of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
* What: “HPC in Phase Change: Towards a New Parallel Execution Model”
* When: November 10 — reception at 3pm, followed by talk at 4pm
* Where: Innovation Center, room 105 (IU Bloomington)
* Streaming: http://pti.iu.edu
The Peebles Lectures in Information Technology series sponsors one lecture per academic year in areas of IT relevant to research, teaching, or creative activity in academe. The series commemorates decades of service to IU by Dr. Christopher S. Peebles, former associate vice president for research and academic computing and dean for information technology.