Research Agenda (Spring 2012)

Current Funding

I am currently sponsored as a research scientist at:

• 50% effort - Numerics group, Prof. Ketcheson
• 50% effort - Center for Extreme Computing, Prof. Keyes

Main Objectives

Make major contributions to the literature, practice, and software of scientific computing, particularly in the areas of:

• productive scientific software development for high performance computing
• modeling and design of architecture-aware algorithms at the exascale
• combinatorial optimization approaches to algorithm design
• fully reproducible and open computational research

Other Objectives

• design, development, and delivery of course material training students in high-level programming techniques and technologies in high performance computing

Week-by-Week Plans

Students Being Co-advised

• Tareq Malas
• Amal al-Ghamdi
• Enas Yunis
• Huda Ibeid

Active Projects

PyClaw Development and Maintenance

Architecture-Aware High-Order Preconditioners

Collective File Systems for High-Level Programming

Numerical Design of Optimal Stability Polynomials

A High-Level Approach to Performant Design of Riemann Kernels

Program Committee Service

• HPC
• ISPDC
• SciPy