Lorena Barba :: Lorena A. Barba Group

Introduction to Parallel Programming course by @jowens and @davedotluebke started today! They like the chickens. https://t.co/3x38bob3 #GPU View // Reply // Retweet // Like

PyGBe code for Poisson-Boltzmann equations

Close-up of the surface mesh on a lysozyme molecule, showing the surface charge obtained with PyGBe.

Yay! 500 views! Validation of the PyGBe code for Poisson-Boltzmann equation with boundary element methods http://t.co/lVHCyXnp #GPU #python View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Rio Yokota at BU

Rio Yokota explaining a poster at the ME@BU Open House (2011)

I can't pay much attention to speakers that look at the projected slides and their computer screen while speaking. Look at your audience! View // Reply // Retweet // Like

GPU computing at Boston University

Lorena Barba, Claudio Rebbi, Glenn Bresnahan, Richard Brower. Photo by Saana McDaniel (2012).

Weak scaling of parallel FMM vs. FFT up to 4096 processes

This figure shows the weak scaling of a parallel FMM-based fluid solver on GPUs, from 1 to 4096 processes. The FMM (fast multipole method) is used as the numerical engine in a vortex method fluid solver, simulating decaying isotropic turbulence. The reference method for this application... Continue »

The first person to report changes in the coast due to an earthquake was Maria Graham, she observed 3 feet of displacement in 1822 #pasi2013 View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Barba at the NAE FOEE Symposium

Professor Barba was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium 2012. Here is a reflective note she wrote after coming back from this event in October 2012. Engineering education changes slowly. At the first engineering schools in America—West Point (1819), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1828), University of Virginia (1833)—a professor lectured at... Continue »

Digital inking and lecture screencasts

Contribution to Boston University's First Annual Instructional Innovation Conference, held March 27, 2009.

Describes the use of digital inking on electronic slides during lectures, and live recording of screencasts, as used by the author during her teaching in Spring 2009 for the Fluid Mechanics course... Continue »