A new paper authored by Rio Yokota and Lorena Barba has appeared (published online 3 Jan. 2012) in Computing in Science and Engineering, the joint publication of the IEEE Computer Society and he American Institute of Physics. This paper presents a new hybrid treecode/FMM formulation that has been implemented in the ExaFMM code, recently released... Continue »
Screencasting, course blog, remote guests — This course is one of a set of ten modules in the College of Engineering’s offerings under the Introduction to Engineering umbrella. All incoming freshmen have to choose two modules, according to their interests, with topics varying from mechanical design, photonics, biomedical engineering environments, among others. This module is... Continue »
With her latest course on iTunes U, a freshman Introduction to Engineering module titled “Bio-Aerial Locomotion,” Prof. Barba firmly establishes her track-record of using new media to support learning and championing the open courseware movement. This course has been the Top Collection on BU’s iTunes page since the start of the semester, while her previous courses... Continue »
The first publication reporting our work towards advancing fast multipole methods (FMM) to be a prime algorithm for exascale systems has been accepted by the International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications, IJHPCA. Our previous recent work showed scaling of an FMM on GPU clusters, with problem sizes in the order of billions of unknowns (Yokota... Continue »