Having recorded the lectures when I first taught my Computational Fluid Dynamics course (for graduate students and senior undergraduates), I found myself in possession of around 40 hours of video to use again the next time. I had uploaded almost all the videos to the iTunes U service, and my students used this for lecture recall and replay. This... Continue »
Prof. Barba led a multi-institution bid to success in the call for research seed grants of the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center, MGHPCC. The award amounts to $130,487 for the duration of one year. This project is a collaboration among investigators in BU, Harvard and UMass aimed at creating an open and high-performance software infrastructure... Continue »
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 »
Rio Yokota, Christopher Cooper, Simon Layton, L Barba, Anush Krishnan, Tsuyoshi Hamada, Felipe Cruz.
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 »
Rio Yokota, Simon Layton, Anush Krishnan, L Barba, Felipe Cruz, Christopher Cooper, Tsuyoshi Hamada.