[CLUE-Admin] Please put this on the CLUE North page for September meeting -- Gus

[Jeff Cann]

I sent a meeting announcement about this tonight.
Jeff

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 6:17 pm, Jan Mandel wrote:
> Here is the abstract and bio. Please  confirm.
> Please resend location and time, also your URL.
> Thanks
>
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>
> The Beowulf Cluster at the University of Colorado at Denver
>
> Jan Mandel and Russ Boice
> Center for Computational Mathematics
> University of Colorado at Denver
>
> This talk will give an overview of the cluster, namely
> - the hardware and software configuration
> - what the choices were and why we ordered what we did
> - what burned and why we did not make Top 500
> - what eventually worked and how long it took
> - what software projects we have
> - what we would do the next time
>
> The home page of the cluster is
> http://www-math.cudenver.edu/ccm/beowulf/
>
>
> Jan Mandel got his PhD in Numerical Mathematics in 1983 from the Charles
> University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, and has been a Professor of
> Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Denver since 1986. He has
> been the Director of the Center for Computational Mathematics since
> 2001.
> He is an author or editor of six books and over sixty research papers.
> His
> work has received over six hundred citations in scientific literature.
> His
> main research area is iterative methods for large systems of linear
> algebraic equations and partial differential equations. His code was
> used
> in the design of the Swedish Grippen jet fighter, and another code he
> co-wrote is part of ANSYS, a major engineering simulation software. His
> curent work is on real-time simulation and prediction of nonlinear
> systems
> with uncertainty, in particular forest fires. Jan Mandel has started his
> computing career with a Russian Minsk-32 and real Teletypes, then
> progressed to IBM/360. He still has some old IBM/AIX and SUNs in dark
> corners and uses FORTRAN and C at times, but now he does most of his
> coding in Matlab.  He has been responsible for departmental computing
> since 1988 or so. In 2001, he has configured a Beowulf cluster, and is
> now
> supervising its system administration. He does not mind getting his
> hands
> dirty when the time allows but draws the line at recompiling Linux
> kernels, especially late at night.
>
>
> Russ Boice Earned BSEET and MSSE degrees while working as an Electronics
> Specialist at Colorado State University - Pueblo. He enjoys figuring out
> how all kinds of things work and has been fortunate enough to be
> employed
> where he has had a chance to pursue this. He has followed the
> advancements
> in Computer technology from it's inception. This starting with teletype
> machines, through coding in Z80 assembler and currently working with a
> bunch of servers for the math department at the University of Colorado,
> Denver. He would like to get to the bottom of questions in cosmology.
> One
> of his pet peeve is why cosmologists continue to talk about black holes
> forming, while knowing this cannot happen.
>
>
>
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