SG@Schools Seminar

Supercomputing with Personal Computers

Dr. David P. Anderson
Space Sciences Laboratory
University of California at Berkeley, USA

15 May 2006 (Monday)
1430 - 1530 hours @ Conference Hall 2
School of Accountancy, SMU
60 Stamford Road
Singapore 178900

Slides

Abstract

The majority of the world's computing power is no longer concentrated in supercomputer centers and machine rooms. Instead it is distributed among hundreds of millions of personal computers and video-game consoles owned by the general public. A new computing paradigm, "volunteer computing", uses these PCs to do scientific supercomputing. Volunteer computing enables new research in many areas, including physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and mathematics. But volunteer computing makes human and social contributions as well, it catalyzes community formation, increases awareness of current scientific research, and gives people a measure of control over the directions of science progress.

Biodata

Dr. David P. Anderson received graduate degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin. From 1985 to 1992 he served on the faculty of the U.C. Berkeley Computer Science Department. His research interests include volunteer computing, distributed operating systems, real-time and multimedia systems, computer graphics, and computer music. He is currently a Research Scientist at the U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, where he directs the SETI@home and BOINC projects.

Registration

Admission is Free. All are Welcome.
Please click here to register by 1200 hours on 12 May 2006.


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