Parallel and Distributed Computing

Parallel and distributed computing is a foundational part of the toolbox for the computational scientist. Computational experiments and data processing often require large computing and storage facilities and there is a challenge in designing and implementing algorithms and software capable of efficiently leveraging high-performance computing and cloud computing systems.

• High-performance computing (HPC): the efficient use of supercomputers and clusters to solve advanced computational problems
• Distributed computing infrastructures (DCI): cloud computing, distributed systems architecture, distributed storage, application design to leverage distributed infrastructure to solve e.g. data-intensive problems
• Task-based programming for large-scale scientific software (TPSS): programming models and frameworks for task-parallel problems
• Efficient implementations of numerical methods for distributed computing (NDC): design of numerical algorithms such as partial differential equation (PDE) solvers to enable large-scale parallelism

• Integrative Scalable Computing Laboratory: NDC, DCI
• eSSENCE strategic collaboration on Science: NDC, DCI, HPC

• Stefan Engblom: NDC, HPC
• Andreas Hellander: DCI, NDC
• Elisabeth Larsson: NDC, HPC, TPSS
• Murtazo Nazarov: NDC, HPC
• Carl Nettelblad: NDC, HPC, DCI
• Emanuel Rubensson: TPSS, HPC, NDC
• Prashant Singh: DCI, HPC
• Salman Toor: DCI, HPC

• Göran Gustafsson award for young researchers to Elisabeth Larsson (in 2007) and Andreas Hellander (in 2016)

• HASTE Toolkit: a framework for developing intelligent stream processing pipelines: DCI, NDC
• FEDn: a hierarchical federated learning framework: DCI, NDC
• Chunks and Tasks: open-source library for the parallelisation of dynamic, hierarchical algorithms: TPSS, HPC, NDC
• StochSS: stochastic simulation as a service: NDC, DCI
• SuperGlue: a library for data-dependency-driven task parallelism: NDC, TPSS, HPC
• Hummingbird: monitoring and analysing flash X-ray imaging experiments in real time: NDC, HPC, DCI

• 1TD062: High Performance Programming: HPC, DCI, NDC
• 1TD070: Parallel and Distributed Programming: HPC, TPSS, NDC
• 1TD307: Project in Computational Science: HPC, DCI, NDC, TPSS
• 1TD389: Scientific Visualisation: NDC
• 1TD055: Accelerator-Based Programming: HPC, TPSS, NDC
• 1TD169: Data Engineering I: DCI, NDC
• 1TD075: Data Engineering II: DCI, NDC