High-Performance Computing (HPC)

HPC - Tackling the Multi-Challenge

Dr. Miriam Mehl is a "Carl von Linde Junior Fellow" and currently in the final stage of her Habilitation at the Department of Computer Science (TUM). She will focus on the multi-physics challenge.

High-performance computing (HPC) is a thriving cross-sectional research field of utmost relevance in science and engineering. Actually, scientific progress is more and more depending on insight gained by computational research. With the increased technological potential, however, the requirements are growing, too - which leads to several computational challenges, which are all related to some "multi-X" notion: multi-disciplinary, multi-physics, multi-scale, multi-dimensional, multi-level, multi-core. This focus group primarily addresses the three topic multi-physics (mp), multi-dimensional (md), and multi-core (mc).

The interplay of these three subtopics is straightforward: Both mp and md are among the usual suspects that need and, thus, drive HPC technology and mc; mp frequently appears in the context of optimisation or parameter identification or estimation - thriving topics of current md research; and present as well as future mc technology is inspired by algorithmic patterns, as provided by mp and md. Hence, it is not only reasonable to address mp, md, and mc in an integral way, it is essential, and this IAS focus group offers the unique chance of doing this at a very high international level.

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