High Performance Computing with Discontinuous Galerkin

Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Time: 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: LBNL Bldg. 943, Room 236 and Bldg. 50B, Room 2222

Speaker:
Alex TenEyck
Stanford University

Abstract:
Discontinuous Galerkin is the most actively researched finite element
method within the field of computational mechanics. It initially
attracted attention for high performance computing due to its naturally
parallelizable implementation. During my PhD at Stanford, I developed a
class of discontinuous Galerkin methods to approximate the solutions to
nonlinear elasticity problems. The method has been tested in the high
performance computing regime for selected problems in biomechanics. This
talk will discuss high performance computing considerations when
implementing discontinuous Galerkin methods.

Host of Seminar:
     Alice Koniges