HPC Virtual Worlds: Experimental Black Hole Dynamics on Parallel Computers

  • Ue-Li Pen | University of Toronto

Astrophysics is a science where controlled experiments are intrinsically challenging. Numerical laboratories on a computer are often the next best alternative. I describe our group’s efforts to understand the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way through global 3-D numerical simulations, which are performed on the 30,000 core SciNet cluster, and on GPU clusters.

Speaker Details

Ue-Li Pen is an Associate Professor at the Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton in 1995, spent three years at Harvard as a Junior Fellow, and joined the University of Toronto in 1998.

http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~pen/curriculum_vitae.pdf

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