Tutorials
The PaCT-2005 conference is preceded by two half day tutorials devoted to
the consideration of the very promising directions of research:
bioinformatics and fine-grain computations
Olga L. Bandman
, Professor, Supercomputer Software Department, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics RAS.
"Fine-grained parallelism in spatial dynamics simulation" (Half-day tutorial, in Russian)
The concept of fine-grained parallelism is considered in the context of its
application in simulation of spatially distributed processes. It
comprises models, algorithms and computing technologies exhibiting two
following properties:
- spatial parallelism (at any discrete time the
next values of the spatial function in all points of the space are allowed
to be computed in parallel);
- locality (the computation for any
point uses as variables the values of the function in its fixed vicinity).
The scope of fine-grain spatial dynamics models is classified and
illustrated by examples, the domain of application of each class being
specified. Theoretical background of fine-grained parallel computations is
given in brief. Computational properties (accuracy, stability,
coarse-grained parallelization efficiency) are discussed, and methods of
fine-grained algorithms synthesis are presented and shown at work by
examples.
Thomas L. Casavant, Professor, Electrical and Computer, and Biomedical
Engineering, Director: Center for Bioinformatics, Univ. of Iowa, USA
"An Introduction to Genomics and Biomedical Applications
for Parallel Computing" (Half-day tutorial, in English)
This will be a half-day tutorial on Parallel Computing-related issues in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB). The target audience will be
scientifically-literate computational researchers who are not currently
engaged in BCB. About half of the tutorial will be an overview of a
representative collection of basic life science and medical research
problems contemporary to this rapidly expanding field. The second half of
the tutorial will focus attention on some of the problems in BCB that are
most in need of High-performance computing and networking. The tutorial will
provide a basic level of introduction to these problems, and is intended to
serve to introduce this area of inter-disciplinary research to people
interested in becoming partially involved in applying their backgrounds in
Parallel Computing to BCB.
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