Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• With the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Stanford an associate team has been initiated, which name is FASTLA http://people.bordeaux.inria.fr/coulaud/projets/FastLA_Website/index.html . In this collaborative research initiative we propose to study, design and implement hierarchical parallel scalable numerical techniques to address two challenging numerical kernels involved in many intensive simulation codes: namely, the N-body interaction calculations and the solution of large sparse linear systems.

• In the framework of the EADS-ASTRIUM/Inria/Conseil Régional Aquitaine agreement officially signed on March 29th, HiePACS hosts Guillaume Sylvand, EADS-IW senior engineer, who has a strong expertise in large scale parallel simulation and is an expert of parallel fast multipole techniques. Guillaume Sylvand already plays an active role in the scientific activities and will enable to strength the interaction between the academic applied and industrial research and will contribute to shrink the gap between the two.