Mike Ball, Professionally

Hummingbird Simulation using UPC

I showed a couple of slides from a PGAS conference below, but today I just got a real treat. It’s a dvd with videos of the conference plus some very interesting animations. This is an animation of a simulation of a hummingbird implemented using UPC (Unified Parallel C), a PGAS language. It’s an alternative to using MPI for cluster computing, and many find its higher-level communications easer to use than MPI. The video of the talk should give you an idea what is happening here. I’ve loaded these videos onto my own web server, since Sun won’t let us load such large objects here. The animation is 20 MB and the talk is 65 MB. I may be forced to take them down one day, but for now, enjoy. Oh, you might want to download them before viewing.