High Performance Scientific Computing

Prof. Shiva Gopalakrishnan in 2012 joined the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as a faculty member and currently is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He obtained his Ph.D from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and subsequently was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Shiva Gopalakrishnan has developed a graduate level course on High Performance Scientific Computing. Scientific computing has become an important third axis in the development of science in conjunction with theoretical and experimental studies. The tremendous growth in computing power, especially with high performance computing (HPC) clusters, over the last few decades have opened up opportunities to computationally study phenomena which were earlier beyond reach. Fluid Dynamics, Electromagnetics, Astrophysics, Biology, Finance etc are few of the domains which are greatly aided by scientific computing. There is a dire need to train researchers and graduate students in the effective use and programming practices of these HPC clusters. This course fills the gap in understanding and use of such systems. The curriculum introduces the basics of modern computer architecture, parallel computing machines and parallel programming. It covers an in depth discussion on different parallel programming paradigms and associated techniques for efficient programming and model development. The success of this course is shown in the enrolment which is in excess of 120 students every time it is offered at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. In addition this course has been offered in adapted forms at the University of Florida Gainesville and Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey where it was well received.

Prof. Om Jadhav has received his master’s degree in Telecom Technology from IIT Delhi. He is working as a Scientist D, at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, where he is associated with HPC-Technologies team at C-DAC Pune. His areas of expertise include, HPC Application’s Optimization and management on HPC clusters along with understanding of parallel programming, distributed computing, and HPC architectures.He is currently working on different projects associated with Research and Development activities in HPC and AI domains.

Prof. Vamshi Krishna Sabbi has received his Ph.D Degree from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, in the domain of High Performance Computing and Software Defined Networking. He is currently pursuing his Postdoc from IIT Goa. Currently, He is working as Adjunct Engineer (High-Performance Computing Application Expert) at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune. He has played a crucial role in the Scientific Application deployment of 15+ HPC machines across India under the National Supercomputing Mission. He has expertise in Computer Architecture, Processor Micro-architecture, Parallel programming and Optimizations for CPU and GPU computing devices. He has published 25+ articles in reputed journals and conferences.

Prof. Ashish Kuvelkar obtained Mmasters degree in Electrical Engineering from V. J. T. I., Bombay University. He is working as a Scientist G, at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, where he is associated with HPC-Technologies team at C-DAC Pune. Previously, he worked for Hardware Division of Patni Computers for 9 years. At C-DAC, he has been associated with design of hardware subsystems for various generation of PARAM supercomputers. He also contributes to training activities of Advanced Computing Training School of C-DAC, which conducts Post-Graduate Diploma courses in various specializations. Currently, he is involved in the HPC aware Human Resource development activities of the National Supercomputing Mission.