High Performance /Heterogeneous and Parallel Computing LabThe NTNU HPC-Lab is directed by Dr. Anne C. Elster and consists of her graduate students and affiliate members. The lab is part of the Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (a.k.a. NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.Presentations and Publications -- including recent Masters theses |
 All of us at our SC'10 stand, Nov. 2010 |
NOTE: Dr. Elster generally does not have any summer stipends available since she travels a lot during summers
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HPC-Lab related happenings: Meeeting Minutes Link
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HPC-LAB has several custom-made multi-core workstations with
high-end graphics cards donated by
NVIDIA through
Dr. Elster being part of their Professor
Partnership Program. These include several NVIDIA Quadro and Telsa cards.
We recently also purchased and two Fermi Tesla cards (c2050 and c2070) from NVIDIA through their "Mad Scientist" program, as well as a GeForce GTX 470 card. AMD donated a 5870 card to our group for our SC'09 stand and we have two other AMD ATI Radon cards (5850 and 5870). HPC-Lab received a Zotac ION board donated by NVIDIA on June 3, 2009. It was one of 10 such boards donated through NVIDIA's Professor Partnership program. The Dept. of Computer and Info. Science also recently provided us funding for several more high-end PCs for fall 2010. It also purchased a 9-node dual quad-core HP cluster which is used by Elster's TDT 4200 Parallel Computing course and by HPC-Lab members. The cluster was installed Spring 2010.
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Several HPC-lab people helped gather most of our GPU cards for this photo .. |
HPC-lab manned NTNU stand at SC'09
How do you like our 3meter tall inflatable screen for 3D HD projection?
Rune Jensen and Lab Director
Anne C. Elster
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Dr. Anne C. Elster -- Group Leader and Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science at NTNU Dr. Elster finished her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University in 1994. She joined NTNU in January 2001. See Dr. Elster's bio for further details.
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Jan Christian Meyer -- Univ. Lecturer / PhD Student
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Ján Perhác -- Post Doc (ERCIM)
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Rune Erlend Jensen -- PhD student, IDI, NTNU
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Erik Smistad -- PhD Student
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Fredirk Fossum -- M.Tech student IDI
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Geir Josten Lien -- M.Science student IDI
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Yngve Lindal -- M.Tech student IDI
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Jarle Erdal Steinsland -- M.Tech student IDI
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Bent Ove Stinessen -- M.Tech student IDI
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Thor Kristian Valderhaug -- M.Tech student IDI
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Eirik Ola Aksnes -- Potential PhD Applicant, IDI, NTNU
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Dr. Jørn Amundsen -- Adjunct Associate Professor Dr. Amundsen holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences with Prof. Syvert Nørsett as his advisor. In addition to his duties as an adjunct faculty member of Computer Science, he is a staff member in the HPC group at NTNU's Computing Center . He taught "Intro to Computer Science" (IT grunnkurs) to 800 students in Fall 2006. In addition, he served as Dr. Elster's replacement while she was on maternity and research leaves Fall 2004 thru 2005. As part of those duties, he helped chair the organization of the SIMS 2005 conference that was held at NTNU in October 2005 and is the co-editor of its proceedings.
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Dr. Frank Lindseth -- Adjunct Associate Professor is working in the field of medical image processing and visualization. He also holds a position as a Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Medical Technology working in the field of Image Guided Interventions / Surgical Navigation within the National Center for 3D Ultrasound in Surgery, a unique collaboration between surgeons (from St. Olav University Hospital and NTNU) and engineers (from SINTEF and NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Elster and Lindseth co-supervise several graduate students.
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Dr. Henrik R. Nagel -- Researcher Dr. Nagel finished his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, Laboratory of Computer Vision and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark in 2005. He has an M.S. in Physics with a minor in Computer Science from University of Aarhus, Denmark in 1994. While at Allborg he worked as an Assistant Professor, and has also been an HPC student and teacher at Dept. of Supercomputing, DGSCA, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico (1997-1999) and a Programmer at SynergiData, Denmark (Dec. 1996- Aug 1997) He was a Post Doc with Dr. Elster 2005-2007 and is currently a Researcher at NNTNU's Computing Center (IT-drift) in their HPC-group. His research focus is on using grid technology to integrate visualization and computations. Dr. Nagel also helped out with the organization of the SIMS 2005 conference that was held at NTNU in October 2005 and is the co-editor of its proceedings.
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Joel Chelliah -- M.Tech student IDI
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Daniele Spampinato -- PhD student at ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
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HPC-Lab at SC'08 |
Skeleton & Snow simulation at SC'08
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Robin interviewed by NVIDIA at SC'08 |
Åsmund Eldhuset showing his Line finding algorithm (project w/ Elster in colaborations with Schlumberger) |
Link to more SC'08 photos
HPC-LAB gang fall 2008, Fall 2009 photo TBT
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Erik Axel Nielsen's Master thesis work with Elster on using GPUs for the Wavelet transform for processing cardiac ultrasound images sped these up by a factor of 40 making real-time processing possible. This work has already made it into GE Healthcare's high-end cardiac ultrasound scanner product. |
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HPC Master student Christian Larsen gave
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Øystein Borg at his poster at NOTUR 2006 in Bergen which received honorable mention
This project was a joint effort by NTNU, U of Bergen, U of Oslo, U of Tromsø and UNINETT. Statoil, Norwegian Meteorogical Institute (met.no) and UNINETT will also be participating.
Elster helped raise NOK 1 million at NTNU for these projects,
which made us the largest partner. These funds were mached
by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) which also added in
NOK 450K for expanded storage Harware that was installed
at NTNUs HPC facilty for the use of Met.no.
Total 2004 budget at NTNU: NOK 2.45 million
The projects ran through 2004. Several of her students were involved in the GRID and cluster subprojects. Elster also got some of her colleagues at IDI involved in the storage subproject.
Part of NTNUs NOTUR ET-gang on March 25, 2004
Row1: Arne Sødal(ITEA), Jørn Amundsen, Tor Arvid Lund ,Morten Rodal, Per Holager
Row2: Lars Eilertsen(ITEA/stud), Martin Eian(ITEA/stud), Frode Nilsen, Peter Hughes,
Arve Dispen(ITEA);
Row3: Anne Elster, Robin Holtet, Gunnar Brattås, Kjetil Nørvåg,
Trond Kandal; Taking photo: Martin Grannæs
Look at emerging cluster technologies for Norwegian HPC users.
Project leader. Budget 2003: NOK 1 million
Our stand at NOTUR 2003, Oslo
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In addtion to the i7 extreme processor, the system has
12GB of RAM, two SSD disks are extra "cache" in addition
to two 1.5TB disks ++
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This page is maintained by : HPC-Lab leader Dr. Anne C. Elster, elster-at-idi.ntnu.no. All photos are done and copyrighted by her. Please contact her if you wish to use them.
It was last updated on Aug 30, 2010. Comments welcome.
