SCS Colloquium : Distributed multiscale computing on e-Infrastructure.

Speaker: Joris Borgdorff (SCS, UvA)

Abstract:
Multiscale modeling is a way to come to grips with some of natures complexity, achieving detail and accuracy by calculating interactions of processes with different scales. By making a submodel for each of those processes and coupling them across the scales to model the interactions, a coupling topology and ultimately a multiscale model is formed. For cases that these models are very computationally expensive, the MAPPER project aims to provide a framework and services  to the public to do distributed multiscale computing on e-Infrastructure. To allow distributed software to interface efficiently with multiscale models a high-level Multiscale Modeling Language (MML) that we are developing will be used, suitable for modeling but also for scheduling. The Multiscale Coupling Library and Environment (MUSCLE) will be extended to make use of this language and can already runs in a distributed way.