Gordon Bell Prize 2015
Channel: IBM Research
Date: 09/12/2015

Video Credit: Greg Abram of the Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, IBM Research, New York University and the California Institute of Technology have been awarded the 2015 Gordon Bell Prize for realistically simulating Earth’s mantle convection and plate tectonics from the surface of the globe to the deep interior using advanced algorithms on 1.6 million cores of the “Sequoia” IBM BlueGene/Q located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.

The team’s research was reported in the SC15 paper “An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth’s Mantle.” 

The paper is available from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2807591.2807675