Laboratory for High Performance Scientific Computing and Computer Simulation

(The HiPSCCS Lab)

Mission Statement and Research Areas of the HiPSCCS Lab

The Laboratory for High Performance Scientific Computing and Computer Simulation (HiPSCCS Lab) is a research and training unit in the Computer Science Department at University of Kentucky. Current research activities of the HiPSCCS Lab include, but are not limited to, the following:

• study and design robust and efficient numerical algorithms and software packages for solving large scale scientific and engineering problems on high performance computers;
• develop and evaluate software tools and problem solving environments for facilitating parallel and distributed simulation and visualization;
• develop highly accurate and highly efficient computational methods and numerical schemes for simulating physical and engineering processes with a focus on applications in computational fluid dynamics, e.g.
• simulate semiconductor dopant diffusion processes;
• simulate heat transport process in thin films;
• simulate laminar diffusion flames and other combustion phenomena;
• simulate internal and external compressible flow field in airplane modeling;
• develop efficient algorithms and software for large scale data mining and information retrieval;
• develop efficient computational algorithms for bioinformatics and nanotechlogy applications;
• promote and popularize high performance scientific computing techniques and practice in general science and engineering research and industrial activities.

The HiPSCCS Lab has been supported by internal and external grants from

• The U.S. National Science Foundation;
• The University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences;
• U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science;
• Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation;
• Research Organization for Information Science & Technology, Japan;
• The University of Kentucky College of Engineering;
• Other federal and industrial agencies and companies.

The HiPSCCS Lab provides online support for one international journals

• International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation;

The HiPSCCS Lab provides office space and resources for training graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and visitors, in high performance scientific computing and numerical simulation. Since January 1, 2002, the HiPSCCS Lab only sponsors research training at the Ph.D. level or above. No Masters students are accepted. Short term undergraduate interns are accepted.

The HiPSCCS Lab, together with other faculty members with similar interests, sponsors a regular seminar series in numerical analysis and scientific computing.

The HiPSCCS Lab would like to establish active and stable collaboration with similar research laboratories and groups within the U.S. and around the world.