Professor Marc Snir
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Blue Gene Project Leader
URL: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/s/snir

At AP&M Bldg Room 4301
Tuesday June 6, 2000, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Abstract: IBM Research announced in December a 5 year, $100M research
project aimed at developing a petaflop computer and using it for research in
computational biology. The talk will discuss the architectural choices
involved in the design of a petaop computer, and will present the design
point pursued by the Blue Gene project. We shall discuss the mapping of
molecular dynamic computations onto the Blue Gene architecture and outline
research problems in Computer Science and Computational Biology that such
project motivates.