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Amit Majumdar
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I am group leader of the Scientific Computing Applications group at the San
Diego Supercomputer Center. The computational scientists, in the group, have expertise and experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) and have degrees in various domain sciences such as mechanical engineering, hydrology, biochemistry, nuclear engineering, and physics. The group's main activities are HPC research and development work in collaboration with domain science users of TeraGrid resources. This collaborative R&D effort allows SDSC's experienced computational scientists to work with domain scientists regarding algorithm development, code optimization, code profiling/tuning, mathematical library implementation, new programming model implementation etc.
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncolgy, UCSD. Our collaborative interdisciplinary research involves
application of
HPC for adaptive radiation therapy. We are specifically exploring use of GPUs for real-time re-planning where we need to solve three computationally intensive tasks: patient modeling based on deformable image registration, radiation transport simulation and dose calculation using Monte Carlo methods, and treatment optimization as a large scale optimization problem.
I am the Area Director for Advanced User Support for TeraGrid which is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eleven partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource.
I received B.S. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from the Jadavpur University , Calcutta, India, and Ph.D degree in the interdisciplinary program of Nuclear
Engineering and Scientific Computing
from the University of Michigan
. My dissertation
was done under the supervison of Prof.
William R. Martin. Before joining the SDSC I worked for a year at the Engineering
and Computer Center at the Ford Research Laboratory
in
Dearborn, Michigan.
Current Projects:
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Co-PI on a NSF (OCI) funded collaborative PetaApps project (2009-2013) on petascale kinetic simulations of the magnetosphere. PI is
Homa Karimabadi (UCSD) and the other co-PIs are Kevin Quest, Yuri Omelchenko (UCSD); other PI: Umit V. Catalyurek (Ohio State University). Mahidhar Tatineni (SDSC)
is a senior personnel this project and Amit Chourasia (SDSC) is involved in this project.
- Co-PI on a UCLab funded project (2009-2012) on developing optimized on-line adaptive therapy
for radiation treatment of cancer using high performance computing.
This is in collaboration with the PI of the project Steve Jiang (Director of Research, Dept of Radiation Oncology, UCSD)
; A.J. Mundt, MD, (Chairman, Dept of Radiation Oncology, UCSD); Todd Pawlicki (Director of Medical
Physics and Clinical Operations, Dept of Radiation Oncology, UCSD), Dong Ju Choi (SDSC), and
Mike Holst (Mathematics Dept, UCSD). Other collaborators are Marie-Anne Descalle (LLNL) and H. Edwin Romeijn (Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan).
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PI on a NSF (OCI) funded collaborative STCI project (2009 - 2012) on toplogy-aware MPI communication and scheduling for
petascale systems.
Other PIs and co-PIs are D.K. Panda (Ohio State University), Karl Schulz and Bill Barth (Texas Advanced Computing
Center, U. Texas). Yifeng Cui, Mahidhar Tatineni, and Dmitry Pekurovsky (all from SDSC) are senior personnel in this project.
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Co-PI on a NSF (OCI) SGER grant ( 2009 - 2010) on parallel 3D FFT library enhancement developed by Dmitry Pekurovksy, SDSC - PI of the award.
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Co-PI on a NSF (OCI) PRAC grant (2009-2010) for Petascale computations for complex turbulent flows. PI is P.K Yeung (Georgia Tech)
and other co-PIs are Robert Moser (U. Texas), James J. Riley (U. Washington).
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PI on a NSF (CISE) funded collaborative HECURA project (2008 - 2010) on improving one-sided MPI communication for ultra
scale HPC machines. Other PIs are D.K. Panda (Ohio State University) and Karl Schulz (Texas Advanced Computing
Center, U. Texas). Yifeng Cui and Dmitry Pekurovksy (both from SDSC) are senior personnel in this project and Mahidhar Tatineni (SDSC) is involved in this project.
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PI on a NSF (OCI) funded collaborative PetaApps project (2007 - 2012) on High Reynolds Number Turbulence Simulation.
Other PI and Co-PIs are P.K. Yeung (Georgia Tech), Dmitry Pekurovsky (SDSC), David Bader (Georgia Tech), Robert D. Moser (U. Texas), James J. Riley (U. Washington), Stephen B. Pope (Cornell).
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PI on a Microsoft gift grant (2008-2010) to benchmark and port scientific applications on a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. Mahidhar
Tatineni, Ross Walker, Larry Diegel, Don Thorp and Dong Ju Choi (all from SDSC) are involved in this project.
Past Projects:
- NSF (Engr) funded educational project through which we are providing Cyberinfrastructure experiences (
Cyberinfrastructure Experiences for
Graduate Students (CIEG-2007) , CIEG-2008 ) for graduate students.
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Co-PI, on an NSF ITR funded project (2004-2007) on image guided
neurosurgery (PI Kim Baldridge, SDSC/U.Zurich; Co-PI: Simon K. Warfield, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Collaborators: Dong Ju Choi, SDSC, and Petr Krysl, Structural Engineering, UCSD.). This project is in collaborations with the Computational Radiology Laboratory at the Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
- PI on an NSF (OCI) funded collaborative SGER project (2006 - 2007) on analyzing performance and scaling of SCEC AWM code (PI: Tom Jordan, USC, Senior
Personnel: Yifeng Cui, SDSC)
- Project (started in 2006) developing finite element modeling capability to study muscle stretch effect during
child birth. This is in collaboration with Lennox Hoyte, M.D., OB/Gyn, (Director, Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery,
Univ of Southern Florida, College of Medicine), Simon K. Warfield (Director, Computational Radiology Laboratory, Brigham and
Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School), Petr Krysl (Structural Engineering, UCSD), Dong Ju Choi (SDSC).
Publications.
Last updated - January, 2010.