Two-phase Flow in Porous Media: Simulations and Theory 

• Eirik Ola Aksnes (Master of Technology thesis, July 2009), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Ståle Fjeldstand and Atle Rudshaug, Numerical Rocks (co-advisors) "Simulation of Fluid Flow Through Porous Rocks on Modern GPUs" Received National IBM prize, 2009 (shared with Erik Ola Aksnes and one Petroleum student) 
• Daniel Haugen (Master of Technology thesis, July 2009), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Tore Fevang, Schlumberger (co-advisor): "Seismic Data Compression and GPU Memory Latency" 
• Åsmund Herikstad (Master of Technology thesis, July 2009), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Svein-Erik Måsøy, MedTek, NTNU (co-advisor) "Parallel Techniques for Estimation and Correction of Aberration in Medical Ultrasound Imaging" 
• Owe Johansen (Masters thesis, July 2009), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), John Hybertsen and Jon André Haugen, Statoil (co-advisors): "Seismic Shot Processing on GPU" 
• Daniele Giuseppe Spampinato (Master of Technology thesis, July 2009), Anne C. Elster (main advisor): "Modeling Communication on Multi-GPU Systems" Received National IBM prize, 2009 (shared with Erik Ola Aksnes and one Petroleum student) 
• Rune Johan Hovland (Master of Technology thesis, June 2009), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Magnus Lie Hetland (co-advisor): "Throughput Computing on Future GPUs" 
• Henrik Hesland (Master of Technology thesis, June 2009), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Thorvald Natvig (co-advisor): "GPU-Enabled Interactive Pore Detection for 3D Rock Visualization " 
• Rune Erlend Jensen (Master of Science thesis, May 2009), Anne C. Elster (main advisor): "Techniques and Tools for Optimizing Codes on Modern Architectures: A Low-Level Approach" 
• Robin Eidissen (Masters thesis, January 2009), Anne C. Elster (main advisor): "Utilizing GPUs for Real-Time Visualization of Snow" 

2008 

•  Atle Rudshaug (Masters thesis, June 2008), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Optimizing & Parallelizing a Large Commercial Code for Modeling Oil-well Networks – joint work with Yggdrasil, Norwegian Oils service company. 
• Andreas Bach (Masters thesis, September 2008), Anne C. Elster (main advisor) Profiling and Optimizing a Seismic Application on Modern Architectures" -- joint project with Statoil 

2007 

• Erik Axel Nielsen (Masters thesis, June 2007), Anne C. Elster (main advisor) Realt-time Wavelet Filtering on the GPU -- joint project with GE Healthcare. 40 times GPU speedup of algorithm led to our implementation being adopted the same fall in their high-end cardivascular ultrasound scanner. 
• Idar Borlaug (Masters thesis, June 2007), Anne C. Elster (main advisor) Seismic Processing Using Parallel 3D FMM 
• Knut Imar Hagen (Masters thesis, June 2007), Anne C. Elster (main advisor) Faulttolerance for MPI Codes on Computation Clusters joint project with Statoil Research. 
• Christian Larsen (Masters thesis, June 2007), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Tore Fevang, Schlumberger (co-advisor): "Framework for Polygonial Structures Computations on Clusters" 
• Nils Magnus Larsgård (Masters thesis, June 2007), Anne C. Elster (main advisor): Framework for Converting MPI Codes to Hybrid OpenMP/MPI Codes 
• Thibault Collet (Masters thesis, July 2007), Anne C. Elster (advisor): Massively Online Games with Food Chains 

2006 

• Thorvald Natvig (Masters thesis, January 2006), Anne C. Elster (main advisor): Automatic Optimization of MPI Applications 
• Øystein Borg (Masters thesis, June 2006), Anne C. Elster (main badvisor) Håkon Bugge, SCALI (co-supervisor): Dynamic Selction of MPI Intra-copy Routines Based on Program Characteristics 
• Ingar Saltvik (Masters thesis, June 2006), Anne C. Elster (main advisor) Parallel Methods for Real-Time Visualization of Snow 

2005 

• Håvard Bjerke (Masters thesis, July 2005), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Sverre Jarp, CERN and Dan Magenheimer, HP Labs, Fort Colins, CO, USA (Co-supervisor): HPC Virtualization with Xen on Itanium 
• Rune Johan Andresen (Masters thesis, July 2005), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Rainer Toebbicke and Bernard Antoine, CERN (Co-supervisors): HPC File Server Monitoring and Tuning 
• Andreas Braathen (Masters thesis, August 2005), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Jørn A. Amundsen (NTNU) and Alastair Bland, CERN (Co-advisors): Hardware and Software Surveilance 

2004 

• Glen Hisdal (Masters thesis, June 2004), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Sverre Jarp, CERN (Co-supervisor): Service Discovery Techniques for Distributed Systems using SmartFrog. Results presented as part of PARA 2006 talk by Elster et al. 
• Tor Arvid Lund (Masters thesis, June 2004), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Jørn A. Amundsen (co-advisor) "Porting a Monte Carlo Code from Shared Memory to Computational Clusters" joint project with Jo Smiseth and Eiving Smørgrav, NTNU Dept. of Physics. 
• Jan Christian Meyer (Masters thesis, June 2004), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Load Balancing Visualisation Servers in collaborations with Schlumberger Voxel Vision, Trondheim, Norway. Dr. Meyer went on to take a PhD with Prof. Elster and is now an adjunct Assoc. Prof. in CS at NTNU and a full-time employee at NTNU's HPC-Center
• Frode Nilsen (Masters thesis, June 2004), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Portal Development for Grid Technologies joint project w/ NOTUR, The Norwegian National High-Performance Computing Program. 
• Morten Rodal (Masters thesis, June 2004), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Kjetil Hokstad, Statoil (co-advisor) Scalability of Seismic Codes on Computational Clusters joint project w/ Statoil Research 
• Einar Råberg Rosenvinge (Masters thesis, June 2004), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Cyril Banino (co-supervisor) On-line Task Scheduling on Heterogeneous Clusters: An Experimental Study (led to paper presented at PARA‟04) 

2003 

• Robin Holtet (Masters thesis, June 2003), Anne C. Elster (main advisor): "Communications-reducing Stencil-based Algorithms and Methods" 
• Torbjørn Vik (Masters thesis, June 2003), Anne C. Elster (main advisor): Real-Time Visual Simulation of Smoke 
• Åsmund Østvold (Masters thesis, June 2003), Anne C. Elster (main advisor), Håkon Bugge, Scali AS (so-supervisor): Tidsmåleteknikker for MPI kollektive kommunikasjons operasjoner 

2002 and earlier 

 

 

Ruben Grønning Spaans
PhD Candidate
(On leave)
spaans@stud.ntnu.noJoakim Hommeland

Imre Kerr
M. Tech. (??)
imrefran@stud.ntnu.no