People - HPC-Lab
HPC-Lab Members
Director
Post-Docs/PhD Students
Ajeet Pathak ERCIM Post Doc (April 2022-23).
PhD in AI with a strong interest in HPC
Bart Iver van Blokland (Jan 2023-2027) . Scientific visualization and graphics
- PhD 2021 Advisor: Theoharis, Elster was Co-advisor
Jacob Odgård Tørring, PhD student w/ Elster 2020-23, MTech w/ Elster 2020
- On exchange to Stanford Jan-March 2023, also former HPC-Lab admin
- Joined as a PhD student August 2020. Topic: Auto-tuning
Maren Wessel-Berg, PhD Student, MTech 2022.
- Co-advisor: Børge Arntsen (Geo) Topic: GPU optimization of Seismic codes
Tor A. Haugdahl, PhD student (RSO) joined Dec 2022, MTech 2022
- Topic: Autotuning of Geoscience codes
Tobias Dyngeland PhD student (SFI-CGF WP5) joined Jan. 2023, MTech 2022
- Topic: Parallelization of Optimization Codes for CO2 storage
Claudi Lleyda Moltó PhD student (SFI-CGF WP5) joined Feb. 2023, MSc from Spain
- Topic: Parallelization of Optimization Codes for CO2 storage
Current & Recent Master Students
Roger Holten - starting up fall 2023. Vullkan rendering for HPC-Lab Snow simulator - co-supervized by Bart van Blokland
Jon Berquist MTech 2023, graduated July 2023. Worked on SFI-CGF WP5 with ASN on optimizing SVD for DAS
Mikael Nielsen MTech 2023, graduated June 2023. Worked on Vulkan ray tracing for the HPC-Lab Snow simulator
Steffen A. Haug MTech 2023, graduated July 2023. Optimized SPH targeting the HPC-Lab Snow simulator. Julia.
Ruben S. Valen MTech 2023, graduated June 2023. 3D Halos for GPU
HPC-Lab Guests & Recent HPC-Labbers
See also Link to list of past members
MTech & prev PhD candidate
runeerle@idi.ntnu.no Received NR-prisen for his masters thesis
Professor, Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging
SURF Project Director
PhD (May 6, 2019), Advisor: Angelsen; Elster was Co-advisor
"Application of Machine Learning in Tissue Characterization
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H2020 MSCA Post Doc 2017-18 Now a faculty member in China
ERCIM Post Doc/EU Project Post Doc (2013-2018)
Dr. Khan is now working as a faculty member in Pakistan.
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Post Doc (PhD 2017), DMF
Advisor: Angelsen, Now Associate Ultrasound Director at EXACT Therapeutics
Prev. Integrated MTech-PhD student Topic: Graph Algorithms for GPU based HPC. Now at Remarkable
Lane Holloway
PhD 2016 from UT Austin
Dr. Elster was Co-advisor
M. Sci. (??) Fall project completed in 2018. Now working in industry.
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Recent Master Students:
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MTech 2022 Topic: Snow simulation
MTech 2022 Topic: Parallelization of Optimization Codes for CO2 storage gepphu
MTech 2022 Topic: Parallel Computing Edutainment
MTech 2022 Topic: Autotuning of Geoscience codes (co-advisor: Jacob Tørring)
MTech 2022 Topic: GPU & Viz
MTech Dec 2022. To join Spring 2022
MTech 2021 Topic: GPU program datasets for AI optimizations
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MTech 2021 Fall proj w/ Elster, then M. Jahre Topic: Benchmarking and optimizing PDE kernels for multi-core and many-core systems
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MTech 2021 Benchmarking and optimizing 2D & 3D kernels on multicores
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MTech 2021 Benchmarking AI frameworks in collaborations with CERN
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MTech Sept 2021 Topic: Optimizing simulation codes for NFR FriPro project 4D CT /Computational Microscopy
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MTech 2021(rejoined sp 2021) Master topic: Photon Mapping in Vulkan. Proj: Segmentation of fish with sonar data
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MTech 2021. Topic: Snow simulations on GPU Also worked as exchange rep for COMP w/ Elster
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MTech 2021, Fall proj. with Elster Topic: Virtualization
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MTech 2021 in Physics. Elster was Co-advisor on fall proj. He was also the TDT4200 Parallel Computing T.A. for fall 2019.
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MTech March 2020 Topic: Graph Algorithms on GPUs
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MSc (Informatics) Summer 2020 Topic: Snow simulations on GPUs
Fall 2019 project only with Elster. Worked on OPM code with Equinor.´
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MTech Oct 2020 Topic: HPC performance & benchmarking of DGX2 & IBM Power 9 AC922 (with Ingunn Sund)
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MTech Summer 2020. Fall 2019 project with Elster. Elster was co-supervisor for Master project on sound notation.