AlexBreuer

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University of California, San Diego

San Diego Supercomputer Center

9500 Gilman Drive MC 0505

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+1 (858) 822-5692

Research

Awards & Nominations

Autumn 2014

ACM IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial Fellowship for the doctoral project "Petascale High Order Earthquake Simulations"
Press release #1, press release #2

Autumn 2014

ACM Gordon Bell Prize nomination for the collaborative paper "Petascale High Order Dynamic Rupture Earthquake Simulations on Heterogeneous Supercomputers"
Press release and further information

Summer 2014

PRACE ISC Award for the collaborative paper "Sustained Petascale Performance of Seismic Simulations with SeisSol on SuperMUC"
Press release

Publications

June 2016

High Order Seismic Simulations on the Intel Xeon Phi Processor (Knights Landing) - A. Heinecke, A. Breuer, M.Bader
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2016, accepted

May 2016

Petascale Local Time Stepping for the ADER-DG Finite Element Method - A. Breuer, A. Heinecke, M. Bader
IPDPS 2016, accepted

July 2015

High-Order ADER-DG Minimizes Energy- and Time-to-Solution of SeisSol - A. Breuer, A. Heinecke, L. Rannabauer, M.Bader
High Performance Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 9137, 2015, pp 340-357

November 2014

Petascale High Order Dynamic Rupture Earthquake Simulations on Heterogeneous Supercomputers - A. Heinecke, A. Breuer, S. Rettenberger, M. Bader, A.-A. Gabriel, C. Pelties, A. Bode, W. Barth, X.-K. Liao, K. Vaidyanathan, M. Smelyanskiy, P. Dubey
Supercomputing 2014, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis; Gordon Bell Finalist 2014

April 2014

Vectorization of an Augmented Riemann Solver for the Shallow Water Equations - M. Bader, A. Breuer, Wolfgang Hölzl, S. Rettenberger
2014 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2014), accepted

March 2014

Sustained Petascale Performance of Seismic Simulations with SeisSol on SuperMUC - A. Breuer, A. Heinecke, S. Rettenberger, M. Bader, A. Gabriel, C. Pelties
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Proceedings 2014 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Heidelberg, June 2014; PRACE ISC Award 2014

January 2014

Hardware-aware block size tailoring on adaptive spacetree grids for shallow water waves - T. Weinzierl, R. Wittmann, K. Unterweger, M. Bader, A. Breuer, S. Rettenberger
HiStencils 2014 - 1st International Workshop on High-Performance Stencil Computations, 2014, accepted

November 2013

Optimized Kernels for large scale earthquake simulations with SeisSol, an unstructured ADER-DG code (poster abstract) - A. Heinecke, A. Breuer, S. Rettenberger, M. Bader, A. Gabriel, C. Pelties, S. Wenk
Supercomputing 2013, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, IEEE, Denver, November 2013

October 2013

Accelerating SeisSol by Generating Vectorized Code for Sparse Matrix Operators - A. Breuer, A. Heinecke, M. Bader, C. Pelties
Parallel Computing - Accelerating Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), Volume 25 of Advances in Parallel Computing, p. 347–356. IOS Press, April 2014

November 2012

Teaching Parallel Programming Models on a Shallow-Water Code - A. Breuer, M. Bader
ISPDC 2012 - 11th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Computer Society

September 2012

Parallel Fully Adaptive Tsunami Simulations (extended abstract) - M. Bader, A. Breuer, M. Schreiber
Facing the Multicore-Challenge III - Aspects of New Paradigms and Technologies in Parallel Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7686, Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues

Posters

October 2014

Physics-Based Earthquake Rupture Simulations with SeisSol - C. Pelties, A. Gabriel, A. Breuer, M. Bader, A. Heinecke, S. Rettenberger
Extremes 2014 - Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction of Extreme Events; best poster award

November 2013

Optimized Kernels for large scale earthquake simulations with SeisSol, an unstructured ADER-DG code - A. Heinecke, A. Breuer, S. Rettenberger, M. Bader, A. Gabriel, C. Pelties, S. Wenk
Supercomputing 2013, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.. IEEE, Denver, November 2013

October 2013

SeisSol: The ADER-DG method for seismic wave propagation and earthquake rupture dynamics - C. Pelties, A. Gabriel, L. Passone, A. Breuer, S. Rettenberger, A. Atanasov
Southern California Earthquake Center, Annual Meeting, 2013

June 2013

Optimizing a Cartesian Shallow Water Code on Hybrid Architectures - M. Bader, A. Breuer, S. Rettenberger
SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences

April 2013

The Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) as a computation laboratory for the geoscience communities: systems, tools, services, and joint efforts for HPC-applications in geosciences - G. Brietzke, A. Frank, C. Pelties, A. Breuer, A. Heinecke
European Geosciences Union 2013

February 2013

A 3D dynamic rupture and sea floor simulation of the 2011 Mw9 Tohoku earthquake coupled with Tsunamis - P. Galvez, A. Breuer, L. Dalguer, S. Rettenberger
Symposium "Extreme Events: Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction"

February 2013

Simulation of Tsunamigenic Earthquakes in the ASCETE project - M. Bader, A. Breuer, A. Gabriel, A. Heinecke, M. Käser, C. Pelties, S. Rettenberger
Symposium "Extreme Events: Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction"

September 2012

Parallel Fully Adaptive Tsunami Simulations - M. Bader, A. Breuer, M. Schreiber
Facing the Multicore-Challenge III - Aspects of New Paradigms and Technologies in Parallel Computing

May 2012

Dynamically adaptive simulation of Tsunamis - A. Breuer, M. Schreiber, M. Bader
KAUST-IAMCS Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Wave Propagation and Applications 2012

February 2012

Teaching Parallel Programming Models on a Shallow-Water Code - M. Bader, A. Breuer
SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing

March 2011

Finite-Volume Tsunami-Simulation using the Peano-Framework - A. Breuer
ASIM Workshop 2011 -- Trends in Computational Science and Engineering

Talks

July 2015

SeisSol

ISC 2015: BOF - Exploiting SIMD-Parallelism – Today & Tomorrow

June 2015

Minimizing Time- and Energy-to-Solution of SeisSol

PASC 2015: Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference

April 2015

End-to-end Optimization of SeisSol

EASC 2015: Exascale Applications and software conference 2015

March 2015

Unleashing the Power of 1+ Million Cores for Earthquake Simulations

Leogang 2015 Workshop

February 2015

Sustained Petascale Performance on Homogenous and Heterogeneous Supercomputers

EMEA Intel® PCC User Group Event

December 2014

Geophysik auf 147.456 Rechenkernen: SeisSol als Gordon Bell Finalist

Kommission für Informatik der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

December 2014

Energy Footprint of SeisSol

First Joint MSE/TUM CS Workshop on Smart Energy Systems

November 2014

Earthquake Simulations on 1+ Million Cores

Intel®'s booth; Supercomputing 2014, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

September 2014

SeisSol - Petascale Seismic Simulations

EMEA Intel® PCC User Forum Conference

July 2014

Best Practices for the Xeon Phi Coprocessor; Tuning SG++, ls1 mardyn and SeisSol

IXPUG User Meeting 2014

June 2014

Tuning SeisSol for Petascale Performance

ICOSAHOM 2014, International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods

February 2014

Tuning Sparse and Dense Matrix Operators in SeisSol

SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing and Scientific Computing, February 2014

September 2013

Towards optimal performance of SeisSol, an unstructured ADER-DG code

26th Chemnitz FEM Symposium 2013

September 2013

Accelerating SeisSol by Generating Vectorized Code for Sparse Matrix Operators

International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo) 2013

June 2013

Hardware-aware optimization of SeisSol, an unstructured ADER-DG code

SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences

March 2013

Sierpinksi, Parallel Finite Volume Tsunami Simulations on Dynamically Adaptive Triangular Grids

84th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics

January 2013

Optimization of SeisSol

GeoComputing Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

July 2011

Peano: Tsunami Simulation is not about Grids

MAC Summer Workshop 2011, Peano User Meeting

Teaching

Tutorials, Courses and Seminars

SS 2015

High Performance Computing, seminar

Numerical Methods for Earthquake and Tsunami Simulation, seminar

WS 2014

Scientific Computing: Molecular Dynamics, bachelor practical course

Tsunami-Simulation, bachelor practical course

High Performance Computing, master practical course

SS 2014

Numerical Methods for Earthquake and Tsunami Simulation, seminar

WS 2013

Advanced Programming, lectures

High Performance Computing, master practical course

SS 2013

Tsunami-Simulation, bachelor practical course

Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic PDEs: From Traffic Simulation to Earthquakes and Tsunamis, seminar

WS 2012/2013

Scientific Computing: Molecular Dynamics, bachelor practical course

Summer 2012

Gene Golub SIAM Summer School 2012 - Simulation and Supercomputing in the Geosciences, teaching assistant

SS 2012

Numerical Methods for Earthquake and Tsunami Simulation, seminar

Numerical Programming, tutorials, programming assignments

WS 2011/2012

Discrete Structures, tutorials

Student projects

October 2015

P. Gomez, Master's thesis - A Hardware-aware ADER-DG Method for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

August 2015

J. Klicpera, Bachelor's thesis - Fault Parameterization and Rough Fault Earthquake Simulations in SeisSol

August 2015

F. Späth, Bachelor's thesis - In-situ Visualisierung von Tsunami-Simulationen auf verteilten Systemen

August 2014

L. Rannabauer, Bachelor's thesis - Runge-Kutta and ADER discontinuous Galerkin schemes for hyperbolic partial differential equations

March 2014

F. Gratl, Bachelor's thesis - Workflow automation of verification and performance tests for SeisSol

December 2013

L. Rannabauer, Bachelor's thesis - Q-bench: implementation and parametrisation of a routine to evaluate the quality of traffic information

October 2013

L. Spiegelberg, Bachelor's thesis - Ocean circulation studies in the Labrador Sea

July 2013

W. Hölzl, Bachelor's thesis - Vectorization and GPGPU-Acceleration of an Augmented Riemann Solver for the Shallow Water Equations

June 2013

M. Müller, Interdisciplinary Project - Global Tsunami Simulation on Distorted Adaptive Triangular-Grids

March 2013

A. Bakhtiari and D. Pinaev, BGCE Honours Project 2012 - Implementation of a 3D Model for Seismic Simulations on Adaptive Refined Meshes in PeanoClaw

November 2012

D. Gudu, Master's Thesis - Parallel Tsunami Simulations With Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement

June 2012

S. Rettenberger, Master's Thesis - A parallel server for adaptive geoinformation in computational fluid dynamics