AlexBreuer

Address:

University of California, San Diego
San Diego Supercomputer Center
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0505

Office:

363

Email:

anbreuer@ucsd.edu

Phone:

+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

’’’April 2016’’’

High Performance Algorithms and Software for Seismic Simulations - A. Breuer, A. Heinecke, M. Bader
17th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing

’’’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

’’’December 2015’’’

High Performance Earthquake Simulations
SDSU colloquium

’’’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