[firedrake] Fwd: [PRISM] PRISM Technical Seminar: 10th July 10am

[Maximilian Albert]

Out of interest, are these seminars recorded/streamed somewhere?

Many thanks,
Max


2014-07-02 12:45 GMT+01:00 Lawrence Mitchell <
lawrence.mitchell at imperial.ac.uk>:

> Dear firedrakers,
>
> next week, I'll be continuing the PRISM technical seminar series with an
> overview of the design and implementation of Firedrake and PyOP2.  If
> you're interested, do come along.
>
> 10am Thursday 10th July in Room 266 Roderic Hill (Aeronautic).
>
> See abstract below.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lawrence
>
>
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> Subject: [PRISM] PRISM Technical Seminar: 10th July 10am
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:34:11 +0100
> From: Chris Cantwell <c.cantwell at imperial.ac.uk>
> Organization: Imperial College London
> To: <prism at imperial.ac.uk>
>
> Dear all,
>
> The next PRISM technical seminar will take place as follows:
>
> Speaker: Lawrence Mitchell
> Title:   The design and implementation of Firedrake and PyOP2
> Time:    Thursday 10th July, 10am
> Place:   TBC
>
> Abstract: The guiding principle in the development of PyOP2 and
> Firedrake is "get the abstraction right and everything else is easy".
> In this talk, I will present the abstractions in PyOP2 and and Firedrake
> (and their implementation).  Starting with the data structures and
> parallel iteration construct in PyOP2 for execution on unstructured
> meshes, I will move on to explain how these handcuffs influence the
> design of Firedrake, and why we think they're a good thing.
>
> Although Firedrake itself is designed as a finite element package, the
> separation of mesh iteration into a PyOP2 level leads to the ability to
> "escape" out of the variational jail in a clean way, and I will describe
> why we might want to do so.
>
> Finally, I'll motivate why we don't want to implement any solvers
> ourselves, and describe how we interact with PETSc to provide us with
> both linear and non-linear solvers.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> --
> Chris Cantwell
> Department of Aeronautics
> Roderic Hill Building
> Imperial College London
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> London SW7 2AZ
> Email: c.cantwell at imperial.ac.uk
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