Supercomputing on smartphone – Next gen App displays its potential on Android phone
Researchers headed by David Knezevic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in association with staff at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) have come up with an amazing application that can perform supercomputing calculations in real-time on your smartphone in any location, anytime! They were able to perform real-time simulations for complicated engineering problems on a Google Android smartphone. They were able to come-up with a series of high-fidelity simulation/algorithm on the Ranger supercomputer, which was scaled down for the smartphone platform. With this application they were able to solve complex problems on the Google Android phone and display the result interactively.
Thus far the team has developed fluid dynamics, acoustics and heat flow simulations for the smartphone application; but this will have even more implications like in the field landmine detection or determining optimal shape for structures.
David Knezevic:
When you tell people you can solve a problem that would normally take two hours on Ranger in one second, with guaranteed error bounds, people instantly understand what model reduction is all about.
NOTE: The Ranger supercomputer is funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure “Path to Petascale” program. The system is a collaboration among the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Computational Engineering and Science (ICES), Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, Arizona State University, and Cornell University.
