In the period from August 2001 to December 2003, Parallab staff is involved in four Technology Transfer Projects, in cooperation with researchers and technical staff from the other universities in Norway. The projects are funded in part by the Norwegian Research Council ( NFR ) through the NOTUR project.

DUMA - Natural Sciences

DUMA = "Development of User oriented Modules for the Application of parallel algorithms in Nano and Microscale simulation."

Applications used for simulating molecular dynamics are and will be of great importance to understand the macroscopic behaviour of e.g. materials and proteins. This project aims to build a national database of algorithms and applications, and the main focus will be on the development of a new parallel code for molecular dynamics. The code will include modern technologies such as generic programming, dynamic work-load distribution, etc.

Climate and Environment

Parallelization and generalization of the local area wind model SAFRA, developed at SINTEF/NTNU. The model will be used with a nesting technique to predict wind and other parameters relevant for applications in e.g. aviation, wind generated power and civil engineering.

NEUROINF - Medicine

An existing analysis tool for structural neuroinformatics will be optimized and parallelized in order to handle larger datasets more efficiently. The main focus will be on parallelizing and implementing new algorithms for advanced surface modeling of complicated geometric structures that show up in the study of human and animal brains.

SALSA - Scalable Algorithms

The efficient solution of large sparse linear systems is of fundamental importance since such systems arise in nearly all real-life applications in science and engineering. This project will focus on the development, implementation, and validation of state-of-the-art algorithms for the parallel solution of such systems, with special emphasis on domain decomposition methods and iterative substructuring techniques.