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Plenary Lecture
From the Real World to Models and
Paradigms in Parallel Scientific Computing
Assoc. Prof. Ion Carstea
University of Craiova,
ROMANIA
incrst@yahoo.com
Abstract:
The people are not isolated actors on the world scene. They
enter in competition and co-operation. This real scenario is the basis of
the parallel computing and finally, the basis of the parallel computers. The
work in the team with the principal characteristics, the co-operation and
the collaborative competition, is an education model. Cooperation and
collaborative competition must be the basis of the educational process from
universities, aspects that are often ignored in educational politics from
Romania. The nature models are the starting points in many human projects
like the parallel processing of data. The nature models must be the starting
points of the educational process with emphasis on the inter-human
relations.
The real world offers a lot of models and paradigms for engineers in the
area of the computer science and engineering. In a high- performance
education we can not ignore the large computing power of the advanced
computers as the parallel computers. To ignore the high-level information
technology is an anti-social act in any university. Unfortunately, many
professors are the slaves of an old-fashioned mode of understanding the
education in engineering. It is not a good practice to solve a problem in
any way; we must solve a problem with a good performance in terms of the
limited physical and abstract resources of the world. An extrapolation of
this idea can be done for computers where the physical resources and the
abstract resource (as the processing time) are of the great importance for
the engineers.
We shall present some models and paradigms in parallel scientific computing
starting from the real world models. The old Latin concept divide et impera
is a good approach for the development of large engineering projects, for
analysis and synthesis of the large-scale systems. The manager-workers
paradigm is another paradigm for many parallel algorithms in engineering and
business and the performance evaluation of the programs based on this
paradigm is developed and presented.
Engineering education from Romanian universities is analysed in context of
the reconstruction process of the Romanian school. Some aspects of the
politics in the area of human resources and infrastructure from universities
are presented using target examples. The effects of the reform in
engineering education are analysed in the context of the last decades and
educational reform from Romania.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
The speaker is an Assoc. Professor at the Computer Engineering and
Communications Department, Faculty of Automatics, Computers and Electronics,
University of Craiova, Romania.
He has a BSc and MSc in Automatics from the University of Craiova, Romania.
He has a Ph.D. in Automatics from the University of Ploiesti, Romania. Also,
he has a BSc and MSc in Mathematics from the Natural Sciences Faculty,
University of Craiova, Romania.
He was director of the research projects supported by international grants
at University of Houston (USA)- 6 months (Fulbright Grant), at the
University of Coimbra, Portugal – 9 months (NATO grant), at the Polytechnics
of Milano, Italy- 4 months (a CNR-NATO grant). In 2004 he was invited at the
Mathematics Department, University of Trento, Italy, for 2 months.
Ion Cârstea published 10 books in the area of programming languages,
advanced computers and CAD of the electromagnetic devices. He is the
co-author of the book FINITE ELEMENTS in WSEAS Press, 2007.
He is the author of more than 130 papers in revues, scientific journals and
international conference proceedings. He is a reviewer for several WSEAS
International Conferences and was a member in many international scientific
committees. In the year 2007, he was Plenary speaker and chair at the WSEAS
Conferences from Arcachon (France) and Venice (Italy).
His research interests include parallel algorithms and parallel programs for
numerical simulation of the distributed-parameter systems, software products
for coupled and inverse problems in engineering, domain decomposition method
in the context of the finite element method.
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