Team Wins Gordon Bell Prize
November 20, 2015
Seismo Lab Director Michael Gurnis with a team of scientists from the University of Texas, IBM Research and New York University were awarded the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize at the annual Supercomputing Conference. The team developed innovative algorithms for a mathematical approach called an "implicit solver" to realistically simulate mantle convections and plate tectonics at ultra-high resolution and accuracy. The new software reached an unprecedented 97 percent parallel efficiency in scaling the solver to 1.6 million cores, a new world record. [PR Newswire]