ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network

Dr. Jay Larson

 

Address: ANU Supercomputer Facility Huxley Building 56 The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA Phone: (02) 6125 1481 Fax: (02) 6125 8199 Email: Jay.Larson@anu.edu.au Webpage: http://anusf.anu.edu.au/~jwl900 Research Node: Central/CCS

 

Role in Network

Academic - Researcher

COSNet Research Themes

1. Irreversibility and Emergence in Nonequilibrium Systems
2. Turbulence and Coherent Structures, Control and Computation
3. Dynamics and Statistics of Multi-Scale Systems
4. Network Theory
5. Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation

COSNet Application Areas

1. Complex Physical Systems
2. Complex Biological Systems
3. Complex Computational Systems
4. Complex Socio-Economic Systems

 

Research Topics

Computational science of large coupled systems, including coupling algorithms and component-based software engineering; climate and meteorology  

Publications

David E. Bernholdt, Benjamin A. Allan, Robert Armstrong, Felipe Bertrand, Kenneth Chiu, Tamara L. Dahlgren, Kostadin Damevski, Wael R. Elwasif, Thomas G. W. Epperly, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Daniel S. Katz, James A. Kohl, Manoj Krishnan, Gary Kumfert, J. Walter Larson, Sophia Lefantzi, Michael J. Lewis, Allen D. Malony, Lois C. Mclnnes, Jarek Nieplocha, Boyana Norris, Steven G. Parker, Jaideep Ray, Sameer Shende, Theresa L. Windus, and Shujia Zhou, \"A Component Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing,\" International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 20, 163-202 (2006).

F. Bertrand, R. Bramley, K.B. Damevski, J.A. Kohl, D.E. Bernholdt, J.W. Larson, and A. Sussman, \"Data Redistribution and Remote Method Invocation for Coupled Components,\" Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 66(7), 931-946 (2006). doi:10.1016/j.jpdc.2005.12.009

Jay Larson, Robert Jacob, and Everest Ong,\"The Model Coupling Toolkit: A New Fortran90 Toolkit for Building Multiphysics Parallel Coupled Models,\" International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 19, 277-292 (2005).

Robert Jacob, Jay Larson, and Everest Ong, \"M x N Communication and Parallel Interpolation in Community Climate System Model Version 3 Using the Model Coupling Toolkit,\" International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 19, 293-307 (2005).

Anthony P. Craig, Robert Jacob, Brian Kauffman, Tom Bettge, Jay Larson, Everest Ong, Chris Ding, and Yun He,\"CPL6: The New Extensible, High Performance Parallel Coupler for the Community Climate System Model,\" International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 19, 309-327 (2005).

P.M. Lyster, J. Guo, T. Clune, and J.W. Larson, \"The Computational Complexity and Parallel Scalability of Atmospheric Data Assimilation Algorithms,\" Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 21(11), 1689-1700 (2004).

J. Guo, J.W. Larson, P.M. Lyster, and G. Gaspari, Documentation of the Physical-space Statistical Analysis System (PSAS): The Factored Operator Error Covariance Model Formulation, DAO Office Note 98-04, Data Assimilation Office, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (1998).

J.W. Larson and E.R. Tracy, \"Integrability Properties of Charged Particle Dynamics in Reconnection Regions,\" Physics Letters 182A, 249 (1993).


 

End-User Applications

Most notably,

1) The Model Coupling Toolkit (MCT) - see

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mct ;

2) Community Climate System Model (CCSM) - see

http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/models/ccsm3.0/ ; and

3) Common Component Architecture, see

http://cca-forum.org
 

Professional or Public Outreach Activities

BoF Session organiser, SC03 and SC05.

Session organiser, SIAM PP04 and PP06.

Summer school instructor, First Summer School on Advanced Computing, Castel Gandolfo, Italy, 2005 (organised by CASPUR).