Stefan Donath

	Office:	Cauerstraße 6 Room 0.145
	E-mail:
	Phone:	+49 9131 85 28690
	Fax:	+49 9131 85 28928
	Address:	Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Lehrstuhl Informatik 10 (Systemsimulation) Cauerstraße 6 D-91058 Erlangen

Ausschreibung Studien-/Diplomarbeiten

• Heterogeneous Computing - Coupling of CPU and Graphics Cards
• Simulation of the Gas Channel in a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell
• Performance optimization of graphic accelerator cards using NVidia's CUDA framework
• Accuracy analysis of a fixed-point implementation of the lattice Boltzmann method with regard to applicability to FPGAs

Research

• Fluid simulation with free surfaces in porous media using the lattice Boltzmann method
• Optimization of speed performance for scientific codes, esp. lattice Boltzmann method
• Analysis of alternative hardware's applicability for scientific codes, e.g. FPGAs

Projects

• Performance Optimization for Future Hardware
• DECODE: Understanding of Degradation Mechanisms to Improve Components and Design of PE Fuel Cells
• waLBerla

Publications

• Stefan Donath, Klaus Iglberger, Gerhard Wellein, Thomas Zeiser, Aditya Nitsure, Ulrich Rüde
  Performance Comparison of Different Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Implementations on Multi-core Multi-socket Systems,
  in: International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 3-11, 2008.
• Stefan Donath, Jan Götz, Silke Bergler, Christian Feichtinger, Klaus Iglberger, Ulrich Rüde
  waLBerla: The Need for Large-Scale Super Computers,
  in: S. Wagner, M. Steinmetz, A. Bode, M. Brehm (Eds.), High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Transactions of th Third Joint HLRB and KONWIHR Status and Result Workshop, Dec 2007, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Springer, Garching/Munich, 2008.
• Stefan Donath, Thomas Zeiser, Georg Hager, Johannes Habich, Gerhard Wellein
  Optimizing Performance of the Lattice Boltzmann Method for Complex Structures on Cache-based Architectures
  in: F. Hüsemann, M. Kowarschik, U. Rüde (Eds.), Frontiers in Simulation: Simulationstechnique - 18th Symposium in Erlangen, Proceedings of ASIM 2005, September, SCS Publishing House, Erlangen, 2005, pp. 728-735.
• Gerhard Wellein, Peter Lammers, Georg Hager, Stefan Donath, Thomas Zeiser
  Towards Optimal Performance for Lattice Boltzmann Applications on Terascale Computers,
  in: A. Deane, G. Brenner, A. E. et al. (Eds.), Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Theory amd Applications, Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, May 24-27, College Park, MD, USA, 2006, pp. 31-40.
• Gerhard Wellein, Thomas Zeiser, Stefan Donath, Georg Hager
  On the single processor performance of simple lattice Boltzmann kernels
  in: Computers & Fluids 35 (2006), pp.910-919, published online: 20 Dec 2005.

Bachelor and Master Thesis

• Bachelor Thesis: On Optimized Implementations of the Lattice Boltzmann Method on Contemporary High Performance Architectures
• Master Thesis: Power Optimization Techniques for Digital Integrated Circuits in Deep Submicron and Nanometer ASIC Technologies

Curriculum Vitae

• Curriculum Vitae (Resume)
• Course of Studies

Miscellaneous

• PGP-Key:
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• Email address for all SPAMmers: honeypot81@gmx.de

Links

• Project website on LBM optimization at the RRZE
• Old website on benchmarks and architectures from assistant work at the RRZE
• My persönal site
• Site of DONATH° PRODUCTIONS
• Pa'tecatl, a medical database program.