Dr. Markus Wetzstein

- work in the Swiss High Performance + High Productivity Computing (HP2C) project – performance analysis and optimization of an adaptive mesh refinement simulation code (RAMSES) - responsible for planning, implementation, validation and performance analysis of a hybrid OpenMP+MPI parallelization - responsible for cooperation with project partner CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)

– Hybride Parallelisierung und Integration von zwei kosmologischen Simulationscodes (TVD und TPM), – Arbeit an gitter- und teilchenbasierten numerischen Methoden zur Simulation von Hydrodynamik und Gravitation

– development of numerical models of galaxy mergers and the formation of tidal dwarf galaxies – responsible for planning and procurement of high performance computing and IT infrastructure

– development of VINE, a new simulation code (tree based N-body code with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), hardware acceleration), – work on particle based numerical methods for simulating hydrodynamics (SPH) and gravity (tree codes, N-body problem), - responsible for collaboration with project partners int he GRACE project (implementation of Smoothed ParticleHydrodynamics and the Ahmad-Cohen neighbor scheme on reconfigurable hardware (FPGAs) and integration into existing simulation codes)

Computational Astrophysics