Title: High Level Mathematical Modeling and Parallel/GRID Computing with Modelica using OpenModelica

Speaker: Prof. Peter Fritzson

Date: Friday, 9th May

Place: Monash Caulfield

Abstract: Modelica is a general declarative equation-based object-oriented language for continuous and discrete-event modeling of physical systems for the purpose of efficient simulation. The language unifies and generalizes previous object-oriented modeling languages.

In this talk we present methods and OpenModelica tooling for automatic extraction of fine-grained parallelism from high-level equation-based models as well as manually specifying coarse-grained parallelism and algorithmic parallelism. Especially the fine-grained parallelism we believe fits well with the coming multi-core architectures. Some measurements from parallel execution are presented and a demo of OpenModelica is given http://www.ida.liu.se/~pelab or http://www.openmodelica.org

Recent book:

Peter Fritzson Principles of Object-Oriented Modeling and Simulation with Modelica, 939 pages, Wiley-IEEE Press, ISBN 0-471-471631

Bio:

Peter Fritzson is professor at Linkoping University, Sweden, and director of PELAB - the Programming Environment Lab. He is also chairman of the Scandinavian Simulation Society, Secretary of EuroSim, vice chairman of the Modelica Association, and has published ten books/proceedings and over 170 scientific papers.