Microsoft to Deliver Keynote Address at COMSOL Conference

By DE Editors

COMSOL Inc., the developer of the COMSOL Multiphysics simulation environment, has announced that Tom Quinn, Microsoft Windows HPC Server account manager, will deliver a keynote address during the 6th annual COMSOL Conference in Boston Oct. 7-9. Quinn, who joins a roster of keynote speakers, will speak on the computational challenges of advanced modeling and simulation, then describe solutions to this challenge as well as significant trends within technical computing across client, cluster, and cloud computing.

“We are delighted that Microsoft will be delivering a keynote address at this year’s COMSOL Conference in Boston,” says Yeswanth Rao, conference program committee chairman. “The boundless capability of distributed computing power available through clustered nodes and cloud computing is an ideal platform for the COMSOL multi-disciplinary engineering and scientific analysis environment. We developed COMSOL Multiphysics from its beginning to use Microsoft’s technology. That Microsoft recognizes our role and the importance of COMSOL users both now and into the future of engineering and scientific analysis is a remarkable compliment.”

The 2010 Boston conference offers attendees more than 150 user presentations as well 20 mini courses. The delegates presenting their work at the conference come from all manners of manufacturing and research, and their presentation topics represent a spectrum of disciplines: Acoustics, bioengineering,  CFD (computational fluid dynamics), chemical reactions, heat transfer,  electromagnetic fields, structural analysis, MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems), microfluidics, optics, and piezoelectric devices.

In addition to Tom Quinn’s keynote address other Microsoft experts will present a suite of technical sessions introducing Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 to conference attendees. Demonstrations will show attendees how to harness technical computing capacities across clients, clusters, and the cloud. A mini course will explain how to set up and deploy multiphysics simulations on compute clusters using Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and COMSOL. At the Microsoft exhibition booth, conference attendees will be able to get a jump on using simulation tools for compute clusters. All attendees will also be presented with the Runs on Windows HPC Server program for Microsoft software, and they will learn about COMSOL’s licensing program that allows them to distribute their simulations across any number of compute nodes at no additional cost.

For more information, visit the COMSOL conference site.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.