Peer-reviewed articles
Published
- J. Brown and P. Brune, Low-rank quasi-Newton updates for robust Jacobian lagging in Newton-type methods, In International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2013.
- J. Brown, B. Smith, and A. Ahmadia, Achieving textbook multigrid efficiency for
hydrostatic ice sheet flow, SIAM J. Scientific Computing, 35(2), B359-B375, 2013. doi:10.1137/110834512
- J. Brown, M.G. Knepley, D.A. May, L.C. McInnes, and B.F. Smith, Composable Linear Solvers for Multiphysics, Proceeedings of the 11th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2012) doi:10.1109/ISPDC.2012.16
- T. Malas, A. Ahmadia, J. Brown, J. Gunnels, and D. Keyes, Optimizing the performance of streaming numerical kernels on the IBM BlueGene/P PowerPC 450 processor, accepted by the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. arXiv
- R.J. Biezuner, J. Brown, G. Ercole, and E.M. Martins, Computing the first eigenpair of the p-Laplacian via inverse iteration of sublinear supersolutions, J. Scientific Computing 52(1) 180--201, 2012. arXiv
- J. Brown, Efficient nonlinear
solvers for nodal high-order finite elements in 3D, J. Scientific Computing 45(1) 48--63,
2010.
- J. Amundson, M. Fahnestock, M. Truffer, J. Brown, M.P. Lüthi, and
R. Motyka, Ice mélange dynamics and
implications for terminus stability, Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland,
J. Geophys. Res., 115, F01005, 2010.
- K. Burckhardt, D. Szczerba, J. Brown and K. Muralidhar, and
G. Szkely. Fast implicit
simulation of oscillatory flow in human abdominal bifurcation using a Schur complement
preconditioner, Euro-Par Parallel Processing, 747-759, 2009.
- Ed Bueler and Jed Brown, The
shallow shelf approximation as a "sliding law" in a thermomechanically coupled ice
sheet model, J. Geophys. Res., 114, 2009.
- Ed Bueler, Jed Brown, and Craig
Lingle, Exact solutions to
the thermocoupled shallow ice approximation: effective tools for verification,
J. Glaciol. 53 (no. 182), 499-516, 2007.
- Ed Bueler, Craig S. Lingle, Jed
A. Brown. Fast computation of a
viscoelastic deformable earth model for ice flow simulations, Ann. Glaciol. 46,
97-106, 2007.
- Ed Bueler, Craig S. Lingle, Jed A. Kallen-Brown, David N. Covey, and Latrice
N. Bowman, Exact
solutions and the verification of numerical models for isothermal ice sheets,
Journal of Glaciology, 51 (no. 173), 2005.
Conference Presentations and Posters
Upcoming conferences and workshops
- DOE Workshop on Software Productivity for Extreme-Scale Science, 2013-10-22 to 23
- International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC13), Denver, CO, 2013-11-17 to 22.
- American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2013-12-16 to 20
2014
- J. Brown, Numerical libraries and frameworks, (invited) ENES Workshop on Exascale Technologies, Hamburg, 2014-03-18.
- J. Brown, Exploits in implicitness, SIAG/SC Junior Scientist Award talk at SIAM PP14, 2014-02-22.
- J. Brown, M. Adams, M. Knepley, Low-communication multigrid, with applications to time-dependent adjoints, in-situ visualization, and resilience, SIAM PP14, 2014-02-19.
- J. Brown, Multigrid on the outside: restructuring time integration and adaptivity, LBL, 2014-01-16.
- J. Brown, Present and future computing requirements for PETSc, NERSC ASCR Requirements Workshop, LBL, 2014-01-15.
2013
- J. Brown, Parallel nonlinear solvers for viscoplastic models of sea ice, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2013-12-11.
- J. Brown and D. Ghosh, Fast solvers for implicit Runge-Kutta systems, JointLab Workshop, 2013-11-26.
- J. Brown, Librarization, composition, and algorithm/hardware interplay in implicit solvers and analysis, SC13 DOE Booth, 2013-11-21.
- J. Brown, Prospects for next-generation multigridding, Imperial College London, 2013-09-26 and Oxford University, 2013-09-27.
- J. Brown, P. Brune, E. Constantinescu, D. Ghosh, L.C. McInnes, PETSc and BOUT++, 2013 BOUT++ workshop, LLNL, 2013-09-04.
- J. Brown, Vectorization, communication aggregation, and reuse in stochastic and temporal dimensions, DOE Exascale Math Workshop, Washington, DC, 2013-08-21.
- J. Brown, M. Otten, B. Smith, Interactive solver design using eigen-analysis, DOE Applied Math PI meeting, 2013-08-07.
- E. Constantinescu, J. Brown, B. Smith, L.C. McInnes, D. Ghosh, S. Balay, Robust Implicit-Explicit Time Stepping, DOE Applied Math PI meeting, 2013-08-06.
- J. Brown and S. Dalton, GPU-accelerated smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid: Multi-node scalability and versatility, GPU-SMP13, Changchun, China, 2013-07-30.
- J. Brown, Vectorization, communication aggregation, and reuse in stochastic and temporal dimensions, JointLab workshop, Lyon, France, 2013-06-13.
- J. Brown and P. Brune Low-rank Quasi-Newton Updates for Robust Jacobian Lagging in Newton Methods, International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, Sun Valley, ID, May 5-9.
- J. Brown, Discretizations, solvers, and statistics in computational geodynamics, (invited) EarthCube Modeling Workshop, Boulder, CO, 2013-04-23.
- J. Brown, S. Abhyankar, B. Smith, Sharing Thread Pools and Caches for Inter-library Composition and Multicore Performance, SIAM CSE, Boston, MA, February 25-March 1. pdf
- Software Carpentry Boot Camp, University of Chicago, January 12-13, 2013.
- J. Brown, High Performance Implicit Solvers for Geodynamics, CIG Webinar, January 10, 2013. pdf
2012
- J. Brown, M. Adams, M. Knepley, B. Smith, Multilevel solvers with adaptive coarse space construction for lithosphere dynamics, 1st International Conference on Frontiers in Computational Physics: Modeling the Earth System, Boulder, CO, December 16-20, 2012. pdf
- J. Brown, M. Adams, M. Knepley, B. Smith, Adaptive coarse space construction and nonlinear smoothers for heterogeneous Stokes problems, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 3-7, 2012. pdf
- J. Brown, M. Adams, P. Brune, M. Knepley, D. May, B. Smith, Composable multilevel solvers in PETSc, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 14, 2012. pdf
- J. Brown and M. Knepley, Modern Algorithms Through Libraries, EarthCube End-User Domain Workshop for EarthScope, Tempe, AZ, October 29-30, 2012. pdf
- Pervasive Multiscale Modeling, Analysis, and Solvers, Bridging the Gap Between the Geosciences and Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Princeton, October 1-2, 2013. pdf
- Libraries Panel Discussion, Libraries and Autotuning for Extreme-scale Applications, Snowbird, UT, August 13-14.
- Multilevel Stokes flow solvers: Adapting to heterogeneity and rheology, Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics Workshop, UC Davis, July 30, 2012. pdf
- J. Brown, M. Adams, P. Brune, M. Knepley, L.C. McInnes, and B. Smith, Composable multilevel methods for multiphysics simulation, SIAM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, July 9-13, 2012. pdf
- J. Brown, I. Grindeanu, B. Smith, T. Tautges, A parallel unstructured implicit 3D polythermal model for outlet glaciers, International Glaciology Society International Symposium, Fairbanks, AK, June 24-29, 2012. pdf
- J. Brown, P. Brune, E. Constantinescu, M. Knepley, and B. Smith, Towards high throughput composable multilevel solvers for implicit multiphysics simulation, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 2012-04-27. pdf
- M. Adams (presenting), J. Brown, and B. Smith, Exascale programming models must vigorously enable libraries, Exascale Research Conference, Portland, 2012-04-16 to 18.
- J. Brown, User-defined nonblocking collectives must make progress, Exascale Research Conference, Portland, 2012-04-16 to 18. slides
- M. Anitescu, J. Brown, P. Fischer (presenting), S. Leyffer, L. C. McInnes, T. Munson, and B. Smith, Exascale co-design opportunities: Multilevel approaches for hierarchical models, architectures, algorithms, and software, Exascale Research Conference, Portland, 2012-04-16 to 18.
- J. Brown, M. Knepley, D. May, and B. Smith, Scalable and composable implicit solvers for polythermal ice flow with steep topography, International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications, Las Vegas, 2012-04-01 to 04. slides
- J. Brown, M. Adams, P. Brune, M. Knepley, D. May, L. C. McInnes, and B. Smith, Commuting block preconditioning with multigrid, Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, 2012-03-27. slides
- J. Brown, M. Knepley, D. May, and B. Smith, Towards high throughput composable multilevel solvers for implicit multiphysics simulation, Center for Computational Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series, MIT, 2012-03-21. slides
- J. Brown, M. Knepley, D. May, and B. Smith, Towards algorithmic and software composability for implicit multiphysics with high throughput, ICES/PECOS seminar, UT Austin, 2012-02-23. slides
- J. Brown, M. Knepley, D. May, and B. Smith, Commuting block preconditioned splitting with multigrid within the same code base, SIAM conference on Parallel Processing, 2012-02-17. slides
- J. Brown, A. Ahmadia, M. Knepley, and B. Smith, Utilizing emerging multicore and GPU hardware for multiphysics simulation through implicit high-order finite element methods with tensor product structure, SIAM conference on Parallel Processing, 2012-02-15. slides
- J. Brown, M. Adams, P. Brune, M. Knepley, D. May, and B. Smith, Toward less synchronous composable multilevel methods for implicit multiphysics simulation, invited talk at Workshop on High Performance Computing, and Hybrid Programming Concepts for Hyperbolic PDE Codes [HPC]^3, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, 2012-02-06. slides
- J. Brown, M. Adams, P. Brune, M. Knepley, and B. Smith, Toward less synchronous composable multilevel methods for implicit multiphysics simulation, invited talk at the Workshop on Synchronization-reducing and Communication-reducing Algorithms and Programming Models for Large-scale Simulations, ICERM, Brown University, 2012-01-10. slides
2011
- D. May, L. Le Pourhiet, J. Brown (presenting), Tightly coupled geodynamic systems: Software, implicit solvers, and applications, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2011-12-05. slides
- J. Brown, A. Ahmadia, M. Knepley, B. Smith, Utilizing emerging hardware for multiphysics simulation through implicit high-order finite element methods with tensor product structure, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2011-12-05. slides
- J. Brown, E. Constantinescu, and B. Smith, Tightly coupled solvers, loosely coupled software: Multi-physics solvers and time integration in PETSc, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies, 2011-11-02. slides
- J. Brown, I. Grindeanu, D. Karpeev, B. Smith, and T. Tautges, Interactive transient and steady-state analysis of regional ice flow, World Climate Research Programme, Denver, CO, 2011-10-26. poster
- Institute for Computing in Science: Multiphysics Simulations: Challenges and Opportunities, 2011-07-30 to 2011-08-06.
- Jed Brown, Dave May, and Barry Smith, Strongly coupled solvers with loosely coupled software, 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics - ICIAM 2011, Vancouver, Canada, 2011-07-21. slides
- Jed Brown, Iulian Grindeanu, Dmitry Karpeev, Barry F. Smith, and Timothy J. Tautges, Scalable Implicit Methods for Free Surface Flows in Glaciology, 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics - ICIAM, Vancouver, Canada, 2011-07-20. slides
- Jed Brown, Verifying correctness of PDE solvers using SymPy, "lightning" talk at SciPy, Austin, 2011-07-14. slides
- Aron Ahmadia, Jed Brown, Nathan Collier, Tareq Malas, and John Gunnels, A Software Framework in Python for Generating Optimal Isogeometric Kernels on the PowerPC 450, SciPy, Austin, 2011-07-13. slides
- Jed Brown, Strongly coupled solvers with weakly coupled software, invited talk at the Workshop on High Performance Computing and Hybrid Programming Concepts for Hyperbolic PDE Codes, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, 2011-03-27. slides
- Jed Brown, Implicit solution of free surface flows in glaciology, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Reno, NV, 2011-03-01. slides
- Jed Brown, Computational methods for several models of ice stream flow, International Conferenece on the Diversity of Research on Geophysical Environmental Sciences, ETH Zürich, 2011-02-18. slides
2010
- Jed Brown, Solving free surface flows for steady state without time stepping, American Geophysical University Fall Meeting, 2010-12-14. poster
- Jed Brown, Free surface flows in glaciology, ETH Zürich Seminar of Applied Mathematics Hyperbolic PDE Seminar, 2010-10-11. slides
- Jed Brown, Implicit discretizations for grounding line dynamics, invited talk at the CCSM
Annual Meeting, Breckenridge, CO,
2010-06-30. slides
- Jed Brown, PETSc: New developments, memory performance, and algorithmic experimentation, invited talk at NOTUR-2010, Bergen, Norway, 2010-05-21. slides
- Jed Brown, Implicit integration of 3D ice sheet flow using hybrid
factorization/relaxation block preconditioning, invited talk at the Copper
Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, CO,
2010-04-08. pdf
- Jed Brown and Barry Smith, Textbook multigrid
efficiency for hydrostatic ice flow, presented at the
CCSM Land Ice Working Group, Boulder, CO,
2010-02-17. slides
2009
- Jed Brown, Accurate Time Integration of 3D Grounding Line
Dynamics, poster at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting,
2009-12-15. pdf
- Jed Brown, Making high-order finite elements fast
robust, and easy, presented at the Mathematics and Computer Science
Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 2009-06-30, and at the
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia
University, 2009-07-02. slides
- Jed Brown, Scalable solvers for 3D Stokes problems, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2009-06-24. slides
- Jed Brown, Efficient nonlinear solvers for nodal
high-order finite elements in 3D presented at weekly colloquium of
the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
2009-06-23.
- Jed Brown, Scalable solvers for the 3D non-Newtonian
Stokes problem in ice flow modeling, invited talk at the Community
Climate System Model Annual Workshop, 2009-06-17. slides
2008
- Jed Brown, Scalable solvers for optimal control of a
power-law fluid, poster at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting,
2008-12-15. pdf
- Jed Brown, Scalable solvers for power law fluids,
Glaciology Colloquium, ETH Zürich, 2008-12-04.
- Jed Brown and E. Bueler, Superposition of velocity
for ice sheet modeling, European Geophysical Union, 2008-04-18.
- Jed Brown, M. Truffer, R. Fatland, M. Fahnestock, M. Lüthi, Measuring iceberg
motion in Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland, poster at European Geophysical Union,
2008-04-17.
Teaching
- Jed Brown, PETSc Tutorial at PRACE Summer School, Ostrava, Czech Republic, June 17-20
- Jed Brown, PETSc Tutorial at the National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, 2012-04-27.
- Jed Brown, The Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computing: Advanced PETSc Tutorial at TACC, Austin, TX, 2012-02-20. video
- Jed Brown, PETSc tutorial at ACTS, NERSC, Berkeley, CA, 2011-08-17. video
- Jed Brown, PETSc
Tutorial at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Fairbanks, AK, 2010-08-03 to 05.
- Jed Brown, PETSc
Tutorial at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Manno, Switzerland, 2010-05-10 and 11.
- Jed Brown, Scalable solvers for nonlinear equations:
mini-course on Newton-Krylov methods, 3-week mini-course at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks, 2009-01-22 to 2009-02-05.
Software
- PETSc developer since 2008.
S. Balay, J. Brown, K. Buschelman, V. Eijkhout, W. Gropp, D. Kaushik, M. Knepley, L. Curfman McInnes, B. Smith, and H. Zhang, PETSc Users Manual
- Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) original author
- Dohp, a dual-order finite element library
- Other projects on GitHub