Project staff and support

Ehtzaz Ahmed (Intern, Bournemouth University)
Martin Parker (Company Supervisor, Roxar)
Lihua You (Academic Mentor, Bournemouth)
Caroline Edwards (Technology Translator, Industrial Mathematics KTN)

This Internship project is being carried out at Roxar, in conjunction with Bournemouth University. It is part of the KTN's Industrial Mathematics Internships Programme, co-funded by EPSRC. Start date: September 2009; duration: 4 months.

"I had a wonderful internship experience with Roxar. I have learned a new skill, practical knowledge of applied mathematics, and its application in real-time simulations. This experience will help me to understand the advanced mathematics in solving computational problems. I have gained knowledge in new technology of GPU. I have been provided with an opportunity to work on the top of range hardware. I will use this expertise in my future PhD work," said intern and PhD student Ehtzaz Chaudhry, Bournemouth University.

Project summary

Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) were initially developed for graphics applications. Due to the GPU's high computational performance there has been much interest in using them in the fields of numerical simulation and solving scientific problems.

GPUs have the potential to give substantial performance when solving data-intensive calculations and offer tremendous opportunities in many high performance computing applications.

“Ehtzaz brought the expertise to answer many questions we had about using a graphics card for numerical processing. It has been very helpful to have a keen and enthusiastic person to work on this complex problem,” said company supervisor Richard Hammersley, Principal Software Engineer, Roxar.

“This internship provided an excellent opportunity for the PhD student to get involved in an industrial project, apply his knowledge and skills to tackle a practical industrial problem and obtain useful experience of working in industry which will be helpful for his PhD work. This internship also offered a chance for the company and the university to explore the possibility of future collaborations,” said academic mentor Dr Lihua You, Senior Research Lecturer from National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University.