History of Supercomputers: past, present and future
28.2.2012
Brief
bio
Gérard Meurant studied in Paris XI University (Orsay) where he
got his degree in numerical analysis in 1972 under the supervision of
R. Temam. From 1973 to 2008 he worked for the French "Commissariat
à l'énergie atomique". During most of these years he was
in charge of supervising the development of simulation codes and their
adaptation to new computer architectures for solving different problems
from physics. One of his major interest was parallel computing and
parallelization of numerical methods. His last position when he retired
in 2008 was Directeur de Recherches.
His main research topic is solving linear systems of equations using
iterative methods and the estimation of errors for the related
algorithms. He published many papers on these topics as well as four
books. The last one published in 2010 is devoted to the computation of
estimates of quadratic forms with applications to several problems in
numerical computations.
