Prof. Dr. Michael Bader

General

Michael Bader is associated professor at the Department of Computer Science and leads the group on hardware-aware algorithms and software for high performance computing. In particular, he focuses on challenges imposed by latest supercomputing platforms, and the development of suitable efficient and scalable algorithms and software for simulation tasks in science and engineering. The corresponding research group is therefore located at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre.

Research Topics

• High Performance Computing/Supercomputing
• Simulation software: SeisSol, ExaHyPE, sam(oa)²
• Efficient parallel numerical algorithms (e.g., parallel adaptive mesh refinement, high-order discontinuous Galerkin schemes) and optimising their performance
• Large-scale simulation in the geosciences: earthquakes, tsunamis

Featured articles:

• Years-Long Collaboration Helps Geophysicists Better Understand Severe Earthquake-Tsunami Risks
• Researchers Create Largest, Longest Multiphysics Earthquake Simulation to Date
• The supercomputers of tomorrow need new software to perform a billion billion computer operations per second

Research Projects

Running Projects

• ChEESE-2P - Centre of Excellence for Exascale computing in the domain of Solid Earth (EuroHPC JU: Horizon Europe and BMBF)
• targetDART - dynamically adaptive and reactive distribution of tasks on heterogeneous exascale architectures (BMBF)
• ExaHyPE-MVP: Mixed and Variable Precision for an Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine (DFG)
• ScalaMIDA: Scalable Multi-Index Delayed Acceptance for Non-Linear Earthquake Modelling - funded as part of the EuroHPC JU project Inno4scale
• Modernizing Checkpointing and Output in the Earthquake Simulation Software SeisSol (KONWIHR)

Completed Projects

• ChEESE - Centre of Excellence for Exascale computing in the domain of Solid Earth (EU, Horizon 2020)
• Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 89 - Invasive Computing (DFG)
• Optimisation of SeisSol for Large Scale Simulations of Induced Earthquakes (KONWIHR)
• SeisSol-CoCoReCS: SeisSol as a community code for reproducible computational seismology (DFG)
• ENERXICO - Supercomputing and Energy for Mexico (EU Horizon 2020)
• ExaHyPE: An Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine (EU Horizon 2020)
• Chameleon (BMBF)
• ASCETE - Advance Simulation of Coupled Earthquake-Tsunami Events (Volkswagen Stiftung)