Jonas Latt

Jonas Latt is an Associate Professor in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He conducts research in high-performance computing and computational fluid dynamics, with applications in cross-disciplinary areas that include geophysical, biomedical, and aero-spatial fields. He is the original developer and current co-maintainer of the open-source software Palabos for lattice Boltzmann simulations of complex flows. He previously obtained his Ph.D. in physics and computer science at the University of Geneva and pursued his interest in fluid dynamics through research at Tufts University (Boston, USA) and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL (Switzerland), and as a co-founder of the CFD company FlowKit.
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Posts by Jonas Latt

Four panels vertically laid out each showing a simulation with a black background
Simulation / Modeling / Design Apr 18, 2022

Multi-GPU Programming with Standard Parallel C++, Part 2

It may seem natural to expect that the performance of your CPU-to-GPU port will range below that of a dedicated HPC code. After all, you are limited by the... 13 MIN READ
Four panels vertically laid out each showing a simulation with a black background
Simulation / Modeling / Design Apr 18, 2022

Multi-GPU Programming with Standard Parallel C++, Part 1

The difficulty of porting an application to GPUs varies from one case to another. In the best-case scenario, you can accelerate critical code sections by... 17 MIN READ