BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20151117T231500Z DTEND:20151118T010000Z LOCATION:Level 4 - Lobby DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Various patterns form during directional solidification of ternary eutectic alloys.=0AThese macroscopic patterns strongly influences the material properties.=0ATo study the influence of the material and process parameters for a wide range of ternary alloys during solidification, simulations are conducted to gain new insights.=0AIn this poster, we present the results of massive parallel phase-field simulations on up to 262144 cores, based on the HPC framework waLBerla.=0AResults of optimization techniques are shown, starting from the model up to the code level, including buffering strategies and vectorization.=0AThe approach comprises systematic node level performance engineering and gains in a speedup of factor 80 compared to the original code.=0AExcellent weak scaling results on the currently largest German supercomputers, SuperMUC, Hornet and Juqueen, are presented. =0ANovel methods like principle component analysis and graph based approaches are applied to compare the computed microstructural patterns with experimental Al-Ag-Cu micrographs. SUMMARY:Large-Scale and Massively Parallel Phase-Field Simulations of Pattern Formation in Ternary Eutectic Alloys PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR