From: Tony Drummond (LADrummond_at_lbl.gov)
Date: 08/09/2001
NERSC INVITES COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTISTS TO ATTEND OCT. 10-13 WORKSHOP
IN BERKELEY ON ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL TESTING AND SIMULATION
BERKELEY, Calif. - The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy
Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is hosting a three and
half-day workshop on Advanced Computational Testing and Simulation
(ACTS) on Oct. 10-13 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The ACTS workshop, "Tools for Advanced Computational Testing and
Simulation - Solving Problems in Science and Engineering," is aimed at
familiarizing researchers in various scientific disciplines with the
computational science tools now available in the DOE's ACTS Toolkit.
Therefore, the workshop will include a range of tutorials on the tools,
discussion sessions focused on solving specific computational needs by
the participants, and hands-on practices using the NERSC's
state-of-the-art computers.
The ACTS tools have already provided developers and users of scientific
and engineering applications with solutions that help their research.
The services provided by these tools range from implementations of
numerical algorithms, scientific data representations, data
manipulation, remote visualization, program execution and distributed
computing. For more information visit the ACTS information center on the
Web at http://acts.nersc.gov.
There are no registration fees for the workshop, but those interested
in attending must complete the on-line application form at
http://acts.nersc.gov/workshop/application.html and include an outline
of their current work and future plans and needs for computational
resources. The deadline for filing applications is Friday, Aug. 31.
In addition, DOE will provide financial support to enable a limited
number of graduate students and post-docs to attend this workshop.
Graduate students and post-docs from any scientific field who are
interested in attending the workshop must complete the on-line
application form and submit a short abstract describing their work and
current or future computational needs. Each post-doc or graduate student
applicant must also provide a letter of reference, which can be
submitted via the Web at
<http://acts.nersc.gov/workshop/recommendation.html/> by his or her
advisor. The recommendation letter must also arrive no later than August
31, 2001.
For more information on the workshop, go to
<http://acts.nersc.gov/workshop/> or contact Tony Drummond at (510)
486-7624 or Osni Marques at (510) 486-5290.
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
(www.nersc.gov) is the Department of Energy's flagship unclassified
supercomputing facility and is located at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory. Berkeley Lab (www.lbl.gov) conducts only unclassified
research and is managed by the University of California for the U.S.
Department of Energy.
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Tony Drummond
LBNL - NERSC, MS 50F Phone: (510) 486-7624
One Cyclotron Rd FAX: (510) 486-5812
Berkeley, CA 94720 E-mail: LADrummond_at_lbl_dot_gov
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