From: Susan Green (SLGreen_at_lbl.gov)
Date: 06/21/2002
Robust and High Performance Tools for Scientific Computing
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
September 4-7, 2002
For additional workshop information go to: http://acts.nersc.gov/
The DOE Advanced CompuTational Software Collection (ACTS Collection,
http://acts.nersc.gov) comprises a set of tools mainly developed at the
Department of
Energy's (DOE) laboratories. These software tools aim to simplify the
solution of common and important computational problems and have
substantially benefited a
wide range of scientific and industrial applications. These benefits are
accounted not only for running efficiently in high performing computing
environments but also
realizing computation that would not have been possible otherwise.
Despite these successes, there is still a need for a greater
infrastructure to reach out academia and
industry through a dissemination and instruction on the state-of-the-art
tools for high performance computing environments and simultaneously
provide an umbrella
for tool developers to receive the feedback from these communities. This
workshop is part of an approach to build such an infrastructure.
The three and half-day workshop will present an introduction to the ACTS
Collection for application scientists whose research demand includes
either large amounts of
computation, a large volume of data manipulation, the use of robust
numerical algorithms, or combinations of these. The workshop will
include a range of tutorials on
the tools (currently available in the collection and some deliverables
from the DOE SciDAC ISICs), discussion sessions aimed to solve specific
computational needs by
the participants, and hands-on practices using the NERSC's
state-of-the-art computers. We are planning to organize parallel
sessions and group the tutorials by topics,
as follows:
Direct and Iterative Methods for the solution of linear and
non-linear systems of equations
PDE's and Multi-level Methods
Numerical Optimization
Structured and Unstructured meshes (Generation, Manipulation and
Computation)
Development of High Performance Computing applications
Performance monitoring and tuning
Grid computing
DOE will fully sponsor a limited number of graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows to participate in this event. This support includes
round-trip transportation to
and from Berkeley, local transportation, lodging, meals and workshop
materials. Proposals from other research scientists are also encouraged.
The deadline for applications is July 9, 2002, and they should be
submitted using the application on-line form. Students and postdoctoral
fellows should submit an
abstract describing the nature of their work, future plans and/or
current needs for computation. A letter of recommendation from the
applicant's supervisor also needs to
be provided using the recommendation on-line form. The recommendation
letter must also arrive no later than July 9, 2002. Other applicants
must submit a letter
outlining their current work and future plans and needs for
computational resources with a list of publications . For more
information on the workshop, please contact
Tony Drummond at (510) 486-7624 or Osni Marques at (510) 486-5290.
Important Dates:
Proposal submission deadline: July 9, 2002
Proposal review completed and invitations sent: July 22, 2002
Attendee confirmation of participation deadline: July 31, 2002
Travel arrangements completed for all: August 16, 2002
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