A WORKSHOP ON THE ACTS TOOLKIT:
How can ACTS work for you?

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
September 28-30, 2000

The Advanced Computational Testing and Simulation (ACTS, http://acts.nersc.gov) project 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 an initial approach to build such an infrastructure.

The three-day workshop will present an introduction to the ACTS toolkit 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. It will also offer one full day tutorial with hands-on experience in a subset of the ACTS tools.

This workshop will target primarily graduate students from US universities and 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. Other research scientists are also encouraged to submit proposals for consideration.

The deadline for Applications is Tuesday, August 1st, 2000, and they must be sent to acts-wrkshop@nersc.gov. Students should submit an abstract describing the nature of their work, future plans and/or current needs for computation. A letter of recommendation from the student's advisor needs to be sent to the same e-mail address with the student's name in subject field. The advisor's letter must also arrive no later than August 1st. Others 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.

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