A WORKSHOP ON THE ACTS TOOLKIT:
Solving Problems in Science and Engineering
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
October 10-13, 2001
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 part of
an approach to build such an infrastructure.
The three and half-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.
The workshop will include a range of tutorials on the tools, discussion
sessions aimed to solve specific computational needs by the participants,
and hands-on practices using the NERSC's state-of-the-art computers.
Technical Workshop Organizers:
Dr. Osni Marques
Dr. Tony Drummond
Meeting Planner :
Ms. Alline Tidwell (travel coordinator)
Ms. Susan Green (on-site support, logistics and general information)
Ms. Yeen Mankin (event coordinator)
