A WORKSHOP ON THE DOE ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL SOFTWARE COLLECTION
Robust and High Performance Tools for Scientific Computing
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
September 4-7, 2002
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:
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Direct and Iterative Methods for the solution of linear and non-linear
systems of equations
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PDE's and Multi-level Methods
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Numerical Optimization
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Structured and Unstructured meshes (Generation, Manipulation and Computation)
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Development of High Performance Computing applications
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Performance monitoring and tuning
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Grid computing
Technical Workshop Organizers:
Dr. Osni Marques
Dr. Tony Drummond
Meeting Planner :
Ms. Susan Green (applications and travel coordinator)
Ms. Anna Smith (event coordinator)
Ms. Marcia Thompson (on-site support)
