Fifth Workshop on the DOE
Advanced Computational Software Collection
Enabling
Technologies For
High End Computer Simulations
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
August 24-27, 2004
The DOE Advanced CompuTational Software (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 four-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
- Software Interoperability
Who Should attend this workshop?
This workshop is opened to computational scientists from
industry and academia. Registration fees are fully sponsored by the
DOE's Office of Science. In addition, DOE will sponsor travel expenses
for a limited number of graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows. This support includes round-trip
transportation to and from Berkeley, local transportation in Berkeley,
lodging, breakfasts, lunches
and workshop materials.
The format of this workshop is tailored to the computational
problems and needs of its participants and functionality available in
the ACTS Collection. To effectively meet our goals, the
number of participants is limited and people interested in
attending must fill out an on-line
application form no
later than June 25, 2004. In addition, graduate students
and postdoctoral fellows applying for travel support must provide a letter of support from
their advisor or supervisor. This letter must also be submitted
on-line and no later
than the June 25, 2004 deadline.
For more information on the workshop,
please contact
Tony
Drummond at (510) 486-7624 or Osni
Marques at (510) 486-5290.
Important Dates to Remember:
- Proposal submission deadline: June 25, 2004 * CLOSED *
- Proposal review completed and invitations sent: July 5,
2004 * COMPLETED *
- Attendee confirmation of participation deadline: July
16, 2004 * COMPLETED *
- Travel arrangements completed for all: July 30,
2004 * COMPLETED *
- Workshop Dates: August 24-27, 2004
Technical Workshop Organizers: Tony Drummond
(LADrummond@lbl.gov) and Osni Marques (OAMarques@lbl.gov)
Workshop Logistics :
Yeen Mankin
(YFMankin@lbl.gov)
