Workshop in Berkeley on High End Computer Applications

The DOE Advanced CompuTational Software Collection (ACTS Collection,
http://acts.nersc.gov) comprises a set of tools that 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.
The four-day workshop will present an introduction to the ACTS Collection for application scientists whose research demand includes either large amounts of computation, 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 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
- Software Interoperability
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. 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 15, 2005
- Proposal review completed and invitations sent: June 30, 2005
- Attendee confirmation of participation deadline: July 13, 2005
- Travel arrangements completed for all: July 30, 2005
- Workshop Dates: August 23-26, 2005