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| SciDAC PI Meeting |
| Expanding SciDAC’s Collaborative Network |
| In February, nearly 80 SciDAC-supported researchers, project managers, and support staff gathered for a day-and-a-half meeting in Atlanta, GA. The purpose of the meeting was to reinforce existing partnerships and discuss potential new areas of collaboration. In addition to presentations about successful collaborations between scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists under the first round of SciDAC projects, the Atlanta meeting also featured two poster sessions designed to catalyze discussions among the representatives of the new SciDAC Science Applications, Centers, and Institutes.
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| “Without the posters, it would have been very hard, if not impossible, for us to communicate with one another about some of the key concepts, challenges, and capabilities,” said Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma, leader of the SciDAC Institute for Ultrascale Visualization. “The posters also enabled us to quickly identify potential collaborations, and limiting the meeting size made it possible for me to get to know and also talk to almost all the PIs. It was also helpful to hear the answers of many questions asked by others … [questions] I did not think of.” |
| One interactive poster featured a matrix in which PIs were asked to identify known and potential collaborations. The data collected from this poster will be used to create a Web-based display of SciDAC partnerships, which are an integral component of the program’s strategy for achieving computational science breakthroughs.
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More information can be found at the SciDAC Outreach Center website: http://outreach.scidac.gov/
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