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| Workshop Focuses on Terascale, Petascale Science |
| Forty of the leading research scientists from national laboratories and universities came together at the Scientific Impact and Opportunities of Computing workshop to discuss how current systems in the 100 teraflops range—as well as the anticipated petascale systems—can deliver the biggest scientific punch over the coming 12 to 18 months. |
| The workshop, held January 9-12, 2008, focused on how these systems can advance research in nanoscience, superconductivity, combustion, energy storage, and geosciences, and also explored research opportunities in each field. |
| Participants discussed the role of supercomputing in nonmagnetic research to enhance data storage, solve electron exchange problems in superconductivity, simulate combustion from the atomistic to the device, and help scientists understand nanoscale phenomena in materials and chemical sciences that underpin the energy storage research field. The workshop closed with a discussion of the importance of supercomputing in the multi-scale aspects of geosciences research. |
| Each session's conclusions will be summarized in a report conveying the many potential scientific breakthroughs this kind of computing offers. |
| "The outcome of this workshop will be a much greater understanding of the impact and opportunities of computing in producing today's science," said ORNL's Dr. Jeff Nichols, one of the workshop organizers. "In addition we hope to be able to anticipate the computational experiments that will be performed upon delivery and acceptance of new computer hardware." |
