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| SciDAC 2008 Meeting in Seattle to Offer Expanded Program | ||||
| The 2008 annual meeting of the SciDAC community, to be held July 13-17 in Seattle, WA, will build upon the successful format of past meetings and add new program components to further encourage the exchange of ideas. | ||||
| For the first time in the SciDAC meeting series, one afternoon session will feature dual tracks, with one series of talks focusing on Data Management and Data Analytics for Applications and the second addressing issues in Moving Applications to Extreme Parallelism. Other sessions will address applications in fusion energy, nuclear energy, accelerator physics, life sciences, astrophysics, materials sciences, climate modeling, applied mathematics, and computer science. | ||||
| "One of the main goals of the meeting is to encourage attendees to interact with others outside their own discipline area and we think the two tracks we have chosen will foster those interactions," said Rick Stevens, Associate Lab Director for Computing and Life Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory and general chair of the SciDAC 2008 conference. | ||||
| The keynote address will be given by Dr. Hermann Lederer of the computing center of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics near Munich, Germany. Dr. Lederer will discuss the growth of computational science in Europe and the accompanying expansion of leadership-class computing facilities. | ||||
| In addition to the keynote address, the conference program will feature some 50 technical presentations over four days, and 40 research posters presented during two evening sessions. The Sunday evening reception will also feature research posters by graduate students from DOE's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program. | ||||
| In a departure from past SciDAC conference poster sessions, "electronic posters" will be on display Monday night. "We have seen how regular posters generated extensive discussions at previous SciDAC meetings so we decided to expand on that and incorporate the SciDAC efforts to advance visualization and analytics," Stevens explained. "We're looking forward to an evening of compelling visualizations and animated discussions." A separate venue has been outfitted with more than 30 video screens to accommodate the visualizations submitted by attendees. | ||||
| More than 300 researchers from North America, Asia, and Europe are expected to attend the 2008 SciDAC meeting, which will be held at the Olympic Fairmont Hotel in downtown Seattle. |
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| Further Information http://hpcrd.lbl.gov/SciDAC08/index.html
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| Published by IOP Publishing in association with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for the US Department of Energy, Office of Science. Copyright © 2008 by IOP. | ||||
