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| Seattle Plays Host to SciDAC 2008 Annual Meeting |
| The SciDAC 2008 convention recently showcased researchers' latest breakthroughs in high-performance computing. The meeting, held on July 13-17 in Seattle, WA, hosted more than 350 scientists discussing new technologies and the latest research breakthroughs in scientific computing. |
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| Figure 1. A DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow presents his research to SciDAC 2008 participants at the CSGF poster session. |
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| Besides highlighting SciDAC's recent successes, the symposium also served as a general celebration of computational science. Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director for computing and life sciences at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), served as general chair of the conference. |
| Among the more than 20 session chairs were Jackie Chen of Sandia National Laboratories (Combustion), David Nowak of ANL (Lattice QCD and Nuclear Physics), Vincent Chan of General Atomics (Fusion Physics), Anthony Mezzacappa of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL; Astrophysics), and Ian Foster of ANL (Distributed Systems and Applied Math). |
| The keynote address was given by Hermann Lederer of the computing center of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics near Munich, Germany. Lederer discussed the growth of computational science in Europe and the accompanying expansion of leadership-class computing facilities. The conference program featured some 50 technical presentations over four days, and 40 research posters during evening sessions (figure 1). |
| Talks, ranging in subject from nuclear physics to visualization, included ORNL's Bronson Messer's discussion of astrophysics simulations titled "Multidimensional, Multiphysics Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae" (figure 2) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Tomas Diaz De La Rubia's "Energy, Climate and Materials: New Approaches and the Role of Simulation." |
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| Figure 2. Bronson Messer of ORNL presents his talk, "Multidimensional, Multiphysics Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae," at the Astrophysics technical session. |
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The conference also featured a "Visualization Night," showcasing the best data visualizations and poster sessions. Participants had the opportunity to attend various tutorials, such as "An Introduction to the Cray XT4 for Application Scientists," presented by Richard Gerber of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center.
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Further Information
http://hpcrd.lbl.gov/SciDAC08/index.html
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