bcy@lanl.gov (Bonnie C Yantis) (04/04/91)
Summer 1991 Los Alamos Workshop on Computational Science May 28 - August 23, 1991 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico Deadline for Application: April 19, 1991 Cost: No charge Full-time immersion workshop, designed to provide advanced education for high performance computing use in computationally-intensive research, will address science, computing, and collaboration. For: * Scientists and engineers in computer-intensive research fields * Computer scientists and computer engineers * Educators in science, engineering, and computing * Graduate students, recent graduates, and others embarking on careers in computer-intensive scientific research fields * Graduate students, recent graduates, and others embarking on careers in computer science and computer engineering Seminars in computational science, plus work on computing aspects of their own research, for ten or fifteen scientists, engineers, and educators from Los Alamos, research laboratories, and academia, balancing research topics in sciences, engineering, and computer science to promote an interdisciplinary exchange. ___________________________________________________________________________ Los Alamos National Laboratory Computational Science Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Summer Workshop May 28 - August 23, 1991 ___________________________________________________________________________ The Computing and Communications Division and the Advanced Computing Laboratory invite you to participate in the Summer 1991 Workshop on Computational Science. The full-time immersion workshop, designed to provide advanced education for high-performance computing use in computationally intensive research, will address science, computing, and collaboration. Specific aims are to: * Provide participating scientists and engineers in computer-intensive research fields with a multidisciplinary environment that will promote an exploration of advanced computational science methodology as it relates to their professional activities and will promote experimentation with intimate multidisciplinary science collaboration. * Provide computer scientists and computer engineers with an interdisciplinary environment that will promote an exploration of computer science and computer engineering research topics as they relate to the problems and constraints of contemporary computationally intensive scientific research and will promote experimentation with intimate multidisciplinary science collaboration. * Provide educators in science, engineering, and computing with an environment that will promote an exploration of high-performance computing methodologies and will enhance academic programs with computationally intensive research strategies and an understanding of scientific computing. * Provide graduate students, recent graduates, and others embarking on careers in computer-intensive scientific research fields with hands-on exposure to high-performance computing methodologies of importance to their professional activities, and integrate this as much as possible with participants' regular research work. * Provide graduate students, recent graduates, and others embarking on careers in computer science and computer engineering with an environment that will promote exploration of algorithmic and architecture concepts, related system issues, and the problems and constraints of the scientific disciplines that apply these concepts. ___________________________________________________________________________ Structure This workshop provides an interdisciplinary environment for scientists, engineers, and educators. It is centered on seminars on concepts and issues in computational science with discussions led by local and visiting lecturers. Participants work on computing aspects of their own research and learn how to evaluate computational strategies in the context of their own discipline by exploring the effects of a variety of architectures on their own application codes. Participants will be drawn from Los Alamos National Laboratory, research laboratories, and academia, balancing research topics in sciences, engineering, and computer science to promote an interdisciplinary exchange. Schedule The full-time workshop will be 12 weeks. Seminars and discussions are scheduled about a third of the time. The rest of the time is devoted to aspects of the participant's research. Participants are expected to focus their efforts on the workshop without the distraction of other projects or activities outside of their own workshop research. Seminar Topics * What is high-performance computing? * Comparative computer architectures and operating systems * Communications and networks * Code analysis and optimizations * Software design * Scientific computing languages, including Fortran, C, C++, and Mathematica * Scientific algorithms, numerical methods, data structures * Vectorization and parallelization * Scientific graphics and visualization * Distributed workstation environments * Large-scale scientific research and simulations * Intimate multidisciplinary science collaboration Cost: No charge. Deadline for Application: April 19, 1991 ___________________________________________________________________________ Selection of Participants Ten or fifteen participants will be chosen using the following criteria: * Working knowledge of Fortran or C and one operating system * Computer-intensive research topic * Balance of research topics in sciences, engineering, and computer science; and the possibility of interdisciplinary exchanges between participants. * Willingness to serve as consultants or models for others interested in promoting the integration of high-performance computing technology into research. Computing Facilities Each participant will be provided with a workstation in a common office area, consulting, and computer accounts for a variety of systems: * Connection Machine CM-2 * Cray Y-MP * Convex C220 * IBM 3090 600E/VF * Other advanced architecture machines Scientific workstations available to participants include Sun, Macintosh II, IBM RISC 6000, and NeXT. High-performance graphics workstations, such as Ardent Titan, FPS, and SGI 4D/380 GTX, are also available. ___________________________________________________________________________ For further information, contact: Ann Solem or Pat Malone Group C-2, MS B253 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA Telephone: (505) 667-5460 FAX: (505) 667-4361 Electronic mail: WPCS@LANL.GOV ___________________________________________________________________________