2000 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Thursday, July 27 – Saturday, July 29
Pleasanton, CA

Thursday, July 27Crowne Plaza
7:00 am Breakfast & registrationCrowne Plaza Pleasanton Hotel
7:45 am Conference Welcome
8:30 am Opening Remarks
Steven Ashby, Center for Scientific Computing, LLNL
8:45 - 9:30 am David Dearborn, Physics Division, LLNL
3D Stellar Physics Computations
9:30 - 10:15 am Bruce Hendrickson, Parallel Computing Sciences Department, SNL
Computational Science at Sandia - Putting it All Together
10:15 - 10:30 am Break
10:30 - 11:15 am Forrest Brown, LANL
Advanced Software Technologies in the Blanca Project at LANL
11:15 am Bus transportation from hotel to Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryBuilding 123 Auditorium
11:30 am Arrive at LLNL
Noon Lunch
Welcoming Remarks
David Nowak
, ASCI Program Leader, LLNL
1:15 - 1:30 pm Transportation to Sandia National Laboratory available
1:30 pm LLNL Breakout Sessions:
 
A:  Evi Dube, B-division, LLNL – B123 Auditorium
Computational research challenges for an ASCI simulation code – with the advent of greater compute power, this 3D finite element ASCI code is looking at challenges concerning more physics, more data, larger problems, and scalable algorithms.
 
B:  Richard Hornung, Center for Applied Scientific Computing– LLNL B123 Conf Room A
A Hybrid Model for Gas Dynamics that Couples Continuum and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Methods using Adaptive Mesh Refinement
 
C:  Elizabeth Hunke, Global Climate Modeling Project, LANL
Sea-Ice Modeling in the Weddell Sea
 
SNL Breakout Sessions:
 
A:  Jacqueline Chen and Alan Kerstein, SNL
Combustion Modeling using DNS
 
B:  Mark Horstemeyer and Richard Regueiro, SNL
Constitutive Modeling of Metals
 
C:  Jerry Friesen, SNL
High Performance Visualization for Engineering [US Citizens only]
3:00 - 3:30 pm Transportation to and from Sandia National Laboratory
3:30 pm LLNL Breakout Sessions:
 
A:  Daniel Quinlan, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, LLNL – B123 Auditorium
The ROSE Project: The Optimization of Object-Oriented Scientific Applications
 
B:  Jeff Greenough, A-Division, LLNL– B123 Conf Room A
Using AMR in CFD – from shock-tubes to lasers
 
C:   Elizabeth Hunke, Global Climate Modeling Project, LANL
Sea-Ice Modeling in the Weddell Sea
 
SNL Breakout Sessions:
 
A:  Chris Moen, SNL
Modeling of Fire
 
B:  Ben Allen, SNL
Components, Frameworks and Standards for High Performance Computing
 
C:  Jerry Friesen, SNL
High Performance Visualization for Engineering [US Citizens only]
5:15 pm Bus transportation back to hotel
Friday, July 28
7:45 am Bus transportation from hotel to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:30 - 9:15 am Adam Arkin, Physical Biosciences Division, LBNL
Analysis of the genetic program: Data mining, simulation and biological circuit design
9:15 - 10:00 am Alexandre Chorin, Mathematics Department, LBNL
Fluctuations, dissipation and computation
10:00 - 10:30 am Break
10:30 - 11:15 am Bill McCurdy, Computing Sciences Directorate, LBNL
Solving a long-standing fundamental problem of the quantum mechanics of atoms: Ionization by electron impact
11:15 - Noon Saul Perlmutter, Physics Division, LBNL
Supercomputers and Cosmology
Noon - 12:45 pm Lunch
12:45 - 1:30 pm Tour of the NERSC Center (optional)
1:30 - 3:00 pm LBNL Breakout Sessions:
 
A:  Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Phil Colella
Applied numerical PDE's: combustion, applications of level set methods
Computer science research: BLC, MPI/VIA, languages/compilers for scientific applications Scientific software research: software for adaptive mesh refinement, large sparse systems
 
B:  Biological and Environmental Applications, Chris Ding
Biology presentations by Teresa Head-Gordon, Protein Folding and Global Optimization and Inna Dubchek and Chris Ding, Pattern Recognition and Support Vector Machines
Climate presentations by John Drake, ORNL, Parallel atmosphere models, Inez Fung, Carbon climate models and/or Chris Ding/Helen He, Ocean models.
 
C:  Chemistry and Material Sciences, Andrew Canning
Bill Isaacs, Computational Chemistry
Andrew Canning, Computational Material Science
 
D:  High Energy Physics and Astrophysics, Julian Borrill
Jodi Lamoreaux, High Energy Physics
Peter Nugent, Astrophysics
5:15 pm Bus transportation back to hotel
Saturday, July 29
8:30 am Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Terascale Computing and Simulation Science
9:15 am Jorge Moré, Argonne National Laboratory
Advanced Optimization Technology
10:30 am Break
10:45 am William M. Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Advanced Computing | Plasma Sciences
11:30 am Practicum discussion session