DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010

DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, are inviting again to their joint annual science symposium as an important European HPC event: The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010 which will take place from May 10 to May 12 in Barcelona, Spain.

Photo: Pau Giralt by courtesy of Obra Social de Caixa Catalunya archives

Venue

Casa Milà (La Pedrera) in Barcelona/Spain. More details will follow.

Registration

Hotels

Please see the list of hotels. It is essential to book as early as possible.

Preliminary Programme

Monday, 10 May
12:00 Registration opens
12:30-14:00 Buffet lunch 14:00 Welcome 14:10-16:10 “World-wide Perspectives 1” Montserrat Torné, Director General for International Cooperation and Institutional Relations, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain Kostas Glinos, Head of Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission José Muñoz, Acting Director, Office of CyberInfrastructure, National Science Foundation, US 16:10-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:30 “World-wide Perspectives 2” Akira Ukawa, Vice President, University of Tsukuba, Japan Thomas Zacharia, Deputy Director, ORNL, Department of Energy, US European Exascale Software Project EESP, Speaker to be confirmed
Tuesday, May 11

9:00-9:30 “DEISA and PRACE Updates” Thomas Lippert, FZJ, Germany "PRACE Implementation Phase" Hermann Lederer, RZG, Germany "DEISA Extreme Computing"
9:30-10:50 “Challenges in Computational Science 1” Astrophysics: Wolfgang Hillebrandt, MPI for Astrophysics, Germany Modelling Cosmic Explosions Materials Science: Thomas Schulthess, ETHZ & CSCS, Switzerland "Ab initio Calculation of Free Energies in Nanoscale Systems" 10:50-11:10 Coffee Break 11:10-13:10 “Challenges in Computational Science 2” Earth Sciences: Jose Maria Baldasano, Earth Sciences Dep, BSC, Spain Title pending Fusion for Energy: Laurent Villard, EPFL, Switzerland "HPC Simulations of Magnetic Fusion Plasmas" Life Sciences: Ivo Gut, Centro Nacional de Analisis Genomico, Spain Title pending
14:30-16:10 “Extreme Computing 1” Richard Kenway, University of Edinburgh, UK "Solving the Mysteries of Quarks" (Particle Physics / QCD) Ilpo Vattulainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland "Physics of biological systems" (Life Sciences) Stephan Stellmach, University of Muenster, Germany "Simulations of turbulent dynamos in rotating systems" (Earth Sciences) Roel Verstappen, The Netherlands "Regularizing isotropic turbulence" (Engineering) 16:10-16:40 Coffee Break 16:40-18:00 "Technology for the Future" Jesus Labarta, BSC, Spain "Programming models and tools" Ana Bela Dias, NCF, The Netherlands "Access to PRACE systems" Herbert Huber, LRZ, Germany "Emerging and future technologies" 20:30 Conference Dinner
Wednesday, May 12
9:00-9:30 "Using DEISA/PRACE & TERAGRID" Peter Coveney, University College London, UK "Towards Accurate and Precise Patient-specific Treatment Using Large-Scale Free Energy Calculations" 9:30-10:45 “Extreme Computing 2” Marco Bernasconi, Università Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy "Ab-initio study of GeSbTe phase change alloys" (Materials Science) Stefan Gottloeber, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, Germany, "The Small Scale Structure of the Universe"(Astrophysics) Philip Eric Hoggan, CNRS, France "Slater Type Orbital Project for Quantum monte carlo large molecule simulations" (Particle Physics / QCD) 10:45-11:15 Coffee Break 11:30-13:00 “Extreme Computing 3” Patrick Joeckel, DLR, Germany "Coupling the Chemistry in Earth System Models on multiple Scales" (Earth Sciences) Vassilis Theofilis, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain "Global instability Analysis of Turbulent Separated flows" (Engineering) Sandor Katz, Department of Theoretical Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary "Lattice QCD thermodynamics with improved dynamical fermions" (Particle Physics / QCD) Michael Martinez, Klaus Tschira Fund, EML Research GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany "Multiscale simulation of membrane associated multiprotein complexes" (Life Sciences) 13:05 Closing remarks 13:10-14:30 Lunch