Perspectives in High Performance Computing

The second DEISA Symposium took place in Bologna, Italy, on 4 - 5 May 2006. It was part of a series that will take place every year in April - May in different locations in Europe. These events are dedicated to the discussion of the scientific and strategic challenges in the area of High Performance Computing, and to assess the impact of the DEISA research infrastructure on computational science in Europe.

Symposium program

The scientific program provided a wide overview of the major computational challenges in all relevant areas of science and technology. These challenges are the target of the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative, and they constitute the permanent focus of this series of DEISA meetings. Some of the “grand challenge” Extreme Computing projects currently in operation on the DEISA platform were reviewed. The strategic program dealt with general issues concerning national and European scientific policies for HPC, technology assessments, relations of the research infrastructures with the scientific community. The topics for this meeting were: eInfrastructures in Europe ; HPC trends and overview of new supercomputing architectures.

Presentations

Detailed program and abstracts

See video registration of the Symposium or take a look at the presentation slides:

• DEISA Perspectives, Victor ALESSANDRINI
• Chasing the Flames: The Challenge of Modeling Thermonuclear Supernova in 3D, Wolfgang HILLEBRANDT
• End-to-end simulations of the Planck-LFI space mission, Fabio PASIAN
• Computing wall turbulence at experimental Reynolds Numbers, Sergio HOYAS
• Large scale computation for materials and life sciences using DEISA, Peter COVENEY
• The Quest for Solving QCD: Light Quarks with Twisted Mass Fermions, Karl JANSEN
• Use of ensemble climate simulations to detect variations in extreme event statistics, Henk A. DIJKSTRA
• EU e-Infrasructure plans for FP7 – The discussion on a new European Supercomputing policy, Kyriakos BAXEVANIDIS
• EGEE – A Large-Scale Production Grid Infrastructure, Neil GEDDES
• NASA Supercomputing: Impact on Present and Future NASA Missions, Walter BROOKS
• Cray XT3 on the US TeraGrid, Michael LEVINE
• JuBL - Blue Gene/L System – in Jülich, Klaus WOLKERSDORFER