[GTP] Invitation---Theme of The year 2008 Geophysical Turbulent Phenomena Workshop 2: Petascale Computing

[ThemeOfTheYear Workshop2]

We would like to invite you to participate at the Theme-of-the-Year 2008 
Geophysical Turbulent Phenomena Workshop 2 entitled "Petascale 
Computing: Its Impact on Geophysical Modeling and Simulation." at the 
National Center for Atmospheric Research, May 5-7, 2008.

> The workshop will be held at the Mesa Laboratory, Main Seminar Room 
> located at 1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder, Colorado
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> The goal of the workshop is to establish a roadmap for most-productive 
> use of petascale computing systems for improving our knowledge of 
> important geophysical dynamical processes. Petascale systems will be 
> available on a five-to-ten year time horizon, and the purpose of this 
> meeting is to help the geophysical dynamics community position itself 
> to make the best use of these resources when they become available.
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> Given the large range of length and time scales accessible with such 
> systems, we anticipate significant changes may be required to models, 
> algorithms and analysis methods so that new discoveries will be possible.
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> The workshop is organized by five themes, which explore applications 
> ranging from global-scale, regional-scale, and small-scale dynamical 
> phenomena, and includes coupled dynamics that involve multi-scale 
> processes. There is also emphasis on the realities of using and 
> analyzing results from such large-scale computing systems and on the 
> software and model adaptations required to optimize their use.
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> Because applications vary widely from small-scale process 
> parameterization to global-scale forecasting, we encourage meeting 
> participants to consider one simple unifying question as they 
> anticipate workshop participation. Simply put, that question is:
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> "If you had access to a petascale computing system, what would you do 
> with it?"
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> We anticipate enlightened answers to this question from international 
> experts giving invited talks, from contributed talks and poster 
> presentations, and from round-table and open discussions.
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> PRINCIPAL LECTURERS
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> Mark Berliner - Ohio State University, Department of Statistics
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> Eric Chassignet - Florida State University, Center for Ocean 
> Atmospheric Prediction Studies
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> John Clyne – National Center for Atmospheric Research, VAPOR
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> Isaac Ginis - University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography
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> Philip Jones - Los Alamos National Laboratory
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> Yukio Kaneda – Nagoya university, Japan
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> Shigeo Kida - Kyoto University, Japan
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> Rich Loft - NCAR, Computational & Information Systems Laboratory
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> Mark Rast – University of Colorado, LASP
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> Damian Rouson - Sandia National Laboratories, Scalable Computing 
> Research & Development
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> Piotr Smolarkiewicz - National Center for Atmospheric Research, Meso 
> and Micro-scale Meteorology
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> Roberto Verzicco - Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento di Ingegneria 
> Meccanica e Gestionale
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> Joe Werne - NorthWest Research Associates, CoRA Division, Boulder, CO
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> John Wyngaard - Penn State University, Meteorology and 
> Geo-Environmental Engineering
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> David Yuen - University of Minnesota, Department of Geology and 
> Geophysics
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> You are invited to register and submit an abstract on-line by April 4, 
> 2008 and announcements will be made on April 8. For further 
> information on submission please go to the Petascale Computing 
> Submission Page for additional information 
> (www.image.ucar.edu/Workshops/TOY2008/focus2)
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> The workshop presentations will be posted online.
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> Some financial support for travel expenses will be available for 
> graduate students and researchers, who would otherwise be unable to 
> attend the workshop.
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> For more information on this workshop and registration visit 
> www.image.ucar.edu/Workshops/TOY2008/focus2
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> For updates on all the ThemeOfTheYear Workshops please visit regularly 
> http://www.image.ucar.edu/ThemeOfTheYear/2008/
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> Best regards,
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> The Organizing Committee
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> Keith Julien
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> Annick Pouquet
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> Bjorn Stevens
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> Joe Werne
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