[GTP] Deadline extended--Petascale Computing: Its Impact on Geophysical Modeling and Simulation Workshop at NCAR--May 5-7, 2008

[ThemeOfTheYear Workshop2]

THEME-OF-THE-YEAR-2008 Geophysical Turbulent Phenomena Workshops at NCAR


You are kindly invited to participate in the Theme-of-the-Year 2008 
Geophysical Turbulent Phenomena Workshop 2 entitled "Petascale 
Computing: Its Impact on Geophysical Modeling and Simulation." 
(http://www.image.ucar.edu/Workshops/TOY2008/focus2/)

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. 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.
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.
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.
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:


"If you had access to a petascale computing system, what would you do 
with it?"

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.

Venue
The workshop will be held at the National Center for Atmospheric 
Reasearch's Mesa Laboratory, Main Seminar Room, 5-7 May 2008.

Principal Lecturers
Mark Berliner Department of Statistics, Ohio State University
Eric Chassignet Center for Ocean Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida 
State University
John Clyne VAPOR, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Isaac Ginis Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Philip Jones Los Alamos National Laboratory
Yukio Kaneda Nagoya University, Japan
Shigeo Kida Kyoto University, Japan
Rich Loft Computational & Information Systems Laboratory, CISL
Mark Rast Astrophysical and Planetary Science, University of Colorado
Damian Rouson Sandia National Laboratories, Scalable Computing Research 
& Development
Piotr Smolarkiewicz IMAGe and Meso and Micro-scale Meteorology  
Roberto Verzicco Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Gestionale, 
Politecnico di Bari
Joe Werne NorthWest Research Associates, CoRA Division, Boulder
John Wyngaard Meteorology and Geo-Environmental Engineering, Penn State 
University
David Yuen Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota



Participation

Interested participants are invited to register and submit an abstract 
on-line by 11 April 2008 (Deadline has been extended). 
(http://www.image.ucar.edu/Workshops/TOY2008/focus2/Register.shtml)
Go to the Abstract Submission web page for additional information 
(http://www.image.ucar.edu/Workshops/TOY2008/focus2/abstract.shtml).
The abstract format is described on the Abstract Submission web page.

The workshop presentations will be posted online.

A registration fee is not required for the participants of the workshop. 
Some financial support for travel expenses will be available for 
graduate students and researchers, who would otherwise be unable to 
attend the workshop.

For additional information on this workshop please visit the website: 
http://www.image.ucar.edu/Workshops/TOY2008/focus2/
Email: toy2 at mail.ucar.edu

For additional information on the Theme of the Year Wokshops please 
visit http://www.image.ucar.edu/ThemeOfTheYear/2008/

Sincerely,

The Organizers
Keith Julien
Annick Pouquet
Bjorn Stevens
Joe Werne

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