[Colloquium] Fwd: Computation Institute Talk by Thom H. Dunning, Jr.

[Margery Ishmael]

> COMPUTATION INSTITUTE -TALK
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> Date:   Monday, July 10, 2006
> Time:  11:00 a.m.
> Place:  Research Institutes Building, RI 480
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> Speaker: Thom H. Dunning, Jr., Director, National Center for  
> Supercomputing Applications and Department of Chemistry, University  
> of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
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> Title:  Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation Realizing  
> the Promise of Petascale Computing for Science and Engineering
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> Abstract:
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> The National Science Foundation has recently announced its  
> intention to acquire, deploy and operate a petascale computing  
> system to advance science and engineering research and education.   
> NSF intends to place this system in production on or before June  
> 30, 2011. Petascale computing and petascale science and engineering  
> are long term efforts—a petascale computer will strain most  
> existing computing technologies (hardware and software) and the  
> applications, knowledge
> and expertise needed to use this capability to advance science and  
> engineering are not well developed.
>
> We propose to establish a consortium of universities and  
> laboratories in the Great Lakes region to realize the promise of  
> petascale computing for science and engineering—the Great Lakes  
> Consortium for Petascale Computation. Working under the Consortium  
> umbrella and with the active participation of the computer  
> industry, teams of faculty, researchers and students from the  
> Consortium members will focus on developing the computing systems  
> software needed to field a reliable, robust petascale computing  
> system and will explore new hardware and software technologies for  
> achieving petascale (and beyond!) computing. Consortium teams will  
> also develop a broad range of scientific and engineering  
> applications designed to take full advantage
> of the capabilities of petascale computing systems for advancing  
> science and engineering.
>
> The above activities will initially be funded by the universities  
> and laboratories involved in the Consortium—time is short, we  
> cannot afford delay. However, many federal agencies (NSF, DOE,  
> NASA, DARPA, etc.) are now actively developing petascale computing  
> and petascale science and engineering programs, so external funding  
> will be available to support these activities in the future. The  
> range of experience and expertise available within the Consortium  
> as well as solid evidence of prior collaborations sponsored by the  
> Consortium will provide a competitive advantage for joint proposals  
> by Consortium members.
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> Host:  Ian Foster, Director, Computation Institute
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