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Newsgroups: comp.parallel Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!fpst From: levine@jadoube.mcs.anl.gov (David Levine) Subject: Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation Message-ID: <1993Jan22.161334.20831@hubcap.clemson.edu> Apparently-To: comp-parallel@uunet.uu.net Sender: usenet@antares.mcs.anl.gov Nntp-Posting-Host: jadoube.mcs.anl.gov Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:23:21 GMT Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 676 Announcement HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation (Part of the 1993 Simulation Multiconference) Sponsored by The Society for Computer Simulation March 29-April 1, 1993 Key Bridge Marriott * Arlington, Virginia The 1993 Simulation Multiconference will feature a special Symposium devoted to the impact of High Performance Computing on Computer Simulation. Topics to be addressed include : (1) high performance computing applications; (2) parallel algorithms and numerical methods; (3) methodologies to exploit HPC architectures; (4) visualization and validation of large scale computer simulations. The goal of the Symposium is to encourage innovation in High Performance Computing Technologies and to stimulate the use of these technologies in key areas of Computer Simulation. It will promote the exchange of ideas and information between universities, industry, and national laboratories supporting the development of High Performance Computing Applications which can provide solutions to current scientific and technical challenges. The program includes papers describing the current state of the art in computer simulation in the application areas identified as "Grand Challenges" in the U.S. Federal High Performance Computing Initiative. These areas include: * 3-D Computational Fluid Dynamics Models * Combustion Systems simulation * Predictions of weather, climate, and global changes * Models of turbulence in fluid flows * Computational solid mechanics applications * Nuclear reactor safety analysis * Computational ocean sciences and systems * Nuclear fusion applications * Computational Chemistry Requests for additional information about the 1993 High Performance Computing Symposium can be addressed to : Dr. Adrian Tentner, Chairman or High Performance Computing '93 High Performance Computing '93 The Society for Computer Simulation Argonne National Laboratory P.O.Box 17900 9700 S. Cass Avenue San Diego, CA 92177 Argonne, IL 60439 USA e-mail: tentner@pepper.ra.anl.gov (619)277-3888 ***************************************************************** ******************************************************************* PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ]]]]][[[[[[[[ PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ******************************************************************* HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM 1993 GRAND CHALLENGES IN COMPUTER SIMULATION Adrian M Tentner, Chair Argonne National Laboratory Rick L. Stevens, Co-Chair Argonne National Laboratory KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Tue. 8:30-10:00) : The High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative. Tom A. Kitchens Office of Scientific Computing, Energy Research,U.S. Department of Energy PLENARY Session (Mon. 10:30-12:00): 64. Overview of High Performance Computing Research at Argonne National Laboratory. Rick L. Stevens Argonne National Laboratory 6. High Performance Computing in Engineering John Burtt Idaho National Engineering Laboratory EG&G Idaho, Inc TRACK 1 : High Performance Computing Applications Session 1.1 (Mon. 1:30-3:00) : Large Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics Models. Chair: Adrian Tentner, Argonne National Laboratory 3. PAGOSA: A Massively-Parallel Multi-Material Hydrodynamic Model for Three-Dimensional High-Speed Flow and High-Rate Material Deformation. Doug Kothe, John Baumgardner, Tom Bennion, John Cerutti, Bart Daly, Kathy Holian, Ed Kober, Jay Mosso, Jim Painter, Rick Smith, Martin Torrey, Los Alamos National Lab. 15.Naval Ship Superstructure Design: Complex Three-Dimensional Flows Using an Efficient, Parallel Method A.M.Landsberg, J.P.Boris Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics Naval Research Laboratory 13.Fully Coupled Neutronic and Hydrodynamic Analysis of Space Nuclear Reactor Reentry Accidents. J.Buksa,J.Elson,R.Perry,W.Rider, Nuclear Technology and Eng. Division J.McGhee, Applied Theoretical Physics Division J.Morel, Computing and Communications Division D.Kothe, Theoretical Division Los Alamos National Laboratory 61. The Lattice Boltzmann Equation Method to Calculate the Compressible Flow. Yu Chen, Hirotada Ohashi, Mamoru Akiyama Dept. of Nuclear Eng., Univ. of Tokyo Session 1.2 (Tue. 10:30-12:00): Combustion Systems Simulation Chair: T. Daniel Butler, Los Alamos National Laboratory 27.Achieving Full Chemistry in Combustion Models Using POET (Parallel Object-oriented Environment and Toolkit). Jane F. Macfarlane Information and Computing Sciences Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory R.C.Armstrong, R.E.Cline, M.L.Koszykowski Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories 20.A Numerical Study of a Staged Gas Turbine Combustor for Emission Control. R.Chen, S.L.Yang Dept. of Mechanical Eng. and Engineering Mechanics Michigan Technological Univ. 14.Implementation of the Turn Function Method in a Three Dimensional Parallelized Hydrodynamics Code. Peter J. O'Rourke, Margaret S. Fairfield Los Alamos National Laboratory Session 1.3 (Tue. 1:30-3:00): High Performance Computing in the Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants, I Chair: David P. Weber, Argonne National Laboratory 42.High Performance Computing and Communications in Nuclear Science and Engineering. David P. Weber Argonne National Laboratory 43.Recent Progress in Computational Particle Transport. William R. Martin, Edward W. Larsen Dept. of Nuclear Eng. Univ. of Michigan 46.Nuclear Plant System Simulation and Analysis. Victor Ransom, Rajkisho Krishnamurthy School of Nuclear Eng. Purdue Univ. 45.Computational Thermal-Hydraulics and Neutronics Applications for Reactor Analysis and Safety. Adrian Tentner Argonne National Laboratory Session 1.4 (Tue. 3:30-5:00): High Performance Computing in the Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants, II Chair: David P. Weber, Argonne National Laboratory 48.Multi-component Flows in Finite Difference and Control Volume Approximations on Parallel Computer Architectures. Osman Yasar (1), Michael Corradini (1),Gregory Moses (1), Timothy Tautges (2) (1)- Dept. of Nuclear Eng., Univ of Wisconsin (2)- Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM 87185 47.Non-linear, Explicit Finite Element Analysis on Massively Parallel Computers. Ed Plaskacz, Argonne National Laboratory 49.CHECWORKS: A Corrosion Simulation Software Platform of the Future. Bindi Chexal, Elecrical Power Research Institute 44.TBD Barclay Jones Dept. of Nuclear Eng. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Session 1.5 (Wed. 8:30-10:00) : Weather Prediction and Ocean Simulation Chair: TBD 21.A Methodology for Developing High Performance Computing Models: Storm Scale Weather Prediction. N.Chrisochordes (1), K.Droegemeier (2), G.Fox (1), K.Mills (1) (1)- Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse Univ. (2)- Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms Univ. of Oklahoma 23.Optimization of a Massively Parallel Adaptive Mesh Advanced Climate Mode l Using Nested Spectral Dissection on CM2/CM5 MPPs. Harold Trease Los Alamos National Laboratory Jacek Myczkowski Thinking Machines Corp. 29.An Isopycnic Ocean Model on the Connection Machine. Sumner Dean, Los Alamos National Laboratory Session 1.6 (Wed. 1:30-3:00) : Molecular Dynamics and Semiconductor Applications I Chair: Priya Vashishta, Louisiana State University 2. Parallel Algorithms for Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta Concurrent Computing Lab. for Materials Simulations Louisiana State Univ. 4. Ultrafast High Precision Molecular Mechanic and Dynamic Calculations using a Floating Polynomial Force Field (FPFF) Representation. R.E.Cachau, Biomedical Supercomputer Center, National Cancer Inst. 5. Numerical Methods for the Quantum Hydrodynamic Model for Semiconductor Devices. Carl L. Gardner, Dept. of Computer Science, Duke Univ. Joseph W. Jerome, Mathematics Dept., Northwestern Univ. Chi-Wang Shu, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown Univ. Session 1.7 (Thu. 8:30-10:00) : Molecular Dynamics and Semiconductor Applications II Chair: TBD 9. Transient Simulation of Semiconductor Devices using SIMD Parallel Computers. Gwo-Chung Tai, James P. Darling, Isaak D. Mayergoyz Dept of Electrical Eng. and Institute fof Advanced Computer Studies The Univ. of Maryland 19.Scalable Parallel Algorithm for the Construction of Multidimensional Hamiltonians in the Discrete Variable Representation. Edward F. Hayes, Phil Pendergast, Zareh Darakjian Dept. of Chemistry, The Ohio State Univ. 63.Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Silica under very large positive and negative pressures on parallel computers. Priya Vashishta, Rajiv Kalia, Wei Jin, Aiichiro Nakano Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulation Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Dept. of Computer Science Louisiana State University Session 1.8 (Thu. 10:30-12:00) : Fusion Applications and High Performance Computing Chair: TBD 28.3-D Gyrokinetic Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Fusion Plasma Microturbulence on Parallel Computers. Timothy G. Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Univ. of California 22.Kinetic Simulation of Tokamak Plasmas using the Toroidal Particle Code T PC. M.J.LeBrun (1), M.Gray (1), G.Furnish (1), T.Tajima (1), Y.Kishimoto (2) (1)-Institute for Fusion Studies, Univ. of Texas at Austin (2)-Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute 63.Invited paper. TBD. TRACK 2 : MULTIPROCESSOR ALGORITHMS AND TOOLS. Session 2.1 (Mon. 3:30-5:00) : Multi-Processor Algorithms for Partial Differential Equations. Chair: Sudip Dosanjh, Sandia National Laboratories 30.Multi-Processor Hydrodynamics on Unstructured Grids. Manjit Sahota, Harold Trease Los Alamos National Laboratory 32.MIMD Methods for Engineering and Science Problems. William J. Camp, Sandia National Laboratories 16.Implementation of the Full 3D Fast3D (FCT) Code Including Complex Geometry on the Intel iPSC/860 Parallel Computer. T.R.Young Jr., A.M.Landsberg, J.P.Boris Naval Research Laboratory Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics 57. Parallel Out-of-Core LU Factorization Ali Mechentel, Gordon R. Slishman IBM Watson Research Center 35. Parallel Domain Decomposition and element-by-element Analysis of PDE's with applications to transport processes. G.F.Carey and E.Barragy Univ. of Texas at Austin Session 2.2 (Wed. 8:30-10:00) : Parallel Algorithms and Numerical Methods. Chair: Andrei Schor, Draper Laboratory 11.Algorithms and Software for Large Scale Eigenproblems on High Performance Computers. D.C.Sorensen, Dept. Computational and Applied Math., Rice Univ., P.A.Vu, Cray Research,Z.Tomasic, Dept. Computational and Applied Math., Rice Univ. 1. An Efficient Parallel Node-by-Node Finite Element AlgorithmUsing MasPar. Yang Hu, Dept. of Civil Eng., The Univ. of Akron 24.Iterative Solution Methods for Dense Linear Systems from Integral Equations on the Cray YMP/C90. Serge Kharchenko (1),Andy Nikishin (1),Alex Yeremin (1), Michael Heroux (2), Qasim Sheikh (2) (1)- Russian Academy of Sciences and Elegant Mathematics Inc. (2)- Cray Research Inc. 25.Implementation of Parallel Equation Solvers For Finite Element Methods on Parallel Supercomputers. S.C.Chuang, R.E.Fulton, School of Mechanical Eng. Georgia Institute of Technology Session 2.3 (Wed. 3:30-5:00) : Tools for Parallel Program Environments Chair: David M. Levine, Argonne National Laboratory 53. Practical Tools for Optimizing Parallel Programs Rudolf Eigenmann Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Center for Supercomputing Research and Development 54. Parallel Programming Tools for Distributed-Memory Computers. William Gropp, Mathematics and Computer Science Div. Argonne National Laboratory 55. Runtime Compilation Methods for Scalable Multiprocessors. Joel Saltz, Computer Science Dept, University of Maryland Session 2.4 (Thu. 8:30-10:00): Network Simulation and Analysis. Chair: TBD 26.Implementation and Characterization of a Probabilistic Mesh System with Dynamic Routing Peter Drexel, Zhizhang Shen, Liam Urbach Computer Science Dept., Plymouth State College University System of New Hampshire 17.Parallel Simulation of the GSM Mobile Communication Network on Minisupercomputer. Jarmo Harju, Matti Salmi Data Communications Laboratory Lappeenranta Univ. of Technology 18.Processor Assignment Algorithms for Parallel Simulation of Irregular Task Graphs. Raja Neogi, Protocol, A Division of Zycad Meghanad D. Wagh, Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, Lehigh Univ. TRACK 3 : VISUALIZATION, VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION OF COMPUTER SIMULATIONS Session 3.1 (Tue. 10:30-12:00) : Validation and Verification of Computer Simulations I Chair: Julian Palmore, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Illinois 58. Verification, Validation and Visualization of Dynamical Processes in a Parallel Computing Environment. Julian Palmore, Dept. of Mathematics Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 35.Guidance for Model Developers and Managers Regarding Verification, Validation and even Accreditation. Paul K. Davis, RAND Corp. 36.The MORS (Military Operations Research Society) Perspective on Verification, Validation and Accreditation. James J. Sikora, BDM International 37.Tools for transforming and debugging parallel computers. David A. Padua Center for Supercomputing Research and Development , Urbana. Session 3.2 (Wed. 10:30-12:00) : Visualization of Computer Simulations I Chair: John Rowlan, Argonne National Laboratory 51. Interactive Visualization in Distributed Environments. James B. Salem, Thinking Machines Corp. 52. Visualizing Large Scale Computations. Joel Welling Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Carnegie Mellon University 50. Visualizing Parallel Program Behavior Ewing Lusk Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 62. LinkWinds, A system for Interactive Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization Allan S. Jacobson, Andrew L. Berkin Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Session 3.3 (Wed. 1:30-3:00) : Validation and Verification of Computer Simulations II Chair: Paul Davis, RAND Corp. 10.Field Validation of High-Resolution Computer Based HMMWV and High Mobility Trailer HMT Analytical Models Michael Letherwood, David D. Gunter, Roger A. Wehage U.S.Army Tank-Automotive Command (TACOM) 60. Toward a verifiable approach to the design of Concurrent Computations. Gregory Chisholm, Argonne National Laboratory 34.Verifying Discrete Event Simulation Containing Dynamical Systems. Julian I. Palmore, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Session 3.4 (Thu. 10:30-12:00) : Visualization of Computer Simulations II Chair: John Burtt, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory 8. Visualization Methods for Suspension System Design Mikell K. Eiler, Francis B. Hoogterp Chassis and Running Gear Div., U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Command 7. Visualization of Advanced Reactors John Burtt Idaho National Engineering Laboratory EG&G Idaho, Inc 12.Realistic Modeling of Brain Structures with remote Interaction between Simulations. Erik De Schutter, Jason Leigh, James M. Brower, Tom Defanti California Inst. of Technology and The Univ. of Illinois at Chicago ***************************************************************** ............................................................... The conference registration and hotel reservation forms and info REGISTRATION FORM REGISTRATION FORM REGISTRATION FORM HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Sponsored by the Society for Computer Simulation Part of 1993 International Simulation Multiconference March 29-April 1, 1993 Key Bridge Marriott, Arlington, Virginia A. General Information of the Participant Name: Organisation: Address: City: State: ZIP: Member#: Phone: (Member rate applies to members of SCS, IEEE, and ACM) B. Conference Registration Fee: EARLY Registration:(through March 1, 1993) Author/Member: $ 315 ( ), Student: $ 50 ( ), Non-member: $ 375 LATE Registration:(after March 1, 1993) Author/Member: $ 375 ( ), Student: $ 50 ( ), Non-member: $ 460 NOTE. Pre-registration must be received at SCS BY MARCH 1, 1993. On-site registration is available. All registrants, except students, receive 1 copy of the Proceedings and ticket for reception and (possibly) a luncheon. 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