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Research for Petascale Computing Technologies for Science and Engineering Workshop

Location:   Auditorium, NCSA Building
1205 W. Clark Street

Date: April 20, 2006
Time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Breakfast and lunch provided

8:00 am Breakfast/Social
8:30 am Welcome and Introduction
Thom Dunning, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Department of Chemistry, UIUC
8:45 am Software Problems on the Road to Petascale Computing
Marc Snir, Department of Computer Science, UIUC
9:30 am Hardware Path to Petascale Computing for Science and Engineering
Wen-mei Hwu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Scientific Data Mining-Challenges at the Petascale
Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:15 am Petascale Applications and Site Requirements - How Hard Can It Be?
Rob Pennington, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Adaptive Algorithms and Software for Partial Differential Equations
Phillip P. Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2:15 pm If You're Not Scared, You're Not Thinking Big Enough
Robert J. Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Panel Discussion
5:00 pm Closing Remarks
Thom Dunning, NCSA and Department of Chemistry, UIUC