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Theme for 2008: Geophysical Turbulence Phenomena

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Theme of the Year 2008 Banner Petascale Computing

Workshop 2
Petascale Computing: Its Impact on Geophysical Modeling and Simulation

5-7 May 2008; Boulder, CO

AGENDA

NCAR, Mesa Laboratory, Main Seminar Room
1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder, CO

Monday, May 5, 2008

8:00-8:45 Registration and Coffee
8:45 - 9:00 Opening Address
Larry Winter, Deputy Director, NCAR
9:00 - 9:40 (Some) Answers to the Petascale Challenge [Abs] | [Lecture]
Rich Loft, Computational & Information Systems Laboratory, CISL
NCAR
9:40 - 10:15 High-Resolution Ocean and Ice Models for Climate [Abs] | [Lecture]
Philip Jones, Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:15 - 10:45 Ubiquitous Interactive Visualization of 3-D Mantle Convection Using a Web Portal with Java and Ajax Framework [Abs] | [Lecture]
David A. Yuen, Laboratory of Computational Science and Engineering and
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
University of Minnesota
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:55 DNS of Turbulence Under Simple Geometrical Conditions - Universality in Small-Scale Statistics [Abs] | [Lecture]
Yukio Kaneda, Nagoya University, Japan
11:55 - 12:25 ESM Algorithmic Acceleration for Petascale Systems  [Abs] | [Lecture]
Amik St-Cyr, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
NCAR
12:25 - 12:55 Multi-Scale Modeling of Turbulence and Microphysics in Clouds [Abs] | [Lecture]
Steve Krueger, University of Utah
12:55p - 2:30 Lunch (Cafeteria stops serving at 1:30pm)
2:30 - 3:10 Petascale Computing and the Terra Incognita [Abs] | [Lecture]
John Wyngaard, Meteorology and Geo-Environmental Engineering
Penn State University
3:10 - 3:40 Low-Order Methods for Simulation of Turbulence in Complex Geometries [Abs] | [Lecture]
Thomas Lund, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder
CoRA Division
3:40 - 4:20 Can Scalable Development Lead to Scalable Execution? [Abs] | [Lecture]
Damian Rouson, Scalable Computing Research & Development
Sandia National Laboratories
4:25 - 4:50 Visit to CISL Computing Center

Tuesday, May 6

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
9:00 - 9:40 Global Ocean Forecasting Systems [Abs] | [Lecture]
Eric Chassignet,Center for Ocean Atmospheric Prediction Studies
Florida State University
9:40 - 10:10 High Resolution Simulations of Ocean Boundary Layers with Stochastic Wave Breaking [Abs] | [Lecture]
Peter Sullivan, National Center for Atmospheric Research
10:10 - 10:40 Predictions of Optical Scale Atmospheric Turbulence with a Typical NWP code:
Lessons Learned Projected to Petascale Computing
 [Abs] | [Lecture]
D. Scott McRae, North Carolina State University
10:40 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 11:50 Bayesian Modeling and Computation in Complex Geophysical Problems [Abs] | [Lecture]
Mark Berliner, Department of Statistics
Ohio State University
11:50 - 12:20 Clear-air Turbulence Simulation and Observation - Implications for Parameterization [Abs] | [Lecture]
Joseph Werne, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder
CoRA Division
12:20 - 12:50 Hybrid Large-Eddy Simulations/ Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes, Formulation for Numerical Weather Prediction  [Abs] | [Lecture]
Hassan A. Hassan, North Carolina State University
12:50p - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 3:10 Modeling Atmospheric Circulations with Soundproof Equations [Abs] | [Lecture]
Piotr Smolarkiewicz, Meso and Micro-scale Meteorology and IMAGe
NCAR
3:10 - 3:40 Transition in Energy Spectrum for Forced Stratified Turbulence [Abs] | [Lecture]
Yoshifumi Kimura, Graduate School of Mathematics
Nagoya University
3:40 - 4:40 Round Table Discussion of NSF funding opportunities  [Abs] | [Lecture]
Junping Wang, National Science Foundation
5:30 - 7:30 Reception
Millennium Harvest House

Wednesday, May 7

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
9:00 - 9:40 The Peril of the Petascale: Looming Challenges in Large Scale Computational Science [Abs] | [Lecture]
John Clyne, VAPOR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory (CISL)
NCAR
9:40 - 10:15 Structures and Statistics: Understanding Turbulent Transport Using Petascale Resources [Abs] | [Lecture]
Mark Rast, Astrophysical and Planetary Science
University of Colorado
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:25 Long-Time Integrations of a Convective PDE on the Sphere by RBF Collocation [Abs] | [Lecture]
Bengt Fornberg, Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Colorado, Boulder
11:25 - 11:55 Recent Developments in Meshless PDE Approximations [Abs] | [Lecture]
Edward Kansa, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Department
University of California, Davis
11:55 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1:00 Subgrid-Scale Model Tests Using Petascale Computers [Abs] | [Lecture]
Chenning Tong, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Clemson University
1:00 - 1:30 Exploiting Symmetries to Explore the Dynamics of Ideal and Dissipative MHD Flows with Wide Scale Separation  [Abs] | [Lecture]
Ed Lee, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
NCAR
1:30 - 2:00 Customized Approximation with Radial Basis Functions [Abs] | [Lecture]
Grady Wright, Boise State University
2:00 - 2:20 Closing Remarks
2:30 - 2:50 Guided tour to NCAR's Vislab
   
2:50   WORKSHOP ADJOURNS