HPC Applications in Natural Sciences and Engineering

jointly organized by

the SPEEDUP Society,
the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS/SCSC),
and
the Swiss Association of Computational Chemistry (SACC)

24-25 September 1998
Universität Bern
Institut für Exakte Wissenschaften, Vorlesungssaal 099
Sidlerstrasse 5

Thursday, September 24, 1998

12:00 - 13:00

Registration

13:00 - 13:15

Opening Address

P. Arbenz, Institute of Scientific Computing, ETH Zürich

Fluid Dynamics and VLSI Design

Session Chair: M. H. Gutknecht, CSCS/SCSC

13:15 - 13:45

Direct Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Turbulence at High Reynolds Numbers

S. Gavrilakis, Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, EPF Lausanne

13:45 - 14:15

Numerical Flow Simulation in Small Interstices of Rotating Machines

J.-D. Reymond, Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, EPF Lausanne

14:15 - 14:45

Parallel Multigrid Methods for the Continuity Equations in Semiconductor Device Simulation

K. Gärtner, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin

14:45 - 15:30

Coffee Break

Fast Algorithms for the n-Body Problem

Session Chair: W. P. Petersen CSCS/SCSC

15:30 - 16:00

Vortex Methods and their Applications in Fluid Dynamics

P. Koumoutsakos, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, ETH Zürich

16:00 - 16:30

Cosmological Simulations Using Adaptive Particle-Mesh Methods

H. M. P. Couchman, Department of Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, Canada

16:30 - 17:00

Calculating the Structure and Chaos Owing to Gravity in the Universe

G. R. Lake, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.

17:00 - 17:30

News on the Swiss-Tx Supercomputer Project

A. Gunzinger, Electronics Laboratory, ETH Zürich, and Supercomputing Systems AG

19:30  

Common dinner sponsored by Compaq/DEC

Talk by D. Gillot, High Performance Technical Computing Manager Europe of Compaq

Friday, September 25, 1998

Domain Decomposition

Session Chair: H. H. Nägeli, Speedup Society and University of Neuchâtel

09:00 - 09:30

On the Design of Parallel Global and Local Weather Forecast Programs

O. Bröker, GMD/SCAI, St. Augustin and Institute of Scientific Computing, ETH Zürich

09:30 - 10:00

Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations using the Domain Decomposition Approach

D. Brown, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université de Nancy, France

10:00 - 10:45

Coffee Break

Computational Chemistry

Session Chair: H. P. Lüthi, CSCS/SCSC and SACC

10:45 - 11:15

Megahertz and Gigaflops: Protein NMR Spectroscopy and High-Performance Computing

P. Güntert, Institute for Molecular Biology & Biophysics, ETH Zürich

11:15 - 11:45

Large-Scale ab initio Simulations of Chemical Reactions

J. Hutter, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart

11:45 - 12:30

Building HPC Software Infrastructure: How Do We Best Couple Computer Science and Computational Science

P. Taylor, San Diego Supercomputer Center and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, U.S.A.

12:30 - 12:45

Announcement of the 25th SPEEDUP Workshop

K. Decker, Speedup Society and CSCS/SCSC

12:45

End of the Workshop