Joint 33rd Speedup and 19th PARS Workshop

University of Basel

Keynote speakers include:

Dr. Alessandro Laio, CSCS, Switzerland: "Accelerating Car-Parrinello simulations"
Dr. Wanda Andreoni, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich: "Computer simulations in Biology and Material Science: from the Teraflop of the Blue Gene/L are"
Professor Reiner Hartenstein, University of Kaiserslautern: "Data-Stream-based Computing and Morphware"
Professor Gaston Gonnet, ETH Zurich: "Computing Phylogenetic Trees Based on Mitochondrial DNA (Eve's Tree)"

The SPEEDUP Programme contains the following speakers:

Dr. Achim Basermann, NEC CCLR: "Parallel Iterative Solvers for Sparse Linear Systems in Circuit Simulation"
Professor Stefan Goedecker, University of Basel: "Plane Wave Electronic Structure Calculations on Parallel Computers Composed of Multiprocessor Nodes"
Professor Andrew Lumsdaine, University of Indiana: "Generic Programming for High Performance Scientific Applications"
Professor Markus Meuwly, University of Basel: "Reactions in Complex Systems"
Professor Ben Moore, University Zurich: "Computational cosmology"
Professor Alfredo Pasquarello, EPFL IRRMA: "Computer simulation as an atomic-scale microscope"
Dr. Joachim Stadel, University Zurich: "The zBox: Playing Cosmic Games"
Dr. Andreas Wächter, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center: "Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimisation with Applications in Circuit Tuning"
Dr. Andreas Witzig, ETH Zurich: "Spectral Portrait of Eigenmodes in Optical Cavities"

The PARS Programme speakers are:

Faruk Bagci, University of Augsburg
Dr. Thomas Brandes, GMD SCAI
Andreas C. Döring, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich: "Configurable Circuits for Routing Direction Determination in Regular Networks"
Henryk Feider, University of Potsdam: "Gridmake: The Missing Link for Compilation in the Grid"
Wolfgang Frings, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Dr. Martin Griebl, University of Passau
Wolfgang Heenes, Technical University of Darmstadt
Gerhard Lienhart, University of Mannheim
Holger Pals, University of Lübeck
Dr. Alfred Strey, University of Ulm
Dr. Christian Wattinger, University of Basel: "Monitoring and Controlling Scientific Experiments: Anywhere - Anytime"