Description

This workshop will bring together CSCAPES researchers, members of other SciDAC centers and application groups, and members of the academic community, to discuss how combinatorial scientific computing can advance the state of the art in computational science and petascale computing. This is a research area important to both DOE Office of Science and Sandia. The workshop will also include an educational component, and we will invite some graduate students and postdocs to train them in this area.   

Workshop attendance is targeted at 30-40 people to provide an environment conducive to discussion. Attendees will include SciDAC researchers and selected members from industry, academia, and government, with expertise in algorithms, high-performance computers, and applications.

The purpose of the workshop is to foster interactions among CSCAPES researchers, application developers, and the academic community. Discrete and combinatorial techniques have long played an important role in scientific computing but only recently has CSC emerged as a recognized research area. Some goals for this workshop are:

• CSCAPES researchers will present tools and techniques in the areas of load-balancing, automatic differentiation, and parallel graph algorithms.
• Application status (how are things done now?) and current needs (what are the bottlenecks?)
• Discuss and identify directions for future research and software development.
• The impact of emerging architectures (multi-core, many-core) and programming models.