WORKSHOP: The 2nd Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Peta(fl)ops Computing to be held February 15-19, 1999 in Santa Barbara, CA at the Doubletree Hotel

与前一次不同的是，第二期讲习班将是一次会议式的会议，有大量相关领域的专家（约200人）出席。 与会者将开放，并将发出和广泛散发征集文件的通知。 还将邀请参与者和各自学科的公认领导者，包括技术，架构，系统软件，应用程序和算法。 将总结以往深入研讨会和研究的结果。 重点小组将详细说明完整的系统方法和实施前需要解决的问题。 论文征集将邀请有关petaflops规模计算的各个方面的演讲。 将应邀就自1994年2月讲习班以来所研究的领域举行会谈。 此外，将在Petaflops计划尚未考虑的一些领域以及量子计算，量子点，纳米技术，连续计算和元计算等全新方法中征求演讲。 虽然这些都是刚刚起步的发展，他们的潜力，未来非常高的性能计算值得关注。 与会者将共同评估替代办法的相对风险和机会，并揭示其他可能的问题。 要讨论的一个领域将是足够复杂的系统的可靠性，以实现petaflops，并将涉及可靠性增强，容错和封装问题。 Pflops-2将在加州的圣巴巴拉举行。 研讨会结束后不久，研讨会负责人和编辑人员将编写一份正式报告。 本次研讨会将结束正式的Petaflops研讨会系列将为计算机科学界和政府项目管理人员提供强大的信息基础，以建立高端计算研究的新方向。

The Pflops-2 workshop, unlike its predecessor, will be a conference style meeting involving a large attendance (approximately 200) of experts in related fields. Attendance will be open and a call for papers will be issued and disseminated widely. There will also be invited participants and recognized leaders within their respective disciplines including technologies, architecture, system software, applications, and algorithms. Findings from previous in-depth workshops and studies will be summarized. Focus groups will provide detailed descriptions of complete systems approaches and the issues requiring resolution prior to implementation. The call for papers will invite presentations on all aspects of petaflops-scale computing. There will be invited talks on the areas that have been studied since the February 1994 workshop. In addition, presentations will be solicited in a few areas not yet considered by the Petaflops initiative, as well radically new approaches such as Quantum Computing , Quantum Dots, Nanotechnologies, Continuum Computing, and Metacomputing. While these are incipient in development, their potential for future very high performance computing warrants attention. Participants will work together to assess the relative risk and opportunities of alternative approaches and expose additional possible problems. One area to be discussed will be reliability for systems of sufficient complexity to achieve a petaflops and will involve reliability enhancement, fault tolerance, and packaging issues. Pflops-2 will be held in Santa Barbara, California. A formal report will be developed by the workshop leaders and editorial staff shortly after the conclusion of the workshop. This workshop will concluded the formal Petaflops workshop series will provide a strong foundation of information for the computer science community and government program managers to establish new directions in high end computing research.