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

Pflops-2研讨会与之前的研讨会不同，将是有大量相关领域专家（约200人）参加的会议式会议。会议将开放出席，并将印发和广泛散发征稿通知。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，应用和算法。将总结以往深入研讨会和研究的结果。焦点小组将详细说明完整的系统方法和在实施前需要解决的问题。论文征集将邀请有关千万亿次计算的各个方面的报告。将应邀就1994年2月讲习班以来所研究的领域举行会谈。此外，还将征集一些尚未被千万亿次浮点运算计划考虑的领域的报告，以及一些全新的方法，如量子计算、量子点、纳米技术、连续体计算和元计算。虽然这些技术还处于发展初期，但它们对未来高性能计算的潜力值得关注。与会者将共同努力，评估替代方法的相对风险和机会，并揭示更多可能出现的问题。要讨论的一个领域将是足够复杂的系统的可靠性，以实现千万亿次浮点运算，并将涉及可靠性增强、容错和封装问题。Pflops-2将在加州圣巴巴拉举行。讲习班负责人和编辑人员将在讲习班结束后不久编写一份正式报告。本次研讨会将结束正式的千兆次浮点运算系列研讨会，将为计算机科学界和政府项目经理建立高端计算研究的新方向提供坚实的信息基础。

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.