Planning Conference on Computational Geodynamics (July 2002)

0221772理查森这项奖助金用于支持2002年7月25日至26日在加利福尼亚州塔霍城格兰利巴肯会议中心举行的计划会议的相关费用。规划会议的目的是为将来提交给地球科学部的社区支持和可访问的科学中心/计算设施提案奠定基础。来自美国和国际学术界和政府实验室的大约40名代表地球物理建模、地震学和地球动力学理论领域的主要学者将参加会议。原则上，该中心将专注于开放开发和实施复杂的数值算法，以模拟地球深部过程的动力学，其中许多即使不是不可能，也很难通过实验验证。该设施将使地幔和地核对流和地磁场行为的更现实、更复杂的模型得以开发和运行，而不是目前由于个人研究人员、学术机构和超级计算机中心的有限和/或专用计算和人力资源而可能实现的。理想的设施还将确保重要的地球动力学规范的共享和标准化基准，不仅在美国学术界，而且在国际上。此外，这样的设施最终将为目前受到计算和智力资源不足阻碍的研究人员及其学生提供机会，使他们能够参与最先进的理论地球动力学研究。＊＊＊

0221772RichardsThis grant supports costs associated with a planning conference to be held at the Granlibakken Conference Center in Tahoe City, CA on 25-26 July 2002. The intent of the planning conference is to develop the foundation of a community-supported and accessible science center/computational facility proposal to be submitted in the future to the Division of Earth Sciences. Approximately 40 participants representing leading scholars in the fields of geophysical modeling, seismology and geodynamo theory from U.S. and international academia and government laboratories will attend. In principle, the center would focus on open development and implementation of complex numerical algorithms for simulating the dynamics of deep earth processes, many of which are difficult if not impossible to verify experimentally. The facility would enable more realistic and complex models of mantle and core convection and geomagnetic field behavior to be developed and run than is currently possible due to limited and/or dedicated computational and personnel resources of individual investigators, academic institutions and supercomputer centers. The ideal facility would also ensure sharing and standardized benchmarking of important geodynamic codes not only across the U. S. academic community, but also internationally. Further, such a facility would ultimately provide access to investigators and their students who are currently hampered by insufficient resources, both computational and intellectual, to become involved in state-of-the-art theoretical geodynamic research. ***