Planning Conference on Computational Geodynamics (July 2002)

0221772理查兹这笔赠款用于支付将于2002年7月25-26日在加利福尼亚州塔霍市格兰利巴肯会议中心举行的规划会议的相关费用。规划会议的目的是为今后提交地球科学司的社区支持和无障碍的科学中心/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约40名代表地球物理建模、地震学和地球发电机理论领域的知名学者的代表将出席会议。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，其中许多算法很难，如果不是不可能进行实验验证的话。由于个别研究人员、学术机构和超级计算机中心有限和/或专门的计算和人力资源，该设施将能够开发和运行比目前可能的地幔和地核对流和地磁场行为更现实和更复杂的模型。理想的设施还将确保重要地球动力学代码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，这种设施最终将为研究人员及其学生提供途径，他们目前受到计算和智力资源不足的阻碍，无法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. ***