U.S.-Australia Workshop on Strengthening Collaborations in High Performance Computing and Applications Research, October 2-4, 2003, Gold Coast, Australia

该奖项支持11名美国计算机科学家和一名研究生与澳大利亚同行一起参加研讨会，讨论网格超级计算的理想特性和能力，以及未来将从这些先进能力中受益的合作领域。会议的共同组织者是Radha Nandkumar博士和Daniel Reed博士，他们是位于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的国家超级计算机应用中心（NCSA）的主任，以及澳大利亚国立大学的John O'Callaghan博士，他是澳大利亚高级计算伙伴关系（APAC）的执行主任。研讨会将在澳大利亚昆士兰州举行的亚太地区年度会议之后举行，澳大利亚学术机构和CSIRO之间所有重要超级计算机用户群体的代表将参加会议。美国的参与者将来自NCSA和其他NSF TerraGrid站点。澳大利亚最近开始了一项网格计划。本次研讨会为确定未来的互补开发活动提供了机会，这些活动将确保在美国和澳大利亚建设的电网基础设施能够支持并提供互操作性的试验场。它将促进联合项目和示范，并通过共享和整合两国的智力资源来提高网格计算的效益。更广泛的影响研讨会的一个重要成果将是加强澳大利亚和美国的超级计算机和网格用户之间的联系。这种更牢固的关系将为两国的研究生和博士后/早期职业科学家提供国际研究机会。它还将利用两个研究界的专业知识，促进各种科学和工程学科中复杂的真正全球性问题的解决方案。

0338093NandkumarThis award supports the participation of eleven US computer scientists and a graduate student in a workshop with Australian counterparts to discuss desirable characteristics and capabilities of Grid supercomputing and areas for future collaboration that will benefit from these advanced capabilities. The co-organizers of the meeting are Dr. Radha Nandkumar and Dr. Daniel Reed, Director of the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dr. John O'Callaghan of the Australian National University, who is Executive Director of the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC.) The workshop will be held following the annual meeting of APAC in Queensland, Australia, which will be attended by representatives of all significant supercomputer user groups among Australian academic institutions as well as the CSIRO. The U.S. participants will come from the NCSA and other NSF TerraGrid sites. Australia has recently begun a Grid initiative. This workshop provides the opportunity to define future complementary development activities that will ensure that the grid infrastructures being built in the U.S. and Australia can support and provide a testing ground for interoperability. It will catalyze joint projects and demonstrations and enhance the benefits of grid computing by sharing and integrating the intellectual resources of the two countries.Broader ImpactsAn important outcome of the workshop will be to strengthen connections among the supercomputer and grid users of Australia and the U.S. This stronger relationship will facilitate international research opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral/early career scientists of the two countries. It will also leverage the expertise of the two research communities to promote the solution of complex truly global scale problems in a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines.