SCI WORKSHOP: UK-US High Performance Computing Workshop, April 15-16, 2004

第三届EPSRC/NSF/UK/US研讨会将于2004年4月15 - 16日在华盛顿，华盛顿特区举行。 这次会议将再次根据美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和工程与物理科学研究理事会（EPSRC）之间签署的谅解备忘录（MOU）组织（以促进两国在研究活动中的协作与合作）。第三次研讨会的主要目标将是促进更多的合作，在高性能计算领域，来自美国和联合王国的计算科学之间的操作和互动，重点是材料和生物应用，特别是那些需要使用大型国家计算设施的应用。 会议的目标是阐明当前和未来的需求（生物和材料领域）至少在以下方面：现有HPC机器和数据芯片的当前和未来使用;基于网格的应用程序的当前和未来需求以及下一代HPC硬件和软件需求。 会议还将讨论生物和材料科学可以进行有益合作的领域，以及如何促进美英合作项目的发展，并将讨论这些项目的障碍（资金，相互使用设施等）。美国的组织者是匹兹堡超级计算中心的拉尔夫·罗斯基和宾夕法尼亚大学的迈克尔·克莱因。 英国组织者将是来自牛津大学的Mark Sansom。 国家科学基金会的代表也将受到邀请，英国资助机构的代表也将受到邀请。

The 3rd EPSRC/NSF/UK/US Workshop will be held in Washington, D.C. April 15 -16, 2004. The meeting will again be organized on the basis of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC( to promote collaboration and co-operating in research activities between the two countries.The primary object of this 3rd Workshop will be to promote more co-operation and interaction among the computational sciences from the United States and the United Kingdom in the area of High Performance Computing, focusing on materials and biological applications, especially those requiring access to thelarge national computing facilities. Goals for the meeting are to articulate current and future needs (for the bio and materials areas) with respect to the following areas at a minimum: current and future uses of existing HPC machines and data rchives; current and future needs for grid based applications and next generation HPC hardware and software needs. The meeting will also discuss areas where the biological and materials sciences could profitable collaborate and how to facilitate the development of US-UK collaborative projects and will discuss impediments to such projects (funding, use of each others facilities, etc.).The US organizers are Ralph Roskies of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Michael Klein of the University of Pennsylvania. The UK organizer will be Mark Sansom from Oxford. Representatives of the NSF will also be invited, as will representatives form the UK funding agencies.