Geoscience Applications on Petascale Systems: Requirements Workshops; Early in August-2005 for a 4-6 Weeks Period

该项目是一项规划工作，旨在对地球科学研究挑战的高端计算需求进行详细分析，并就高端计算系统设计的建筑趋势对地球科学研究的影响分享信息。通过电话会议、研讨会和专业会议外展，该项目将汇集来自主要高端系统和处理器供应商的地球科学建模师、计算科学家和架构专家。这一规划工作与地球科学研究界成员最近对地球科学研究的千万亿次计算合作实验室的科学需求和技术可行性的研究中提出的活动建议是一致的。这一努力的预期结果是：(i)技术需求的发展将有助于获得用于地球科学研究的高端计算系统的团体，以及（ii）计算地球科学界更加关注将算法设计与计算架构设计相匹配，从而最终提高地球科学界有效利用高端计算资源的能力。

The project is a planning effort designed to develop a detailed analysis of the high-end computing requirements of geoscience research challenges and to share information on the implications, for geoscience research, of architectural trends in high-end computing system design. Through tele-conferences, workshops and outreach at professional meetings, the project will bring together geoscience modelers, computational scientists, and architecture experts from major high-end system and processor vendors. This planning effort is consistent with a recommendation for such an activity that emerged from a recent study, by members of the geoscience research community, of the scientific need for, and technical feasibility of, a petascale computing collaboratory for geoscience research. The anticipated consequences of this effort are: (i) the development of technical requirements that will be useful to groups acquiring high-end computing systems for geoscience research, and (ii) a stronger focus within the computational geosciences community on matching algorithm design to computational architecture design, leading eventually to increases in the ability of the geosciences community to make effective use of high-end computational resources.