Symposium: Massively Parallel Simulations of Materials Response

本次研讨会将向桑迪亚国家实验室的Steve Plimpton博士致敬，他是LAMMPS分子动力学(MD)模拟器(http://lammps.sandia.gov/).)的主要开发者LAMMPS是一种开源、大规模并行的MD代码，计算效率极高，包含许多潜力，使其能够模拟许多不同的材料，并免费分发给技术社区。因此，它被广泛使用，并被视为比较其他MD码的标准。Plimpton博士通过开发、免费传播和维护LAMMPS软件，为技术科学和工程界做出了巨大的贡献。拟议的特别研讨会将突出使用LAMMPS完成的大量工作，并表彰Plimpton博士对社区的贡献。将强调利用大规模原子水平模拟的好处来理解基本材料现象，强调使用并行技术，原子模拟现在可以达到实验长度尺度的事实。研讨会将于2011年2月27日至3月3日在圣地亚哥举行，作为TMS春季会议的一部分。该研讨会已经得到了TMS/ASM计算机模拟委员会的认可。摘要将通过正常的TMS程序提交。我们预计这次研讨会将有六场会议，包括特邀演讲者和来稿演讲者。

This symposium will honor Dr. Steve Plimpton, Sandia National Lab, who is the primary developer of the LAMMPS molecular dynamics (MD) simulator (http://lammps.sandia.gov/). LAMMPS is an open-source, massively parallel MD code that is extremely computationally efficient, contains numerous potentials that enable it to model many different materials, and is freely distributed to the technical community. Consequently, it is widely used and is regarded as the standard by which other MD codes are compared. Dr. Plimpton has done a great service to the technical science and engineering community by developing, freely disseminating, and maintaining the LAMMPS software.The proposed special symposium would highlight the large amount of work performed using LAMMPS and honor Dr. Plimpton's contributions to the community. Contributions will be stressed that utilize the benefits of large scale atomic level simulations for understanding basic materials phenomena, stressing the fact that using parallel techniques, atomistic simulations can now reach experimental length scales. The symposium will take place in San Diego, as part of the TMS Spring Meeting, Feb 27 to March 3, 2011. The symposium has already been endorsed by the TMS/ASM Computer Simulation Committee. The abstracts will be submitted through the normal TMS procedures. We expect to have six sessions for this symposium, including both invited and contributed speakers.