Symposium: Massively Parallel Simulations of Materials Response

本次研讨会将荣誉博士史蒂夫普林顿，桑迪亚国家实验室，谁是LAMMPS分子动力学（MD）模拟器（http：//lammps.sandia.gov/）的主要开发者。 LAMMPS是一个开源的大规模并行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，并被视为标准的其他MD代码进行比较。 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，并荣誉Plimpton博士对社区的贡献。 贡献将强调，利用大规模的原子级模拟的好处，了解基本材料的现象，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。 该研讨会已得到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。 我们预计将有六个会议为本次研讨会，包括邀请和贡献的发言者。

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.