Symposium: Massively Parallel Simulations of Materials Response

本次研讨会将表彰桑迪亚国家实验室的 Steve Plimpton 博士，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 MD 代码，计算效率极高，包含众多潜力，使其能够对许多不同的材料进行建模，并且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 代码的标准。 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服务。拟议的特别研讨会将突出使用 LAMMPS 所做的大量工作，并表彰 Plimpton 博士对社区的贡献。 将强调利用大规模原子级模拟的优势来理解基本材料现象，并强调使用并行技术，原子模拟现在可以达到实验长度尺度。 该研讨会将于 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。 我们预计本次研讨会将举行六场会议，包括受邀演讲者和特邀演讲者。

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.