Workshop: Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Grid Methods at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, March 1997

结构化自适应网格细化网格方法研讨会，于1997年3月12日至13日在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市明尼苏达大学数学及其应用研究所举行。结构自适应网格细化（SAMR）方法在解决困难的科学应用中发挥着越来越大的作用，包括可压缩流、宇宙学和局部自旋密度计算中出现的电子结构。即使在顺序实现中，为SAMR代码提供足够的软件支持也是一项挑战。在并行实现中，由于计算和通信需求是动态的、依赖于数据的和不规则的，因此程序复杂性在定性上增加了。目标并行系统的快速发展只会使设计决策进一步复杂化。建议举办研讨会，汇集来自学术界、国家实验室和工业界的应用、数值方法和软件开发方面的专家。研讨会的目标是确定SAMR的应用和实现中的共同基础，以及需要专业化的问题。研讨会的具体目标是：(i)提高对SAMR在实际问题中的应用的普遍理解，（ii）确定在高性能计算机上高效和有效实施的关键问题，（iii）促进软件社区代码库的开发，包括协助评估软件和编译器技术的基准。研讨会的会议记录将由斯普林格出版社出版，作为IMA（数学及其应用研究所）丛书的一部分。

Workshop on Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Grid Methods, being held March 12-13, 1997 at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (SAMR) methods are playing an increasing role in tackling difficult scientific applications, including compressible flows, cosmology, and electronic structures arising in local spin density calculations. Providing adequate software support for SAMR codes is challenging even on sequential implementations. In parallel implementations, program complexity increases qualitatively due to computation and communication requirements that are dynamic, data-dependent, and irregular. The rapid evolution in target parallel systems only further complicates design decisions. A workshop is proposed that will bring together experts in applications, numerical methods, and software development from academia, national labs, and industry. The goal of the workshop is to identify common ground in the application and implementation of SAMR, as well as issues requiring specialization. The specific objectives of the workshop are : (i) to improve the general understanding of the application of SAMR to practical problems, (ii) to identify issues critical to efficient and effective implementation on high performance computers, (iii) to stimulate the development of a community code repository for software including benchmarks to assist in the evaluation of software and compiler technologies. The proceedings of the workshop will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the IMA (Institute for Mathematical and its Applications) Book Series.