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，并分享关于高端计算系统设计中的建筑趋势对地球科学研究的影响的信息。通过电话会议、讲习班和专业会议上的外联，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人员、计算科学家和建筑专家。这项规划工作符合地球科学研究界成员最近进行的一项研究中提出的关于开展这项活动的建议，该研究认为，地球科学研究需要一个千万亿级的计算协作室，并且在技术上是可行的。这一努力的预期结果是：(1)制定将有助于小组获得用于地球科学研究的高端计算系统的技术要求；(2)计算地球科学界更加注重将算法设计与计算架构设计相匹配，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.