Workshop: Accelerators for Data Intensive Applications; A Workshop to Engage the Science and Engineering Community - Arlington, VA - Fall 2010

我们将在2010年初秋举行研讨会，通过合作，促进对有效利用加速器增强系统解决几个应用领域中具有挑战性问题所需问题的理解。共同解决这些问题将促进对应用领域和计算机科学的理解。这将在计算机科学家和应用程序开发人员之间启动富有成效的合作，以便在加速器计算资源上线时能够有效和早期地使用它们，并促进对潜在的软件基础设施中心组织的讨论。我们将使用来自几个重要科学和工程学科的应用需求来推动未来计算技术的创新，如多核处理器架构和应用加速器。研讨会将促进应用程序开发人员与计算机科学家和工程师之间有意义的信息交流。它的结构将是一个教程；应用科学家将描述他们的应用以及他们提出的计算挑战；计算机科学家将描述他们改进应用程序性能和能力的方法和工具。研讨会将确定具体的行动，例如协作开发一个中心规模的算法和模型开发提案，以及基于这些抽象的社区软件，这些将包含在研讨会报告中。目标是使这两个领域的研究人员能够更好地利用新兴的应用加速器。该研讨会将用于促进对重大科学问题的前所未有的大规模和保真度探索，并使广泛的科学和工程应用能够有效地采用并行性和加速器来解决数据和计算密集型问题。因此，领域专家和计算机科学家之间的合作有可能提高美国的经济竞争力，提高对新兴处理器架构的理解，并使美国在这一重要的有前途的技术上保持领先地位。

We will hold workshop in early Fall 2010 to promote understanding of, through collaboration around, issues required to utilize accelerator enhanced systems efficiently for solving challenging problems in several application domains. Working through these issues together will advance understanding in application domains and computer science. This will launch productive collaborations between computer scientists and application developers to enable efficient and early use of accelerator computing resources as they come online and foster the discussion of a potential Software Infrastructure Center organization. We will use application requirements from several important science and engineering disciplines to drive innovations in future computing technologies such as manycore processor architectures and application accelerators.The workshop will promote meaningful information exchange between the application developers and computer scientists and engineers. It will be structured as a tutorial; application scientists will describe their applications along with the computational challenges they present; computer scientists will describe their methods and tools for improving application performance and capability. There will be concrete actions identified out of the workshop, such as collaborative development of a center scale proposal for algorithm and model development and software for the community based on these abstractions which will be included in the workshop report. The objective is that investigators in both fields are to become better positioned to use emerging application accelerators.The workshop will be used to facilitate an unprecedented exploration of important science problems at great scale and fidelity and enabling a broad set of science and engineering applications to productively employ parallelism and accelerators to tackle data- and compute- intensive problems. Collaborations between domain experts and computer scientists thus have the potential to improve U.S. economic competitiveness, improve understanding of emerging processor architectures, and keep the U.S. pre-eminent in this important promising technology.