-- We have 13 confirmed attendees for the workshop. Two areas of
possible application will not be represented and advance comments from
those specialties are hereby solicited:
-- No specialists in galaxy scale phenomenae are able to attend the
workshop. Any comments from those doing galaxy interactions,
black hole dynamics, and the like are especially welcome.
-- What about star formation and planet formation studies? Anybody
in those areas want to comment on the possible usefulness of
GRAPE:TNG for their work?
-- Jun Makino has put two very relevant papers onto his web page. See
http://butterfly.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp:8080/pub/people/makino/papers/list.html
and the preprints named "Next Generation GRAPE Systems" and "Design
Tradeoff in GRAPE Systems". Those attending the workshop will definitely
want to see these papers.
-- NSF supercomputing centers re-competition will probably not be
announced before the workshop.
-- Workshop announcement for Dec 11 at NCSA attached. Only minor changes
from previous version.
See you at NCSA.
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* Workshop on GRAPE:TNG Design, Applications, and Funding *
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* National Center for Supercomputing Applications *
* Champaign/Urbana, Illinois *
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* December 11, 1995 *
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LOCATION
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is located in the
Beckman Institute on the campus of the University of Illinois at
Urbana/Champaign. The address is 6th and University, however the main
entrance is on the side of the building facing away from University Ave.
TRANSPORTATION
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Champaign/Urbana airport is serviced by several major airlines. There is
a shuttle service at the airport which meets incoming flights. Amtrak
rail service is also available to Champaign. Champaign/Urbana is about
a three hour drive from Chicago.
HOTEL
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Hotel accommodations will be at the Hampton Inn located on University
Ave, one half block from NCSA. Please contact Jean Soliday
(jsoliday@newton.ncsa.uiuc.edu) about reservations.
COSTS
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There is no fee for the workshop. There is also no funding to provide
support for travel.
CONTACTS
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Piet is out of town, but in email contact until the meeting. Jun, Mike,
and Frank will be at Supercomputing 95 the week before the meeting.
Piet Hut piet@sns.ias.edu 609-734-8075
Jun Makino makino@kyohou.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Steve McMillan steve@zonker.drexel.edu 215-895-2723
Mike Norman norman@ncsa.uiuc.edu 217-244-6099
Frank Summers summers@astro.princeton.edu 609-258-3810
DISCUSSION GUIDELINES
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We hope to keep this workshop somewhat informal, with lots of
opportunity to discuss topics to the depth necessary for a clear
proposal picture. Participants are expected to read up a bit on GRAPE
background (see references below) and have ideas in mind on how the
hardware can be used/adapted to their purposes as well as ideas and
estimates of their technical requirements (CPU speed, memory, I/O
bandwidth, storage). In particular, what simulations and scientific
goals can be met on GRAPE:TNG that cannot be met with conventional
methods. If we come prepared, a good overview of the project will
emerge, leading to a very strong proposal.
The people listed in the following schedule will give introductory talks
about the subject and then lead discussions as appropriate. This
schedule is a target structure, while the true course may deviate. The
day is divided into three parts: (1) define what we've got to work with,
(2) figure out how it can best be adapted and used, and (3) combine
these ideas into a coherent proposal outline.
DRAFT SCHEDULE
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8:30 Coffee & muffins
9:00 Overview of Grape history -- Makino/Taiji
9:45 Overview of supercomputing history and future -- Smarr
10:30 Current design ideas for GRAPE:TNG -- Makino/Taiji
11:15 GRAPE:TNG applications, stellar dynamics -- Hut
11:45 GRAPE:TNG applications, galaxy dynamics -- ???
12:15 Lunch
1:00 GRAPE:TNG applications, cosmology -- Summers
1:30 Discussion on optimization of design and applications
2:15 NSF Centers re-competition -- Smarr/Norman
3:00 Discussion on funding proposal
5:30 Dinner and discussion until we drop
REFERENCES
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***** Web pages *****
- GRAPE-4 system:
http://butterfly.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp:8080/pub/people/makino/grape4.html
- Grand Challenge Cosmology Consortium:
http://zeus.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8080/GC3_Home_Page.html
- HPCC group at University of Washington:
http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/
- The NASA HPCC Project at Los Alamos National Lab
***** Papers *****
- GRAPE:TNG - Makino & Taiji
http://butterfly.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp:8080/pub/people/makino/papers/tngpro.ps
- GRAPE system design - Makino
http://butterfly.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp:8080/pub/people/makino/papers/tradeoff.ps
- GRAPE 4 - Makino & Taiji (SC 95)
http://butterfly.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp:8080/pub/people/makino/papers/sc95.ps
- GRAPE 4 - Makino et al. (SIAM PPSC 95)
http://butterfly.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp:8080/pub/people/makino/papers/siampp95.ps
- GRAPESPH code - Steinmetz
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9504050/
- P3MG3A cosmology code - Brieu, Summers, & Ostriker
ApJ, 453, 566 (1995)
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9411001/
- GRAPE 2A and Molecular Dynamics
J Comp Chem 15, 1372 (1994) - Higo, Endo, & Makino
Proteins 20, 139 (1994) - Ito, Fukushige, & Kitamura
- PASJ SPECIAL FEATURE ON GRAPE - Vol 45, No 3 (1993)
- GRAPE Overview - Ebisuzaki et al
PASJ 45, 269 (1993)
- SPH and GRAPE 1 - Umemura et al.
PASJ 45, 311 (1993)
- GRAPE 3 - Okumura et al.
PASJ 45, 329 (1993)
- HARP - Makino, Kokubo, & Taiji
PASJ 45, 349 (1993)
- Treecode and GRAPE - Makino
PASJ 43, 621 (1991)
- GRAPE 2 - Ito et al.
PASJ 43, 547 (1991)
- GRAPE 1 - Sugimoto et al.
Nature 345, 33 (1990)
LIST OF INTERESTED PARTIES
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Attending
Josh Barnes barnes@zeno.ifa.hawaii.edu
Ian Bonnell bonnell@ast.cam.ac.uk
Philippe Brieu philippe@umich.edu X
David Chernoff chernoff@spacenet.tn.cornell.edu
Bruce Elmegreen bge@watson.ibm.com
Gus Evrard evrard@pablo.physics.lsa.umich.edu X
Carlos Frenk C.S.Frenk@durham.ac.uk X
Douglas Heggie heggie@castle.ed.ac.uk
Lars Hernquist lars@helios.ucolick.org
Piet Hut piet@sns.ias.edu X
George Lake lake@astro.washington.edu
Doug Lin lin@lick.UCSC.EDU ?
Jun Makino makino@kyohou.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp X
Steve McMillan steve@zonker.drexel.edu X
Chris Mihos hos@pha.jhu.edu
Jordi Miralde-Escude jordi@sns.ias.edu
Michael Norman norman@ncsa.uiuc.edu X
Jerry Ostriker jpo@astro.princeton.edu
Stan Peale peale@io.ucsb.edu
Frazer Pearce frazerp@central.sussex.ac.uk
Gerry Quinlan gquinlan@physics.rutgers.edu
Ralph Roskies roskies@a.psc.edu
Steinn Sigurdsson steinn@ast.cam.ac.uk
Larry Smarr smarr@ncsa.uiuc.edu X
Ranier Spurzem spurzem@pluto.astrophysik.uni-kiel.de
Matthias Steinmetz mhs@mpa-garching.mpg.de
Thomas Sterling tron@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov X
Tatsushi Suginohara tatsushi@yayoi.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Frank Summers summers@astro.princeton.edu X
Yasushi Suto suto@phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Makoto Taiji taiji@chianti.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp X
Peter Teuben teuben@astro.umd.edu X
David Weinberg dhw@picasso.mps.OHIO-STATE.EDU
Joel Welling welling@psc.edu X