Town Hall Meeting

Breakout Groups

Modeling and Simulation at the Exascale for Energy and the Environment

Breakout Groups for Day 1 – May 17, 2007

B1. Improve our understanding of complex biogeochemical (C, N, P, etc.) cycles that underpin global ecosystems functions and control the sustainability of life on Earth.

Town hall coverage: LBNL, ORNL
LBNL team leader: Wehner, Miller, Collins
ORNL team leader: Drake
ANL team leader: Kemner, Rao

B6. Develop integrated modeling environments that couple the wealth of observational data and complex models to economic, energy, and resource models that incorporate the human dynamic into large-scale global change analysis.

Town hall coverage: LBNL, ORNL
LBNL team leader: Miller, Agarwal
ORNL team leader: Erickson
ANL team leader: Foster, Jacob

B2. Develop and optimize new pathways for renewable energy production and development of long-term secure nuclear energy sources, through computational nanoscience and physics-based engineering models.

Town hall coverage: LBNL, ORNL, ANL
LBNL team leader: Colella, Wang
ORNL team leader: Weigand, Kothe
ANL team leader: Frank, Nowak

B3. Enhance our understanding of the roles and functions carried out by microbial life on Earth, and adapt these capabilities for human use, through bioinformatics and computational biology.

Town hall coverage: LBNL, ANL
LBNL team leader: Markowitz, Kyrpides
ORNL team leader: Samatova, Jouline
ANL team leader: Meyer, Edwards

B9. Develop a “cosmic simulator” capability that integrates increasingly complex astrophysical measurements with simulations of the growth and evolution of structure in the universe, linking the known laws of microphysics to the macro world. Develop large-scale, special-purpose computing devices and innovative algorithm development to achieve this goal.

Town hall coverage: LBNL
LBNL team leader: Borrill, Nugent
ORNL team leader: Mezzacappa, Messer
ANL team leader: Cattaneo, Fisher

B10. Industrial Processes and Manufacturing

ANL team leader: More, Hassanein, with Bair
ORNL team leader: Simunovic, Radhakrishnan

Breakout Groups for Day 2 – May 18, 2007

B4. Develop tools and methods to protect the distributed information technology infrastructure: ensuring network security, preventing disruption of our communications infrastructure, and defending distributed systems against attacks.

Town hall coverage: LBNL, ANL
LBNL team leader: Tierney
ORNL team leader: Studham, Hazlewood
ANL team leader: Catlett, Papka, with Gregor

B5. Drive innovation at the frontiers of computer architecture and information technology, preparing the way for ubiquitous adoption of parallel computing, power-efficient systems, and the software and architectures needed for a decade of increased capabilities. Accelerate the development of special-purpose devices that have the potential to change the simulation paradigm for certain science disciplines.

Town hall coverage: LBNL, ORNL, ANL
LBNL team leader: Strohmaier, Oliker
ORNL team leader: Poole, Vetter
ANL team leader: Gropp, Beckman, with Thakur

B7. Advance mathematical and algorithmic foundations to support scientific computing in emerging disciplines such as molecular self- assembly, systems biology, behavior of complex systems, agent-based modeling and evolutionary and adaptive computing.

Town hall coverage: LBNL, ANL
LBNL team leader: Meza, Bailey
ORNL team leader: D’Azevedo, Fann
ANL team leader: Norris, Hereld, with Hovland

B8. Integrate large, complex, and possibly distributed software systems with components derived from multiple applications domains and with distributed data gathering and analysis tools.

Town hall coverage: LBNL, ORNL, ANL
LBNL team leader: Shoshani, Bethel
ORNL team leader: Geist, Bernholdt
ANL team leader: Ross, Lusk, with McInnes