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Meeting: Schedule/Agenda

NWChem Meeting on Science Driven Petascale Computing and Capability Development at EMSL

  • January 25-26, 2007
  • W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
  • Richland, WA

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Time Topic Speaker
7:30-8:00 Registration  
8:00-8:15 Welcome and announcements Allison Campbell (EMSL)
8:15-8:30 NWChem status and update  
Session I: NWChem and the Molecular Science Computing Facility
8:15-8:50 NWChem Status and Future Directions Bert de Jong (EMSL)
8:50-9:10 Highlights from Computational Research at EMSL Erich Vorpagel (EMSL)
Session II: Chemical reactions and dynamics
9:10-9:50 Computing Needs to Model Chemical Transformations: A DOE/BES Perspective Bruce Garrett (PNNL)
9:50-10:10 Informal Discussions  
10:10-10:50 Toward More Realistic Simulations for Large-size Reactive Systems by Combining Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics in New Ways Hai Lin (U. Colorado Denver)
10:50-11:30 NWChem in 2022 Robert Harrison
11:30-12:00 Panel: Computational needs for science area Chair: Bert de Jong
12:00-13:30 Working Lunch with Topic: Open-source NWChem  
Session III: Methods for large scale simulations
13:30-14:40 Quantum Monte Carlo advances: pfaffian wavefunctions, topology of fermion nodes and QMC/MD methods Lubos Mitas (North Carolina State U.)
14:40-15:00 Informal Discussions  
15:00-15:40 Toward a practical DFT for large systems Kimihiko Hirao (U. Tokyo)
15:40-16:20 Component Architectures for Quantum Chemistry: Forging New Capabilities and Insights Curtis Janssen (Sandia Nat. Lab.)
16:20-16:50 Panel: Large scale simulations on petascale computing resources Chair: Eric Bylaska
17:00-18:00 Poster session Chair: Dunyou Wang
19:00 Dinner for Invited Speakers  

Due to extreme fog and freezing fog, some of our speakers are unable to make it to the meeting. The schedule below is current and up-to-date.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Time Topic Speaker
Session IV: Biological systems and interfaces
8:00-8:30 TBD Tjerk Straatsma
8:30-9:00 TBD Roberto Lins
9:00-9:20 QM/MM in NWChem Marat Valiev
9:20-9:40 Informal Discussions  
Session V: Materials and transport
9:40-10:20 Polaron transport in metal oxides: A Frontier for Computational Chemistry Kevin Rosso (PNNL)
10:20-11:00 Real-space method with multigrid acceleration (RMG): parallelization, scaling and applications to electronic structure and quantum transport problems Wenchang Lu (North Carolina State U.)
11:00-11:30 Panel: Computational needs for science areas Chair: Tjerk Straatsma
11:30-13:00 Working Lunch with topic: New and emerging science areas
Session VI: Mathematics and computer science for large scale simulations
13:00-13:40 An inner technical look at Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P for Parallel Computing with MATLAB(r) and python and other clients Alan Edelman (MIT)
13:40-14:20 Toward Solving the Multiparticle Schrodinger Equation via an Unconstrained Sum of Slater Determinants Gregory Beylkin (U. Colorado Boulder)
14:20-14:30 Informal Discussion  
Session VII: Generation of parallel software for high accuracy methods
14:30-15:10 Large molecule applications of coupled-cluster theory: Parallel Implementations and Natural Linear Scaling Rod Bartlett (U. Florida)
15:10-15:50 Compiler/Runtime Optimizations for the Tensor Contraction Engine Saday Sadayappan (Ohio State U.)
15:50-16:20 Panel: Needs for computer science and mathematics developments Chair: Karol Kowalski
16:20-16:30 Closing and adjourn