. "Appendix B: Agendas of Committee Meetings." The Potential Impact of High-End Capability Computing on Four Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008.
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The Potential Impact of High-End Capability Computing on Four Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering
Appendix B
Agendas of Committee Meetings
MEETING 1
WASHINGTON, D.C.
SEPTEMBER 29-30, 2006
Friday, September 29
Closed Session
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Open Session
9:30
Purpose of the study and how it will be used
John H. Marburger III, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
10:00
Need for the study, as seen by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Joel Parriott, OMB
10:30
Break
10:45
Overview of the federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program and its National Coordination Office (NCO)
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Appendix B
Agendas of Committee Meetings
MEETING 1
WASHINGTON, D.C.
SEPTEMBER 29-30, 2006
Friday, September 29
Closed Session
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Open Session
9:30
Purpose of the study and how it will be used
John H. Marburger III, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
10:00
Need for the study, as seen by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Joel Parriott, OMB
10:30
Break
10:45
Overview of the federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program and its National Coordination Office (NCO)
Simon Szykman, NCO/NITRD director
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11:15
Discussion of study tasks and scope
George Strawn, NSF chief information officer and chair of NITRD steering group for the study (presenter)
Sally Howe, NCO/NITRD associate director
12:15 p.m.
Working lunch
1:00
Initial thoughts from the computational science and engineering subgroup of the committee (Choudhary, Colella, Head-Gordon, Wooley) on the context, scope, and goals of the study.
Discussion leader: Phil Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1:45
Plenary discussion of the charge, definitions, scope, plan of work, audience(s), and desired outcomes of the study and desired outcomes of the study
2:45
Break
3:00
Overview of the important scientific and technological problems in astrophysics
Christopher McKee, University of California at Berkeley (by speakerphone)
4:00
NSF perspectives on the study
Arden Bement, NSF director
Note: NSF’s perspective is included as an example of an agency that relies on high-end computing. This does not imply that the study will focus preferentially on NSF interests.
4:30
Open discussion of the role of high-end computing in science and engineering
5:15
Reception (guests invited)
6:15
Adjourn
Saturday, September 30
Closed Session
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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MEETING 2
WASHINGTON, D.C.
DECEMBER 14-15, 2006
Thursday, December 14
Open Session
8:00 a.m.
Working breakfast (entire committee and all guests)
8:30
Discuss the study charge and the goals of the parallel workshops (Lyons)
8:55
Break into four concurrent workshops (check room assignments). The workshops will follow the agendas below from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., when a plenary sesion will take place.
Four Concurrent Workshops: Astrophysics, the Atmospheric Sciences, Chemical Separations, and Evolutionary Biology
Define the Science/Engineering Requirements
9:00
Presentation(s) or discussion to identify the major research questions for the field (independent of the role computing may or may not play)
10:15
Break
10:30
Reach consensus on the list of major research questions that should be considered by the study and identify any documents (e.g., consensus reports) that support inclusion of items on the list.
11:00
For which of these major research questions would high-end modeling, simulation, and analysis play an irreplaceable role? List this subset of research challenges, which will be referred to as “computation-dependent challenges.” Describe what could be accomplished with high-end computing and what kind(s) of infrastructure is (are) needed. Could other techniques (e.g., experiments, observation, more traditional theory) serve as a substitute? If this high-end capability is not proactively developed, what would be lost?
12:15 p.m.
Working lunch in breakout rooms
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Examine Current Capabilities for High-End Computational Approaches to the Computation-Dependent Challenges
1:00
Evaluate the current status of high-end modeling, simulation, and analysis for the computation-dependent challenges. Consider the state of the mathematical models, algorithms, and software. Comment on the past track record of computational approaches to these challenges. For each of these computation-dependent challenges, consider the following questions:
Are there strong experimental programs to inform a computational approach, so that hypotheses are testable and investigators can agree on the knowledge gaps?
Are there large experimental data repositories?
Is there funding for research programs that combine theory and experiment, conferences and publications that bring them together, and other evidence of a healthy interplay?
Does knowledge about the particular challenge extend well beyond classification/ organization and proceed toward well-defined computational models?
Is the relevant community poised to investigate the particular challenge through high-end computing? For example, is the infrastructure (hardware, community software, support) available and used?
Is there a demand for computational scientists in the field from which this particular challenge arises? For example, would computation-intensive graduate students be employable?
2:15
Identify possible barriers to successfully addressing these computation-dependent challenges, considering the adequacy of models, algorithms, software, and computer resources. Cluster these barriers into those that are of near-term concern and those that are longer-term challenges.
2:45
Break
Examine New Capabilities for High-End Computational Approaches to the Computation-Dependent Challenges
3:00
What new technologies (broadly defined) could be applied to overcome the barriers identified at the end of the last session?
3:45
What would be the effort required, the risk, and the time horizon for successful application of these new technologies?
Astrophysics Workshop Participants
Committee members
Dave Arnett, University of Arizona
Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University
Jim Stone, Princeton University
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Guests
Tom Abel, Stanford University
Eve Ostriker, University of Maryland (afternoon only)
Ed Seidel, Louisiana State University
Nigel Sharp, NSF
Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University
Staff
Jim McGee, National Research Council
Atmospheric Sciences Workshop Participants
Committee members
Phil Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John Dutton, Pennsylvania State University
Ron Smith, Yale University
Guests
Antonio J. Busalacchi, University of Maryland
Brian Gross, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
James Hack, NCAR
Chaowei (Phil) Yang, NASA Applied Sciences Program
Staff
Neal Glassman, National Research Council
Chemical Separations Workshop Participants
Committee members
George Keller, Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research and Innovation Center (MATRIC)
John Lyons, Army Research Laboratory (retired)1
Mary Rezac, Kansas State University
Guests
Joan Brennecke, University of Notre Dame
Anne Chaka, NIST
Thom Dunning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeff Siirola, Eastman Chemical
Staff
Scott Weidman, National Research Council
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Dr. Lyons will spend time in each of the workshops.
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Evolutionary Biology Workshop Participants
Committee members
Joel Cracraft, American Museum of Natural History
Scott Edwards, Harvard University
Nipam Patel, University of California at Berkeley
John Wooley, University of California at San Diego
Guests
Daniel Drell, Department of Energy
Sean Eddy, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Sergey Gavrilets, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Matthew Kane, NSF
Joel Kingsolver, University of North Carolina
Daniel Rokhsar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory
Manfred Zorn, NSF
Staff
Ann Reid, National Research Council
Plenary Session: All Committee Members and Guests Reconvene
4:30
Brief reports from each workshop. What has been learned? How will the study use these results?
5:10
Adjourn for day
Closed Session
7:00
Committee working dinner
Friday, December 15
Open Session
8:00 a.m.
Working breakfast
8:30
Report from the astrophysics workshop
9:15
Report from the atmospheric sciences workshop
10:00
Break
10:15
Report from the chemical separations workshop
11:00
Report from the evolutionary biology workshop
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Closed Session
11:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
MEETING 3
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 8-9, 2007
Thursday, March 8
Closed Session
5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m
Committee working dinner
Friday, March 9
Open Session
8:00 a.m.
Working breakfast
8:30
Discussion of each of the disciplinary chapters
10:30
Break
Closed Session
10:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Discussion of drafts
MEETING 4
WASHINGTON, D.C.
MAY 7-8, 2007
Closed Session
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