[gmx-developers] Gromacs and Namd workshop during SC15

[Roland Schulz]

I'll be there. But the abstract deadline is already passed, correct?

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Rossen Apostolov <rossen at kth.se> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> MD news for those who will be at SC15 in Austin. This year year there
> will be also a workshop on molecular simulations with keynotes by Erik
> Lindahl (GROMACS) and Jim Phillips (NAMD). The discussions on MD
> development will be very interesting and highly recommended for those of
> you who could make it to the conference and send an abstract for
> participation.
>
> Below is the full announcement with more info.
>
> Cheers,
> Rossen
>
>
> <-- Abstract submission deadline extended to Friday October 9th (13:00
> CDT / 19:00 BST) -->
>
> This year's SC15 International Conference for High Performance
> Computing, Networking,
> Storage and Analysis features the following Workshop:
>
> =====================================================================
>      Producing High-Performance and Sustainable Software for Molecular
> Simulation
>
>                          November 20th, 2015
>                              Austin, Texas
> =====================================================================
>
> This workshop aims to bring together developers and users of molecular
> simulation
> software, experts in high-performance computing, and researchers of
> numerical methods
> and algorithms to discuss the challenge of creating and maintaining
> high-performance
> sustainable software for molecular simulation.
>
> Invited Speakers
> ----------------------
>
> o Prof. Erik Lindahl (GROMACS)
> KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University
>
> o James Phillips (Senior Research Programmer and NAMD Lead Developer)
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
>
>
> Call for Abstracts
> -----------------------
> Abstracts are sought outlining proposed contributions (2-4 pages) to an
> open access
> workshop report / positional paper documenting state of the art
> developments, current
> bottlenecks, anticipated challenges, and priorities for future research
> and funding
> for molecular simulation software. Three of the accepted abstracts will
> be selected
> to give short talks at the workshop. The resulting joint paper will be
> made available
> online for free in an institutional repository in citable form with a
> unique and
> persistent location identifier.
>
> The deadline for abstract submission is Friday October 9th (13:00 CDT /
> 19:00 BST)
>
> Authors will be notified Wednesday October 14th to allow SC15 early
> registration fee
> to be obtained by registering on or before October 15th.
>
> Abstracts can be submitted at
> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc15molsimsoftware
>
> We are especially seeking the following kinds of contributions:
>
> o Hot topics: recent work with (potential for) high impact on
> performance and / or
> sustainability of molecular simulation software (e.g. algorithms,
> forcefield models,
> parallelisation schemes and use of programming models, software
> development practices,
> exploiting new hardware).
>
> o Case studies: perspectives on achieving performance and / or
> sustainability based
> on experience in particular application areas, software development
> initiatives,
> etc. (e.g. interplay between optimisation and portability, analysis of
> goals and
> challenges, routes and barriers to success - technical, funding).
>
> Suggested Topics:
>
> Accelerators and heterogenous computing
> Algorithms
> Benchmarking and performance comparisons
> Computational models
> Data formats and interoperability of packages
> Libraries and APIs
> Numerical methods
> Parallelisation strategies and load balancing
> Portability
> Software development practices and collaborative models
> Testing
> Workflows
>
> More Information
> -----------------------
> http://www.apes-soft.org/sc15
> http://sc15.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail?evid=wksp144
>
> Questions about submissions: sc15molsimsoftware (at) easychair.org
> Any other questions about the workshop: aproeme (at) epcc (dot) ed.ac.uk
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