The Computation based Science and Technology Research Center (CSTRC) organised its first Users meeting on April 8th, 2008
Sponsors: the European Commision (DG-INFSO) and the Cyprus Institute
The objectives of the meeting were:
- To provide a forum where users and providers of high-performance computing (HPC) facilities in the Eastern Mediterranean can meet and exchange views and information.
- To explore the available HPC infrastructures in the region, and the ways they currently serve their user communities.
- To provide an opportunity for computational scientists from the region (both users and providers) to learn from the experiences of leaders of HPC centers in Western Europe and the US.
- To lay the foundations of a user community around the planned HPC facility of the Cyprus Institute’s Computation-based Research and Technology Research Center
The meeting was attended by 57 participants (see the list), coming mostly from Cyprus and other countries of the Eastern Mediterranean region: Egypt, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, as well as from the USA and western European countries. Their research interests cover computer science, algorithms, computational science, as well as applications of HPC in a large variety of fields, among which mathematics, high-energy physics (including astrophysics and lattice QCD), materials science, chemistry, electrical & mechanical engineering, climate modelling, biology, healthcare (including medical imaging).
The programme comprised a morning session devoted to presentations by LinkSCEEM partners, an afternoon session devoted to presentations by users in the region, and a roundtable discussion on “The future of scientific computing in the Eastern Mediterranean” (see the summary).
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