Berkeley Lab will again host a workshop to familiarize users with the DOE Advanced CompuTational Software Collection (ACTS Collection), a set of high-performance computing tools mainly developed at DOE laboratories. The workshop, called “Enabling Technologies for High End Computer Simulations,” will be held August 24-27.

The ACTS Collection of software tools aims to simplify the solution of common and important computational problems and has substantially benefited a wide range of scientific and industrial applications. The four-day workshop will present an introduction to the ACTS Collection for application scientists whose research requires either large amounts of computation, a large volume of data manipulation, the use of robust numerical algorithms, or combinations of these. The workshop will include a range of tutorials on the tools (those currently available in the collection and some deliverables from the DOE SciDAC ISICs), discussion sessions aimed to solve specific computational needs of the participants, and hands-on practices using NERSC's state-of-the-art computers.

The draft agenda calls for parallel sessions and tutorials on such topics as:

This workshop is open to computational scientists from industry and academia, with registration costs covered by DOE's Office of Science. For more information on the workshop, please contact Tony Drummond at X7624 or Osni Marques at X5290.