Monday, May 10   

12.00 Registration opens

12.30 - 14.00 Buffet lunch (sponsored by organizers)

14.00-14.10  Welcome

“World-wide Perspectives 1”
14.10-14.50 Montserrat Torné, Director General for International Cooperation and Institutional Relations, Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain
14.50-15.30 Kostas Glinos, Head of Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission, "HPC - from a European Perspective"
15.30-16.10 José Muñoz, Acting Director, Office of CyberInfrastructure, National Science Foundation, US, “High-Performance Computing and the Cyberinfrastructure Eco-System”

16.10 - 16.30 Coffee break

"World-wide Perspectives 2"
16.30-17.10 Akira Ukawa, Vice President, University of Tsukuba, Japan, "The Next-Generation Supercomputer Project and the Future of High End Computing in Japan"
17.10-17.50 Thomas Zacharia, Deputy Director, ORNL, Department of Energy, US
17.50-18.30 Catherine Rivière, GENCI, France, European Exascale Software Project EESP, "European Exascale Software Initiative"

20.30 Dinner for Speakers, DEISA and PRACE boards (sponsored by organizers)

                    

Tuesday, May 11 

“DEISA PRACE Update”
9.00-9.15 Thomas Eickermann, FZJ, Germany, PRACE Implementation Phase
9.15-9.30 Hermann Lederer, RZG, Germany, DEISA Extreme Computing

“Challenges in Computational Science 1”

Astrophysics
9.30-10.10 Wolfgang Hillebrandt, MPI for Astrophysics, Germany, "Modelling Cosmic Explosions"

Materials Science
10.10-10.50 Thomas Schulthess, ETHZ & CSCS, Switzerland, "Ab initio Calculation of Free Energies in Nanoscale Systems"

10.50 - 11.10 Coffee break

"Challenges in Computational Science 2"

Earth Sciences
11.10-11.50 Jose Maria Baldasano, Earth Sciences Dep, BSC, Spain, "Earth System Modeling Framework: Computation+Data"

Fusion for Energy
11.50-12.30 Laurent Villard, EPFL, Switzerland, "HPC Simulations of Magnetic Fusion Plasmas"

Life Sciences
12.30-13.10 Ivo Gut, Centro Nacional de Analisis Genomico, Spain,  "Informatic Issues of Genomics"

13.10 - 14.30 Lunch break (sponsored by organizers)

"Extreme Computing 1"

14.30-14.55 Richard Kenway, University of Edinburgh, UK, "Solving the Mysteries of Quarks" (Particle Physics / QCD)

14.55-15.20 Ilpo Vattulainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, "Physics of biological systems"  (Life Sciences)

15.20-15.45 Stephan Stellmach, University of Muenster, Germany, "Turbulent transport in buoyancy-driven geophysical flows" (Earth Sciences)

15.45-16.10 Roel Verstappen, The Netherlands, "Regularizing isotropic turbulence"  (Engineering)

16.10 - 16.40 Coffee break

 “Technology for the Future”

16.40-17.05 Jesus Labarta, BSC, Spain, "Programming models and tools"
17.05-17.30 Ana Bela Dias, NCF, The Netherlands, "Access to PRACE systems"
17.30-17.55 Herbert Huber, LRZ, Germany, "Emerging and future technologies"

20.30 Conference Dinner at Arenal Restaurant (sponsored by organizers)

Wednesday, May 12   

"Using DEISA/PRACE & TERAGRID"

9.00-9.30 Peter Coveney, University College London, UK and Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University, US "Towards Accurate and Precise Patient-specific Treatment Using Large-Scale Free Energy Calculations"

"Extreme Computing 2"
DECI/PRACE speakers from different areas of science from all over Europe

9.30-9.55 Marco Bernasconi, Università Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy, "Ab-initio study of GeSbTe phase change alloys"  (Materials Science)

9.55-10.20 Stefan Gottloeber, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, Germany, "The Small Scale Structure of the Universe" (Astrophysics)

10.20-10.45 Philip Eric Hoggan, CNRS, France, "Slater Type Orbital Project for Quantum monte carlo large molecule simulations" (Molecular Quantum Chemistry / QMC)
 

10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break

"Extreme Computing 3"

11.15-11.45 Patrick Joeckel, DLR, Germany, "Coupling the Chemistry in Earth System Models on multiple Scales" (Earth Sciences)

11.45-12.10 Vassilis Theofilis, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, "Global instability Analysis of Turbulent Separated flows" (Engineering)

12.10-12.35 Sandor Katz, Department of Theoretical Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary
"Lattice QCD thermodynamics with improved dynamical fermions"  (Particle Physics / QCD)
12.35-13.00 Michael Martinez, Klaus Tschira Fund, EML Research GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, "Multiscale simulation of membrane associated multiprotein complexes" (Life Sciences)

13:05 Closing remarks

13.10 - 14.30 Lunch (sponsored by organizers)