TY - JOUR
T1 - Future directions in scientific supercomputing for computational physics
AU - William McCurdy, C.
AU - Simon, Horst D.
AU - Kramer, William T.C.
AU - Lucas, Robert F.
AU - Johnston, William E.
AU - Bailey, David H.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank John Hules for his expert help in editing this paper, and Flavio Robles for the creation of the artwork. This work was supported by the Director, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Division of Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC03-76SF00098.
PY - 2002/8/1
Y1 - 2002/8/1
N2 - NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, is a leading scientific computing facility for unclassified research, and has had a significant impact on computational physics in the U.S. Here we will summarize the recent experience at NERSC, and present the four key elements of our strategic plan for the next five years. Significant changes are expected to happen in computational science during this period. Supercomputer centers worldwide must continue to enhance their successful role as centers that bridge the gap between advanced development in computer science and mathematics on one hand, and scientific research in the physical, chemical, biological, and earth sciences on the other. Implementing such a strategy will position NERSC and other centers in the U.S. to continue to enhance the scientific productivity of the computational physics community, and to be an indispensable tool for scientific discovery.
AB - NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, is a leading scientific computing facility for unclassified research, and has had a significant impact on computational physics in the U.S. Here we will summarize the recent experience at NERSC, and present the four key elements of our strategic plan for the next five years. Significant changes are expected to happen in computational science during this period. Supercomputer centers worldwide must continue to enhance their successful role as centers that bridge the gap between advanced development in computer science and mathematics on one hand, and scientific research in the physical, chemical, biological, and earth sciences on the other. Implementing such a strategy will position NERSC and other centers in the U.S. to continue to enhance the scientific productivity of the computational physics community, and to be an indispensable tool for scientific discovery.
KW - Computational and data grids
KW - High performance computing
KW - Scientific challenge teams
KW - Supercomputer center
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U2 - 10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00200-X
DO - 10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00200-X
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0036681915
SN - 0010-4655
VL - 147
SP - 34
EP - 39
JO - Computer Physics Communications
JF - Computer Physics Communications
IS - 1-2
T2 - CCP 2001
Y2 - 5 September 2001 through 8 September 2001
ER -