NIC Symposium 2008
Conference, 20-22 February 2008, Forschungszentrum Jülich - Germany
Goal
This fourth NIC-Symposium gave an overview of the activities and the results obtained in the last two years at the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC). The great progress in supercomputing was also highlighted by the fact that the newly installed Blue Gene/P system in Jülich currently ranks number two in the Top 500 List. This will open new dimensions in supercomputing for researchers in Germany and Europe.
NIC - a joint institute of Forschungszentrum Jülich, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) - supports with its supercomputer facilities about 130 research groups at universities and national labs which work on computer simulations in various fields of science.
Fifteen invited lectures covered selected topics in the following fields:
- Astrophysics
- Biophysics
- Chemistry
- Condensed Matter
- Materials Science
- Elementary Particle Physics
- Polymers
- Environmental Research
- Nuclei, Atoms, Plasmas, and Patterns
The talks are intended to inform a broad audience of scientists and the interested public about the research activities at NIC.
The proceedings of the symposium cover a larger range of projects that have been supported by the IBM supercomputers JUMP and IBM Blue Gene/L in Jülich and the APE topical computer at DESY-Zeuthen.
This symposium was the fourth in a series intended to document regularly the activities at NIC.