1st CHANGES Workshop

Workshop, 3-5 September 2012, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

CHANGES stands for CHinese-AmericaN-German E-Science and cyberinfrastructure. Partners are CNIC-CAS from China, NCSA-UIUC from USA and Jülich Supercomputing Centre at Forschungszentrum Jülich from Germany. The first CHANGES workshop is a high-level platform to discuss latest trends in supercomputing, sophisticated information techniques and interdisciplinary applications.

Scope:

Three global players in supercomputing, the Chinese Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), the US-American National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the German Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) together with their mother organisations Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) joint forces and reached an agreement about co-sponsoring a CHinese-AmericaN-German E-Science and cyberinfrastructure workshop (CHANGES). This workshop will be a high-level platform on Cyberinfrastructure and e-Science to discuss latest trends in supercomputing, sophisticated information techniques and interdisciplinary applications. In the past, the three institutions already had a couple of common bilateral cooperations and workshops, like the US-American-Chinese series ACCESS and the German-Chinese Workshop on Supercomputing (CHSC11). CHANGES, however, will not only consider the issues of the partner institutions but will also take into account national topics.

The first CHANGES workshop, which can be regarded as a successor of ACCESS and CHSC, will be held in Germany at Forschungszentrum Jülich from 3-5 September 2012. Participation in the workshop is by invitation only. The three sites will be local organizers alternately every year. The workshop provides a platform for trilateral cooperations on student exchange and mutual research projects. Moreover, it will cover several fields in supercomputing, e-Science and its applications in China, Germany and United States.

Partners

Computer Network Information Centre (CNIC)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

Organisations

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)

Results

The 1st CHANGES workshop was a high-level platform dealing with latest trends in supercomputing, sophisticated information techniques and interdisciplinary applications. About 45 well-known experts, among them 21 speakers, came together by invitation and discussed latest results of their research fields. The workshop focussed on the above mentioned topics but covered also several fields in supercomputing, e-Science and its applications in China, Germany and the United States. Besides the presentations the workshop provided a forum for trilateral cooperations on student exchange and mutual research projects. First promising cooperation ideas were developed and are foreseen to be launched in the near future.