NIC Symposium 2012
Conference, 7-8 February 2012, Forschungszentrum Jülich - Germany
Goal
The 6th NIC-Symposium marks also the 25th anniversary of the founding of the "Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum" (HLRZ), later renamed John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC). NIC – a joint foundation of Forschungszentrum Jülich, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) – supports with its members' supercomputer facilities more than 150 research groups at universities and national labs working on computer simulations in various fields of science.
Numerous scientific results of high impact in many different areas of research were obtained by the scientists who used the supercomputers in Jülich for their simulations. This symposium will give an overview of the history and the activities of the NIC, and of the results obtained in the last two years by research groups supported by the NIC.
Fifteen invited lectures will cover selected topics in the following fields:
- Astrophysics
- Biophysics
- Chemistry
- Elementary Particle Physics
- Condensed Matter
- Materials Science
- Soft Matter Science
- Environmental Research
- Hydrodynamics and turbulence
- Plasma Physics
- Computer Science
These talks and an additional poster session 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 projects that have been supported by the supercomputers JUROPA and IBM Blue Gene/P in Jülich in an even wider range than the lectures.