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BU Symposium Celebrates 10-year anniversary of Center for Computational Science

released October 24, 2000

Boston University, an Alliance partner and one of the providers of Alliance compute resources through Partners for Advanced Computational Services (PACS), will hold a symposium to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Center for Computational Science and the inauguration of its IBM SP supercomputer. The event will take place on Nov. 17, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the Boston School of Management auditorium and at Sargent College.

The morning session will be dedicated to the anniversary of the Center for Computational Science. The symposium will begin with a welcome speech from John Porter, the vice president for Information Systems Technology, and Claudio Rebbi, director of the Center for Computational Science. They will be followed by an array of speakers, ranging from chemists to mathematicians.

The afternoon session, entitled "Visions of the Future," will give leaders in computational science a chance to share their visions about emerging technologies. Dan Reed, director of NCSA and the Alliance, will talk about "Commodity Computing for the Masses," and the NSF's Nora Sabelli will give a presentation called "The Micro, the Macro and the In-Between: A Scientist Looks at Science Education."

Alliance Strategic Advisor Larry Smarr will talk about the "new" Internet, including digital wireless technology, parallel photonics, and megacomputing via videoconference. Robert Sugar, a major Alliance user from the University of California, Santa Barbara, will report on the current status and future possibilities of Lattice Gauge Theory. The day will conclude with reminiscences about the first 10 years of the center by its Deputy Director, Roscoe Giles. Giles is also a member of the Alliance Executive Committee and co-lead of the NSF's Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI).

The symposium will provide both breakfast and lunch, so those that plan to attend should RSVP to cheryle@bu.edu. For more information, see http://ccs.bu.edu/symposium.html.

 

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