[Dune] [eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu: Scientific Software Days, Austin, Texas, May 2009]

[Markus Blatt]

Hi,

this just calls out for a DUNE presentation, does it not?

Markus

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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:03:44 -0500
From: Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu>
Subject: Scientific Software Days, Austin, Texas, May 2009

SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DAYS
MAY 21 - 22, 2009

The Texas Advanced Computing Center, in association with the Jackson =20
School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, is pleased =20
to present the third annual "Scientific Software Days" event. The =20
purpose of the event is to increase communication among scientific =20
software users, vendors, and service providers.

Day 1, May 21: Short presentations and Keynote Address
There will presentations about various scientific software packages.
Victoria Stodden of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society will =20
present a keynote on the subject of "The Future of Computational =20
Science: Information Sharing and Responsibility".

Day 2, May 22: Tutorials
Two half day tutorials will be presented:
- Karl Schulz of Texas Advanced Computing Center will present a =20
survey of version control and data management (intermediate)

- Matt Knepley of Argonne National Laboratory will present an =20
Introduction to PETSc (advanced)

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The opening day of the event will be devoted to short presentations =20
about available software packages and technologies. We would like to =20
invite you to present your work to the scientific computing community =20
on that day. Contributed presentations should focus on software and =20
its use in scientific computing. You may be the author of the =20
software, or simply an expert user; if you think it deserves broader =20
exposure, here is your platform. We are also interested in case =20
studies, especially discussions on how supercomputing enabled your =20
work, the challenges and benefits of the supercomputing environment, =20
scaling and validation issues, and other aspects of your strategies =20
that might be of broad interest. Presentations will be 30 minutes in =20
duration, of which at least 5 minutes should be left for questions. If =20
you are interested in participating, please send an email to:
softwareday at tacc.utexas.edu=20

REGISTRATION
There is no cost for attending, but spaces are limited. To register, =20
or for more information about planned presentations, please visit:
http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/softwareday=20

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