Scientific Grand Challenges in
Fusion Energy Sciences and
the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale

March 18-20, 2009 · Washington D.C.

Scientific Grand Challenges in Fusion Energy Sciences and the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale

Over the next decade it is anticipated that significant advances will be made in computing technology that will allow increases in computing performance by orders of magnitude. These advances will have a major impact on the ability to solve pressing scientific and technological problems. The DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing is sponsoring collaborative workshops with various fields of science to identify important scientific problems that could be helped by the development of scientific computing at the exascale. The DOE Office of Fusion Energy Science will co-sponsor a workshop to address this important issue.

Goals

• Identify forefront scientific problems in fusion energy science that could be aided by computing at the extreme scale over the next decade
• Establish specifics of how and why new high performance computing capability will address issues at the frontiers of fusion energy science
• Provide fusion energy scientists with the opportunity to influence the development of high performance computing
• Provide the fusion energy science community with plans for development of future high performance computing capability by the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (OASCR)
• Provide a forum for exchange of ideas between fusion energy scientists, computer scientists and applied mathematicians

Attendance of this workshop is by invitation only.