Great Lakes Petascale Consortium Break Out Session
This break out session introduced the Great Lakes Petascale Consortium (GLPC) to most of the workshop attendees. The
consortium will encourage the widespread and effective use of petascale computing to advance scientific discovery and
the state-of-the-art in engineering, increase regional and national competitiveness, and train tomorrow's computational
researchers and educators. The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation includes dozens of universities,
colleges, research laboratories, and institutes from around the country. It will be key to the development of Blue
Waters, which is expected to be the world's first sustained-petascale computational system dedicated to open scientific
research. Blue Waters' home will be the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
It is a joint effort of NCSA, Illinois, IBM, and the Great Lakes Consortium. It is supported by the National Science
Foundation. An over view of the GLPC and the history of its origins was presented and then a discussion ensued on areas
of potential collaboration.
Of particular interest was the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering being driven by interest among
faculty in several of the GLPC. Faculty from Purdue, including Tom Hacker, Tasios Lyrintzis, Rudi Eigenmann agreed to
visit NCSA to discuss Purdue's participation in this educational activity. Additionally it was agreed that Rudi and
others from application areas would be making follow on visits to NCSA to explore our participation in the Blue Waters
Project.
Purdue University * Ernest C. Young Hall, rm 928 * 155 S. Grant Street.
* West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108
