[2009-program-committee] R: Workshop 4 High Performance Computing and Grid Infrastructure for Neuroinformatics applications.

[Gaute Einevoll]

Hello Luciano, David and the rest;


David wrote:
>2. Concerning  a possible speaker from the MUSIC project, I think you
>need to look a bit further afield - as Pontus implies. Maybe Gaute can
>suggest someone, or maybe there is a name from the INCF Activity in
>Large Scale Modelling?


As I understand it this is the abstract for the workshop:

> Abstract:
>
> Understanding the structure, function and development of the brain is
> a key to understand human beings and improve their quality of life. To
> achieve this goal it is essential to develop and to use the modern ICT
> e-Infrastructure capable of exploiting the next generation of High
> Performance Computing (HPC) systems beyond the Petaflop scale in a
> collaborative and efficient way.
>
> In this workshop we will consider these computational challenges using
> the Network Infrastructure, Supercomputer and Grid technologies for
> scientific computing. In addition we will consider some of the
> opportunities that massive parallelism offers when using computational
> tools  to calculate very complex numerical models that may help
> improve diagnosis/treatment of neurological disorders.”


As I understand it both Anders Lansner and Orjan Ekeberg in Stockholm are involved
in the MUSIC project (trying to couple together different simulators), and I think both could make good contributions. A problem with Anders Lansner could be that he is too close to INCF and thus may be excluded (like Erik De Schutter was for "my" workshop).

Another possible person could be Andrew Davison at CNRS outside Paris, see
http://www.unic.cnrs-gif.fr/people/Andrew_Davison/Presentation
He is involved in the large FACETS project funded by EU.

Also the people involved in developing NEST (such as Markus Diesmann at RIKEN or my colleague at Aas, Hans Ekkehard Plesser) would be able to add to this workshop. Note, however,  that another central NEST-developer, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig at Honda, gave a talk at one of last year's workshop.

Best regards Gaute