[Neuro-2008-committee] workshop proposal

[Rodney Douglas]

dear committee

Anders and Erik 
have offered the following workshop description
and they would like to move on to invite their speakers.
I think they have made a good choice.

I propose that If there are no comments / objections by mid-nightfriday 12th ,
then they should go ahead and invite these speakers.

regards, rodney 

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Title: Future hardware challenges to scientific computing

The recent move of the computer industry towards multi-core technology
will cause parallel programming to spread through all levels of society.
Although many neuroscientific computing applications are already parallel
they are often not optimized for multicore configurations. We will
consider these challenges both from a computer science, scientific
computing, and a neuroinformatics perspective. In addition we will
consider some of the opportunities massive parallelism offer in how we
model neuronal networks.

Suggested speakers: (not invited yet)
1) Thomas Sterling (Louisiana State University, USA) or John Shalf
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) (will be decided after their
talks at HPC workshop in Okinawa)
2) M.O. Gewaltig (Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany)
3) G. Wittum (Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany)

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