[Neuro-2008-committee] workshop proposal

[David Willshaw]

Looks fine to me.

David

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 19:42 +0200, Rodney Douglas wrote:
> 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 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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)
>