Prof. Chris J. Pickard of the University of Cambridge will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on Thursday 9th June afternoon on “Random Explorations of Material Structure Space”: “The use of stochastic optimization strategies for first principles structure prediction is now well established. There are many examples of these techniques making genuine discoveries. Ab […]

Prof. Beth Wingate of the University of Exeter will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on the morning of the 9th June on “Challenges for Climate and Weather Prediction in the Era of Heterogeneous Computer Architectures”: “For weather or climate models to achieve exascale performance on next-generation heterogeneous computer architectures they will be required […]

Dr. Dave Nichols of Schlumberger will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on the morning of the 8th June on “Large Scale Computations in Seismic Exploration”: “Seismic exploration for oil and gas has been one of the largest commercial users of high performance computing for more than 50 years. We record petabyte datasets and […]

Prof. Marc Snir of the Argonne National Laboratory will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on the morning of the 8th June on “Exascale Computing and Beyond”: “The US, like the EU and other countries, is engaged in a national initiative that aims to deploy exascale computing platforms early in the next decade. The […]

The PASC16 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will be held from June 8 to 10, 2016 at the SwissTech Convention Center, located on the campus of EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. PASC16 Conference June 8-10, 2016 SwissTech Convention Center EPFL, Switzerland www.pasc16.org The PASC Conference is a platform for interdisciplinary research across […]