CASC Meeting
Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel
Arlington, VA
Sept. 29, 30 & Oct 1, 2010

 

Agenda

Wednesday, September 29th
   
6:00 - 7:30 pm

Reception 

  
Thursday, September 30th
   
8:00 am

Breakfast

 
9:00 am Welcome  
 
  • Introduction of new members
9:15 am

Discussion - Stan Ahalt, CASC chair
 
  • CASC: Greater participation in CASC leadership; new Program Committee;
  • CASC Discussion:
    • What are your most pressing problems? 
    • What are your successes that should be shared in this forum?
    • “Best practices”
    • What should be our key issues in the coming year?
10:00 am

NITRD Strategic Plan - 2011 final draft, comments due Oct.11, 2010
 
  • Dr.George Strawn - Director, National Coordination Office
11:00 am Break
11:30 am

Presentation - Report on “Sustainability” workshop
 
  • Dave Lifka, Cornell
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Best practices
 
  • “Teaching Courses in Scientific Computing: Fundamentals and Applications” - Roger Bielefeld, Case Western
  • “Metrics on Demand” - Tom Furlani – Buffalo
3:00 pm

Break
3:30 pm

CASC Business meeting
 
  • Membership report – Amy Apon, UArk
  • Finances – Dan Katz, U of Chicago 
  • Website  - Kathryn Kelley, OSC
4:30 am

Federal Perspective
 
  • Sue Fratkin
6:30 pm Reception  
   
7:00 pm Dinner  
 

Friday, October 1st
 
8:00 am Breakfast  
8:00 am

Discussion of TeraGrid and beyond
 
  • Barry Schneider, OCI
9:00 am

Discussion of MRI
 
  • Rob Pennington, OCI
10:00 am

The academic computational landscape and its implications on research competitiveness:

 
  • Amy Apon, U of Arkansas and Stan Ahalt, RENCI
 
  • “statistics”
    • Current landscape
    • Correlations
  • A discussion on our collective benchmarking
  • Suggestions for future efforts
    • Computational Science and Engineering
  • Documenting our profession (Who are we?)

 

Attendee list

Location:

Meeting will convene at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel
801 N. Glebe Road

Hotel:

Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel
801 N. Glebe Road
Arlington, VA 22203
703-717-6200

Rooms are being held at the block price immediately prior to the meeting.

Note: The Westin availability does not include "king size" beds for these dates

To make reservations at the Westin go to:
http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/cascsept2010


 

 

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