Every second year the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) hosts a workshop on the use of high performance computing in meteorology.

The emphasis of this workshop will be on running meteorological applications at sustained teraflops performance in a production environment. Particiular emphasis will be placed on the future scalability of NWP codes and the tools and development environments to facilitate this.

Our aim is to provide a venue where

Users from our Member States and around the world can report on their experience and achievements in the field of high performance computing during the last two years; plans for the future and requirements for computing power will also be presented.
Vendors of supercomputers will have the opportunity to talk to managers and end users of meteorological computer centres about their current and future products.
Meteorological scientists can present their achievements in the development of parallel computing techniques and algorithms, and can exchange ideas on the use of supercomputers in future research.
Computer scientists can give an update on their efforts in providing tools which will help users to exploit the power of supercomputers in the field of meteorology.
The challenges of creating a computer centre infrastructure for HPC can be discussed.

The workshop will consist of a limited number of presentations from invited speakers, plus a series of 20 minute contributions. The morning of the final day will be reserved for an open discussion session. This workshop will start on Monday 3 November at 9.30am and close on Friday 7 November at 12.00 noon.

Hotels

Click here for a selection of hotels and guest houses in Reading. For a more comprehensive list of accommodation with online booking available click here but be aware that some hotels/guest houses may be far away from ECMWF or Reading Town Centre.

Information about Reading

Further information about Reading can be found here

Contact

Attendance at the workshop is by invitation and will be limited to around 100 persons. If you are interested, please contact the workshop organizers:

by e-mail:hpcworkshop@ecmwf.int

by post to:

HPC Workshop
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Shinfield Park
Reading/Berks.
RG2 9AX
United Kingdom

Telephone: UK 0118-949-9000 International 44-118-949-9000

Workshop Administration: Karen Clarke
Programme Co-ordinator: George Mozdzynski

05.11.2008