LinkSceem Beirut Meeting
User Meeting in Beirut, Lebanon
Date: June 19, 2009
Place: American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Sponsors:
- The European Commission (DG-INFSO) and the Cyprus Institute
- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique - INRIA
- Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research - LNCSR
Organizers:
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The Cyprus Institute's CaSToRC Center
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The Computational Sciences Group of the American University of Beirut
- Prof. Nabil Nassif, Mathematics Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Prof. Marwan Darwish, Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
This Users Meeting is co-organized by the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) of the Cyprus Institute (CyI) and the American University of Beirut (AUB). The meeting is aimed at current or potential high-performance computing (HPC) users within the Lebanese scientific community and is part of the networking process conducted within the LinkSCEEM project.
The objectives of this process are:
1. To provide a forum where users and providers of HPC facilities in the Eastern Mediterranean can meet and exchange views and information.
2. To explore the available HPC infrastructures in the region, and the ways they currently serve their user communities.
3. To provide an opportunity for computational scientists from the region (both users and providers) to learn from the experiences of leaders of HPC centers in Western Europe and the US.
4. To lay the foundations of a user community around the planned HPC facility of the Cyprus Institute's CaSToRC center.
The meeting will include presentations from representatives of CaSToRC, LinkSCEEM and local scientific institutions. Current and potential HPC users will present their work and projects, and the related computational needs. The meeting will conclude with a round-table discussion that will focus on the required computational resources and connectivity.