CSE 2001
Workshop on Advanced Methods and Tools for Computational Science and Engineering

ENEA Headquarters - Lungotevere Thaon di Revel 76 - Roma (Italy)
October 10-12, 2001

Day 1

09:15 Opening Remarks

09:30 Perspectives for capability computing
         A. Mathis (ENEA-HPCN)

Beowulf technology up-date
(Chairperson: L. Arcipiani)

10:00 The cluster facility approach at ENEA
          R. Guadagni (ENEA-INFO)

10:40 Coffee break

11:20 The ALPS cluster
          A. Zorat (Neuricam, Trento)

          12:00 Computational Physics by Cluster-Computing
                     T. Lippert (Wuppertal, D)

12:40 Lunch

Applications: BioComputing
(Chairperson: A. Giansanti)

14:15 Computational methods in drug and protein design    
        
A.Di Nola (University of Roma "La Sapienza")

14:45 Parallel Molecular Dynamics on Linux clusters
         S. Cozzini (INFM, Trieste)

15:15 Calculation of chemical potential and free energies in model systems by MD
         M. Ferrario (University of Modena and INFM)

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 Computational analysis of the mechanisms of the transription factors
          G. Lavorgna (S. Raffaele Hospital, Milano)

16:45 Heterogeneous computing for linguistics proteomics: does cysteine clustering affect proteins thermostability?
          N. Pucello (ENEA-HPCN)

Computer Science
(Chairperson: S. Migliori)

17:15 Algorithms and Architectures for Memory Hierarchies
          G. Bilardi (University of Padova)

17:45 Automatic synthesis of dedicated hardware devices
          A. Marongiu (ENEA and CASPUR)

Day 2

Applications: weather-, climate- and geodynamics modelling
(Chairperson: A. Mathis)

09:15 The climate variability: the case of Mediterranean-North Atlantic ocean system
          V. Artale (ENEA)

09:45 Atmospheric Physics and Numerical Modelling: the experience of the L’Aquila area
          G. Visconti (University of L’Aquila)

10:15 Numerical simulations for the seismic waves propagation problem
         A. Caserta (INGV, Roma)

10:45 The Distributed Memory MM5 on QSW Alpha Linux Beowulf @ ENEA
         F. Valentinotti (QSW, Roma), B. Tomassetti (University of L’Aquila)

          11:15 Coffee Break

Applications: Condensed Matter Physics
(Chairperson: V. Rosato)

11:30 Recent Advances in Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Many-Fermion systems
          F. Pederiva (University of Trento)

12:00 Path integral Monte Carlo simulation of a model of two dimensional polaron gas
          C. Pierleoni (University of L’Aquila)

12:30 Direct simulations of large self-gravitating systems in astrophysics
          R. Capuzzo Dolcetta (University of Roma "La Sapienza")

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Coupled atomistic and coarse-grained methods for the study of microstructure evolution
          F. Cleri (ENEA Roma and INFM)

15:00 Molecular Models and Simulation of Liquid Crystals
         C. Zannoni (University of Bologna)

15:30 Coffee break

Applications: High-Energy Physics
(Chairperson: M.P. Lombardo)

16:00 Long Term prospects for Lattice Gauge Theory Computers
         R. Tripiccione (University of Ferrara and INFN)

16:30 Data analysis for gravitational wave detectors
         F. Fidecaro (Università di Pisa, INFN Pisa)

17:00 Resource Tradeoffs for the Computation of the Dirac Operator
         A. Pietracaprina (DEI, University of Padova)

17:30 Cluster Computing on QCD
         S. Gottlieb (Indiana University, USA)

20:00 Social Dinner 

Day 3

Industrially-oriented applications
(Chairperson: P. Palazzari)

09:00 An Efficient Parallel ADI Algorithm for Turbomachinery Flows
          V. Michelassi (University of Roma Tre)

09:30 Distributed implementation of a particle-based cloth simulator
          A. Galimberti (University of Parma)

10:00 Electromagnetic field modeling by FDTD: first experiences of parallelization on a PC-cluster
          R. Pontalti (IRST, Trento)

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 High Performance Computing for Electromagnetics
          L. Tarricone (University of Perugia)

11:30 High Performance Computing for Industrial Applications in Aerospace
          P. Schiano (CIRA, Capua)

12:00 Computational architectures and applications on Oil&Gas prospection
          M. Franzese (ENI/AGIP, Milano)

12:30 Trends and perspectives
          S. Fantoni (SISSA Trieste)

12:45 Lunch

14:30 Conclusions

Organizing Committee

Maria Paola Lombardo (INFN) lombardo@science.unitn.it
Paolo Palazzari (ENEA-HPCN) palazzari@casaccia.enea.it
Vittorio Rosato (ENEA-HPCN) rosato@casaccia.enea.it