This award will provide travel funds for a group of young americal computational physicists to attend a conference " GPU solutions to Multiscale Problems in Science and Engineering ". The conference is directed toward applications in the geophysical sciences.
This grant was used to support young American computer science and geophysics students and junior scientists with a PHD to go to China for attending conference in numerical solutions to mutliscale problems running on GPU, which is a new trend in computational sciences. We used the money for two years, 2010 and 2011 to support 33 people to Harbin in 2010 and to Lanzhou in 2011. Chinese government was very gracious and helped out with local expenses . A book on solutions to GPU will be coming out in 2012 by dint of effort from both the Chinese and Americans. We had some interesting discussions with our Chinese counterparts and the young scientists established good relationship with younger Chinese students. This we regard as a very healthy outcome of the two conferences. Topics covered range from computer science to geosciences and was very broad so many people learned about new areas they would not otherwise have encountered, had they gone to a normal conference within their own discipline. Momentum in this series of conference has been maintained by the Chinese ( Supercomputing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing) to have the third conference in Shenzhen and Hong Kong this past June. It was another successful event. We plan to continue on with a fourth conference next year in Changchun , Manchuria where we will broaden the topics to include many integrated core ( MIC) as well as maintaining GPU as the main thrust.
