[hpc-announce] Call for Ideas Papers - DOE Workshop on Advancing Cross-cutting Ideas for Computational Climate Science

[Esmond G. Ng]

Dear Colleagues,

A workshop to discuss bold, new computational ideas to address 
longer-term science needs for climate modeling is being convened January 
26-28, 2016 in Rockville, MD. As the climate science community explores 
a host of critical science questions to be answered over the next 10+ 
years, with the aim of informing stakeholders about the ongoing changes 
in global and local climate, there is a growing recognition of the 
expanding requirements for multiscale, global, coupled Earth system 
models. We expect them to provide much more detail and fidelity, with a 
much better understanding of their uncertainties, while still executing 
robustly and efficiently on ever larger and more complex computing systems.

The DOE Office of Science BER and ASCR programs are sponsoring the 
event, titled “Advancing Cross-cutting Ideas for Computational Climate 
Science”, or AXICCS 2016. It is a grassroots effort to generate fresh 
thinking that will mold the optimal science directions and motivate the 
latest and as yet to be uncovered ASCR developments that will be 
required to handle new requirements. A report outlining the challenges, 
strategies to address them, and possible avenues for execution will be 
one of the outcomes of the event. A website with details and logistics 
will be provided shortly.

A key aspect to achieve the workshop goals is to brainstorm before the 
event, and to accomplish this we are soliciting community input in the 
form of “ideas” papers. Overall space at the event is limited, but we 
plan to accommodate the lead authors of these ideas papers via a 
presentation (oral or poster) and acknowledgement in the workshop 
report. Some of those selected will be included in the workshop 
write-up. Details about the format for the ideas papers and templates to 
download are provided at 
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/workshops/AXICCS/paper.html. Ideas papers must 
be submitted through a link to EasyChair no later than 5:00pm Eastern 
Time on Nov 24, 2015, and official invitations to present will be sent 
to selected lead authors by Dec 9, 2015. Attendees will need to cover 
their own travel expenses.

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the workshop 
sponsors, the DOE Office of Science BER and ASCR programs, and in 
particular, Drs. Dorothy Koch and Randall Laviolette for their 
encouragement to proceed. We also thank those who have volunteered to 
become a part of the organizing committee.

Sincerely,
Katherine Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory