Lattice QCD Computational Science Workshop
Overview
The purpose of this workshop is to advance our understanding of the scientific goals in the Lattice QCD community and how leadership-class computing is currently integrated in this scientific research and will need to change to meet their future computing and data requirements.
Lattice QCD calculations aim to understand the physical phenomena encompassed by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the fundamental theory of the strong forces of subatomic physics, and to make precise calculations of the theory’s predictions. These simulations are necessary to solve fundamental problems in nuclear physics and high-energy physics that are at the heart of DOE’s large experimental efforts in these fields.
The OLCF provides leadership-class computing capabilities to a select user community and awarded 1.84 billion core-hours for 2013 through the INCITE allocation program. Since the beginning of the INCITE program, the Lattice QCD community has been one of, and often, the largest core-hour users of these computing resources.
This workshop will bring together Lattice QCD experts and OLCF large-scale computing experts to discuss how computational science on leadership-class computing architectures is advancing research and development in lattice QCD, and as a result, impacting DOE’s missions in high energy and nuclear physics. Attendees will also discuss future computing and data needs foreseen in lattice QCD research, and their scientific motivations.
[tab: Agenda]| Tentative Program: | |
| Day 1 | |
| 9:00 – 9:05 | David Dean (ORNL): Workshop Welcome (Continental breakfast provided) |
| 9:05 – 9:35 | Jack Wells (ORNL): Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility |
| 9:35 – 10:00 | Barney Maccabe (ORNL): The future of data and computing at ORNL |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Paul Mackenzie (FNAL): USQCD Collaboration Overview |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | SESSION 1: HotQCD, Chair: F. Karsch |
| Swagato Mukherjee (BNL): Overview of lattice QCD calculations on QCD thermodynamics and its relevance for heavy ion experiments and phenomenologyations on QCD thermodynamics and its relevance for heavy ion experiments and phenomenology (40 min) | |
| Peter Petreczky (BNL): Spectral functions in the Quark Gluon Plasma (25 min) | |
| Christian Schmidt (Bielefeld): Lattice QCD calculations at non-zero baryon density (25min) | |
| 12:30 – 1:45 | Lunch: Judy Hill (ORNL): OLCF Liaison support model |
| 1:45 – 3:15 | SESSION 2: Cold QCD, Chair: M. Savage |
| Kostas Orginos (William & Mary U): Nucleon structure in LQCD | |
| William Detmold (MIT): Light Nuclei in LQCD | |
| Robert Edwards (JLab): Hadron spectroscopy from LQCD | |
| Martin Savage (UW): Cold QCD Summary (20 min) | |
| 3:15 – 3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 – 5:00 | SESSION 3: HEP and BSM, Chair: P. Petreczky |
| Julius Kuti (UCSD): Higgs impostors and strongly coupled lattice gauge theories on the Energy Frontier | |
| Taku Izubuchi (BNL): Lattice QCD and the HEP Intensity Frontier | |
| Carleton DeTar (U of Utah): Weak matrix Elements and Lattice QCD | |
| Day 2 | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Julia White (INCITE): INCITE Program (Continental breakfast provided) |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | SESSION 4: Software and Algorithm for LQCD, Chair: H. Nam |
| Rich Brower (Boston U.): Lattice Gauge Theory Software and Multi-scale Algorithms | |
| Mike Clark (NVIDIA): LQCD on GPUs | |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | SESSION 4: (continued) |
| Steven Gottlieb (Indiana): Software developments for lattice QCD calculations on heterogeneous machines | |
| Balint Joo (JLab): Chroma | |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch: [ Wayne Joubert (ORNL): OLCF requirements for next-gen systems |
| 1:30 – | SESSION 5: Discussions |
More information on visiting ORNL, including maps and driving directions, can be found at: https://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/visiting.shtml.
For your convenience, we have two housing options at established government rates. Please note the deadlines to receive these reduced rates.
ORNL Guest House
8640 Nano Center Drive, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 (On ORNL campus)
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Government Rate $91/night. Use room block code: Lattice QCD
Reservations can be made 24/7 by calling 865-576-8101 or go to https://res.travlynx.com/bbe/page1.aspx?propertyID=8876
To receive the reduced rate above, reservations must be made before April 23, 2013.
Holiday Inn Express
114 Tulsa Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
https://www.hiexpress.com/hotels/us/en/oak-ridge/okrit/hoteldetail
Government Rate $91/night. Use room block code: Lattice QCD
Call 865-298-1990 to make a reservation.
To receive the reduced rate above, reservations must be made before April 5, 2013
