The John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) was established in 1998 by
Forschungszentrum Jülich and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY to support
the supercomputer-oriented simulation sciences. In 2006, GSI Helmholtzzentrum
für Schwerionenforschung joined NIC as a contract partner.
The core task of NIC is the peer-reviewed allocation of supercomputing resources
to computational science projects in Germany and Europe. The NIC partners also
support supercomputer-aided research in science and engineering through a threeway
strategy:
• Provision of supercomputing resources for projects in science research and
industry.
• Supercomputer-oriented research and development by research groups in
selected fields of physics and natural sciences.
• Education and training in all areas of supercomputing by symposia, workshops,
summer schools, seminars, courses amd guest programmes for scientists and
students.
The NIC Symposium is held biennially to give an overview on activities and results
obtained by the NIC projects in the last two years. The contributions for this fifth
NIC Symposium are from projects that have been supported by the IBM supercomputers
JUMP and Blue Gene/P in Jülich and the APE topical computer at DESY
in Zeuthen. They cover selected topics in the fields of Astrophysics, Biophysics,
Chemistry, Elementary Particle Physics, Materials
Science, Condensed Matter,
Computational Soft Matter Science, Earth and Environmental Research, Computer
Science, Hydrodynamics and Turbulence, and Plasma Physics.
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John von Neumann NIC Symposium 2010