Every second year the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) hosts a workshop on the use of high performance computing in meteorology. In 2004 we will hold our 11th workshop in this well established series from 25 to 29 October. The emphasis of this workshop will be as before on achieving sustained teraflop performance in a production environment.

Our aim is to provide a venue where

users from our Member States and around the world can report on their experience and achievements in the field of high performance computing during the last two years; plans for the future and requirements for computing power will also be presented;
vendors of supercomputers will have the opportunity to talk to managers and end users of meteorological computer centres about their current and future products;
meteorological scientists can present their achievements in the development of parallel computing techniques and algorithms, and can exchange ideas on the use of supercomputers in future research;
computer scientists can give an update on their efforts in providing tools which will help users to exploit the power of supercomputers in the field of meteorology;
the challenges of creating a computer centre infrastructure for HPC can be discussed.

The workshop will consist of a limited number of presentations from invited speakers, plus a series of 20 minutes contributions. The morning of the final day will be reserved for an open discussion session. This workshop will start on Monday 25th October at 9:30am and close on Friday 29th at 12:00 noon.

Attendance at the workshop is by invitation and will be limited to around 100 persons. If you are interested, please contact the workshop organizers:

By email: hpcworkshop@ecmwf.int

By post to:

HPC Workshop
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Shinfield Park
Reading/Berks.
RG2 9AX
United Kingdom

Telephone: UK 0118-949-9000 International 44-118-949-9000

Workshop Administration: Hanna Mullane
Programme Co-ordinator: George Mozdzynski

12.10.2004