Organization of PICS Activities.
The Scientific Lead of the groundwater component is
Richard Ewing,
Dean of Science at Texas A & M. A complete description of
the various activities of the Groundwater component is provided in the
PICS Groundwater Home Page
at TAMU.
The Organizational Lead for all PICS activities is Kenneth
Kliewer, director of the Center for Computational Science at at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory. The Center was established through the PICS
effort to procure and maintain advanced parallel
architecture supercomputers, most notably a 1,000 node (2,000 processors)
intel Paragon with a
peak performance of 150 GigaFlops and with a 100 TeraByte peripheral robotic
tape storage device, and to develop general purpose tools to assist other
research scientists in the use of massively parallel systems.
Code and algorithm development is performed on satellite intel Paragons
located at the PICS Groundwater member universities;
once an algorithm or simulator code is debugged, optimized and matured
on smaller model problems, it is migrated to the larger machine at ORNL for
large field scale studies. More complete details of the CCS and its full
range of activities is contained in the
CCS Home Page at ORNL.
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