Advisory Panel
VLab is overseen by an Advisory Panel. Its role is
to provide feedback on scientific, educational, and technological
issues to the consortium via its director.
The members are: Profs. James R. Chelikowsky (U. of Texas),
Richard Martin (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
Andrew Odlyzko (U. of Minnesota), David Yuen (U. of Minnesota),
Alexandra Navrotsky (UC-Davis and COMPRES), Robert Lieberman
(SUNY-Stony Brook and COMPRES), Donald Weidner (SUNY-Stony Brook
and COMPRES), Shun-ichiro Karato (Yale and COMPRES),
G. David Price (UCL, UK), and Stefano Baroni (Democritos, Italy).
Director
Prof. Renata Wentzcovitch
PS and ITS Groups
IT Scientists (ITS):
Profs. Dave Yuen, Gorden Erlebacher (Coordinator), Bijaya Karki, and Drs. Marlon Pierce, Stefano Cozzini, and Kerstin Kleese-Van-Dam.
Physical Scientists (PS):
Profs. Philip Allen, Bijaya Karki, David Yuen, David Price, Michael
Gillan, Stefano Baroni, Stefano de Gironcoli, Frank Spera, Donald Truhlar,
Iljya Siepmann, and Renata Wentzcovitch (coordinator).
Administrative and Technical Support
Administrative and technical support on all aspects of high-performance scientific computing is provided by the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.
Research Plan and Time Table
| Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
|
| Methodology development |
Methodologies combination |
Research |
Research |
Transport Properties in Iron
UCL, SUNY, UMN
|
| Methodologies exploration |
Methodologies exploration research |
Research |
Research |
Properties of mantle minerals
UMN, DEMOCRITOS
|
| Methodology development |
Methodologies combination |
Research |
Research |
Properties of H2O-ice and hydrous MgSiO3
UMN, DEMOCRITOS
|
| Methodologies combination |
Methodologies combination |
Research |
Research |
Elements partitioning in solid/liquid iron
UCL, UMN
|
| Methodologies exploration |
Methodologies combination |
Integration within VLab |
Availability within VLab |
PWscf implementation
UMN, DEMOCRITOS
|
| Investigate tools at Daresbury Lab (DL) |
Visualization Code and hdw |
Integration within VLab |
Integration within VLab |
Metadata
All participating institutions
|
|
First principles elasticity & integration
within VLab
|
Fully operative methodology available for external users
|
Task Automation
LSU, UMN, DEMOCRITOS
|
| Two client/two servers WEB-IS for large datasets |
Steering between identical apps. |
Steering between heterogeneous applications
|
Visualization
FSU, LSU, UMN, DL
|
| WSDL Topic dictionary |
Topic discovery |
GSI security |
|
NaradaBrokering
FSU, DL
|
| Existing portal deployment |
Incorporate SRB Smart Schedulers |
Consistent views WSDL plug-ins |
Integration |
Project manager, portals
UMN, FSU, UI, DL, LSU, DEMOCRITOS
|
-Workshop
-Summer internship
|
-Workshop
-Summer internship
|
-Workshop
-Tutorial
-Summer internship
|
-Workshop
-Tutorial
-Summer internship
|
Education and Outreach
UMN, FSU, UI, SUNY, DEMOCRITOS, DL, LSU
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