Sponsored by: The High Performance Computing Group at the Computer Center and the Computational Mechanics Committee Researchers, students and developers from industry who form the HPC community in Israel got together for a day of exchange and collaboration, on Monday, 11 October 2004, at the Technion Butler Auditorium. The conference focused on such topics as grid computing, solid state physics, fluid and molecular dynamics, and bioinformatics. Presentations from the conference are available below. Agenda: 09:30    Greetings: Prof. David Degani Deputy Senior Vice President, Technion 10:00    Prof. David Horn, Chairman, IAG Israel Academic Grid The grid in the world and in Israel 10:45-11:45    LARGE PLATFORMS , LARGE STORAGE Dr. Yuval Levy and Yakov Mindelis, Technion Interactive Volumetric Flow Field Visualization using FLIC Dr. Sharron Zabary, TAU COBI - Israel National Bioinformatics Center Anastasia Sorkin, Technion Techniques of atomistic simulations with applications to amourphous carbon Dr. Shimshon Barad , TAU Numerical simulation of laser pulse propagation in non-linear waveguides Posters session and lunch 13:30-14:30    PARALLEL APPLICATIONS Prof . Gershom Martin , Weizmann Computational modeling of reaction mechanisms and catalytic cycles by means of novel density functionals Prof. Benjamin Svetitsky, TAU Localization in lattice gauge theory Dr. Alex Gelfgat , TAU On Parallel Performance of GALGEL Benchmark Code of SPEC 2000 Yair Mor-Yossef, Technion Computational prediction of transonic turbulent flows using unstructured grids Dr. Irena Efremenko,Technion Quantum Chemistry for Catalytic Applications : From Electronic Structure Modelling to Reactor Design 14:45-15:30    HPC- PRESENT and FUTURE Dr. Oleg Weinstein, Technion Parallel Computations on a Crystal-Growth Related Problem - a Learning Experience at HPC-Europe Dr. Eran Arad , Rafael   Poor-Man Parallel Computing :Performance Issues on Small Clusters Dr. Joan Adler , Technion Computational Experiments versus Laboratory Experiments 15:30    Conclusions and Discussion View The HPC Conference Image Gallery View The HPC Conference Posters List Contact Anne (anne@tx.technion.ac.il)