Zahari Zlatev - Krassimir Georgiev
The computers are becoming faster and faster. Problems that require a lot of computing time and rely on the use of huge files of input data can now be treated on powerful work-stations and PCs. On the other hand, the modern high-speed computers can successfully be used to remove some non-physical assumptions which were commonly made several years ago only in order to make the models tractable at the computers, which were available at that time. However, the removal of simplifying assumptions will normally lead to huge computational tasks. The new high-speed computers are to be used in order to treat successfully such tasks by applying parallel computations and a careful utilization of the cache memory of the computers.
The exploitation of the new fast computers in the efforts to avoid non-physical assuptions and, thus, to develop and run more reliable and more robust large scientific models will be the major topic of a special session on "Treatment of Large Scientific Models". The session is organized by Krassimir Georgiev from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Zahari Zlatev from the National Environmental Research Institute (Roskilde, Denmark).
Candidates to present a talk at the special session should send a one-page abstract by e-mail to any of the organizers (georgiev@parallel.bas.bg or zz@dmu.dk) before January 1 2004. Papers presented at this special session will be published (after a referee procedure) in an appropriate journal.