Prediction of long-term global climate change and the related regional extreme weather events are very serious issues for sustaining security, prosperity and future of the world society. Rapid progress in high-performance computing and information technologies has enabled climate scientists to simulate the long-term global climate change and regionally extreme events as wind storm, typhoon, hurricane, torrential rain, drought, heat wave, floods, frost etc.. This has been achieved by innovating climate/weather or earth system models with supports by high performance computing and globally networked observation technologies.

High-end computing technology is ceaselessly and rapidly growing and its capability broke a wall of petaflops computing in 2008 by ‘Roadrunner’ of LANL and ‘Jaguar’ of ORNL. Japan’s project will also be scheduled to reach to 10 petaflops capability up to 2012. Green and high-capability computing are now pushing venders to take new design as multi- or many-core architecture for attaining more petaflop and exaflop facilities. These changes in computing environments gradually and strongly impact on software technology for modeling global and regional climate change or earth system sustainability and global system simulation.

Since climate modeling, computational science, and computer engineering are intimately collaborated, it is now required to tie up more closely and internationally, in order to challenge the new environment of computing.

Thus, the objective of this workshop is to bring together climatologists, computer scientist and engineering people for discussing and exchanging new ideas for the next generation models and simulation, as well as hyper -performance computing environments that are envisioned to be available in the next few decades.

This workshop is basically related to the communiqué of the 6th Japan-US workshop held in Hawaii, March 1998. The workshop is the 12-th in the series having been held in several places in the world, starting with the first one in Hawaii in 1999. Previous Locations are: Honolulu, 1999/ Toulouse, France, 2000/ Tokyo, 2001/ Boulder, 2002/ Rome, 2003/ Honolulu, 2004 / Kona, Hawaii, 2005 / Albuquerque, 2006 / Honolulu, 2007/Honolulu, 2008/ Oak Ridge, 2009/

What applications are available to simulate the global climate change and extreme weather events for the next generation supercomputers with capability of petafop and exaflop computing?

Integrated Earth System Models
Cloud models with High Resolution
Weather Prediction and Extreme Events
Atmospheric Chemistry
Data Assimilation
Ocean Circulation Models
Petaflops computing
Algorithms and Computational Environment
Vender’s progress
Others

A. Sumi, Prof. , University of Tokyo
M. Sato, Prof. Tuskuba Universiy,
T. Zacharia, Vice President ORNL
H. Simon, Vice President, LBNL
Y. Oyanagi, Emirate Prof, University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo (TIGS, CCSR)
University of Tsukuba (CCS)
ORNL, USA

Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST）

H. L. Tanaka, University of Tsukuba, CCS
K. Maruyama, CRIEPI
M. Kimoto, The University of Tokyo, CCSR
J. Drake, ORNL
M,Tayler, SNL
B.Spotz, SNL
A. Kitoh, MRI-JMA
M. Kawamiya, JAMSTEC
H. Nakamura, RIST

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March. 24-26 , 2010

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