About the meeting
The Pencil Code User Meeting is an annual meeting dedicated to the Pencil Code. The purpose of the meeting is to bring regular users and core developers together to discuss scientific and technical progress since the last meeting, to instigate collaborative projects and to allow new users to learn more about the code and to interact with other users and developers. The Pencil Code Meeting 2009 will be held August 24-28 2009 at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany.About the Pencil Code
The Pencil Code is a multipurpose code for massively parallel computing. It includes optionally hydrodynamics, magnetic fields, radiation, ionization, multi-species dust dynamics with coagulation, self-gravity and particles. It is developed and maintained under Subversion (SVN) by around 25 people with check-in permission and has been downloaded by around 500 registered users (without check-in permission). The code is tested nightly on several platforms and provides an excellent pedagogical tool for professional scientists as well as students to implement new code within an organized framework.Topics
Here are some example topics that the meeting aims at covering:
- Recent science results obtained with the Pencil Code
- Physics recently added to the code, such as particle collisions
- Recently added visualization techniques, such as on-the-fly 3D rendering and spherical slices
- Technical issues
- Future improvements to the code
- ...
News
- The meeting is now open for registration (March)- Registration is now closed (July)
- We acknowledge partial funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG - German Research Foundation)
Organization
If you have questions concerning the meeting please contact Wladimir Lyra.The Local Organizing Committee
- Wladimir Lyra
E-mail: lyra at mpia dot de
Phone: (+49) 6221 528 258 - Andras Zsom
E-mail: zsom at mpia dot de
Phone: (+49) 6221 528 321 - Natalie Raettig
E-mail: raettig at mpia dot de
Phone: (+49) 6221 528 315
Program
Monday
09:50 - 10:00 Welcome
10:00 - 10:30 A Pencil Code tutorial class (Axel/Boris)
10:30 - 11:00 The new configuration scheme (Wolfgang)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:00 Status of the Pencil Code paper (Axel)
12:00 - 12:30 Pencil Code on many core architectures (Dayton)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Discussion: Auto-test (Wolfgang/Axel/Boris)
16:00 - 18:00 Discussion: Anelastic solver (Boris)
Tuesday
10:00 - 10:30 MHD simulations of the solar corona (Sven/Philippe)10:30 - 11:00 Baroclinic instabilities in protoplanetary disks (Wlad)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:00 The Pluto code (Mario)
12:00 - 12:30 Pencil Code on a Blue Gene/P - are we ready to count processors by the thousands?(Anders)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Discussion: Configuration (Wolfgang/Axel)
16:00 - 18:00 Discussion: Initial conditions (Anders/Wlad)
19:00 - Conference Dinner
Wednesday
10:00 - 10:30 Internal wave attractors with the Pencil Code (Boris)10:30 - 11:00 SPH and Euler potentials with the Pencil code (Axel)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:00 Current status of the combustion module (Natalia)
12:00 - 12:30 Simulating non-equilibrium chemical systems with the Pencil code: the problem of stiffness (Raphael)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Discussion: Polar coordinates (Wlad/Axel/Boris)
16:00 - 18:00 Discussion: Bug list / Miscellaneous
Thursday
10:00 - 10:30 Particle deposition on a cylinder in a cross flow (Nils)10:30 - 11:00 Solid geometries with the immersed boundary method (Steinar)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:00 Planetesimal and Protoplanet Dynamics in a Turbulent Protoplanetary Disk (Chao-Chin)
12:00 - 12:30 Organizing simulation code collectives (Mikaela)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Discussion: Nested Pencil / Pencil AMR (Anders/Wlad)
16:00 - 18:00 Discussion: Bug list / Miscellaneous
