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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:57:08 -0700
From: Jean Deken 
Subject: Workshop Announcement: Scientific Data Management
Sender: Archives & Archivists 



WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC DATA MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
20-22 October 1998
First (Formal) Announcement, September 19, 1998
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
2575 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025


PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together scientsts with large
scale (petabytes) or high-complexity data management problems and also to
encourage interaction with computer scientists working on these problems.

We expect problems and solutions will arise from a variety of fields, for
example, computing science, Climatology, combustion, high-energy and
nuclear physics, biology and genetics, fusion, materials science and
chemistry, and welcome wider participation.

Please distribute this announcement to others working on problems of
scientific data management.

The workshop will be held at SLAC.

GOALS
   1.Present the current state of the art(s) (both implementations and
computing science);
   2.Present and compare the differing current and future needs of each
area of science;
   3.Promote ad hoc collaborations based initially on existing funding;
for example:
        scientists already using Object Database Management technology
collaborate with scientists needing to try out an ODBMS for their
application;

         scientists with massive future data management needs study
detailed requirements and possible solutions together with computing
scientists and with other scientists using large existing data management
systems.

BACKGROUND

The initiative for the workshop arose from a need to improve information
exchange on data management issues between DoE-funded scientists.

DoE and other US agencies are proposing the Scientific Simulation Plan
(SSP) to increase the visibility and funding for computing/simulation as
the "Third Branch of Science".

The natural growth in the importance of data management in almost all
fields will be massively accelerated by SSP. Preparation of SSP (e.g. a
recent workshop on Computing Science and Enabling Technologies for SSP)
has revealed a strong need to set up collaborations to make much
more effective use of existing implementations of data management
solutions and to bring computing scientists and developers into contact
with "applications" scientists.

The workshop will focus on how best to use the existing intellectual
resources in the near to medium term. Strategies and quantitative cost
estimates for SSP data management are also required and are expected to be
one of the outputs from collaborative studies initiated at the
workshop.


TO REGISTER:

Please send email to Jane Rochester Jane.Rochester@slac.stanford.edu to
register, providing:

Name
email address
affiliation
address
telephone number and fax number

There will be a registration fee of about $25, payable at the workshop, to
cover the cost of coffee, muffins, soda etc. in the morning and at the
breaks. No-host lunch is available at the on-site cafeteria. A no-host
dinner will be arranged, probably on Wednesday evening.

FURTHER INFORMATION
Can be found at the Workshop web site:
http://www-user.slac.stanford.edu/rmount/dm-workshop/main.htm

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