Geoscience Applications Requirements for Petascale Systems Session: BoF-31 Event Type: BOF Time: 5:15pm - 6:45pm Speaker(s): Richard Dana Loft, Robert Lee Pennington Location: 615-616 Abstract: To address the challenges of creating a petacale system for Earth System sciences, an in-depth dialog must be developed between the scientific researchers, computational scientists with domain expertise and key system vendors. This process must be driven by clearly defined set of computational requirements from the geosciences community that are understood and internalized by the vendors early in the process of developing new petascale systems. Scientists and vendors are now at a critical juncture at which it is still possible to positively influence the design of end of the decade supercomputers relative to the needs of geoscience applications. Chair/Speaker Details: Richard Dana Loft National Center for Atmospheric Research Robert Lee Pennington NCSA