Pencil Code Meeting 2008

The Pencil Code 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 2008 will be held August 19-22 2008 at the Sterrewacht Leiden in Leiden in The Netherlands.

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 the Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) 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
• Technical issues, such as transition from CVS to SVN
• Future improvements to the code
• A Pencil Code paper
• ...

News

• We have received partial funding from NOVA
• We have received partial funding from the LKBF
• We have received partial funding from the Astrosim network. This means that travel support can be given to at least some participants. More information will follow.
• The meeting is open for registration.

Organization

If you have questions concerning the meeting please contact
Anders Johansen.

The Local Organizing Committee :

• Anders Johansen
  

  E-mail:	ajohan at strw.leidenuniv.nl
  Phone:	(+31) 71 527 8454 (office)/
  	(+31) 648 211 427 (mobile)

Sponsors

NOVA
LKBF