COMPASS, the COMmunity Petascale project for Accelerator Science and Simulation, a board computational accelerator physics initiative

COMPASS, the COMmunity Petascale project for Accelerator Science and Simulation, a broad computational accelerator physics initiative † J R Cary 1,9 , P Spentzouris 2 , J Amundson 2 , L McInnes 3 , M Borland 3 , B Mustapha 3 , B Norris 3 , P Ostroumov 3 , Y Wang 3 , W Fischer 4 , A Fedotov 4 , I Ben-Zvi 4 , R Ryne 5 , E Esarey 5 , C Geddes 5 , J Qiang 5 , E Ng 5 , S Li 5 , C Ng 6 , R Lee 6 , L Merminga 7 , H Wang 7 , D L Bruhwiler 1 , D Dechow 1 , P Mullowney 1 , P Messmer 1 , C Nieter 1 , S Ovtchinnikov 1 , K Paul 1 , P Stoltz 1 , D Wade-Stein 1 , W B Mori 8 , V Decyk 8 , C K Huang 8 , W Lu 8 , M Tzoufras 8 , F Tsung 8 , M Zhou 8 , G R Werner 9 , T Antonsen 10 , T Katsouleas 11 July 2007 Current Addresses: Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO 80303 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA 23606 University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Support is acknowledged from the U.S. Department of Energy under grants DE-FG02- 04ER41317, DE-FG02- 06ER84484, DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-FG02-05ER84173. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. It also used resources of the Livermore Computing Services at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.