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Preliminary Program

Schedule and Abstracts

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Program Notes

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Program Abstracts, sorted by Day, Session Number, and Time and the Final Program in PDF format.

Monday

1 Tutorials
 
1A (Room B1)
Chair: Robert A. Ballance (SNLA)
1B (Room B2)
Chair: Peter Cebull (INL)
1C (Room B3)
Chair: Brad Blasing (NCS-MINN)
8:00
Portable Performance with Vectorization, Mark Fahey and James B. White III (ORNL) Portals Programming on the XT3, Ron Brightwell and Rolf Riesen (SNLA); Arthur B. Maccabe, University of New Mexico Lustre Tutorial for Cray XD1 and Cray XT3 (continued at 10:20), Rick Slick and Peggy Gazzola, Cray Inc.
10:10
Break
2 Tutorials
 
2A (Room B1)
Chair: Robert A. Ballance (SNLA)
2B (Room B2)
Chair: Peter Cebull (INL)
2C (Room B3)
Chair: Brad Blasing (NCS-MINN)
10:20
Performance Measurement, Tuning, and Optimization on the Cray XT3, Luiz DeRose and John Levesque, Cray Inc. PBS Tutorial, Michael Karo, Cray Inc. Lustre Tutorial for Cray XD1 and Cray XT3 (continued from 8:00), Rick Slick and Peggy Gazzola, Cray Inc.
12:10–1:30
Lunch
3 Opening–General Session (Room B1) Chair: Barbara Horner-Miller (ARSC)
1:30
Welcome–Barbara Horner-Miller (ARSC), CUG President and Marie-Christine Sawley (CSCS), Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, CEO
  Keynote Address–Dr. Manuel Peitsch, Global Head of Systems Biology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
2:20
Leadership Computing at the NCCS, Arthur Bland, Ann Baker, R. Shane Canon, Ricky Kendall, Jeffrey Nichols, and Julia White (ORNL)
2:45
Break
4 Technical Sessions
4A Development of Large Scale Systems/Applications
(Room B1)
Chair: Jim Kasdorf (PITTSCC)
4B Chapel/Black Widow
(Room B2)
Chair: Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS)
4C System Operations–Schedulers & Monitoring Tools (Room B3)
Chair: Jim Glidewell (BOEING)
2:55
Red Storm: The Birth of a Supercomputer, James Tomkins and William J. Camp (SNLA) Chapel: Cray Cascade's High Productivity Language, Mary Beth Hribar, Steven Deitz, and Bradford L. Chamberlain, Cray Inc. Application Level Placement Scheduler (ALPS), Michael Karo, Richard Lagerstrom, Marlys Kohnke, and Carl Albing, Cray Inc.
3:30
Implementing the Operational Weather Forecast Model of MeteoSwiss on a Cray XT3, Angelo Mangili, Emanuele Zala, Jean-Marie Bettems, Mauro Ballabio, and Neil Stringfellow (CSCS) A User Perspective on the High Productivity Computer Systems (HPCS) Languages, Wael R. Elwasif, David E. Bernholdt, and Robert J. Harrison (ORNL) Moab Workload Manager on Cray XT3, Michael Jackson, Don Maxwell, and Scott Jackson, Cluster Resources Inc.
4:00
Performance Analysis and Modeling of Discrete Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) Code for Transient Microscale Gas Flows, Mahesh Rajan, Michail Gallis, and John Torczynski (SNLA) The Cray Programming Environment for Black Widow, Luiz DeRose, Mary Beth Hribar, Terry Greyzck, Brian Johnson, Bill Long, and Mark Pagel, Cray Inc. CrayViz: A Tool for Visualizing Job Status and Routing in 3D on the Cray XT3, John Biddiscombe and Neil Stringfellow (CSCS)
4:25
Break
5 X1/E-Interactive Session(s), Chair: Mark Fahey (ORNL)  
5A (Room B1)
5B (Room B2)
5C BoF (Room B3)
4:30
Systems, Jim Glidewell (BOEING) and Brad Blasing (NCS-MINN) Focus Chairs
Users, Mark Fahey (ORNL) and Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS) Focus Chairs
Reserved for Interactive Session
Cray Service Today and Tomorrow, Charlie Clark and Don Grooms, Cray Inc.