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Preliminary Program

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

Wednesday

11 Technical Sessions
11A Performance
(Room B1)

Chair: Mark Fahey (ORNL)
11B UPC
(Room B2)

Chair: Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS)
11C Performance–XD1/FPGAs
(Room B3)

Chair: Kevin Wohlever (OSC)
8:20
FV-CAM Performance on the XT3 and X1E, Patrick Worley (ORNL) Using Unified Parallel C to Enable New Types of CFD Applications on the Cray X1E, Andrew Johnson (NCS-MINN) Early Experiences with the Naval Research Laboratory XD1, Wendell Anderson, Marco Lanzagorta, Robert Rosenberg, and Jeanie Osburn (NRL)
9:00
HPCC Update and Analysis, Jeff Kuehn (ORNL); Nathan Wichmann, Cray Inc. Evaluation of UPC on the Cray X1E, Richard Barrett (ORNL); Tarek El-Ghazawi and Yiyi Yao, George Washington University; Jeffey Vetter (ORNL) Molecular Dynamics Acceleration with Reconfigurable Hardware on Cray XD1: A System Level Approach, Brice Tsakam-Sotch, XLBiosim
9:25
Comparing Optimizations of GTC for the Cray X1E and XT3, James B. White III (ORNL); Nathan Wichmann, Cray Inc.; Stephane Ethier, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Performance of WRF Using UPC and SHMEM, Hee-Sik Kim and Jong-Gwan Do, Cray Korea Inc.
High Level Synthesis of Scientific Algorithms for the Cray XD1 System, Paolo Palazzari, Giorgio Brusco and Paolo Verrecchia, Ylichron Srl; Alessandro Marongiu and Vittorio Rosato, Ylichron Srl and ENEA; Paolo Migliori, ENEA; Philip LoCascio (ORNL)
9:50
Performance Comparison of Cray X1E, XT3, and NEC SX8, Hongzhang Shan and Erich Strohmaier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Parallel Position-Specific Iterated Smith-Waterman Algorithm Implementation, Maciej Cytowski, Witold Rudnicki, Rafal Maszkowski, Lukasz Bolikowski, Maciej Dobrzynski, and Maria Fronczak (WARSAWU) Compiling Software Code to FPGA-based Application Accelerator Processors in the XD1, Doug Johnson, Chris Sullivan, and Stephen Chappell, Celoxica
10:15
Break
12 Technical Sessions
12A User Services
(Room B1)
Chair: Jim Glidewell (BOEING)
12B Performance on Custom HPC Machines (Compilers/Architecture)
(Room B2)
Chair: Mark Fahey (ORNL)
12C Performance–MTA
(Room B3)
Chair: James B. White III (ORNL)
10:35
Case Study: Providing Customer Support in the High Performance Computing Environment, Barbara Jennings (SNLA) Optimizing Application Performance on Cray Systems with PGI Compilers and Tools, Douglas Miles, Brent Leback, and David Norton, The Portland Group Designing Multithreaded Algorithms for Breadth-First Search and st-Connectivity on the Cray MTA-2, Kamesh Madduri and David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:05
Beyond Books: New Directions for Cray Customer Documentation, Nola Van Vugt and Lynda Feng, Cray Inc. An Investigation of Application Fit to Architecture, Courtenay Vaughan, Mahesh Rajan, and Robert Benner (SNLA) Characterizing Applications on the MTA2 Multithreading Architecture, Jeffrey Vetter, Sadaf Alam, Richard Barrett, Collin McCurdy, and Philip Roth (ORNL)
13 General Session (Room B1) Chair: Barbara Horner-Miller (ARSC)
11:30
CUG Business/Elections, Barbara Horner-Miller (ARSC), CUG President, Chair
11:50
CUG and the Cray CEO: AKA, "100 on 1", Pete Ungaro, CEO and President, Cray Inc.
12:35
Election Results, Kevin Wohlever (OSC), CUG Treasurer
12:40–1:45
Lunch
14 Technical Sessions
14A XT3 Performance Analysis
(Room B1)
Chair: Jim Kasdorf (PITTSCC)
14B Co-Array Fortran
(Room B2)
Chair: Mark Fahey (ORNL)
14C System Support/Management
(Room B3)
Chair: Liam Forbes (ARSC)
1:45
Enabling Computational Science on BigBen, Nick Nystrom, Shawn Brown, Jeff Gardner, Roberto Gomez, Junwoo Lim, David O'Neal, R. Reddy, John Urbanic, Yang Wang, Deborah Weisser, and Joel Welling (PITTSCC) Scaling to New Heights with Co-Array Fortran, Jef Dawson (NCS-MINN) Job-based Accounting for UNICOS/mp, Jim Glidewell (BOEING)
2:10
Boundary Element—Finite Element Method for Solid-Fluid Coupling on the XT3, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb (WASP) Porting Experience of Open64 based Co-Array Fortran Compiler on XT3, Akira Nishida (UTOKYO) Resource Allocation and Tracking System (RATS) Deployment on the Cray X1E, XT3, and XD1 Platforms, Robert Whitten, Jr. and Tom Barron (ORNL); David L. Hulse, Computer Associates International, Inc.; Phillip E. Pfeiffer, East Tennessee State University; Stephen L. Scott (ORNL)
2:35
Analysis of an Application on Red Storm, Courtenay Vaughan and Sue Goudy (SNLA) Co-Array Fortran Experiences Solving PDE Using Finite Differencing Schemes, Richard Barrett (ORNL) Red Storm Systems Management: Topics on Extending Current Capabilities, James H. Laros, III (SNLA), Dave Wallace, Cray Inc.
3:00
Break
15 Technical Sessions
15A Performance via Eldorado & MTA
(Room B1)
Chair: Barbara Horner-Miller (ARSC)
15B Libraries
(Room B2)
Chair: Mike Pettipher (MCC)
15C Operations
(Room B3)
Chair: Liam Forbes (ARSC)
3:20
Eldorado Programming Environment, Simon Kahan, Cray Inc. Cray and AMD Scientific Libraries, Mary Beth Hribar, Cray Inc.; Chip Freitag, AMD; Bracy Elton and Adrian Tate, Cray Inc. Providing a Shared Computing Resource for Advancing Science and Engineering Using the XD1 at Rice University, Jan E. Odegard, Kim B. Andrews, Franco Bladilo, Kiran Thyagaraja, Roger Moye, and Randy Crawford (RICEU)
4:00
A Micro-kernel Benchmark Suite for Multithreaded Architectures, Fabrizio Petrini and Allan Snavely (SDSC); John Feo, Cray Inc. Safeguarding the XT3, Katherine Vargo (PITTSCC)
4:25
Break
16 XD1 Interactive Session(s), Chair: Liam Forbes (ARSC)  
16A (Room B1)
16B (Room B2)
16C BoF (Room B3)
4:30
Systems, Liam Forbes (ARSC), Focus Chair
Users,
Peter Cebull (INL), Focus Chair
Reserved for Interactive Session
Batch Schedulers, Richard Alexander (CSCS)
6:15
CUG Night Out at one of the Bellinzona World Heritage Medieval Castles
Buses leave from the conference center at 6:15