Final Program Schedule 
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Program Notes Call for Papers

Wednesday

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10 Technical Sessions

10A Operations and Operating Systems
Chair, Sally Haerer (OR-ST)

10B Software Tools
Chair, David Gigrich (BCS)
8:00
 Cray X1 Early Experience, Bradford Blasing (NCS-MINN) CrayPat - X1 Performance Analysis Tool, Steve Kaufmann and Bill Homer, Cray Inc.
8:45
 Optimization of the Community Atmospheric Model for the Cray X1, James White (ORNL), Nathan Wichmann, and Matthew Cordery, Cray Inc. Etnus TotalView on Cray X1 Systems, Bob Moench, Cray Inc.

9:30

 Break
11 General Session, Chair, Kevin Wohlever (OSC)
9:45
Keynote Address, Jeffrey Harrow, Principal, The Harrow Group

10:45

 Break
12 General Session, Chair, Barbara Horner-Miller (ARSC)
11:00
 CUG Business Report
11:15
 Advisory Council Introductions
11:30
 Election Presentations and Voting
12:00
 Open Discussion on Mission and Goals and Election Results
Lunch 12:30-2:00
13 General Session, Chair, Sally Haerer (OR-ST)

2:00

 Total Life Cycle Cost Comparison: Cray X1 Compared to Commodity Cluster Systems, Paul Muzio and Richard Walsh (NCS-MINN)

2:45

 Total Cost of Operation (TCO) Panel, Paul Muzio (NCS-MINN), Arthur Bland (ORNL), Barbara Horner-Miller (ARSC), Suresh Shukla (BCS), and Per Nyberg, Cray Inc.

3:30

 Break
14 Technical Sessions

14A Performance
Chair, Rolf Rabenseifner (RUS)

14B Applications
Chair, Chris Catherasoo (JPL)
4:00
 Investigating the Performance Impact of Memory Contention in Dual-Processor Cluster Nodes, Jay Boisseau, Kent Milfeld, and Chona Guiang (TACC) Analyzing Quantum Systems Using the Cray MTA-2, Wendell Anderson, Marco Lanzagorta, and C. Stephen Hellberg (NRL)
4:45
 Performance Modeling the Earth Simulator and ASCI Q, Harvey Wasserman, Adolfy Hoisie, and Darren J. Kerbyson (LANL) The Performance of Finite-Element Codes on the Cray MTA, Jonathan Gibson (MCC)
15 SIG Meetings and BoF's

SIG Meetings

BoF's
5:30-6:15
Operating Systems
Chair, Barry Sharp (BCS)
System Integration
Chair, Virginia Bedford (ARSC)
Grid Computing
Chair, Guy Robinson (ARSC)
Cray MTA
Chair, Chris Catherasoo (JPL)
7:00
CUG Night Out, Capitol Theatre
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