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Program Notes

 
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Wednesday

11 General Session
8:30 CUG Business: AC Introductions, Election Presentations, Voting, Chair: David Gigrich, CUG President, The Boeing Company (BOEING)
9:00 Introduction, James B. White III (Trey), Local Arrangements Chair, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Invited Talk,
Thomas C. Schulthess, Director, CSCS-Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), The DCA++ Story: How New Algorithms, New Computers, and Innovative Software Design Allow Us to Solve Challenging Simulation Problems in High Temperature Superconductivity
9:45 CUG Business: Election Results, James Kasdorf, CUG Secretary, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PITTSCC)
10:00 Break
12 Technical Sessions
  12A 12B 12C
10:30 Heidi Poxon, Cray Inc., Enhanced Productivity Using the Cray Performance Analysis Toolset Jay Lofstead, Georgia Institute of Technology, Petascale I/O Using The Adaptable I/O System Mahesh Rajan, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA), Red Storm/XT4: A Superior Architecture for Scalability
11:00
Chris Gottbrath, TotalView Technologies, Debugging Scalable Applications on the XT
John Walsh, National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), Administration Experiences with a Petabyte Scale Lustre File System Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA), Catamount N-Way Performance on XT5
11:30
James Rosinski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), General Purpose Timing Library (GPTL): A Tool for Characterizing Performance of Parallel and Serial Applications
Kevin Peterson, Cray Inc., Cray Scaling Efforts to Reach a PetaFlop Ronald Oldfield and Andrew Wilson, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA), Access to External Resources Using Service-Node Proxies
12:00 Lunch
13 Technical Sessions
  13A 13B 13C
1:00 Lonnie Crosby, National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), Performance Characteristics of the Lustre File System on the Cray XT5 with Regard to Application I/O Patterns Nathan Wichman, Cray Inc., CCE Hwa-Chun (Wendy) Lin, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Understanding Aprun Use Patterns
1:30 Katie Antypas, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Shared File MPI-IO Performance on the Lustre File System Brent Leback, The Portland Group, The Accelerator Programming Model for Multicore Forrest Hoffman and Richard Mills, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Coping at the User-Level with Limitations of the Cray Message Passing Toolkit at Scale: How Not to Spend Your Summer Vacation
2:00 Jeff Larkin, Cray Inc., Practical Examples for Efficient I/O on Cray XT Systems Geir Johansen, Cray Inc., Cray Programming Environment's Implementation of Dynamic Libraries Richard Mills, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Experiences and Challenges Scaling PFLOTRAN, a PETSc-based Code for Implicit Solution of Subsurface Reactive Flow Problems–Towards the Petascale on the Cray XT5
2:30 Break
14 Technical Sessions
  14A 14B 14C
3:00 Thomas Davis, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Fault and Performance Monitoring Using NAGIOS/Cacti Lee Higbie, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC), XT5 Performance Testing Manisha Gajbe, Georgia Institute of Technology, Optimization and Auto Tuning of 3 Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform on Cray XT4
3:30 Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Scalable Tool Infrastructure for the Cray XT Using Tree-Based Overlay Networks Patrick Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Early Evaluation of the Cray XT5 Samuel Williams, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Hierarchical Auto-Tuning of a Hybrid Lattice-Boltzmann Computation on the XT4 and XT5
4:00 Break
15 Interactive Sessions and BoFs  
  15A BoF 15B Interactive Session 15C Interactive Session
4:15
External Services, Jim Harrell, Cray Inc.
Legacy Systems SIG, Chair, James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PITTSCC)
User Support SIG, Chair, James Glidewell, The Boeing Company (BOEING)
5:00 Break
CUG Night Out
5:30

CUG Night Out at Dave & Buster's. First bus at 5:30 and last bus at 6:30.


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