CUG2016 Proceedings


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Monday, May 9th


8:30am-10:00am

Tutorial 1A
Bartholomew
Cray Management System for XC Systems with SMW 8.0/CLE 6.0
Tutorial

Tutorial 1B
Harpley
Knights Landing and Your Application: Getting Everything from the Hardware
Tutorial

Tutorial 1C
Beaumont
CUG 2016 Cray XC Power Monitoring and Management Tutorial
Tutorial

10:30am-12:00pm

Tutorial 1A Continued
Bartholomew
Cray Management System for XC Systems with SMW 8.0/CLE 6.0
Tutorial

Tutorial 1B Continued
Harpley
Knights Landing and Your Application: Getting Everything from the Hardware
Tutorial

Tutorial 1C Continued
Beaumont
CUG 2016 Cray XC Power Monitoring and Management Tutorial
Tutorial

1:00pm-2:30pm

Tutorial 2A
Bartholomew
Cray Management System for XC Systems with SMW 8.0/CLE 6.0
Tutorial

Tutorial 2B
Harpley
Getting the full potential of OpenMP on Many-core systems
Tutorial

Tutorial 2C
Beaumont
eLogin Made Easy - An Introduction and Tutorial on the new Cray External Login Node.
Tutorial

3:00pm-4:30pm

Tutorial 2A Continued
Bartholomew
Cray Management System for XC Systems with SMW 8.0/CLE 6.0
Tutorial

Tutorial 2B Continued
Harpley
Getting the full potential of OpenMP on Many-core systems
Tutorial

Tutorial 2C Continued
Beaumont
eLogin Made Easy - An Introduction and Tutorial on the new Cray External Login Node.
Tutorial

4:45pm-6:00pm

Interactive 3A
Bartholomew
Matteo Chesi
Jobs I/O monitoring for Lustre at scale
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 3B
Harpley
Richard S. Canon
Containers for HPC
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 3C
Beaumont
David Hancock
Open Discussion with CUG Board
Birds of a Feather

Tuesday, May 10th


7:30am-8:15am

Interactive 4A
Bartholomew
Derek Burke
Sonexion Collaboration (Invitation Only)
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 4B
Harpley
CJ Corbett
Cray and HPC in the Cloud
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 4C
Beaumont
Birds of a Feather

8:30am-10:00am

General Session 5
Minories Suite
David Hancock
CUG Welcome
The Strength of a Common Goal
Quo Vadis HPC?
Numerical weather prediction ready to embrace Exascale!
Plenary

10:30am-12:00pm

General Session 6
Minories Suite
Andrew Winfer
Cray Corporate Update
Cray Products Update
Cray Future Directions
Plenary

1:00pm-2:30pm

Technical Session 7A
Bartholomew
Helen He
Performance on Trinity (a Cray XC40) with Acceptance-Applications and Benchmarks
Improving I/O Performance of the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model
Performance Evaluation of Apache Spark on Cray XC Systems
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 7B
Harpley
Jason Hill
Collective I/O Optimizations for Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data Writes on Lustre File System
Finally, A Way to Measure Frontend I/O Performance.
A Classification of Parallel I/O Toward Demystifying HPC I/O Best Practices
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Session 7C
Beaumont
Ashley Barker
Unified Workload Management for the Cray XC30/40 System with Univa Grid Engine
Driving More Efficient Workload Management on Cray Systems with PBS Professional
Broadening Moab for Expanding User Needs
Paper
User Services

3:00pm-5:00pm

Technical Session 8A
Bartholomew
Bilel Hadri
Trinity: Architecture and Early Experience
Code Porting to Cray XC-40 Lesson Learned
Early Experiences Writing Performance Portable OpenMP 4 Codes
A Reasoning And Hypothesis Generation Framework Based On Scalable Graph Analytics: Enabling Discoveries In Medicine Using Cray Urika-XA And Urika-GD
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 8B
Harpley
Jenett Tillotson
Technical Publications New Portal
Improving User Notification on Frequently Changing HPC Environments
Slurm Overview and Road Map
Interactive Visualization of Scheduler Usage Data
Paper
User Services

Technical Session 8C
Beaumont
Jean-Guillaume Piccinali
Crossing the Rhine - Moving to CLE 6.0 System Management
Scaling Security in a Complex World
The NERSC Data Collect Environment
Making the jump to Light Speed with Cray’s DataWarp - An Administrator’s Perspective
Paper
Systems Support

5:15pm-6:15pm

Interactive 9A
Bartholomew
Jason Hill
Systems Support SIG Meeting
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 9B
Harpley
Chris Fuson
Best Practices for Managing HPC User Documentation and Communication
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 9C
Beaumont
Peter Messmer
GPU accelerated Cray XC systems: Where HPC meets Big Data
Birds of a Feather

Wednesday, May 11th


7:30am-8:15am

Interactive 10A
Bartholomew
Michael Showerman
Addressing the challenges of "systems monitoring" data flows
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 10B
Harpley
Peggy A. Sanchez
Technical Documentation and Users
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 10C
Beaumont
Birds of a Feather

8:30am-10:00am

General Session 11
Minories Suite
David Hancock
CUG Business
Weather and Climate Services and need of High Performance Computing (HPC) Resources
Plenary

10:30am-12:00pm

General Session 12
Minories Suite
Andrew Winfer
Accelerating Science with the NERSC Burst Buffer Early User Program
Is Cloud A Passing Fancy?
Plenary

1:00pm-1:45pm

General Session 13
Minories Suite
David Hancock
1 on 100 or More...
Plenary

2:00pm-3:00pm

Technical Session 14A
Bartholomew
Chris Fuson
Estimating the Performance Impact of the MCDRAM on KNL Using Dual-Socket Ivy Bridge nodes on Cray XC30
Cray Performance Tools Enhancements for Next Generation Systems
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 14B
Harpley
Ashley Barker
Architecture and Design of Cray DataWarp
Exascale HPC Storage – A possibility or a pipe dream?
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Session 14C
Beaumont
Jim Rogers
ACES and Cray Collaborate on Advanced Power Management for Trinity
Cray XC Power Monitoring and Control for Knights Landing (KNL)
Paper
Systems Support

3:30pm-5:00pm

Technical Session 15A
Bartholomew
Zhengji Zhao
Lonestar 5: Customizing the Cray XC40 Software Environment
The Cray Programming Environment: Current Status and Future Directions
Making Scientific Software Installation Reproducible On Cray Systems Using EasyBuild
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 15B
Harpley
Jason Hill
The Evolution of Lustre Networking at Cray
Extreme Scale Storage & IO
Managing your Digital Data Explosion
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Session 15C
Beaumont
Helen He
SLURM. Our way. A tale of two XCs transitioning to SLURM.
Early experiences configuring a Cray CS Storm for Mission Critical Workloads
Analysis of Gemini Interconnect Recovery Mechanisms: Methods and Observations
Paper
Systems Support

5:15pm-6:15pm

Interactive 16A
Bartholomew
Timothy W. Robinson
Programming Environments, Applications and Documentation SIG Meeting
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 16B
Harpley
Cory Spitz
Evolving parallel file systems in response to the changing storage and memory landscape
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 16C
Beaumont
Wendy L. Palm
Security Issues on Cray Systems
Birds of a Feather

Thursday, May 12th


7:30am-8:15am

Interactive 17A
Bartholomew
Bill Nitzberg
PBS Professional: Welcome to the Open Source Community
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 17B
Harpley
CJ Corbett
Cray and HPC in the Cloud: Discussion and Conclusion
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 17C
Beaumont
Birds of a Feather

8:30am-10:00am

Technical Session 18A
Bartholomew
Tina Declerck
Opportunities for container environments on Cray XC30 with GPU devices
Shifter: Containers for HPC
Dynamic RDMA Credentials
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 18B
Harpley
Jason Hill
Characterizing the Performance of Analytics Workloads on the Cray XC40
Interactive Data Analysis using Spark on Cray Urika Appliance (WITHDRAWN)
Experiences Running Mixed Workloads On Cray Analytics Platform
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 18C
Beaumont
Jim Rogers
Network Performance Counter Monitoring and Analysis on the Cray XC Platform
Design and implementation of a scalable monitoring system for Trinity
Dynamic Model Specific Register (MSR) Data Collection as a System Service
Paper
Systems Support

10:30am-12:00pm

Technical Session 19A
Bartholomew
Zhengji Zhao
Optimizing Cray MPI and SHMEM Software Stacks for Cray-XC Supercomputers based on Intel KNL Processors
What's new in Allinea's tools: from easy batch script integration and remote access to energy profiling.
Configuring and Customizing the Cray Programming Environment on CLE 6.0 Systems
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 19B
Harpley
Richard Barrett
FCP: A Fast and Scalable Data Copy Tool for High Performance Parallel File Systems
LIOProf: Exposing Lustre File System Behavior for I/O Middleware
Psync - Parallel Synchronization Of Multi-Pebibyte File Systems
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Session 19C
Beaumont
Tina Declerck
The GNI Provider Layer for OFI libfabric
Big Data Analytics on Cray XC Series DataWarp using Hadoop, Spark and Flink
Performance Test of Parallel Linear Equation Solvers on Blue Waters - Cray XE6/XK7 system
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

1:00pm-2:30pm

Technical Session 20A
Bartholomew
Chris Fuson
Scaling hybid coarray/MPI miniapps on Archer
Enhancing Scalability of the Gyrokinetic Code GS2 by using MPI Shared Memory for FFTs
Scalable Remote Memory Access Halo Exchange with Reduced Synchronization Cost
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 20B
Harpley
Bilel Hadri
Directive-based Programming for Highly-scalable Nodes
Balancing particle and Mesh Computation in a Particle-In-Cell Code
Computational Efficiency Of The Aerosol Scheme In The Met Office Unified Model
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 20C
Beaumont
Andrew Winfer
How to Automate and not Manage under Rhine/Redwood
The Intel® Omni-Path Architecture: Game-Changing Performance, Scalability, and Economics
The Hidden Cost of Large Jobs - Drain Time Analysis at Scale
Paper
Systems Support

3:00pm-5:00pm

Technical Session 21A
Bartholomew
Richard Barrett
Stitching Threads into the Unified Model
On Enhancing 3D-FFT Performance in VASP
Exploiting Thread Parallelism for Ocean Modeling on Cray XC Supercomputers
Cori - A System to Support Data-Intensive Computing
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

Technical Session 21B
Harpley
Frank M. Indiviglio
H5Spark: Bridging the I/O Gap between Spark and Scientific Data Formats on HPC Systems
The time is now. Unleash your CPU cores with Intel® SSDs
Introducing a new IO tier for HPC Storage
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Session 21C
Beaumont
David Hancock
Maintaining Large Software Stacks in a Cray Ecosystem with Gentoo Portage
Early Application Experiences on Trinity - the Next Generation of Supercomputing for the NNSA
Executing dynamic heterogeneous workloads on Blue Waters with RADICAL-Pilot
Evaluating Shifter for HPC Applications
Paper
Applications & Programming Environments

5:05pm-5:35pm

General Session 22
Minories Suite
David Hancock
Conference Closing Session
Plenary

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