Presentations

  Performance profiling using hpmcount, poe+ and hpmlib

  SvPablo and the PERC Performance Tool Suite

It is clear that we gain a great savings by analyzing and tuning our codes. To be effective in our efforts to improve performance, we need a versatile, robust, and portable set of performance tools. The NERSC/LBNL-led Performance Evaluation Research Center (PERC) SciDAC project is developing an interoperable suite of measurement, analysis, and tuning tools to respond to this need. The PERC tool suite features an infrastructure of low-level APIs, and a set of end-user tools built on top of those APIs. In this talk we discuss the PERC tool infrastructure and take an in-depth look at the SvPablo tool for performance instrumentation and browsing. We will also look at the future roadmap for the PERC tools and at how the PERC tool suite will affect the the future of performance analysis and tuning.

  Scaling Up Parallel I/O on the IBM SP

Several strategies for parallel I/O are presented and compared. Evaluation of of the best strategies for a given total data size and MPI concurrency is presented.

  Debugging, Reactively and Proactively

Totalview is an essential tool for debugging codes. This talk will focus on the usage of totalview with FORTRAN and C/C++. Many examples will be provided to show how to use this tool effectively. Examples using MPI, OpneMp will be provided.

  Practicing Safe Computing at NERSC

Computer security is a vast topic, however this talk will give an overview of the inherent threat level currently on the Internet, how computer security is done at NERSC and techniques you can employ to ensure your computing experience at NERSC is a safe and secure one.

  File and data conversion

After the decommissioning of the Crays, what will become of the all the data stored in Cray unformatted files? In this talk we will review some of the options available in Cray's Flexible File I/O library that enable Cray files and data to be converted to formats usable on the IBM SP. Also, there will be an overview of the NCARU library, available on the SP, which has similar capabilities.

  Scaling Up MPI Applications

Problems unique to large concurrency MPI applications are presented along with means for addressing the problems. An overall approach to dealing with scaling issues is presented along with a set of frequently encountered problems.

  A Report on the ACTS Toolkit

The ACTS (Advanced Computational Testing and Simulation) Toolkit is a set of computational tools developed primarily at DOE laboratories and is aimed at simplifying the solution of common and important computational problems on parallel machines. The tools fall into four broad categories: numerical, and support for code development, execution and library development. In the talk we will describe the tools currently installed on NERSC platforms and the levels of support provided to users.

  NERSC Software Roadmap

Details of seaborg's transition to AIX 5.1, compiler upgrades, and NERSC application software changes will be given. Specific attention will be given to 64 vs. 32 bit issues.

  ACTS Tools - Case Studies with User Codes

As a follow-up for the report on the ACTS Toolkit, in this talk we will show examples of how ACTS tools have been used on NERSC platforms and discuss lessons that we have learned.

  Introducing Juan Meza - the new head of NERSC HPC Research Dept

  Update on security issues with FTP

  FY 2003 Allocations

  Visualization Update (1 of 2)

(See Visualization update (2 of 2) for movies by Ken Schwartz)

  Visualization Update (2 of 2)

Includes movies associated with this presentation, created by Ken Schwartz