Presentations
NERSC Status and Five Year Plan 2006-2010
June 12, 2006
Author(s): Bill Kramer
Download File: KramerStatusUpdate.ppt | ppt | 2.6 MB
NERSC Metrics
June 12, 2006
Author(s): Jonathan Carter
Download File: CarterMetrics.ppt | ppt | 839 KB
NERSC Global Filesystem Future Directions
September 18, 2007
Author(s): Matt Andrews
Download File: AndrewsNGF.ppt | ppt | 469 KB
Benchmarking and System Architecture Updates
September 18, 2007
Author(s): John Shalf
Download File: NERSCbenchNUGfinal.pdf | pdf | 14 MB
Download File: NERSCbenchNUGfinal.ppt | ppt | 7.1 MB
Scientific Computing Highlight: "Particle simulations of collective effects in high intensity charged particle beams."
September 18, 2007
Author(s): Hong Qin
Download File: Qin.ppt | ppt | 11 MB
Scientific Computing Highlight: "Modeling the Universe Computationally: The Role of Global Filesystems and Diverse HPC Resources."
June 12, 2006
Author(s): Peter Nugent
Download File: Nugent.ppt | ppt | 5.5 MB
NERSC-5 Procurement Update
June 13, 2006
Author(s): Bill Kramer
Download File: NERSCupdatekramer.ppt | ppt | 6.2 MB
The Fusion Program and ITER
September 17, 2007
Author(s): Richard Hawryluk
Download File: Hawryluk.ppt | ppt | 31 MB
Download File: Hawryluk.pdf | pdf | 2.4 MB
Bassi Overview and Status: a high-level description of the system, its configuration, processors, interconnect, file systems, and software
June 13, 2006
Author(s): Richard A. Gerber
Download File: BassiintroNUG06.ppt | ppt | 14 MB
POWER5 processor and Bassi node overview: POWER 5 basics, differences from POWER 3, node configuration, memory layout, processor and memory affinity
June 13, 2006
Author(s): John Shalf
Download File: Power5NUGfinal.ppt | ppt | 2.2 MB
Download File: Power5NUGfinal.pdf | pdf | 7.9 MB
The High Speed Interconnect and Switch: getting the most out of HPS - network characteristics (MPI & LAPI latency, bandwidth), runtime performance settings, network topology, differences from Seabor
June 13, 2006
Author(s): Jonathan Carter
Download File: NUGJune2006Switch.ppt | ppt | 1.3 MB
Compiling for Performance on Bassi: AIX Fortran, C, C++; recommended compiler options, useful compiler options, libraries, porting from Seaborg and Linux clusters.
June 13, 2006
Author(s): Michael Stewart
Download File: optarg.bassi.final.ppt | ppt | 271 KB
Experiences benchmarking GTC on High Performance Computers
June 13, 2006
Author(s): Stephane Ethier
Download File: ethiertalk.pdf | pdf | 652 KB
Benchmark Performance on Bassi: performance is compared to Seaborg, Jacquard, and a variety of other HPC platforms.
June 13, 2006
Author(s): Jonathan Carter
Download File: NUGJune2006Bench.ppt | ppt | 1.8 MB
Experiences Configuring, Debugging, Validating and Running on Bassi
June 13, 2006
Author(s): Richard Gerber
Download File: BassiExperiences.ppt | ppt | 1.8 MB
Visualization using AVS/Express and VisIt
June 13, 2006
Author(s): Cristina Siegerist