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Monday, September 17, 2007NUG Business MeetingOakland Scientific Facility, Conference Room 238 |
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Time (Pacific) |
Topic |
Presenter |
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8:45 |
Welcome, logistics, and intro of new NUGEX members |
Stephane Ethier, PPPL |
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9:00 |
NERSC Updates Status; current activities and projects Roadmap, future projects, and impact of potential continuing resolution |
Bill Kramer, NERSC |
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9:45 |
HPSS Update |
Jason Hick, NERSC |
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10:00 |
DOE's Operational Review of ORNL, NERSC and PNNL |
Stephane Ethier, PPPL |
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10:15 |
Seaborg Decommission Timeline and data retention issues |
Jim Craw, NERSC |
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10:30 |
BREAK |
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10:45 |
Security Activities Site Assist Visit, mandatory user training, ssh project |
Brent Draney, NERSC |
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11:00 |
Analytics and Visualization Activities |
Cecilia Aragon, LBNL/NERSC |
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11:15 |
Web Services for NGF Access |
David Skinner, NERSC |
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11:30 |
New Grid Services at NERSC |
Shreyas Cholia, NERSC |
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11:45 |
A New Debugger for NERSC: DDT |
Katie Antypas, NERSC |
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12:00 |
LUNCH (provided for registered attendees) and DOE Update |
Barb Helland and Yukiko Sekine |
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1:15 |
Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis at NERSC |
Julian Borrill, Berkeley Lab |
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1:45 |
Running the Community Climate System Model at NERSC |
Adrianne Middleton, NCAR |
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2:00 |
Adaptive Mesh Simulations of Pellet Injection into Tokamaks |
Ravi Samtaney, PPPL |
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2:15 |
Science-driven Architecture Team report ERCAP data analysis, power efficiency, and Dual/quad core considerations |
John Shalf, NERSC |
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2:30 |
Cray XT4 Franklin Update - for local attendees only* Performance status, Acceptance status, Comparisons between catamount and Compute Node Linux, Plans for production |
Jonathan Carter, NERSC |
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3:15 |
BREAK |
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3:30 |
NERSC-6 Procurement Plans - for local attendess only* Requirements and Benchmarks |
Bill Kramer, NERSC |
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* These two talks will not be available to remote attendees and the slides will not be posted to the web. |
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4:15 |
Q&A, open discussions |
NUG Members, chaired by Stephane Ethier |
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4:45 |
Machine Room Tour (optional) or Adjourn |
Howard Walter, NERSC |
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5:15 |
Adjourn |
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6:00 |
Dinner (for registered attendees) at Caffe Verbena, 1111 Broadway |
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September 18, 2007Training Day I - TuesdayOakland Scientific Facility, Conference Room 238and (remote) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Building 50B, Room 2222 |
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Time (Pacific) |
Topic |
Presenter |
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9:00 |
Franklin Overview - A description of the NERSC configuration, how to log in, build code, run a job, and use file systems. |
Helen He, NERSC |
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10:00 |
XT4 architecture |
John Levesque, Cray |
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10:45 |
BREAK |
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11:00 |
PGI compiler - How to use the compiler; flags for porting, debugging and optimization. |
John Levesque, Cray |
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12:00 |
Lunch (on your own) |
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1:30 |
XT4 socket optimization, with examples. |
John Levesque, Cray |
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2:45 |
BREAK |
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3:00 |
XT4 message passing optimization, with examples. |
John Levesque, Luiz DeRose, Cray |
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4:15 |
Hands-on [Exercises tarball] |
Cray and NERSC staff |
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5:00 |
Conclusion of Training Day I |
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007Training Day IIOakland Scientific Facility, Conference Room 238and (remote) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Building 50B, Room 2222 |
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Time (Pacific) |
Topic |
Presenter |
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9:00 |
Third-Party Software |
Zhengji Zhao, NERSC |
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9:30 |
ACTS Collection |
Osni Marques, LBNL |
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10:15 |
BREAK |
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10:30 |
Running Jobs |
Richard Gerber, NERSC |
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11:10 |
Grid Services |
Shreyas Cholia, NERSC |
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11:30 |
I/O |
Katie Antypas, NERSC |
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12:15 |
LUNCH (on your own) |
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1:30 |
Benchmark Performance* |
Harvey Wasserman, NERSC |
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* This talk will not be available to remote attendees and the slides will not be posted to the web. |
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2:15 |
Cray's profiling tools and CrayPat |
Luiz DeRose, Cray |
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3:30 |
BREAK |
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3:45 |
Hands-on |
Cray and NERSC staff |
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5:00 |
Conclusion of Training Day II |
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Thursday, September 20, 2007Training Day IIIOakland Scientific Facility, Conference Room 238and (remote) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Building 50B, Room 2222 |
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Time (Pacific) |
Topic |
Presenter |
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9:00 |
Debugging with DDT |
Katie Antypas, NERSC |
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9:45 |
Advanced code optimization cache blocking, prefetching, and OpenMP. |
John Levesque, Cray |
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10:45 |
BREAK |
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11:00 |
Advanced profiling and Apprentice2 |
Luiz DeRose, Cray |
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12:00 |
LUNCH (on your own) |
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1:30 |
Hands-on |
Cray and NERSC staff |
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3:30 |
Conclusion of Training Day III |
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