NERSCPowering Scientific Discovery for 50 Years

Agenda

Training Day - Thursday, October 2, 2008

Oakland Scientific Facility, Conference Room 238

Time (Pacific)

Topic

Presenter

8:30

Registration and Welcome

9:00

Franklin Quad Core Update/Differences 

Helen He

9:30

File Transfer Best Practices

David Turner

10:00

Enabling Grid File Transfers: The NERSC CA 

Shreyas Cholia

10:30

Break

10:45

Franklin IO: Systems Overview

Richard Gerber

11:15

Franklin IO: Best Practices for Application Performance 

Katie Antypas

12:00

Lunch and optional individual portrait shots of attendees next to Franklin

1:15

Accelerating X Windows with NX

Janet Jacobsen

1:45

Franklin Profiling and Performance Tools 

Jonathan Carter

2:30

Break

2:45

Debugging with DDT 

David Lecomber, Allinea Software

3:30

DDT and Tools Hands-On; Continues all day Friday

5:00

Adjourn

*-Some real-time demos may not be available for remote viewing.

 


Business Dinner - Thursday, October 2, 2008

For pre-registered attendees. The NUGEX business dinner will be held at 6:00 PM at the Downtown Restaurant, 2102 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley. The restaurant is located within one block of the downtown Berkeley BART (subway) station. BART tickets are available from the administrative staff at OSF.

 

 

Business Meeting Agenda (DRAFT) - Friday, October 3

Oakland Scientific Facility, Conference Room 238

Time (Pacific)

Topic

Presenter

9:00-17:00

Hands-On Consulting help and demos available all day, OSF Rooms 236 and 254.

Time (Pacific)

Topic

Presenter

9:00 - 9:10

Welcome, logistics, and intro of new NUGEX members

Stephane Ethier, PPPL

9:10 - 10:10

Science at NERSC 

Kathy Yelick, NERSC

10:10 - 10:30

DOE Update 

Yukiko Sekine, DOE

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 11:15

NERSC Global Filesystem Future Directions 

Shane Canon, NERSC

11:15 - 11:45

Cray XT4 Franklin Update

Bill Kramer, NERSC

11:45 - 12:00

Q&A, open discussions

NUG Members, chaired by Stephane Ethier

12:00 - 1:10

Lunch and optional individual portrait shots of attendees next to Franklin

1:10 - 1:30

NERSC Workload Analysis 

Harvey Wasserman, NERSC

1:30 - 1:50

NERSC I/O Analysis 

Andrew Uselton, NERSC

1:50 - 2:10

Defining Best Practices for Network Tuning 

Brent Draney, NERSC

2:10 - 2:30

Grid Services at NERSC 

Shreyas Cholia, NERSC

2:30 - 2:45

Break

2:45 - 3:15

NERSC-6 Procurement Update

Bill Kramer, NERSC

3:15 - 3:30

2007/2008 User Survey Results 

Francesca Verdier, NERSC

3:30 - 3:50

NERSC Web Services: Gathering Feedback and Future Directions

Jen Jasper, NERSC

3:50 - 4:15

Q&A, open discussions

NUG Members, chaired by Stephane Ethier

4:15

Machine Room Tour (optional) or Adjourn

Howard Walter, NERSC