Agenda
Monday, Oct. 18th -- Beginner's Day
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Time (PDT) |
Topic |
Presenter |
Training |
8:00-8:30am |
Arrive at NERSC and Introductions |
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8:30-9:30am |
Intro to computing at NERSC: Choosing a system, using modules, global home directories, storing data, accounts and allocations |
Richard Gerber |
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9:30-9:45am |
Break |
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9:45-10:45am |
Introduction to Carver: Programming Environment, Running Jobs, File Systems, Performance |
David Turner |
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10:45-11am |
Break |
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11am-noon |
Introduction to MPI [see also Supplemental NERSC presentation] |
Cray |
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noon-1pm |
Lunch + hands on sessions. Ask questions to Cray and NERSC staff. |
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1pm-2pm |
Introduction to MPI Continued |
Cray |
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2-2:30pm |
Break |
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2:30-3:30pm |
Introduction to OpenMP
|
Helen He |
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3:30-5pm |
Introduction to HDF5 -- Hands on session |
Katie Antypas |
Tuesday, Oct. 19th
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Time (PDT) |
Topic |
Presenter |
Training |
8:00-8:30am |
Arrive at NERSC |
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8:30am-12:45pm 20 minute break from 10:30-10:50am |
Hardware concepts and terminology relevant to the programmer (Magny Cours, Gemini interconnect, architecture of XE6), Launch of parallel applications/batch system, User Environment, Compilers of the XE6 (PGI, Pathscale, GNU, Cray) |
Cray |
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12:45-1:45pm |
Lunch + hands on sessions. Ask questions to Cray and NERSC staff |
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1:45-2:45pm |
Differences Between Hopper and Franklin |
Harvey Wasserman |
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2:45-3pm |
Break |
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3-5pm |
MPI Optimizations and Extensions for the XE6 system |
Cray |
Wednesday, Oct. 20th
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Time (PDT) |
Topic |
Presenter |
Training |
8:00-8:30am |
Arrive at NERSC |
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8:30am-10am |
Single processor optimizations for Magny Cours |
Cray |
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10am-10:15am |
Break |
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10:15am-noon |
Best Practices for Hybrid OpenMP/MPI Programming on Hopper
|
Nick Wright |
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noon-1pm |
Lunch + hands on sessions. Ask questions to Cray and NERSC staff |
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1-2pm |
Hands on Session |
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2-3pm |
Lustre I/O |
Cray |
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3-3:30pm |
Break |
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3:30-4:30pm |
Performance Tools |
Cray |
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4:30-5:00pm |
Parallel Debugger Demo |
NERSC |
Thursday, Oct. 21st -- NUG Business Meeting
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Time (PDT) |
Topic |
Presenter |
Business Meeting |
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8:30-8:45am |
Welcome and Introductions |
Stephane Ethier, NUG Chair |
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8:45-9:30am |
NERSC Accomplishments and Plans |
Kathy Yelick, NERSC |
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9:30-9:50am |
DOE Update |
Yukiko Sekine, NERSC Program Manager, DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research |
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9:50-10:00am |
2011 Allocations |
Francesca Verdier, NERSC |
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10:00-10:20am |
Earthquake Drill |
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10:20-10:40am |
BREAK |
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10:40-11:00am |
Cray Center of Excellence for Multicore Programming Update |
Nick Wright, NERSC |
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11:00-11:20am |
Magellan Cloud Research Update |
Shane Canon, NERSC |
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11:20-11:40am |
Dirac GPU Cluster Testbed |
John Shalf, NERSC |
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11:40-noon |
File System Future Directions |
Jason Hick, NERSC |
|
noon-1:30pm |
Working Lunch |
NERSC and NUG attendees |
|
1:30-1:50pm |
2010 User Survey Results |
Francesca Verdier, NERSC |
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1:50-2:10pm |
Requirements Gathering Workshops Update |
Richard Gerber/Harvey Wasserman NERSC |
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2:10-2:30pm |
Web Services |
Shreyas Cholia, NERSC |
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2:30-2:50pm |
HDF5 Performance Tuning |
John Shalf, NERSC |
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2:50-3:10pm |
BREAK |
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3:10-4:00pm |
NERSC Town Meeting: user feedback and discussions |
NERSC and NUG attendees |
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4:00-5:00pm |
NUGEX as a NERSC advocacy group |
Stephane Ethier and NUGEX members |
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5:00pm |
ADJOURN |
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6:00-8:00pm |
Dinner at Vo's Restaurant |