NUG 2014: NERSC @40

This year's annual NUG meeting is a special one - it is the kickoff event for NERSC's 40th anniversary celebrations.

Location: Berkeley Lab and NERSC OSF

Dates: Feb. 3-6, 2014

Monday, Feb. 3 - Training for New Users

NERSC (Berkeley Lab Building 943), 415 20th Street, Oakland, CA
Getting Started at NERSC: A training event for new NERSC users

Attendance: 75

8:30	Systems Overview	Harvey Wasserman
9:00	Accounts and Allocations	David Turner
9:30	Navigating the NERSC Information Management (NIM) System and the NERSC Web Site	Jack Deslippe
10:00	Break
10:30	Connecting to NERSC	Yushu Yao
11:00	NERSC User Computing Environment	David Turner
11:30	Web Portal Opportunities	Shreyas Cholia
12:00	Lunch	On your own
13:30	Application Software	Zhengji Zhao
14:00	NERSC File Systems and How to Use Them	David Turner
14:30	Running Jobs at NERSC	Lisa Gerhardt and Kjiersten Fagnan
15:00	Transferring Data	Shreyas Cholia
15:30	Using HPSS	Lisa Gerhardt and Nick Balthasar
16:00	Programming and Performance Tools	Woo-Sun Yang and Helen He
16:30	Optimizing your code using compiler options	Michael Stewart

Tuesday, Feb. 4 - NERSC@40: A Celebration of Science and Technology

Berkeley Lab Building 50 Auditorium

Time	Title	Speaker
8:15	Registration
8:45	Welcome	Jonathan Carter, LBNL Deputy for Computing Science
9:00	More Data, More Science, Moore's Law	David Skinner, NERSC Strategic Partners Lead
9:45	Low Mach Number Models in Computational Astrophysics	Ann Almgren, Berkeley Lab
10:30	Break
10:45	A Google for Materials	Kristin Persson, Berkeley Lab
11:30	Modeling the Changing Earth System: Prospects and Challenges	Bill Collins, Berkeley Lab
12:15	Lunch	On Your Own
1:30	NERSC Achievement Awards
1:40	High Impact Scientific Achievement Awardee	The Planck Collaboration
1:50	High Impact Scientific Achievement Awardee - Early Career	Victor Ovchinnikov, Harvard University
2:00	Innovative Use of HPC Awardee	Jean-Luc Vay, Berkeley Lab
2:10	Innovative Use of HPC Awardee - Early Career	Anubhav Jain, Berkeley Lab
2:30	Improving on Photosynthesis	Joel Ager, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis
3:00	Informatics for Bioenergy	Dan Rokhsar, Joint Genome Institute
3:30	Break
3:45	Simulations of Clean and Efficient Combustion with Alternative Fuels	Jackie Chen, Sandia Lab
4:15	Scientific & Computational Advances in Fusion Energy Research & Key Partnerships with NERSC	Bill Tang, Princeton Physics Plasma Lab
4:45	Adjourn

Wednesday, Feb. 5 - NERSC@40: A Celebration of Science and Technology

Berkeley Lab Building 50 Auditorium

Watch live here

Time	Title	Speaker
8:15	Registration
8:45	Welcome	Sudip Dosanjh, NERSC Director
9:00	Next Generation HPC and Data Systems	Sudip Dosanjh, NERSC Director
9:45	Programming Hybrid HPC Systems: What is Old is New Again	Viktor Decyk, UCLA
10:30	Break
10:45	LUX: the Large Underground Xenon Experiment	Carlos Faham, Berkeley Lab
11:15	Discovery of the Most Energetic Astrophysical Neutrinos	Lisa Gerhardt, Berkeley Lab
11:45	Scientific Discovery in Neutron Scattering Data	Vickie Lynch, Oak Ridge National Lab
12:15	Lunch	On Your Own
1:45	NERSC Through the Years - Reminiscences	NERSC Users and Staff
3:15	Break
3:30	NERSC's Contributions to the World's Supercomputing Community	Bill Kramer, Blue Waters Project Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
4:00	Cray and NERSC Through the Years	Jeff Brooks, Cray Inc.
4:30	Edison Dedication - Live Video Link With OSF	Richard Gerber, NERSC
4:45	Edison Advances Discovery at NERSC, a Cray Video	Richard Gerber, NERSC
5:00	Closing Session: Display of NERSC Historical Hardware & Edison Toast Hosted by Cray	LBNL Cafeteria
6:00	Working Dinner for NUGEX members and speakers	LBNL Cafeteria

Thursday, Feb. 6 - NUGEX Business Day

NERSC Oakland Scientific Facility
Business Meeting (Agenda subject to change by request by NUG members)

Time	Title	Speaker
8:15	Registration
8:45	Welcome	Stephane Ethier, NUGEX Chair
9:00	The View From DOE	Dave Goodwin, NERSC Program Manager
9:15	NERSC Update	Jeff Broughton, NERSC Deputy
9:45	What do Users Want? A Report from the NERSC Program Requirements Reviews	Richard Gerber and Harvey Wasserman
10:15	Break
10:30	NERSC's Application Readiness Project	Jack Deslippe
11:00	Best Practices for Best Performance on Edison	Zhenjgi Zhao
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Characterization of the Cray Aries Network	Brian Austin
1:30	NERSC Computational Systems Update	Jay Srinivasan
2:00	NERSC Storage Systems Update	Jason Hick
2:30	NERSC Services Update	Katie Antypas
3:00	Break
3:15	NUG Queue Committee Update	Anubhav Jain
3:45	2013 User Survey results	Richard Gerber and Francesca Verdier
4:00	Adjourn

Note: PDF presentations do not include movies and animations.

Downloads

Ager-NERSC-User-Invited-020414.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Fundamental Challenges in Solar to Fuel Conversion aka Improving on Photosynthesis, Joel Ager, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis
ComputingForGenomics.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Computing for Genomics, Dan Rokhsar, Joint Genome Institute/Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley
W.TangNERSC-40th-AnniversaryFusionFeb.42014.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Scientific and Computational Advances in Fusion Energy Research & Key Partnerships with NERSC, William Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory/Princeton University
NERSC-Dosanjh-NUG2014.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
NERSC's Ten-Year Plan, Sudip Dosanjh
OldIsNew.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
What is Old is New Again - Victor Decyk, UCLA
20140205NERSC40LUX.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment and NERSC, Carlos Faham, Berkeley Lab
IceCubeResultsNUG2014-opt.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
IceCube and the Highest Energy Neutrinos Ever - Lisa Gerhardt, NERSC
VLynchNERSC.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Scientific Discovery in Neutron Scattering Data - Vickie Lynch, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
NERSCreminiscences.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
NERSC Through the Years - Reminiscences - Francesca Verdier
NERSC-Contributions-NERSC-40th-Anniversary-kramer.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
NERSC's Contributions to the World's Supercomputing Community - Bill Kramer, NCSA
NERSCandCray40YearBrooks.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
NERSC and Cray Through the Years - Jeff Brooks, Cray
vonug14.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Conformational change in biology: from amino acids to enzymes and molecular motors, Victor Ovchinnikov, Harvard University
NERSC2014Vay.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Innovative use of High Performance Computing through the Modeling of Particle Accelerators, Jean-Luc Vay, Berkeley Lab

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