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NUG 2021

The NERSC Users Group (NUG) annual meeting was held Thursday October 21, 2021, from 8:30 to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The meeting was fully virtual.

Agenda

Time (PT) Item Speakers
08:30 - 08:35 Introduction and Welcome Balint Joo, NUGEX co-chair
08:35 - 08:50 View from NERSC Katie Antypas, NERSC Division Deputy
08:50 - 09:20 Views from DOE Ben Brown (DOE/ASCR) and Carol Hawk (DOE, NERSC Program Manager)
09:20 - 09:25 5 minute break  
09:25 - 09:40 Views from Office of Science (BER): E3SM Ruby Leung, PNNL
09:40 - 09:55 View from a NWChem developer Edo Apra, PNNL
09:55 - 10:10 NERSC Procurements: Planning NERSC-N+1 Nick Wright, NERSC Advanced Technologies Group Lead
10:10 - 10:30 (13:10 - 13:30 ET) ET lunch / PT coffee break  
10:30 - 11:00 Panel discussion: Future directions in HPC Jim Ang (DOE/ASCR), Giridhar Chukkapalli (Nvidia), Katie Antypas (NERSC), Jay Srinivasan (NERSC)
11:00 - 11:05 5 minute break  
11:10 - 11:25 Views from Office of Science (FES): HPC in Fusion Paul Bonoli, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
11:25 - 11:40 Views from Office of Science (NP): Processing STAR Data Irakli Chakaberia, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11:40 - 11:55 Views from Office of Science (HEP): HPC in HEP Andrew Norman, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
11:55 - 12:10 Views from Office of Science (BES): Workflows for Materials Research Matt Horton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
12:10 - 12:30 (15:05 - 15:30 ET) PT lunch / ET coffee break  
12:30 - 12:45 MetaHipMer Steven Hofmeyr, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
12:45 - 13:00 NERSC Operational Metrics Richard Gerber, NERSC HPC Department Head
13:00 - 13:15 Perlmutter News Lisa Gerhardt, Perlmutter User Integration Lead
13:15 - 13:30 Recognition of NUGEX members Richard Gerber, NERSC HPC Department Head
13:30 - 13:35 5 minute break  
13:35 - 13:50 Energy Efficiency at NERSC Sridutt Bhalachandra (NERSC Advanced Technologies Group)
13:50 - 14:05 ML in Fusion Research Ralph Kube, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
14:05 - 14:20 CuPy at NERSC Daniel Margala, NESAP Postdoctoral Fellow
14:20 - 14:25 Thanks and Close Alicia Clum, NUGEX chair