NUG 2022
All NERSC users are invited to join us at the annual NERSC Users Group (NUG) meeting. The 2022 NUG annual meeting will be a virtual event held over three half-days on Wednesday, October 12; Thursday, October 13; and Friday, October 14.
Connection details (login required) are available to NERSC users with valid credentials.
Schedule of Events
Day 1: Wednesday, October 12
Theme: The landscape of HPC, AI, Cloud, and IRI (Integrated Research Infrastructure).
Time (Pacific) |
Topic |
Speaker(s) |
Session 1 - Chair: Rebecca Hartman-Baker (NERSC) | ||
9 - 9:30 a.m. | Welcome & The View from NERSC | Sudip Dosanjh, NERSC Director |
9:30 - 10 a.m. | View from Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences | Jonathan Carter, Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences |
10 - 10:15 a.m. | View from the Lab | Michael Witherell, Laboratory Director |
10:15 - 10:20 a.m. | Announcement of NERSC Achievement Award winners | Richard Gerber, NERSC, HPC Department Head |
10:20 - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
Session 2 - Chair: Steve Leak (NERSC) |
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10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | A Critical Resource for Nuclear Physics Research Program | Xiaofeng Guo, Allocation Manager for Nuclear Physics |
10:45 - 11 a.m. | Perspective of the ASCR ERCAP Allocation Manager | Hal Finkel, Allocation Manager for ASCR Research |
11 - 11:15 a.m. | HEP Allocations at NERSC | Eric Church, Allocation Manager for High Energy Physics |
11:15 - 11:45 a.m. | The View from DOE | Ben Brown, DOE/ASCR |
11:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Lightning Talk: The CMIP6 Data Lake | Forrest Hoffman, ORNL |
Day 2: Thursday, October 13
Theme: Portability and Reproducibility.
Time (Pacific) |
Topic |
Speaker(s) |
Session 3 - Chair: Rebecca Hartman-Baker (NERSC) |
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9:15 - 9:30 a.m. | Welcome & Software Sustainability: ASCR’s Perspective | Saswata Hier-Majumder, DOE ASCR |
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. | Panel: Performance Portability Can we have a portable, performant software infrastructure that doesn’t make application programmers rewrite their codes every few years, and what will it take to get there? |
Barbara Chapman, HPE Moderator: Johannes Blaschke, NERSC |
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Break | |
Session 4 - Chair: Steve Leak (NERSC) |
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10:45 - 11:45 a.m. |
Panel: Reproducibility in HPC |
Jeff Candy, Fusion Moderator: Forrest Hoffman, ORNL |
11:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Lightning Talk: Preparing Fusion Codes for Perlmutter | Igor Sfiligoi, General Atomics |
Day 3: Friday, October 14
Theme: NUG business.
Time (Pacific) | Topic |
Speaker(s) |
Session 5 - Chair: Kevin Gott (NERSC) |
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9 - 9:30 a.m. | NERSC Operational Metrics for 2022 | Richard Gerber, NERSC, HPC Department Head |
9:30 - 10 a.m. | N10 process and plans | Nick Wright, NERSC, Advanced Technologies Group Lead |
10 - 10:15 a.m. | NUG Special Interest Group for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model Users | Koichi Sakaguchi, PNNL |
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
Session 6 - Chair: Justin Cook (NERSC) | ||
10:30 - 11 a.m. | NERSC User Community Engagement | Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, User Engagement Group Lead |
11 - 11:30 a.m. | The Status of Perlmutter | Doug Jacobsen, NERSC, Computational Systems Group Lead |
11:30 - 11:45 a.m. | Update on NUGEX activities and achievements | Pieter Maris, Iowa State University |
11:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Upcoming changes to the Iris user interface | Gabor Torok, NERSC |
12 - 12:15 p.m. | Recognition of NUGEX contributors, and closing remarks | Steve Leak, NERSC, User Engagement Group |
Downloads
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NUGEX-SLeak-v2.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF fileSteve Leak presentation thanking and recognising NUGEX members