Program/Schedule
The SDSC Summer Institute: Big Data Supercomputing will be held Monday – Friday, August 5 – 9, 2013, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus. Light refreshments and lunch will be provided throughout.
Required Materials
Participants of the Summer Institute are expected to bring a laptop computer allowing participants to follow along with demos and hands-on instruction throughout the Institute.
August 5 – 9, 2013
SDSC Auditorium at UC San Diego
Agenda
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day4 | Day 5
Monday, August 5, 2013
| 8:30-12:00 | AM: INTRODUCTION |
| 8:30-8:45am: Content | Introduction to Summer Institute; |
| 8;45-9:15am: | XSEDE-NSF National Cyberinfrastructure; |
| 9:15-10:00am: | Attendee introductions |
| Break | 10-10:15am |
| 10:15am-12pm: Demo/Hands-on | SDSC Computational and Data Resources |
| 12-1:30PM | LUNCH |
| 1:30-5PM | PM: INTRODUCTION (cont'd) |
| 1:30-2:00pm: Content | Technology presentation on Globus Online (GO), with data transfer demo |
| 2:00:3:30pm: Presentation | Use cases: The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) high-energy physics project; Gateways: Computational Gateways: Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRES); OpenTopography |
| 3:30-3:15pm | Break |
| 3:15-5pm: Hands-on/demo | Hands-on session: Introduction to data analytics software packages to be in the Summer Institute |
| 6pm | RECEPTION |
Day 2: Tuesday, August 6, 2013
| 8:30-12:00 | AM: DATA MANAGEMENT |
| 8:30-9:30am: Content | Basics of storage technologies and filesystems including, parallel filesytsems, distributed filesystems, and cloud storage, e.g. Lustre, HDFS, OpenStack Swift ObjectSore. Pros and cons. |
| 9:30-10:30am: Presentation | Use case: IntegromeDB search engine for biomedical, biochemical, drug, disease and health related data |
| 10:30-10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am-12pm: Demo/Hands-on | Demo, myHadoop on Gordon and Hadoop |
| 12-1:30PM | LUNCH |
| 1:30-5PM | PM: DATA GENRES |
| 1:30-2:30pm: Content | Concepts and technologies for managing structured, semistructured, unstructured data, including genome sequences, arrays. Row vs Column stores; SQL/noSQL concepts |
| :30-3:15pm: Presentation | 2Use case: Neurosciences Information Framework |
| 3:15-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:45-5pm: Hands-on/demo | Demos and Hands-on: noSQL databases, SciDB, text databases. Introduction to using databases on Gordon |
Day 3: Wednesday, August 7, 2013
| 8:30-12:00 | AM: DATA GENRES (contd) |
| 8:30-9:30am: Content | Management of data streams, graph data |
| 9:30-10:15am: Presentation | Use case Presentations: R - IGRAPH |
| 10:15-10:30am | Break |
| Demo/Hands-on | 10:30am-12pm: Demos/Hands-on: Exercises with graph data, e.g. DB2 RDF, GraphLab |
| 12-1:30PM | LUNCH |
| 1:30-5PM | PM: DATA ANALYTICS |
| 1:30-2:30pm: Content | Overview of Data Analytics: From small to big data; Introduction to R |
| 2:30-3:15pm: Presentation | Use case Presentation: Smart Energy Grid data |
| 3:15-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30-5pm: Hands-on/demo | Demos/Hands-on: Exercises with R |
Day 4: Thursday, August 8, 2013
| 8:30-12:00pm | AM: DATA ANALYTICS (Contd) |
| 8:30-9:30am: Content | Parallel and Distributed Programming Models, e.g. MPI, OpenMP, MapReduce; Scaling to large data: use of Mahout, Spark/Shark, Revolution Analytics, Presto-R |
| 9:30-10:30am: Presentation | Behavior contagion in social networks |
| 10:30-10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am-12pm: Demo/Hands-on | Demo: Parallel/distributed computing |
| 12-1:30PM | LUNCH |
| 1:30-5PM | PM: HPC PROGRAMMING |
| 1:30-2:30pm: Content | Data , Information visualization |
| 2:30-3:15pm: Presentation | Use case presentation: Vis demos/usecases; Financial data usecase |
| 3:15-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30-5pm: Hands-on/demo | Demos/Hands-on: Visualization; Parallel Computing |
Day 5: Friday, August 9, 2013
8:30-9:30am:| 8:30-12:00 | AM: HPC PROGRAMMING (contd) |
| Content | Introduction to MatLab, parallel MatLab |
| 9:30-10:30am: Presentation | Use case Presentation: MatLab usecase with workflow |
| 10:30-10:45am: | Break |
| 10:45am-12pm: Demo/Hands-on | Closing: Lightning Talks by Users |