August 8-12, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego California
The Gordon Summer Institute was held August 8–11, 2011 and covered a wide range of topics on Gordon, SDSC's new NSF-funded (five year, $20 million award) data-intensive supercomputer. Gordon will be open for allocation requests this fall for a January 1, 2012 production start.
Site link: http://www.sdsc.edu/Events/summerinstitute2011/
Gordon Summer Institute Agenda (PDF)
Day 1: Monday, August 8 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00a | Registration, Coffee |
| 9:00 - 9:30a |
Welcome: Era of Data Intensive Computing Begins |
| 9:30 - 10:15a |
Introduction to Data and Memory Intensive Computing |
| 10:15 - 10:30a | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:15a |
Introductions, logistics, lightning round homework |
| 11:15 - 12:00p |
Road to Exa-scale computing, tools and trends |
| 12:00 - 1:30p | Lunch at Café Ventanas |
| 1:30 - 2:30p |
Value Ladder for Seismic Hazard Information |
| 2:30 - 2:45p | Break |
| 2:45 - 3:30p |
Overview of the Gordon Architecture |
| 3:30 - 3:45p |
UCSD/SDSC Sustainability . Leveraging Real-time Data Infrastructure |
| 4:00 - 6:00p | Poster Session/Reception (location) (Joint GSI/CSIG session) |
Day 2: Tuesday, August 9 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00a | Coffee | ||
| 8:30 - 9:15ap | Traversing Massive Graphs with NAND Flash Roger Pearce, LLNL/Texas A&M www.llnl.gov |
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| 9:15 - 10:00a |
SSD's and I/O. What are they good for, how to make use of them in your application |
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| 10:00 - 10:15a | Break | ||
| 10:15 - 11:00a | Evaluating the Benefits of An Extended Memory Hierarchy for Parallel Streamline Algorithms David Camp, LBL |
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| 11:00 - 12:00p | Hands-on using Dash and Gordon I/O nodes to enhance I/O performance. Mahidhar Tatineni, Manager User Services, SDC |
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| 12:00 - 1:30p | Lunch at Café Ventanas | ||
| 1:30 - 2:30p |
Presentation/interactive session: Profiling I/O |
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| 2:30 - 2:45p | Break | ||
| 2:45 - 4:30p |
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| 4:30 - 5:00p | SDSC Data Center Tour | ||
Day 3: Wednesday, August 10 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00a | Coffee | ||
| 8:30 - 9:15a |
Experiences in Simulated Asteroid Search and Discovery With Dash |
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| 9:15 - 10:00a |
De Novo Genome Assembly Using vSMP |
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| 10:00 - 10:15a | Break | ||
| 10:15 - 11:00a |
Data Mining on Gordon |
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| 11:00a - 12:00p | Hands-on using Dash and Gordon I/O nodes for large memory jobs. Mahidhar Tatineni, Manager User Services, SDSC |
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| 12:00 - 1:30p | Lunch at Café Ventanas | ||
| 1:30 - 2:30p |
Presentation/interactive session: Developer Productivity and Profiling Tools |
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| 2:30 - 2:45p | Break | ||
| 2:45 - 4:30p |
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| 5:30 - 8p | Reception at Wayne Pfeiffer.s House Shuttle provided from SDSC driveway |
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Day 4: Thursday, August 11 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00a | Coffee |
| 8:30 - 9:15a |
Modeling Global Societal Evolution over a Half-Century: Petascale Humanities Computing |
| 9:15 - 9:45a |
XSEDE, AUSS and Science Gateways |
| 9:45 - 10:15a |
Writing a successful Gordon allocation request |
| 10:15 - 10:30a | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30a | Participant lightning round presentations 1-2 slides each on lessons learned and plans for the future. Facilitator: Mike Norman, Director SDSC, UCSD Professor |
| 11:30 - 12:00p |
Overview to the NSF Computing Infrastructure |
| 12:00 - 12:15p | Wrap-up and Thank you Mike Norman, Director SDSC, UCSD Professor |
| 12:15p | Adjourn (box lunches available) |
