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12th Annual SDSC Summer Institute: Schedule

Taking Your Science to the Next Level: On the Path to Petascale Computing

Date: July 17 - 21, 2006

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TIME
MON1
July 17
TUES1
July 18
WED1
July 19
THURS2
July 20
FRI1
July 21
8:30-8:45 8:30-9:00
Welcome to Institute

(Dr. Vijay Samalam,
Executive Director, SDSC)
8:30-10:00
Scaling Up: Tflops to Pflops

(Dr. Robert Harkness, SDSC)

link to Harkness Power Point 0.7 MB
8:30-10:00
Case Study #1: Enabling the Computational Science of Turbulence: Scalability of Large Simulation Codes

(Dr. P.K. Yeung, Georgia Tech & Dr. Dmitry Pekurovsky, SDSC)

link to Yeung PDF 1.2 MB (Yeung)

link to Pekurovsky Power Point 0.3 MB (Pekurovsky)
8:30-9:00
Welcome to Synthesis Center

(John Moreland, GEON)
8:30-9:30
Case study#4:
A High-Order Optimized Schwarz algorithm for Massively Parallel Climate Modeling

(Dr. Amik St-Cyr, UCAR)

link to Amik_StCyr 
										PDF 14 MB
8:45-9:00
9:00-9:15 9:00-9:30
Attendees Introduction
9:00-10:00
Introduction to Visualization

(Dr. Steven Cutchin, SDSC)

link to Cutchin Power Point presentation 10 MB
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45 9:30-10:30
Keynote Address

Dr. Fred Streitz , LLNL
Winner, Gordon Bell prize

link to Fred Streitz keynote address 7.7 MB
9:30-10:30
Managing Simulation Output

(Dr. Reagan Moore, SDSC)

5.8 MB
9:45-10:00
10:00-10:15 10:00 - 10:15
BREAK
10:00 - 10:15
BREAK
10:00 - 10:15
BREAK
10:15-10:30 10:15-12:00
Optimization Techniques *

(Dr. Ross Walker, SDSC)

link to Walker code optimization Power Point presentation 0.3 MB
10:15-11:15
Achieving Strong Scaling with NAMD on Blue Gene/L

(Dr. Sameer Kumar, IBM)

link to Kumar Power Point presentation 2.6 MB
10:15-12:00
Using Visualization Tools *

(Dr. Steven Cutchin, SDSC)
10:30-10:45 10:30 - 10:45
BREAK
10:30-11:00 Allocations Overview

(Dave Hart, SDSC)

link to Dave Hart allocations Power Point presentation 1.9 MB
10:45-11:00 10:45-11:45
Overview of HPC—Eye Towards Petascale Computing

(Dr. Amit Majumdar, SDSC)

link to Majumdar Power Point presentation 7.1 MB
link to Majumdar Power Point presentation 1.5 MB
11:00-11:15
11:15-11:30 11:15-12:15
Scientific Workflows and the Kepler System

(Ilkay Altinas, SDSC)

link to Altintas 
										Power Point slides 8.4 MB (presentation)
link to Altintas 
										B&M poster 0.8 MB (poster)
link to Altintas 
										B&M flyer 0.3 MB (flyer)
11:00-12:00
Open Session
11:30-11:45
11:45-12:15 11:45 - 1:00
LUNCH
12:00-12:15 12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH
12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH
12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH
12:15-12:30 12:15 - 1:15
LUNCH
12:30-12:45
12:45-1:00
1:00-1:15 1:00-2:00
Performance characterization of codes on different machines

(Dr. Wayne Pfeiffer, SDSC)

link to Pfeiffer Power Point presentation0.5 MB
1:00-4:00
Profiling tools & Debugger *

(Dr. Nick Wright, SDSC)

link to Wright PDF 1 1.3 MB
link to Wright PDF 2 1.1 MB
1:00-2:00
Case Study #2
TeraShake: Large-scale Simulations of Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault

(Dr. Kim Olsen, SDSU)

link to Olsen Power Point presentation14.9 MB
1:00
END FRIDAY SESSION

END INSTITUTE
1:15-1:30 1:15-2:30
Overview of data environment & data mining

(Dr. Natasha Balac, SDSC)

link to Balac Power Point presentation 24 MB
1:30-1:45
1:45-2:00
2:00-2:15 2-2:30
Login for attendees
2:00-3:00
Case study #3:
Petascale Data Mining

(Dr. Chandrika Kamath, LLNL)

link to Kamath PDF 2 MB
2:15-2:30
2:30-2:45 2:30-4:30
Introduction to MPI IO & MPI2 *

(Dr. Rajeev Thakur, ANL)

1.5 MB
2:30-4:15
Using SRB for HPC *

(Leesa Brieger, SDSC)

link to Brieger Power Point 3 MB
link to Brieger SRB Scommands presentation 0.9 MB (Scommands)
2:45-3:00
3:00-3:15 3:00 - 3:15
BREAK
3:15-3:30 3:15-5:00
An Overview of ACTS Tools Functionalities

(Dr. Osni Marques, LBL)

link to Marques Power Point 10.2 MB
3:30-3:45 3:30 - 3:45
BREAK
3:30 - 3:45
BREAK
3:30 - 3:45
BREAK
3:45-4:00 MPI/IO (cont'd) Profiling Tools (cont'd) Using SRB for HPC (cont'd)
4:00-4:15 4:00-5:00
Structured lab **
4:15-4:30 4:15-5:00
Structured lab **
4:30-4:45 4:30-5:00
Machine Room tour

(Dave Hart, SDSC)

4:45-5:00
  5:00
END MONDAY SESSION
5:00
END TUESDAY SESSION
5:30-7:00
RECEPTION 3
5:00
END THURSDAY SESSION

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