Portions of the ERSUG meeting will be broadcast on the MBONE.
Tuesday, June 13, 1995
8:30 Welcoming Remarks - Brian Hingerty
8:45 Greetings from Tom Kitchens
8:50 Welcome from NERSC - Bill McCurdy
Review of the Agenda
****STRATEGIC PLANNING ISSUES****
9:10 Strategic Planning at NERSC - Bill McCurdy, Michel McCoy
Developments Planned for 1995-1996
Status of the NERSC procurement
10:00 A User Requirements Document (Greenbook) for the Late 90's
- Brian Hingerty
10:15 Break
****PLANNING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS ****
10:30 National Storage Laboratory (NSL) Technology Base System
Progress Report - Keith Fitzgerald
10:45 MPP Update (MPP Access Program, MPP Workshop) - Tammy Welcome
11:10 The Continuing Experiment with Symmetric Multi-Processors (SMPs):
The SGI Power Challenge - Betsy Foote
11:25 Lunch (ExERSUG working lunch in the White Room)
- ExERSUG Functions - Should We Model Ourselves After ESnet/DCCC?
- ExERSUG Membership
****DISCUSSIONS WITH HEADQUARTERS****
1:00 ERSUG Discussion with SAC members via Televideo Conference
Washington View - Tom Kitchens
-Comments Regarding the Recompetition of NERSC
Discussion with SAC members regarding user requirements for
computing
2:45 Break
**PLANNING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS (Cont) ****
3:00 Status and Directions for Graphics at NERSC - Chris Andersonw
3:20 Utilizing a Network of Workstations to Facilitate Supercomputing
-John Allen
****PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT PROGRESS REPORT****
3:35 Unified Production Environment Update - Moe Jette
UNICOS 8.0 Installation and Disk Reconfiguration
Accounting Issues
****DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND THE NETWORKS****
4:00 ESnet Status Report - Jim Leighton
4:30 ESnet Steering Committee Report - Sandy Merola (LBL)
4:50 Update on Distributed Computing and DCCC/DICCE - Barry Howard
DCCC Petaflop computer
5:15 Adjourn - Dinner at the Hayward Fishery
(EXERSUG members & NERSC management)
Wednesday, June 14, 1995
PHYSICS TALK BY HOST INSTITUTION
8:30 John Bell, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering
- Local Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Computational Fluid
Dynamics
9:00 Bruce Cohen, Numerical Tokamak Project Leader, LLNL
- HPCC Numerical Tokamak Project
9:30 BREAK
9:40 Open Discussion
Invitation to Discussion - Bill McCurdy
Possible Major (and some Minor) Topics Include:
A. ExERSUG/ERSUG involvement in NERSC Move proposal review.
- should we be involved?
- is it possible ?
- who and how ?
B. The case for SMPs -
Ideas about increasing the number of compute cycles/dollar
spent at NERSC.
C. The role of the current capability platforms
D. Dial-up Services for NERSC Customers (SLIP, XRemote, PPP)
E. Batch Throughput Issues:
long queue delays
poor throughput
high price/performance relative to interactive computing
F. How to improve participation from the ERSUG community
I. Next ERSUG meeting