ERSUG Meeting Agenda, June 25-26, 1996

Tuesday June 25th

8:00 Coffee

8:30 View from Washington (Tom Kitchens)

8:45 View from the Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Charles V. Shank)

9:15 Introduction of new NERSC staff (Bill McCurdy)

• Assign Faces to Functions

9:30 NERSC Overview (Bill Kramer)

• Transition Progress
• Staffing Update
• System Upgrade Schedule
• HPDC FY 97 Goals

10:15 Break

10:30 J-90 Issues (Jim Craw)

• J-90 Performance
• J-90 Interactive response
• System efficiency
• J-90 Clustering

11:30 Storage (Keith Fitzgerald)

• Storage Procurement Requirements
• CFS Phase out
• AFS to DFS migration
• Storage Management - charging for storage

12:00 Lunch and ExERSUG Lunch

1:15 User Services (Francesca Verdier)

• Information Dissemination
• Consulting
• Documentation
• Training
• Supported Software

2:00 Scientific Computing (Tammy Welcome)

• Access to T3E
• User accountability
• Levels of assistance

2:30 Charging factors on NERSC systems (Bill Kramer)

3:00 Possibilities for keeping C90 longer (McCurdy)

3:30 Break

3:45 ExERSUG Proposal to SAC (Rick Kendall)

• ERSUG->ERSUG

4:15 Greenbook (Rick Kendall)

4:45 DCCC report (Rick Kendall)

5:00 DOE 2000 (Rod Oldehoeft MICS/OCTR/ER)

5:30 Adjourn for the Day

---- Dinner is on your own.

Wednesday, June 26th

8:00 Coffee

8:30 Visualization (Nancy Johnston)

• Remote Visualization Services
• Supported
• Software

9:00 Programming The T3E The Cray Perspective (Mark Potts)

10:00 Break

10:15 T3E Expectations (Tammy Welcome)

• Performance Expectations
• Code efficiency

10:45 NERSC T3E functionality (Jim Craw)

• Schedule/Acceptance
• T-3E configurations
• Production Status Requirements

11:15 User T3E transition Programming Issues. (Open Discussion)

• What do the users expect?
• How do users transition to the T3E and MPPs?
• Help for users (on-line/examples etc)
• Workshops
• Working Groups?

11:45 Next Meetings (Rick Kendall)

				Meeting Date	Meeting Site
				January 1997	NERSC at LBL
				June 1997	PPPL?

12:00 Lunch

1:15 NERSC Participation in the NSF Center Re-bid (Bill McCurdy)

1:30 Grand Challenges (NERSC participation, Lead by Horst Simon)

2:00 Future Technology (Horst Simon)

2:15 Users Helping Users (Kendall/McCurdy/Kitchens)

3:00 Break

3:15 CRI/SGI The Future (William White)

4:15 Review of Action Items (Kendall/Kramer/Simon/McCurdy)

4:30 Adjourn Meeting

Last Updated: 6/24/1996
Author: Ricky A. Kendall, 
        Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
email:   ra_kendall@pnl.gov