NUG Meeting May 29-30, 2003, at Argonne National Laboratory

A list of participants is available.

May 29: NUG Business Meeting Agenda

All times are Central Time (subtract 2 hours for Pacific Time; add 1 hour for Eastern Time).

9:00 Welcome, Introductions Doug Rotman
9:15 Opening Remarks Horst Simon
9:30 Performance Evaluation Activites at NERSC Adrian Wong
10:00 Seaborg Code Scalability Project Richard Gerber
10:30 Green's function Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei Steven Pieper
10:45 Lattice QCD in Extreme Environments Don Sinclair
11:00 Break
11:15 Global Climate Simulations with the Parallel Climate Model Warren Washington
11:30 Microturbulence in Fusion Plasmas Bruce Cohen & W. M. Nevins
11:45 p3D: Magnetic Reconnection via an Electromagnetic PIC Code Mark Swisdak
12:00 Report from DOE - SciDAC Update, Allocations Update, Applications Matrix Buff Miner
12:45 Lunch
1:45 The NUG Executive Board Elections Process Ricky Kendall
2:00 ERCAP Allocation Requests for FY 2004 Francesca Verdier
2:15 Blue Planet Proposal Bill Kramer
2:45 Adjustments to NERSC's 5-Year Plan Bill Kramer
3:30 Break
3:45 GUPFS Project Progress Report Greg Butler
4:00 New Seaborg Queue Configuration Results David Turner
4:15 Evaluation of Checkpoint/Restart on the SP Jay Srinivasan
4:30 Grid and Portal Plans Steve Chan
4:45 Visualization Plans Wes Bethel
5:00 Questions and Answers
5:30 Adjourn

May 30: Training Lectures

All times are Central Time (subtract 2 hours for Pacific Time; add 1 hour for Eastern Time).

Click here for the full training agenda with abstracts and links to presentation materials.

10:00 Scaling: Techniques and Pitfalls   (Download Powerpoint)David Skinner
10:30 Understanding and Using Profiling Tools on Seaborg   (Download Powerpoint)   (Download PDF)Richard Gerber
11:15 Break
11:30 IBM Compiler Optimization Arguments [(PowerPoint)Michael Stewart
12:00 Effective Memory Use   (Download Powerpoint)David Skinner
12:45 Lunch
1:45 Libraries and Their Performance   (Download Powerpoint)Thomas DeBoni & Frank Hale
2:30 A Comparison of Performance Analysis Tools on the SP   (Download Powerpoint)   (Download PDF) Jonathan Carter
3:15 Break
3:30 Hybrid MPI and OpenMP Programming on the SP   (Download Powerpoint)Yun Helen He
4:15 Visualization Capabilities at NERSC   (Download Powerpoint) Ken Schwartz
5:00 Adjourn

Accomodations at Argonne

Rooms have been reserved at the

Argonne Guest House
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue - Building 460
Argonne, IL 60439
Reservations: (800) 632-8990 or (630) 739-6000
Fax: (630) 739-1000
E-Mail: argonne-guest-house@anl.gov

The Argonne Guest House web site has more information, including an online registration form, maps of the Chicago area and the Argonne site, and directions from local airports. The rooms will be held only until May 14th.

The meeting will be held in ANL Building 221, room A216; wireless Ethernet service will be available in building 221, and wired Ethernet is available in the Guest House, Building 460. The Visitor's Center is Building 224. Here is a better map of ANL to help you find your way to building 221.

The Argonne contact person for the NUG Meeting is Mike Minkoff of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. His phone number is (630) 252-7234.