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NUG Meeting - October 3-4, 2005
Oct. 3: NERSC OSF, 415 Thomas L. Berkley Way (20th Street), Oakland, CA
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Training Day
Monday, Oct 3, 2005 Oakland Scietific Facility, 415 Thomas L Berkley Way (20th St.) Oakland, CA | ||
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| Jacquard - NERSC's New 640-CPU Opteron Cluster | ||
| Time (Pacific) | Topic | Presenter |
| 9:00 | Jacquard Overview: a high-level description of system, processors, interconnect, file systems, compilers, benchmarking, etc. [PowerPoint Slides] | Richard Gerber |
| 9:45 | Jacquard Nodes and CPUs: Opteron basics, differences from POWER 3, node configuration, memory layout, processor affinity [PowerPoint Slides] | David Skinner |
| 10:30 | BREAK | |
| 10:45 | High Speed Interconnect and MVAPICH: InfiniBand characteristics (latency, bandwidth), network topology, differences from Seaborg, MVAPICH overview [PowerPoint Slides] | Bill Saphir |
| 11:30 | Compiling: Pathscale Fortran, C, C++; mpif90, mpicc, mpicxx, recommended compiler options, useful compiler options, libraries, porting from Seaborg, porting from other Linux clusters [PowerPoint Slides] | Michael Stewart |
| 12:15 | LUNCH in downtown Oakland | |
| 2:00 | Running Jobs: Batch system, PBS overview, queues, submitting jobs, monitoring jobs, interactive jobs, differences from LoadLeveler [PowerPoint Slides] | David Turner |
| 2:30 | Software overview: user environment, libraries, debuggers and programming tools [PowerPoint Slides] | Jonathan Carter |
| 3:00 | BREAK | |
| 3:30 | Hands-on: bring your laptop with SSH and X-Windows | Richard Gerber & NERSC Staff |
| 5:00 | Adjourn. Machine room tour. | NERSC Staff |
| NUG Business Meeting
Tuesday, Oct. 4 Berkeley Lab, Building 50 Auditorium |
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| Time (Pacific) | Topic | Presenter |
| 8:00 | Welcome & logistics | David Dean |
| 8:15 | DOE Update | David Goodwin |
| 8:30 | The Greenbook | Stephane Ethier |
| 9:00 | Science Driven Computing: NERSC's Five-Year Plan for 2005 - 2010 [PowerPoint Slides] | Horst Simon and Bill Kramer |
| 9:45 | Summary of Five-Year Plan Reviewer Comments | Bill Kramer |
| 9:55 | Welcome from LBNL Director Steve Chu | |
| 10:00 | BREAK | |
| 10:15 | NUG Feedback on 5-year Plan | NUG Members, chaired by David Dean |
| 10:45 | NERSC/LBNL Data Analytics Project [PDF Slides] | Wes Bethel |
| 11:15 | Facility Wide File System | Jim Craw |
| 11:30 | Proposed OMB Metrics for NERSC | Bill Kramer |
| 11:45 | BREAK | |
| 12:00 (Lunch Talk) | Progress in Supercomputing: The Top Three Breakthroughs of the Last 20 Years and the Top Three Challenges for the Next 20 Years [PDF Slides] | Horst Simon |
| 1:15 | NERSC INCITE and SciDAC Program Updates | Richard Gerber |
| 1:30 | Scientific Computing Highlight I: Simulating the Convective Epoch of Core Collapse Supernovae | Doug Swesty |
| 2:15 | Visualization Highlight: Using AVS/Express to model cell membranes from electron tomography data | Cristina Siegerist |
| 2:30 | BREAK | |
| 2:45 | Scientific Computing Highlight II: High-Fidelity Terascale Simulations of Turbulent Combustion [PowerPoint Slides] | Jackie Chen |
| 3:30 | Scientific Computing Highlight III: Feeding the Pipeline: The SNfactory Search for Nearby Supernovae [Abstract] [PDF Slides] | Richard Scalzo |
| 4:15 | Q&A, open discussions | NUG Members, chaired by David Dean |
| 6:00 | Working NUG Executive Committee dinner: Future systems and requirements for the next large system. | Jonathan Carter |
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