NERSC User Training

June 4, 2002

in conjunction with the

NERSC Users' Group (NUG)

Spring 2002 Business Meeting

NERSC User Services and the Berkeley Lab present a set of lectures for NERSC users at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Oakland Scientific Facility, in conjunction with the Spring 2002 NUG meeting.

Other sites are welcome to join this all-day class. The Virtual Venue will be the Lucky Labrador Room. We will be in the Virtual Venue by 8 AM PDT on the day of the event.

PowerPoint files ARE AVAILABLE NOW for download via the Abstracts Page, and via the links on the agenda items below. Distributed PowerPoint will be used to push the slides during the event. The DPPT Server name will be "ag-display.nersc.gov" which should resolve to the IP address "128.55.13.53". Please check back here periodically for updates.


Tentative Schedule of Lectures by NERSC Staff

Tuesday, June 4:

 8:00 -  8:30 Coffee (Coffee provided)

 8:30 -  9:15 IBM Compiler Optimization Options
              M. Stewart, NERSC User Services Group

 9:15 - 10:00 Performance profiling using hpmcount, poe+ and hpmlib
              R. Gerber, NERSC User Services Group

10:00 - 10:15 Break (Snacks provided)

10:15 - 10:45 SVPablo and the PERC Performance Tool Suite
              Evan Welbourne, NERSC Future Technologies Group

10:45 - 11:15 Scaling Up Parallel I/O on the IBM SP
              D. Skinner, NERSC User Services Group

11:15 - 12:00 Debugging, Reactively and Proactively
              M. Baddourah, NERSC User Services Group

12:00 - 12:45 Lunch (Lunch provided)

12:45 -  1:45 Practicing Safe Computing at NERSC
              S. Lau, NERSC Networking and Security Group

 1:45 -  2:30 File and Data Conversion
              J. Carter, NERSC User Services Group

 2:30 -  3:00 Scaling Up MPI Applications
              D. Skinner, NERSC User Services Group

 3:00 -  3:15 Break (Snacks provided)

 3:15 -  4:00 A Report on the ACTS Toolkit
              O. Marques, NERSC Scientific Computing Group

 4:00 -  4:15 NERSC Software Roadmap
              D. Skinner, NERSC User Services Group

 4:15 -  5:00 ACTS Tools - Case Studies with User Codes
              O. Marques, NERSC Scientific Computing Group