Presentations by NERSC Staff

2010

• Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Hadoop for Scientific Applications, Hadoop Summit, Santa Clara, CA, June 29, 2010.
• Zhengji Zhao, Node Mapping and the Parallel Performance of LS3DF code on BG/P, IBM HPC Systems Scientific Computing User Group (ScicomP), May 10-14, 2010, San Francisco, CA.
• Hank Childs, MPI-hybrid Parallelism for Volume Rendering on Large, Multi-core Systems, Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), Norrkoping, Sweden, May 2nd, 2010.
• Hank Childs, Using VisIt to Visualize Turbulent Data, NORDITA and Linne FLOW Centre Workshop on Turbulent Boundary Layers, Stockholm, Sweden, April 30th, 2010.
• Hank Childs, Extreme Scaling of Production Visualization Software on Diverse Architectures, Department of Energy Computer Graphics Forum (DOE CGF), Park City, UT, April 11, 2010.
• Hank Childs, Petascale I/O Impacts on Visualization, NSF Extreme Scale I/O and Data Analysis Workshop, Austin, TX, March 24, 2010.
• Hank Childs, The Challenges Ahead for Visualizing and Analyzing Massive Data Sets, SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP10), Seattle, WA, February 26, 2010
• Alice Koniges, What’s Ahead for Fusion Computing, International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference April 19 - 21, 2010 in Seattle, Washington USA
• Andrew Uselton, Parallel I/O Performance: From Events to Ensembles, 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 19-23, 2010, Atlanta, GA USA
• David Donofrio, Green Flash: Berkeley Lab Research into Energy Efficient HPC, 11th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Shreyas Cholia, Building Transparent User Gateways at NERSC, GlobusWorld, Argonne, IL.
• Jason Hick, Tape Monitoring of HPSS at NERSC, Fujifilm Global IT Executive Summit, Austin, TX.
• Katie Antypas, NERSC/Hopper Overview, Joint NERSC/OLCF/NICS Cray XT5 Workshop, Berkeley, CA.
• Richard Gerber, Submitting and Running Jobs on the Cray XT5, Joint NERSC/OLCF/NICS Cray XT5 Workshop.

2009

• Kathy Yelick (2009), Beyond UPC, Invited Presentation, Workshop on User Experience and Advances in Bridging Multicore's Programmability Gap, SC09, Portland, OR
• Kathy Yelick (2009), NERSC's Role in High Energy Physics Research, Workshop on Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for High Energy Physics, Washington, DC.
• Kathy Yelick (2009), Hardware and Software in the Multicore Era HEPiX Autumn Meeting, Berkeley, CA.
• Kathy Yelick (2009), NERSC's Role in Biological and Environmental Science Research, Workshop on Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Biological and Environmental Science, Washington, DC.
• John Shalf, David Donofrio (2009), Green Flash: Extreme Scale Computing on a Petascale Budget, DOE Conference on High Performance Computing, Salishan and SciDAC 2009 Conference, San Diego, CA.
• Wes Bethel (2009), Occam's Razor and Petascale Visual Data Analysis, SciDAC 2009 Conference, San Diego, CA.
• John Shalf (2009), Challenges of Energy Efficient Scientific Computing 1st Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems, Berkeley, CA.
• Harvey Wasserman (2009), " Breakthrough Computing in Petascale Applications and Petascale System Examples at NERSC, IDC HPC User Forum, Roanoke, VA.
• Shane Canon (2009)" Cosmic Computing Supporting the Science of the Planck Space Based Telescope, Plenary Address, Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA).
• John Shalf and Mark Howison (2009), Tuning HDF5 for Lustre SC09 HDF5 Birds of a Feather, Portland, OR.
• Shane Canon (2009) Trends in I/O and Filesystems, ICAP '09, the 10th International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference, San Francisco, CA.
• Richard A. Gerber (2009) Breakthrough Science at NERSC, Cray Technical Workshop, Isle of Palms, SC.
• Harvey Wasserman (2009) Extreme Scale Data Intensive Computing at NERSC, Los Alamos Computer Science Symposium Workshop on Workshop on Performance Analysis of Extreme-Scale Systems and Applications , Santa Fe, NM.
• Katie Antypas and Andrew Uselton (2009), MPI-I/O on Franklin XT4 System at NERSC, Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Shane Canon, GPFS on a Cray XT Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• James Craw, Post-Mortem of the NERSC Franklin XT Upgrade to CLE 2.1 Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Yun (Helen) He, User and Performance Impacts from Franklin Upgrades, Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Shreyas Cholia and Hwa-Chun Wendy Lin, Integrating Grid Services into the Cray XT4 Environment, Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Zhengji Zhao, Applications of the LS3DF Method in CeSe/CdS Core/shell Nano Structures, Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Hwa-Chun (Wendy) Lin, Understanding Aprun Use Patterns, Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Andrew Uselton (2009), Deploying Server-side File System Monitoring at NERSC, Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Katie Antypas, MPI-I/O on Franklin XT4 System at NERSC Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Andrew Uselton (2009), Monitoring I/O Performance on Lustre, Lustre User Group 2009, Sausalito, CA.
• Thomas Davis, System Monitoring Using NAGIOS, Cacti, and Prism Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• Manisha Gajbe, Auto-Tuning Distributed-Memory 3-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transforms on the Cray XT4 Cray User's Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
• See, also, http://vis.lbl.gov/Presentations/.

Older Presentations

1. “IO Library Benchmarking on GPFS,” Katie Antypas, SciComp, July 16–20, 2007. [PDF]
2. “Application and System Memory Use, Configuration, and Problems on Bassi,” Richard Gerber, ScicomP, July 17, 2007. [PDF]
3. “PERCU Results in a Reawakened Relationship for NERSC and Cray,” William T. Kramer, Cray User Group, May 7–10, 2007. [PDF]
4. “Scaling into Tomorrow,” Nick Cardo, Cray User Group, May 7–10, 2007. [PDF]
5. “The Performance Effect of Multi-Core on Scientific Applications,” Jonathan Carter, Helen He, John Shalf, Erich Strohmaier, Hongzhang Shan, and Harvey Wasserman, Cray User Group, May 7–10, 2007. [PDF]
6. “Using IOR to Analyze the I/O Performance of XT3,” Hongzhang Shan and John Shalf, Cray User Group, May 7–10, 2007. [PDF]
7. "NERSC's Move Toward Petascale Computing with the Cray XT Architecture," William T. Kramer, SC2006. [PDF]
8. "Progress in Supercomputing: The Top Three Breakthroughs of the Last 20 Years and the Top Three Challenges for the Next 20 Years," Horst D. Simon, keynote address, ISC 2005, Heidelberg, June 22, 2005, and CITRIS Distinguished Speaker Series, UC Berkeley, November 2005. [PDF] [video]
9. "Towards Petascale Computing in Science," Horst D. Simon, The Salishan Conference on High-Speed Computing, April 18-21, 2005. [PDF]
10. "HPC Panel: Scientific Computing — Should the Tail Wag the Dog?" Horst D. Simon, 2005 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Orlando, February 2005. [PDF]
11. "Finding the Unknown in a Sea of Data: Leveraging Human Intuition with Scientific Visual Data Analysis," Wes Bethel, LBNL Projects Office,Washington, D.C., February 17, 2005. [PDF]
12. "What Supercomputers Still Can’t Do — A Reflection on the State of the Art in CSE," Horst D. Simon, CIS’04 Shanghai, P.R. China,
    December 16, 2004. [PDF]
13. "Team Based Approaches in Computational Science," Horst D. Simon, CSUPERB, San Jose, California, January 2004. [PDF]
14. "Soft Computing and Current Trends in Supercomputing," Horst D. Simon, BISC Workshop, Berkeley, California, December 2003. [PDF]
15. "CHOS - CHROOT OS," Shane Canon, presented at SC2004, PIttsburgh, PA, November 2004.
16. "Comprehensive Scientific Support of Large Scale Parallel Computation," David Skinner, presented at SC2004, PIttsburgh, PA, November 2004.
17. "The Return of the Cube: Spinning the Security of SCinet," Stephen Lau, presented at SC2004, PIttsburgh, PA, November 2004.
18. "Scaling First Principles Materials and Nanoscience Codes to Thousands of Processors (and Thousands of Atoms)," Andrew Canning and Lin-Wang Wang, presented at SC2004, PIttsburgh, PA, November 2004.
19. "Science-Driven Visualization: Research Challenges," Wes Bethel, presented at SC2004, PIttsburgh, PA, November 2004.
20. "Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses: Back to the Future," David H. Bailey, presented at SC2004, PIttsburgh, PA, November 2004. [PDF]
21. " A Project to Measure and Characterize Performance of the Heterogeneous Workload on NERSC's IBM SP , Richard Gerber, NERSC User Services, Presented at PERC HPC Performance Workshop, Oakland, CA, May 4, 2004.
22. "New Computing Initiatives in the U.S.," Horst D. Simon, Directory, NERSC Center Division, LBNL, June 25, 2003. [PDF]
23. "The Grand Challenge Question for Performance Evaluation of HPC Systems," Horst D. Simon, Director, NERSC Center and Computational Research Divisions, LBNL, May 5, 2003. [PDF]
24. "Report on NERSC Upgrade and Plans," Horst D. Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ASCAC Presenation, March 13, 2003. [PDF]
25. "SciDAC at NERSC," Horst D. Simon, Director NERSC Center, March 6, 2003. [PDF]
26. "NERSC Overview," Horst D. Simon, Directory, NERSC Center Division, LBNL, January 13, 2003. [PDF]
27. "The Divergence Problem," Horst D. Simon, Director, NERSC Center Division, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, November 19, 2002. [PDF]
28. "Facts and Wishful Thinking about the Future of Supercomputing," Horst D. Simon, Director, NERSC Center and Computational Research Divisions, SCICOMP 6, Berkeley, CA, August 2002. [PDF]
29. "Five Trends in Supercomputing for the Next Five Years", Horst Simon, NERSC Director, Berkeley, CA, July 2002. [PDF ]