Agenda

Monday April 6, 1998

Berkeley Lab - Perseverance Hall
Time	Scheduled Event	Speaker / Session Leader
08:00	Continental Breakfast
08:30	Welcome	Ricky Kendall
08:35	View From Washington	Tom Kitchens
08:55	New NERSC Staff Introductions	Horst Simon
09:00	NERSC Research Efforts (Leverage to the NERSC Program)	Horst Simon
09:30	Strategic Computing Initiative	Bill McCurdy
10:00	ERCAP Changes	Tom Kitchens
10:20	Break
10:30	Report from the storage charging working group	Harvard Holmes
11:00	CFS/HPSS Migration	Nancy Meyer
11:30	Remote Visualization Server Report/Plans	Nancy Johnston
12:00	Lunch	Provided
13:00	Technology Review Committee	Ricky Kendall/Bill Kramer
13:15	Overview of Procurement Process	Bill Kramer
13:45	Summary of Identified Requirements	Tammy Welcome
14:30	Summary of the Technology Roadmap	Bill Kramer
14:45	Summary of the Benchmarks and System Tests	Adrian Wong
15:15	Break
15:30	Procurement Strategy	Bill Kramer
16:00	Proposed Test Suite	Adrian Wong
16:30	Discsussion	Ricky Kendall/Bill Kramer
17:30 - 18:00	Termination of today's meeting

Berkeley Lab - Perseverance Hall
Time	Scheduled Event	Speaker / Session Leader
08:00	Continental Breakfast
08:30	A proposal to form Queue Structure working group	Bas Braams/Jim Craw
09:00	DOE2000 Collaboratory Tools and Technology	Stu Loken/Jim Leighton
09:30	Security: goals, implementation, access	Bill Kramer
10:00	C90 and J90 Status Report	Jim Craw
10:30	Break
10:40	ExERSUG membership	Ricky Kendall/Bas Braams
11:10	ERSUG meeting at SC98	Ricky Kendall/Bas Braams
11:20	Green Book	Ricky Kendall/Bas Braams
11:45	New ExERSUG Chair	Ricky Kendall/Bas Braams
12:00	End of ERSUG Meeting and Lunch
13:30	Green Book Working Group	Any Interested Party
16:00	Closeout

Morning Session - UHU Talks
8:50	Mike Minkoff and Brian Hingerty, Opening remarks
9:00	Doug Toussaint - University of Arizona, Portable lattice QCD Code on the T3E
9:30	Jarek Nieplocha - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Global Arrays: A Portable Shared Memory Programming Environment for Massively Parallel Computers
10:15 Break
10:30	Jean-Noel LeBoeuf - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
	Parallelization of a 3D Plasma Fluid Turbulence Model on the NERSC Cray T3E at NERSC
11:00	Xueqiao Xu - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
	Application of the PVODE Solver to Parallelize the Fluid Transport Code UEDGE
11:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session - Staff Talks
1:00	Bill Saphir - NERSC, Future Technologies Group Overview of the ACTS Toolkit: A Set of Tools That Make It Easier to Write Parallel Programs
1:30	Xiaoye (Sherry) Li - NERSC, Scientific Computing Group Scalapack: A Library for Parallel Dense Linear Algebra
2:00	John Wu - NERSC, Scientific Computing Group Aztec: A Library for the Parallel Solution of Sparse Linear Systems
2:30 Break
2:45	Stephen Lau - NERSC, Graphics and Visualization Group Remote Visualization at NERSC
3:30	Sameer Shende - University of Oregon The TAU Portable Profiling and Tracing Package

Morning Session - UHU Talks
9:00	Jeff Tilson - Argonne National Laboratory Parallel Spin-Orbit Configuration Interaction Calculation on the T3E
9:30	Robert Ryne - Los Alamos National Laboratory HPF for Fortran Users - Productivity Gains Using HPF on the T3E
10:15 Break
10:30	Mark Adams - UC Berkeley Multigrid Solvers for Finite Element Matrices on Unstructured Grids with PETSc
11:00	Adrian Wong - NERSC, Scientific Computing Group Shmem and Synchronization Primitives on the Cray T3E
11:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session - Staff Talks
1:00	Youngbae Kim - NERSC, Scientific Computing Group Parallel and Distributed Computing with PVM on the T3E
1:45	Mike Stewart - SGI/Cray Research T3E Individual Node Optimization
2:30 Break
2:45	Majdi Baddourah - NERSC, User Services Group T3E Multiprocessor Optimization and Debugging
	Richard Gerber - NERSC, User Services Group I/O on the T3E
3:45	Jonathan Carter - NERSC, User Services Group
	A Case Study in T3E Optimization