NERSCPowering Scientific Discovery for 50 Years

Agenda

 

Monday, Oct. 18th -- Beginner's Day

 

Time (PDT)

Topic

Presenter

Training

8:00-8:30am

Arrive at NERSC and Introductions

 

 

8:30-9:30am

Intro to computing at NERSC: Choosing a system, using modules, global home directories, storing data, accounts and allocations 

Richard Gerber

 

9:30-9:45am

Break

 

 

9:45-10:45am

Introduction to Carver: Programming Environment, Running Jobs, File Systems, Performance 

David Turner

 

10:45-11am

Break

 

 

11am-noon

Introduction to MPI 

[see also Supplemental NERSC presentation]

Cray

 

noon-1pm

Lunch + hands on sessions. Ask questions to Cray and NERSC staff.

 

 

1pm-2pm

Introduction to MPI Continued

Cray

 

2-2:30pm

Break

 

 

2:30-3:30pm

Introduction to OpenMP

 

Helen He

 

3:30-5pm

Introduction to HDF5 -- Hands on session 

Katie Antypas

 

Tuesday, Oct. 19th

 

Time (PDT)

Topic

Presenter

Training

8:00-8:30am

Arrive at NERSC

 

 

8:30am-12:45pm

20 minute break from 10:30-10:50am

Hardware concepts and terminology relevant to the programmer (Magny Cours, Gemini interconnect, architecture of XE6), Launch of parallel applications/batch system, User Environment, Compilers of the XE6 (PGI, Pathscale, GNU, Cray) 

Cray

 

12:45-1:45pm

Lunch + hands on sessions. Ask questions to Cray and NERSC staff

 

 

1:45-2:45pm

Differences Between Hopper and Franklin 

Harvey Wasserman

 

2:45-3pm

Break

 

 

3-5pm

MPI Optimizations and Extensions for the XE6 system 

Cray

 

Wednesday, Oct. 20th

 

Time (PDT)

Topic

Presenter

Training

8:00-8:30am

Arrive at NERSC

 

 

8:30am-10am

Single processor optimizations for Magny Cours 

Cray

 

10am-10:15am

Break

 

 

10:15am-noon

Best Practices for Hybrid OpenMP/MPI Programming on Hopper

 

Nick Wright

 

noon-1pm

Lunch + hands on sessions. Ask questions to Cray and NERSC staff

 

 

1-2pm

Hands on Session

 

 

2-3pm

Lustre I/O 

Cray

 

3-3:30pm

Break

 

 

3:30-4:30pm

Performance Tools 

Cray

 

4:30-5:00pm

Parallel Debugger Demo

NERSC

 

Thursday, Oct. 21st -- NUG Business Meeting

 

Time (PDT)

Topic

Presenter

Business Meeting

 

 

 

 

8:30-8:45am

Welcome and Introductions

Stephane Ethier, NUG Chair

 

8:45-9:30am

NERSC Accomplishments and Plans

Kathy Yelick, NERSC

 

9:30-9:50am

DOE Update

Yukiko Sekine, NERSC Program Manager, DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research

 

9:50-10:00am

2011 Allocations

Francesca Verdier, NERSC

 

10:00-10:20am

Earthquake Drill

 

 

10:20-10:40am

BREAK

 

 

10:40-11:00am

Cray Center of Excellence for Multicore Programming Update

Nick Wright, NERSC

 

11:00-11:20am

Magellan Cloud Research Update

Shane Canon, NERSC

 

11:20-11:40am

Dirac GPU Cluster Testbed

John Shalf, NERSC

 

11:40-noon

File System Future Directions

Jason Hick, NERSC

 

noon-1:30pm

Working Lunch

NERSC and NUG attendees

 

1:30-1:50pm

2010 User Survey Results

Francesca Verdier, NERSC

 

1:50-2:10pm

Requirements Gathering Workshops Update

Richard Gerber/Harvey Wasserman NERSC

 

2:10-2:30pm

Web Services

Shreyas Cholia, NERSC

 

2:30-2:50pm

HDF5 Performance Tuning

John Shalf, NERSC

 

2:50-3:10pm

BREAK

 

 

3:10-4:00pm

NERSC Town Meeting: user feedback and discussions

NERSC and NUG attendees

 

4:00-5:00pm

NUGEX as a NERSC advocacy group

Stephane Ethier and NUGEX members

 

5:00pm

ADJOURN

 

 

6:00-8:00pm

Dinner at Vo's Restaurant

 

 

 

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