NUG 2016

March 21-24, 2016
Wang Hall (LBNL Building 59) and Building 50 Auditorium
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Agenda Overview

Monday, March 21: Training and Hack-a-Thon

Parallel Track 1: Training

Time	Topic	Presenter(s)	Room
	New User Training		59-3101
9:00 am	NERSC Overview	Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC User Engagement Group Lead	59-3101
9:15	Accounts and Allocations	Clayton Bagwell, Jr.	59-3101
9:30	Connecting to NERSC	Rebecca Hartman-Baker	59-3101
10:00	Break
10:30	User Computing Environment	Ankit Bhagatwala	59-3101
10:45	Submitting and Running Jobs	Helen He	59-3101
11:15	Filesystems Best Practices	Steve Leak	59-3101
12:00-1:30	Lunch
	Data and Analytics and Visualization Training
1:30	Data and Analytic Services Overview	Prabhat, NERSC Data and Analytics Services Group Lead	59-3101
1.50	Introduction to ESNet	Kathryn Mace	59-3101
2:00	Moving and Sharing Data	Shreyas Cholia	59-3101
2:20	Databases	Wahid Bhimji	59-3101
2:30	Storing Data in HDF5	Quincey Koziol	59-3101
2:50	Break
3:00	Data Analytics	Rollin Thomas	59-3101
3:20	Visualization	Burlen Loring	59-3101
3:40	Shifter	Lisa Gerhardt	59-3101
3:50	Workflows	Debbie Bard	59-3101
4:10	End

Parallel Track 2: Cray Led Hack-a-Thon

Time	Topic	Presenter(s)	Room
9:00-5:00	Advanced Training on Optimization with Tools	Led by Cray Engineers Heidi Poxon, John Levesque, Luiz DeRose + Jack Deslippe, NERSC Application Performance Group Lead	59-4102
9:00-9:15	Welcome and Goals for the Day	Heidi Poxon	59-4102
9:15-9:45	Update on Cori	Jack Deslippe	59-4102
9:45-10:45	Using CCE and Cray Performance Tools	Heidi, John, Luiz	59-4102
10:45-11:00	Break		59-4102
11:00-12:00	Using Reveal to add OpenMP and find Vectorization Opportunities	Heidi, John, Luiz	59-4102
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-1:15	Where to find documentation	Heidi, John, Luiz	59-4102
1:15-4:30	Hack-a-Thon! Profiling and tuning with Cray Software (hands on for those attending in person)		59-4102
4:30-4:45	Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) Roadmap	Heidi, John, Luiz	59-4102
4:45-5:00	Adjourn

Description of the training

Full day training on optimizing your application for Cori Phase 2 including a significant hands-on time with your own applications.

Attendees will learn about the Cray Performance Tools available for identifying performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities within an HPC program. This session includes training on how to collect application performance information, tips on interpreting data in reports, and where to focus optimization efforts. The training will include how to identify performance bottlenecks such as load imbalance. Attendees will also learn how to use Reveal to identify and parallelize performance critical loops within a program.

Presentations will cover how to use CrayPat-lite, get optimization feedback from the Cray compiler (listings, Reveal), study performance data (imbalance, MPI rank reorder, etc.), look for OpenMP opportunities and use Reveal, look for vectorization opportunities, understand cache/memory access in preparation for KNL with CrayPat

During hands on time, users will use CCE (including generating loop mark, program library)

CrayPat-lite, CrayPat and Reveal.

Tuesday, March 22 : Science and Technology

Time	Topic	Presenter(s)	Room
9:00	Welcome	Kathy Yelick, Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences	Building 50 Auditorium
9:15	NERSC Now and Into the Future	Richard Gerber, NERSC HPC Department Head	Building 50 Auditorium
9:45	The Convergence of Big Data and High Performance Computing	Katie Antypas, NERSC Deputy for Data Science	Building 50 Auditorium
10:15	Break
10:30	On the Road Toward Real-Time Virtual Prototyping of Particle Accelerators	Jean-Luc Vay, Berkeley Lab	Building 50 Auditorium
11:00	Picture Perfect - The Data Explosion in Microscopy	Peter Denes, Berkeley Lab	Building 50 Auditorium
11:30-12:15	Grab a lunch to go and return for next talk.
12:15	Lunch Presentation: Supercomputers and Superintelligence	Horst Simon, Berkeley Lab Deputy Director	Building 50 Auditorium
1:30	NESAP: Preparing codes for Cori – Where we Are and What We've Learned So Far	Jack Deslippe, NERSC	Building 50 Auditorium
2:00	2016 NERSC Science Achievement Awards
2:15	Understanding and Modeling of Climate Feedbacks from Permafrost	Carles Koven, Berkeley Lab	Building 50 Auditorium
2:45	Imaging the Earth's Interior with Seismic Waves, Supercomputers, and PGAS (UPC++)	Scott French, UC Berkeley	Building 50 Auditorium
3:15	Break
3:30	Using NERSC to Understand Turbulence in Fusion Plasmas: Comparison with Experiment and Steps Toward a Predictive Model	Nathan Howard, MIT	Building 50 Auditorium
4:00	Casper: Process-based Asynchronous Progress Model for MPI One-Sided Communication	Min Si, University of Tokyo / Argonne National Laboratory (remote)	Building 50 Auditorium
4:00-5:00	Tour of NERSC machine room and Wang Hall		59-4012
7:00	NUG Executive Committee Dinner	NUGEX, speakers, out of town guests, NERSC staff

Wednesday, March 23: Scientific Application Readiness and Portability

Time	Topic	Speaker(s)	Room
9:00-11:00	Allinea Map tutorial and Hands On	Allinea Reps	59-3101
11:15-12:00	Advanced OpenMP and Applications in CESM	Helen He	59-3101
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-1:45	HBM Tools and Applications in VASP	Zhengji Zhao	59-3101
1:45-2:15	Vectorization	Woo-Sun Yang	59-3101
2:15-2:30	Break
2:30-3:15	Roofline Model and Calculating Arithmetic Intensity	Doug Doerfler	59-3101
3:15-3:45	WARP Case Study	Ankit Bhagatwala	59-3101
3:45-5:00	Allinea Map Hands on and Follow-up	Allinea Reps	59-3101

Thursday, March 24: NERSC Status, Updates, and Future Plans (aka NUG Business Meeting)

Time	Topic	Speaker(s)	Room
9:00	Welcome	Sudip Dosanjh	59-4102
9:05	News from DOE HQ	Dave Goodwin	59-4102
9:10	User Survey Results	Richard Gerber	59-4102
9:40	Operational Review Results	Katie Antypas	59-4102
10:10	NERSC 9	Nick Wright	59-4102
10:40 - 11:00	Break
11:00	Cori Phase 2 plans and status	Katie Antypas	59-4102
11:30	NERSC allocation for 2016 and beyond	Richard Gerber and Clayton Bagwell Jr	59-4102
12:00	Support for data-intensive science	Prabhat	59-4102
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30	Cori and Edison updates (System, User)	Doug Jacobsen, Helen He, Zhengji Zhao	59-4102
2:10	Burst Buffer news	Debbie Bard	59-4102
2:30	Storage systems updates	Damian Hazen	59-4102
2:50	NESAP and application readiness	Jack Deslippe	59-4102
3:20 - 3:30	break		59-4102
3:30	Topics proposed by NUGEX - Batch queues issues and feeback - Use of scavenger QOS
4:30 - 5:00	Optional tour of CRT machine room	Elizabeth Bautista	Departing from 59-4102

Downloads

Day-2-01-NERSC-Overview-NUG-2016.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Science & Technology Day: NERSC Now and Into the Future
Day-2-02-Convergence-of-HPC-Data-NUG-Mar-2016.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
The Convergence of Big Data and High Performance Computing
Day-2-03-Nugex-2016-Vay.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
On the Road Toward Real-Time Virtual Prototyping of Particle Accelerators
Day-1B-00-Cray-PE-workshop-NERSC.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Day-1B-01-Cray-PE-workshop-Reveal-NERSC.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Vectorization.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
04-Denes-20160322-NUG.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
01-Overview-HB.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
02-AccountsAllocations-CLB.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
03-Connecting-HB.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
04-Environment-Bhagatwala.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
05-RunningJobs-He-NUG2016.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
06-Filesystem-best-practices.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
01-Data-and-Analytics-Services-Overview-Prabhat.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
02-ESnet-NUG2016-v2.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
03-MovingAndSharingData-Cholia.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
04-Databases-Wahid.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
05-HDF5-Koziol.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
06-Thomas-DataAnalytics.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
08-Shifter-Gerhardt.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file
09-Workflows-Bard.pdf | Adobe Acrobat PDF file

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