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This Fall, NERSC hosts our data-centric event, Data Day, in combination with the NUG Annual Meeting. The main event will take place on September 19, followed by a half-day hackathon on September 20. The goal: Bring together researchers who use, or are interested in using, NERSC systems for data-intensive work.
On September 19, a full day of talks and tutorials will get you up and running with the latest data-focused tools for scientific computing. Training sessions on machine learning, Python, Machine Learning, the Cori Burst Buffer, and Shifter will be complemented by presentations from scientists already taking advantage of these tools in their own research.
Stick around for the hack day, and you’ll get a chance to put your new knowledge to work with guided tutorials in machine learning and the Burst Buffer and experts on hand to answer all your data-related questions. The entire event will be held on-site at the lab, in the Building 50 Auditorium, and in Wang Hall, NERSC’s new landmark building at Berkeley Lab. Come and learn how to power up your data.
Presentation Schedule & Materials
All times are Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7)
| Title | Speaker | Start time |
| Introduction to Data Day (video) | Kathy Yelick (UCB, Berkeley Lab) | 8:30 a.m. |
| Accelerating Science with Generative Adversarial Networks (slides, video) | Michela Paganini (Yale) | 8:45 a.m. |
| Machine Learning Demo (ipython notebook, video) | Mustafa Mustafa (NERSC) | 9.15am |
| Burst Buffer Demo (slides, ipython notebook, video [note first minute of video is missing]) | Debbie Bard (NERSC) | 9.45am |
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Break |
10.15am | |
| Benchmarking an Assembly Algorithm on NERSC Systems (slides, video) | Alicia Clum (JGI) | 10.45am |
| Shifter Tutorial (slides, video) | Shane Canon (NERSC) | 11.15am |
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Using Shifter to Explore the Parameter Space Created by Biophysically Detailed Neuronal Models (slides, video) |
Roy Ben-Shalom (UCSF) | 11.45am |
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Lunch |
12.15pm | |
| ESNET (slides, video) | Eli Dart (ESNET) | 1.30pm |
| Data Management/Movement (slides, video) | Jialin Liu, Lisa Gerhardt (NERSC) | 2pm |
| Data Management and Analysis at Free Electron Lasers. Perspectives from the ExaFEL LCLS/NERSC Collaboration (slides, video) | David Skinner (NERSC) | 2.30pm |
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Break |
3pm | |
| Python DEMO (slides, video) | Rollin Thomas (NERSC) | 3.30pm |
| Performance Optimization of a Tomographic Reconstruction Code (TomoPy) (slides, video) | Zahra Ronaghi (NERSC) | 4pm |
| Closeout | Prabhat (NERSC) | 4.30pm |
| Title | Time |
| Data Hackathon/Data Competition | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. (noon) |
Join us for a half-day of hacking on any data-related topic you like! NERSC experts will be on hand to help you with all your data problems.
Join in the Data Competition, run through a Burst Buffer tutorial, try out Spark or machine learning on Cori, or try out one of the tools you heard about on Data Day.
