CUG 2005 Proceedings

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Wednesday

Click here for a list of all program abstracts, sorted by Day, Session number, and Time.

11 Technical Sessions
11A Electronic Structure/Molecular Dynamics
(Cancun)
Chair: Mark Fahey (ORNL)
11B UPC-X1, T3E, and ...
(Santa Fe and Las Cruces)
Chair: David Gigrich (BCS)
11C Facilities and Systems Operations
(Taos)
Chair: Mike Pettipher (MCC)
8:30
Towards Petacomputing in Nanotechnology, Yang Wang (PITTSC), Malcolm Stocks (ORNL), Aurelian Rusanu, Florida Atlantic University, D.M.C. Nicholson and Markus Eisenbach (ORNL), and J.S. Faulkner, Florida Atlantic University Slides for this presentation. Evaluation and Performance of a UPC-Based CFD Application on the Cray X1, Andrew Johnson (NCS-MINN) Slides for this presentation. Red Storm Infrastructure at Sandia National Laboratories, Robert A. Ballance, Milton Clauser, Barbara J. Jennings, David J. Martinez, John H. Naegle, John P. Noe, and Leonard Stans (SNLA) Slides for this presentation.
9:15
Quantum-Espresso Performance on Cray Systems, Roberto Ansaloni, Cray, Inc., and Carlo Cavazzoni and Giovanni Erbacci (CINECA) AMOs in UPC, Philip Merkey (MTU) Slides for this presentation. Towards a Specification for the Definition and Measurement of Supercomputer Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS), Jon Stearley (SNLA) Slides for this presentation.
10:00
Tuning Vector and Parallel Performance for Molecular Dynamics Codes on the Cray X1E, Konrad Wawruch, Witold Rudnicki, Wojciech Burakiewicz, Joanna Slowinska, Franciszek Rakowski, Michal Lopuszynski, and Lukasz Bolikowski, Mariusz Kozakiewicz, Maciej Cytowski, and Maria Fronczak (WARSAWU) Slides for this presentation. Evaluation of UPC on the Cray X1, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Francois Cantonnet, and Yiyi Yao, George Washington University, Jeffey Vetter (ORNL) Slides for this presentation. System Integration Experience Across the Cray Product Line, Arthur Bland and Richard Alexander (ORNL), Jeffrey Becklehimer, Cray Inc., Nina Hathaway, Don Maxwell, and Robert Silvia (ORNL) and Cathy Wills, Cray Inc. Slides for this presentation.
12 General Session (Cancun) Chair: Barbara Horner-Miller (ARSC)
11:00
CUG Business: Advisory Council Introduction, Elections Presentations, and Voting, Barbara Horner-Miller (ARSC), CUG President
11:30
Support for High Performance Computing Users: Developing an On-line Knowledge Community, Barbara Jennings (SNLA) Slides for this presentation.
12:20
Election Results, Eric Greenwade (INL), CUG Secretary
13 Technical Sessions
13A XD1—FPGA (Bioinformatics)
(Cancun)
Chair: Kevin Wohlever (OSC)
13B Communication/Bandwidth
(Santa Fe and Las Cruces)
Chair: Mark Fahey (ORNL)
13C Networking
(Taos)
Chair: Keith Underwood (SNLA)
2:00
Accelerated Biological Meta-Data Generation and Indexing on the Cray XD1, Eric Stahlberg, Joseph Fernando, and Kevin Wohlever (OSC) Slides for this presentation. Comparative Analysis of Interprocess Communication on the X1, XD1, and XT3, Patrick Worley, Thomas H. Dunigan, Jr., Mark R. Fahey, Jeffrey S. Vetter, James B. White III, and Patrick H. Worley (ORNL) Slides for this presentation. Developing Custom Firmware for the Red Storm SeaStar Network Interface, Kevin Pedretti and Trammell Hudson (SNLA) Slides for this presentation.
2:30
FPGA Acceleration of Bioinformatics on the XD1: A Case Study, Jim Maltby, Jeff Chow and Steve Margerm, Cray Inc. Slides for this presentation. Balance of HPC Systems Based on HPCC Benchmark Results, Rolf Rabenseifner (HLRS) Slides for this presentation. High-Speed Networking with Cray Supercomputers at ORNL, Steven Carter (ORNL) Slides for this presentation.
3:00
Early Results from a Lattice-Gas Simulation on the Cray XD1 FPGA, Ronald Minnich and Matthew J. Sottile (LANL) Comparisons of the X1 to X1E on Major Scientific Applications, John Levesque, Cray Inc. Slides for this presentation. Portals 3.3 on the Sandia/Cray Red Storm System, Ron Brightwell, Tramm Hudson, Kevin Pedretti, Rolf Riesen, and Keith Underwood (SNLA) Slides for this presentation.
14 Birds of a Feather and XD1-Interactive Sessions
14A BoF
(Cancun)
14B and C
(Santa Fe and Las Cruces)
XD1-Interactive Sessions
Chair: Liam Forbes (ARSC)
4:00-4:10
UPC BoF
Focus Chair: Philip Merkey (MTU)

The objective of this BoF is to expand upon what was presented in the morning UPC track and to share other relevant UPC information within CUG.

Everyone interested in open discussions on the Cray XD1 meet here. Once objectives are established, we will split into two groups (see below). Cray Inc. liaisons will be on hand.
4:10-4:50
14B (Santa Fe and Las Cruces)
14C (Taos)
Users (Applications, Programming Environments, and User Services), Focus Chair: Kevin Wohlever (OSC) Systems (Operating Systems, Operations, and Systems & Integration), Focus Chair: Liam Forbes (ARSC)
15 Birds of a Feather Sessions
15A (Cancun)
15B (Santa Fe and Las Cruces)
15C (Taos)
5:00
Operating Systems BoF, Focus Chairs: Jim Glidewell (BCS) and Liam Forbes (ARSC)
DSPLogic BoF, Michael Babst, DSPLogic
Customer Documentation, Nola Van Vugt, Cray Inc.
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