Wednesday |
| 11 General Session |
| 8:30 |
CUG Business, AC Introductions, Election Presentations, Voting, Chair: David Gigrich, CUG President, The Boeing Company (BOEING) |
| 9:00 |
1 on 100 (or more), Peter Ungaro, CEO & President, Cray Inc. (No other Cray attendees please.) |
| 9:55 |
Election Results |
| 10:00 |
Break |
| 12 Technical Sessions |
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12A I/O for XT Systems |
12B XT3 Performance |
12C Product Updates |
| 10:30 |
I/O for 25,000 Clients-Lustre & Red Storm, Peter Braam, Cluster File Systems, Inc. Slides for this Presentation |
Comparison of XT3 and XT4 Scalability, Patrick Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Slides for this presentation |
Cray BlackWidow System Update, Bob Murphy and Jeff Becklehimer, Cray Inc. Slides for this presentation |
| 11:15 |
Efficiency Evaluation of Cray XT Parallel IO Stack, Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey Vetter, H. Sarp Oral, and Richard Barrett, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Slides for this presentation |
New Advances in the Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code and Their Impact on Performance on the Cray XT Series, Nathan Wichmann, Cray Inc.; and Mark Adams and Stephane Ethier, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Slides for this presentation |
Design Support for Reconfigurable Accelerators on Future Cray Systems, Clay Marr, DRC Computer Slides for this presentation |
| 12:00 |
Minimizing the I/O Cycle Time in Simulation Clusters Through the Use of High Performance Storage, Dave Fellinger, DataDirect Networks Slides for this presentation |
Compute Node Linux: New Frontiers in Compute Node Operating System, Dave Wallace, Cray Inc. Slides for this presentation |
High-performance Hybrid NAS/SAN Architecture from Bluearc: Tiered Storage Solutions for a Wide Range of I/O Requirements, James Reaney, BlueArc Corporation Slides for this presentation |
| 12:30–2:00 |
Lunch |
| 13 Technical Sessions |
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13A I/O & Mass Storage: Improving on Performance |
13B System Support: Testing, Tracing, & Tuning |
13C Programming Environments: Profiling & Performance |
| 2:00 |
Using IOR to Analyze the I/O Performance of XT3, Hongzhang Shan and John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Slides for this presentation |
Diagnostic Capabilities of the Red Storm Compliance Test Suite, Mike Davis and Chris Weber, Cray Inc. Slides for this presentation |
It's About Time: Multi-Resolution Timers for Scalable Performance Debugging, James B. White III, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Slides for this presentation |
| 2:30 |
Guidelines for Efficient Parallel I/O on the Cray XT3/XT4, Jeff Larkin, Cray Inc.; Mark Fahey, Chen Jin, and Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Slides for this presentation |
Scalable Collection of Large MPI Traces on Red Storm, Rolf Riesen, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA) Slides for this Presentation |
The Effects of System Options on Code Performance, Courtenay Vaughan, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA) Slides for this Presentation |
| 3:00 |
Cray XT3 I/O Performance on Real Applications, Neil Stringfellow, CSCS-Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) |
An Overview of NCCS XT3/4 Acceptance Testing, Arnold Tharrington, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Slides for this Presentation |
Performance Impact of Accelerated Portals, Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA) Slides for this Presentation |
| 3:30 |
Break |
| 14 Interactive Sessions and BoF |
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| 4:00 |
X1-Interactive Sessions, Chair: Mark Fahey |
BoF |
| 4:30 |
Systems, Chairs: Liam Forbes and Jim Glidewell |
Users, Chairs: Mark Fahey and Rolf Rabenseifner |
Open for BoF |
| 15 BoFs |
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15A |
15B |
15C |
| 5:00 |
Open for BoF |
Open for BoF |
Open for BoF |
| 5:15 |
CUG Night Out-Busses begin leaving periodically from the Red Lion starting at 5:15 with the last bus at 6:30. It is also just a 15-20 minute walk to Pier 56 from the Red Lion. |
| 7:00 |
Bay Cruise and Dinner, Argosy Tours, The Argosy cruise ship leaves the dock promptly at 7:00. If you are not on board by 7:00 you will be left behind. |
