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CUG 09 Proceedings

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Monday

1 Tutorials
  1A 1B
8:00 Luiz DeRose and John Levesque, Cray Inc., A Methodical Approach for Scaling Applications to 100,000 Cores
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Steve Deitz, Cray Inc., Introduction to Chapel–A Next-Generation HPC Language
Slides
10:30 Break
2 Opening General Session
11:00 Welcome, David Gigrich, CUG President, The Boeing Company (BOEING)
Introduction, James B. White III (Trey), Local Arrangements Chair, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Invited Talk: Challenges in Climate Change Research: Computation as an Enabling Technology, James J. Hack, Director, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
12:00 Lunch
3 Technical Sessions
  3A
3B
3C
1:00 Shane Canon, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), GPFS on a Cray XT
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Troy Baer, National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), Comparison of Scheduling Policies and Workloads on the NCCS and NICS XT4 Systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc., The Cray Programming Environment: Current Status and Future Directions
1:30 Jason Temple, CSCS–Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), DVS as a Centralized File System in CLE
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Scott Jackson, Cluster Resources, Unifying Heterogeneous Cray Resources and Systems into an Intelligent Single-Scheduled Environment
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Mark Pagel, Cray Inc., Scaling the MPT Software on the CRAY XT5 System and Other New Features
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2:00 Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), The Spider Center Wide File System: From Concept to Reality
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Bill Nitzberg, Altair Engineering, Inc., Select, Place, and Vnodes: Exploiting the PBS Professional Architecture on Cray Systems
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Dan Bonachea, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Porting GASNet to Portals: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Language Support for the Cray XT
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2:30 Break
4 Technical Sessions
  4A
4B
4C
3:00 Michele Weiland, HPCX Consortium (HPCX), Performance Evaluation of Chapel's Task Parallel Features
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James Craw, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Janet Lebens, Cray Inc., Post-Mortem of the NERSC Franklin XT Upgrade to CLE 2.1
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YikLoon Lee, ERDC MSRC (ERDCMSRC), Some Issues in the Development of Overset Grid CFD using One- and Two-Sided Communication
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3:30 Steve Deitz, Cray Inc., HPCC STREAM and RA in Chapel: Performance and Potential
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Jason Schildt, Cray Inc., System Administration Data Under CLE 2.2 and SMW 4.0
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Oreste Villa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Effects of Floating-point Non-associativity on Numerical Computations on Massively Multithreaded Systems
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4:00 Alan Gray, HPCX Consortium (HPCX), An Evaluation of UPC in the Ludwig Application
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Ricky Kendall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Slow Nodes Cost Your Users Valuable Resources. Can You Find Them?
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Richard Loft, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Optimizing High-Resolution Climate Variability Experiments on the Cray XT4 and XT5 Systems at NICS and NCCS
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4:30 Scott Thornton, University of Tennessee, Introducing the MADNESS Numerical Framework for Petascale Computing
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Charlie Carroll, Cray Inc., Cray Operating System Road Map
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Mike Ashworth, HPCX Consortium (HPCX), Future Proof Parallelism for Electron-Atom Scattering Codes on the XT4
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5:00 Break
5 Interactive Sessions
  5A 5B 5C
5:15-6:00
Open Discussion with CUG Board, Chair, Nicholas P. Cardo, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Applications and Programming Environments SIG, Chair, Robert Ballance, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA)
System Support SIG, Chair, Joni Virtanen,
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