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CUG 09 Proceedings

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Wednesday

11 General Session
8:30 CUG Business: AC Introductions, Election Presentations, Voting, Chair: David Gigrich, CUG President, The Boeing Company (BOEING)
9:00 Introduction, James B. White III (Trey), Local Arrangements Chair, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Invited Talk,
Thomas C. Schulthess, Director, CSCS-Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), The DCA++ Story: How New Algorithms, New Computers, and Innovative Software Design Allow Us to Solve Challenging Simulation Problems in High Temperature Superconductivity
Slides
9:45 CUG Business: Election Results, James Kasdorf, CUG Secretary, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PITTSCC)
10:00 Break
12 Technical Sessions
  12A 12B 12C
10:30 Heidi Poxon, Cray Inc., Enhanced Productivity Using the Cray Performance Analysis Toolset
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Jay Lofstead, Georgia Institute of Technology, Petascale I/O Using the Adaptable I/O System
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Mahesh Rajan, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA), Red Storm/Cray XT4: A Superior Architecture for Scalability
Slides
11:00
Chris Gottbrath, TotalView Technologies, Debugging Scalable Applications on the XT
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John Walsh, National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), Large Lustre File System Experiences at NICS
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Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA), Catamount N-Way Performance on XT5
Slides
11:30
James Rosinski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), General Purpose Timing Library (GPTL): A Tool for Characterizing Performance of Parallel and Serial Applications
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Kevin Peterson, Cray Inc., Scaling Efforts to Reach a PetaFlop
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Ronald Oldfield and Andrew Wilson, Sandia National Laboratories (SNLA), Access to External Resources Using Service-Node Proxies
Slides
12:00 Lunch
13 Technical Sessions
  13A 13B 13C
1:00 Lonnie Crosby, National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), Performance Characteristics of the Lustre File System on the Cray XT5 with Respect to Application I/O Patterns
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Nathan Wichman, Cray Inc., Early Experience Using the Cray Compiling Environment
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Hwa-Chun (Wendy) Lin, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Understanding Aprun Use Patterns
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1:30 Katie Antypas, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), MPI-I/O on Franklin XT4 System at NERSC
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Brent Leback, The Portland Group, An Accelerator Programming Model for Multicore
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Richard Mills and Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Coping at the User-Level with Resource Limitations in the Cray Message Passing Toolkit MPI at Scale: How Not to Spend Your Summer Vacation
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2:00 Jeff Larkin, Cray Inc., Practical Examples for Efficient I/O on Cray XT Systems
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Geir Johansen, Cray Inc., Cray XT Programming Environment's Implementation of Dynamic Shared Libraries
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Richard Mills, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Experiences and Challenges Scaling PFLOTRAN, a PETSc-based Code for Subsurface Reactive Flow Simulations, Towards the Petascale on Cray XT Systems
Slides
2:30 Break
14 Technical Sessions
  14A 14B 14C
3:00 Thomas Davis, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), System Monitoring Using NAGIOS, Cacti, and Prism
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Lee Higbie, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC), HPC Fortran Compilers
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Manisha Gajbe, Georgia Institute of Technology, Auto-Tuning Distributed-Memory 3-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transforms on the Cray XT4
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3:30 Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Scalable Tool Infrastructure for the Cray XT Using Tree-Based Overlay Networks
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Patrick Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Early Evaluation of the Cray XT5
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Samuel Williams, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Resource-Efficient, Hierarchical Auto-Tuning of a Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann Computation on the Cray XT4
Slides
4:00 Break
15 Interactive Sessions and BoFs  
  15A BoF 15B Interactive Session 15C Interactive Session
4:15
External Services, Jim Harrell, Cray Inc.
Legacy Systems SIG, Chair, James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PITTSCC)
User Support SIG, Chair, James Glidewell, The Boeing Company (BOEING)
5:00 Break
CUG Night Out
5:30

CUG Night Out at Dave & Buster's. First bus at 5:30 and last bus at 6:30.


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