CUG2013 ProceedingsCreated 2013-8-6


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Sunday, May 5th
Monday, May 6th
8:30am-12pm
Tutorial 1A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Programming Accelerators using OpenACC in the Cray Compilation Environment
Tutorial

Tutorial 1B
Merlot / Syrah
System Administration for Cray XE and XK Systems
Tutorial

Tutorial 1C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Lustre Troubleshooting and Tuning
Tutorial

1pm-4:30pm
Tutorial 2A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Refactoring Applications for the XK7
Tutorial

Tutorial 2B
Merlot / Syrah
Configuration and Administration of Cray External Services Systems
Tutorial

Tutorial 2C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Debugging Heterogeneous HPC Applications with TotalView
Tutorial

4:45pm-5:45pm
Interactive 3A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Colin McMurtrie
System Support SIG
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 3B
Merlot / Syrah
Helen He
Programming Environments, Applications and Documentation SIG
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 3C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Birds of a Feather

Tuesday, May 7th
8:30am-10am
General Session 4
Zinfandel / Cabernet / Merlot / Syrah (Grand Ballroom)
Nick Cardo
CUG Welcome
Why we need Exascale, and why we won't get there by 2020
Invited Talk

10:30am-12pm
General Session 5
Zinfandel / Cabernet / Merlot / Syrah (Grand Ballroom)
David Hancock
Cray Corporate Update
Cray in Supercomputing
Invited Talk

1pm-2:30pm
Technical Session 6A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Tina Butler
Cray System Software Road Map
Image Management and Provisioning System Overview
Paper

Technical Session 6B
Merlot / Syrah
Jason Hill
Instrumenting IOR to Diagnose Performance Issues on Lustre File Systems
Taking Advantage of Multicore for the Lustre Gemini LND Driver
A file system utilization metric for I/O characterization
Paper

Technical Session 6C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Craig Stewart
The Cray Programming Environment: Current Status and Future Directions
Enhancements to the Cray Performance Measurements and Analysis Tools
Cray Compiling Environment Update
Paper

3pm-5pm
Technical Session 7A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Jeff Broughton
New Member Talk: iVEC and the Pawsey Centre
The Evolution of Cray Management Services
CRAY XC30 Installation – A System Level Overview
Cray External Services Systems Overview
Paper

Technical Session 7B
Merlot / Syrah
Andrew Uselton
Architecting Resilient Lustre Storage Solution
BlueWaters I/O Performance
Sonexion 1600 I/O Performance
OLCF's 1 TB/s, next-generation Spider file system
Paper

Technical Session 7C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Sadaf R. Alam
Optimizing GPU to GPU Communication on Cray XK7
Debugging and Optimizing Programs Accelerated with Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Coprocessors
Portable and Productive Performance on Hybrid System with OpenACC Compilers and Tools
Tesla vs Xeon Phi vs Radeon: A Compiler Writer's Perspective
Paper

5:15pm-6pm
Interactive 8A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Nick Cardo
Open discussion with CUG Board
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 8B
Merlot / Syrah
Duncan J. Poole
OpenACC BOF
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 8C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
John Hesterberg
System Management Futures
Birds of a Feather

Wednesday, May 8th
8:30am-10am
General Session 9
Zinfandel / Cabernet / Merlot / Syrah (Grand Ballroom)
Nick Cardo
CUG Business
Big Bang, Big Data, Big Iron – Analyzing Data From The Planck Satellite Mission
CUG Business
Invited Talk

10:30am-12pm
General Session 10
Zinfandel / Cabernet / Merlot / Syrah (Grand Ballroom)
David Hancock
Introduction and CUG 2013 Best Paper Award
The Changing Face of High Performance Computing
Invited Talk

12pm-1pm
Interactive 11A/B
Zinfandel / Cabernet / Merlot / Syrah (Grand Ballroom)
David Henty
HPC training and education
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 11C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Jeff Keopp
Cray External Services Systems
Birds of a Feather

1pm-1:45pm
General Session 12
Zinfandel / Cabernet / Merlot / Syrah (Grand Ballroom)
David Hancock
1 on 100 or more
Invited Talk

2pm-3:30pm
Technical Session 13A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Douglas W. Doerfler
SeaStar Unchained: Multiplying the Performance of the Cray SeaStar Network
Intel Multicore, Manycore, and Fabric Integrated Parallel Computing
Understanding the Impact of Interconnect Failures on System Operation
Paper

Technical Session 13B
Merlot / Syrah
Jason Hill
The Changing Face of Storage for Exascale
Cray's Implementation of LNET Fine Grained Routing: Overview and Characteristics
Discovery in Big Data using a Graph Analytics Appliance
Paper

Technical Session 13C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Helen He
Using the Cray Gemini Performance Counters
Performance Measurements of the NERSC Cray Cascade System
From thousands to millions: visual and system scalability for debugging and profiling
Paper

3:45pm-5:15pm
Technical Session 14A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Ashley Barker
Investigating Topology Aware Scheduling
External Torque / Moab and Fairshare on the Cray XC30
Production Experiences with the Cray-Enabled TORQUE Resource Manager
Paper

Technical Session 14B
Merlot / Syrah
Steve Simms
Evaluation of A Flash Storage Filesystem on the Cray XE-6
Analysis of the Blue Waters File System Architecture for Application I/O Performance
Trillion Particles, 120,000 cores, and 350 TBs: Lessons Learned from a Hero I/O Run on Hopper
Paper

Technical Session 14C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Helen He
Performance Comparison of Scientific Applications on Cray Architectures
First 12-cabinets Cray XC30 System at CSCS: Scaling and Performance Efficiencies of Applications
Effects of Hyper-Threading on the NERSC workload on Edison
Paper

Thursday, May 9th
8:30am-10am
Technical Session 15A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Craig Stewart
Preparing Slurm for use on the Cray XC30
Lesson’s From 20 Continuous Years of Cray/HPC Systems
Cray Workload Management with PBS Professional 12.0
Paper

Technical Session 15B
Merlot / Syrah
Robert Henschel
Introduction to HSA Hardware, Software and HSAIL with A HPC Usage Example
Reliable Computation Using Unpredictable Components
Requirements Analysis for Adaptive Supercomputing using the Cray XK7 as a Case Study
Paper

Technical Session 15C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Douglas W. Doerfler
Improving the Performance of the PSDNS Pseudo-Spectral Turbulence Application on Blue Waters using Coarray Fortran and Task Placement
A Review of The Challenges and Results of Refactoring the Community Climate Code COSMO for Hybrid Cray HPC Systems.
CloverLeaf: Preparing Hydrodynamics Codes for Exascale
Paper

10:30am-12pm
Technical Session 16A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
John Noe
Methods and Results for Measuring Kepler Utilization on a Cray XK7
Resource Utilization Reporting on Cray Systems
The Complexity of Arriving at Useful Reports to Aid in the Succesful Operation of an HPC Center
Paper

Technical Session 16B
Merlot / Syrah
Liz Sim
Building Balanced Systems for the Cray Datacenter of the Future
Surviving the Life Sciences Data Deluge using Cray Supercomputers
Early Experience on Crays with Genomic Applications Used as Part of Next Generation Sequencing Workflow
Paper

Technical Session 16C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Nicholas J. Wright
Measuring Sustained Performance on Blue Waters with the SPP Metric
Experiences Porting a Molecular Dynamics Code to GPUs on a Cray XK7
Chasing Exascale: the Future of GPU Computing
Paper

12pm-1pm
Interactive 17A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
John Hesterberg
System Monitoring, Accounting and Metrics
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 17B
Merlot / Syrah
Jenett Tillotson
Experiences with Moab and TORQUE
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 17C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Birds of a Feather

1pm-2:30pm
Technical Session 18A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Ashley Barker
Blue Waters Acceptance: Challenges and Accomplishments
Saving Energy with “Free” Cooling and the Cray XC30
Real-time mission critical supercomputing with Cray systems
Paper

Technical Session 18B
Merlot / Syrah
Jenett Tillotson
High Fidelity Data Collection and Transport Service Applied to the Cray XE6/XK6
Production I/O Characterization on the Cray XE6
Improvement of TOMCAT-GLOMAP File Access with User Defined MPI Datatypes
Paper

Technical Session 18C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
Liam O. Forbes
Cray’s Cluster Supercomputer Architecture
Performance Metrics and Application Experiences on a Cray CS300-AC™ Cluster Supercomputer Equipped with Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors
Paper

3pm-4:30pm
Technical Session 19A
Zinfandel / Cabernet
Tina Butler
Effect of Rank Placement on Cray XC30 Communication Cost
Evaluating Node Orderings For Improved Compactness
Improving Task Placement for Applications with 2D, 3D, and 4D Virtual Cartesian Topologies on 3D Torus Networks with Service Nodes
Paper

Technical Session 19B
Merlot / Syrah
Zhengji Zhao
The State of the Chapel Union
Recent enhancements to the Automatic Library Tracking Database infrastructure at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Comparing Compiler and Library Performance in Material Science Applications on Edison
Paper

Technical Session 19C
Atlas Peak / Castle Peak / Diamond Mountain (Vintners Ballroom)
John Noe
A Single Pane of Glass: Bright Cluster Manager for Cray
Supporting Multiple Workloads, Batch Systems, and Computing Environments on a Single Linux Cluster
Tools to Execute An Ensemble of Serial Jobs on a Cray
Paper

4:45pm-5:15pm
Closing General Session 20
Zinfandel / Cabernet / Merlot / Syrah (Grand Ballroom)
Nick Cardo
CUG Closing Session
Invited Talk