CUG2015 ProceedingsCreated 2015-5-13


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Saturday, April 25th
Sunday, April 26th
Monday, April 27th
8:30am-10:00am
Tutorial 1A
Magnolia Ballroom
Next Generation Cray Management System for XC Systems
Tutorial
Systems

Tutorial 1B
Willow
Cray XC Power Monitoring and Control
Tutorial
Systems

Tutorial 1C
Sycamore
Preparing for a smooth landing: Intel’s Knights Landing and Modern Applications
Tutorial
PE & Applications, Systems

10:30am-12:00pm
Tutorial 1A continued
Magnolia Ballroom
Next Generation Cray Management System for XC Systems
Tutorial
Systems

Tutorial 1B continued
Willow
Cray XC Power Monitoring and Control
Tutorial
Filesystems & I/O

Tutorial 1C continued
Sycamore
Preparing for a smooth landing: Intel’s Knights Landing and Modern Applications
Tutorial
PE & Applications

1:00pm-2:30pm
Tutorial 2A
Magnolia Ballroom
Next Generation Cray Management System for XC Systems
Tutorial
Systems

Tutorial 2B
Willow
Job-Level Tracking with XALT: A Tutorial for System Administrators and Data Analysts
Tutorial
PE & Applications, Systems

Tutorial 2C
Sycamore
Debugging, Profiling and Tuning Applications on Cray CS and XC Systems
Tutorial
PE & Applications, Systems

3:00pm-4:30pm
Tutorial 2A continued
Magnolia Ballroom
Next Generation Cray Management System for XC Systems
Tutorial
Systems

Tutorial 2B continued
Willow
Job-Level Tracking with XALT: A Tutorial for System Administrators and Data Analysts
Tutorial
PE & Applications, Systems

Tutorial 2C continued
Sycamore
Debugging, Profiling and Tuning Applications on Cray CS and XC Systems
Tutorial
PE & Applications

4:45pm-6:00pm
Interactive 3A
Magnolia Ballroom
Jason Hill
Systems Support SIG Meeting
Birds of a Feather
Systems

Interactive 3B
Willow
Timothy W. Robinson
Programming Environments, Applications and Documentation SIG Meeting
Birds of a Feather
PE & Applications

Interactive 3C
Sycamore
Birds of a Feather

Tuesday, April 28th
7:30am-8:15am
Interactive 4A
Magnolia Ballroom
Ashley Barker
System Testing and Resiliency in HPC
Birds of a Feather
PE & Applications, Systems

Interactive 4B
Willow
Birds of a Feather

Interactive 4C
Sycamore
Birds of a Feather

8:30am-10:00am
General Session 5
Magnolia Ballroom
David Hancock
CUG Welcome
Supercomputing in an Era of Big Data and Big Collaboration
Invited Talk
Plenary

10:30am-12:00pm
General Session 6
Magnolia Ballroom
Nicholas Cardo
Cray Corporate Update
Invited Talk
Plenary

1:00pm-2:30pm
Technical Session 7A
Magnolia Ballroom
Matthew A. Ezell
Innovations for The Cray
Slurm Road Map 15.08
Driving More Efficient Workload Management on Cray Systems with PBS Professional
Paper
Systems

Technical Session 7B
Willow
Sharif Islam
How Distributed Namespace Boosts Lustre Metadata Performance
Toward Understanding Life-Long Performance of a Sonexion File System
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Session 7C
Sycamore
Frank M. Indiviglio
Porting the Urika-GD Graph Analytic Database to the XC30/40 Platform
Implementing a social-network analytics pipeline using Spark on Urika XA
A Graph Mining "App-Store" for Urika-GD
Paper
PE & Applications

3:00pm-5:00pm
Technical Session 8A
Magnolia Ballroom
Tina Butler
Realtime process monitoring on the Cray XC30
Cray DataWarp: Administration & SLURM integration
Bright Cluster Manager - Managing your cluster for HPC, Hadoop and OpenStack
Cray System Snapshot Analyzer (SSA)
Paper
Systems

Technical Session 8B
Willow
Jason Hill
A Storm (Lake) is Coming to Fast Fabrics: The Next-Generation Intel® Omni-Path Architecture
The Accelerated Road to Exascale
Data Transfer Study for HPSS Archiving
Applying Advanced IO Architectures to Improve Efficiency in Single and Multi-Cluster Environments
Paper
Filesystems & I/O, Systems

Technical Session 8C
Sycamore
Gregory Bauer
Sorting at Scale on BlueWaters in a Cosmological Simulation
Parallel Software usage on UK National HPC Facilities 2009-2015: How well have applications kept up with increasingly parallel hardware?
Use of Continuous Integration Tools for Application Performance Monitoring
Paper
PE & Applications

5:15pm-6:15pm
Interactive 9A
Magnolia Ballroom
Michael Showerman
Systems monitoring of Cray systems
Birds of a Feather
Systems

Interactive 9B
Willow
Suzanne T. Parete-Koon
Getting the Most Out of HPC User Groups
Birds of a Feather
PE & Applications, Systems

Interactive 9C
Sycamore
Duncan J. Poole
Experiences with OpenACC
Birds of a Feather
PE & Applications

Wednesday, April 29th
8:30am-10:00am
Technical Sessions 10A
Magnolia Ballroom
Don Maxwell
Experience with GPUs on the Titan Supercomputer from a Reliability, Performance and Power Perspective
Detecting and Managing GPU Failures
Enabling Advanced Operational Analysis Through Multi-Subsystem Data Integration on Trinity
Paper
Systems

Technical Sessions 10B
Willow
Sharif Islam
Tuning Parallel I/O on Blue Waters for Writing 10 Trillion Particles
Evaluation of Parallel I/O Performance and Energy Consumption with Frequency Scaling on Cray XC30
A More Realistic Way of Stressing the End-to-end I/O System
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Sessions 10C
Sycamore
Zhengji Zhao
The Cray Programming Environment: Current Status and Future Directions
Using Reveal to Automate Parallelization for Many-Core Systems
An Investigation of Compiler Vectorization on Current and Next-generation Intel processors using Benchmarks and Sandia’s Sierra Application
Paper
PE & Applications

10:30am-12:00pm
General Session 11
Magnolia Ballroom
Nicholas Cardo
CUG 2015 Best Paper
Changing Needs/Solutions/Roles
Invited Talk
Plenary

1:00pm-1:45pm
General Session 12
Magnolia Ballroom
David Hancock
1 on 100 or More
Invited Talk
Plenary

2:00pm-3:30pm
General Session 13
Magnolia Ballroom
David Hancock
CUG Business Meeting
Scalability Limits for Scientific Simulation
CUG Business Meeting
Invited Talk
Plenary

3:45pm-5:15pm
Technical Session 14A
Magnolia Ballroom
Matthew A. Ezell
Cray XC System Node Level Diagnosability
Cray XC System Level Diagnosability Roadmap Update
Lustre Resiliency: Understanding Lustre Message Loss and Tuning for Resiliency
Paper
Systems

Technical Session 14B
Willow
Tina Butler
The time is now. Unleash your CPU cores with Intel® SSDs
DataWarp: First Experiences
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Session 14C
Sycamore
Timothy W. Robinson
Using Maali to Efficiently Recompile Software Post-CLE Updates on the Cray XC Systems
PGI C++ with OpenACC
Contain This, Unleashing Docker for HPC
Paper
PE & Applications

5:30pm-6:15pm
Interactive Session 15A
Magnolia Ballroom
Customer Support Modernisation
Birds of a Feather

Interactive Session 15B
Willow
SIG Structure Discussion
Birds of a Feather
CUG Board, Filesystems & I/O, PE & Applications, Systems, XTreme

Interactive Session 15C
Sycamore
Birds of a Feather

Thursday, April 30th
8:30am-10:00am
General Session 16
Magnolia Ballroom
Nicholas Cardo
New Member Lightning Talk, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital
New Member Lightning Talk, Argonne National Laboratory
New Member Lightning Talk, European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
Panel Discussion - Does Big Data Imply Big Compute?
Invited Talk
Plenary

10:30am-12:00pm
Technical Session 17A
Magnolia Ballroom
Jim Rogers
Overview of the KAUST’s Cray X40 System – Shaheen II
Resource Utilization Reporting Two Year Update
Cray Advanced Platform Monitoring and Control (CAPMC)
Paper
Systems

Technical Session 17B
Willow
Zhengji Zhao
Optimizing Cray MPI and Cray SHMEM for Current and Next Generation Cray-XC Supercomputers
Illuminating and Electrifying OpenMP + MPI Performance
Performance and Extension of a Particle Transport Code using Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Programming Models
Paper
PE & Applications

Technical Session 17C
Sycamore
Suzanne T. Parete-Koon
Application Performance on a Cray XC30 Evaluation System with Xeon Phi Coprocessors at HLRN-III
Climate Science Performance, Data and Productivity on Titan
Memory Scalability and Efficiency Analysis of Parallel Codes
Paper
PE & Applications

12:00pm-1:00pm
CUG Board Lunch (closed)
Elm
David Hancock
description
CUG Board

1:00pm-2:30pm
Technical Session 18A
Magnolia Ballroom
Chris Fuson
Custom Product Integration and the Cray Programming Environment
Cray Storm Programming
HPC Workforce Preparation
Paper
PE & Applications, Systems

Technical Session 18B
Willow
Brett Bode
Utilizing Unused Resources To Improve Checkpoint Performance
Sonexion - SW versions/roadmap
Lustre Metadata DNE Performance on Seagate Lustre System
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Session 18C
Sycamore
Abhinav S. Thota
Large-Scale Modeling of Epileptic Seizures: Scaling Properties of Two Parallel Neuronal Network Simulation Algorithms
The Impact of High-Performance Computing Best Practice Applied to Next-Generation Sequencing Workflows
parallelization of whole genome analysis on a Cray XE6
Paper
PE & Applications

3:00pm-4:30pm
Technical Session 19A
Magnolia Ballroom
Jim Rogers
Monitoring and Analyzing Job Performance Using Resource Utilization Reporting (RUR) on A Cray XE6 System
Molecular Modelling and the Cray XC30 Power Management Counters
Implementing "Pliris-C/R" Resiliency Features Into the EIGER Application
Paper
Systems

Technical Session 19B
Willow
Veronica G. Vergara Larrea
Experiences Running and Optimizing the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack on Cray Platforms
Cyber-threat analytics using graph techniques
Staying Out of the Wind Tunnel with Virtual Aerodynamics
Paper
Filesystems & I/O

Technical Session 19C
Sycamore
Gregory Bauer
Reducing Cluster Compatibility Mode (CCM) Complexity
Preparation of codes for Trinity
Analyzing the Interplay of Failures and Workload on a Leadership-Class Supercomputer
Paper
PE & Applications

4:45pm-5:15pm
General Session 20
Magnolia Ballroom
David Hancock
Invited Talk
Plenary

Friday, May 1st