Program/Schedule
The Get Ready for Gordon – Summer Institute will be held Monday–Thursday, August 8–11, 2011, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus. Light refreshments and lunch will be provided throughout.
In addition to the general program, attendees are invited to participate in wrap-up presentations to present what they’ve learned and how they plan to leverage Gordon in their research.
Required Materials
Participants of the Summer Institute are expected to bring a laptop computer with a wireless card to allow you to follow along with demos and hands-on instruction throughout the Institute.
Below is the agenda for the Gordon Summer Institute. You can also download the agenda as a pdf.
Presentation Slides
Please click here to view the Gordon Summer Institute presentation slides.
Agenda Quick Links
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Agenda Details
| Day 1: Monday, August 8 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00a | Registration, Coffee |
| 9:00 - 9:30a |
Welcome: Era of Data Intensive
Computing Begins
Mike Norman, Director SDSC,
UCSD Professor
(Joint GSI/CSIG session)
|
| 9:30 - 10:15a |
Introduction to Data and
Memory Intensive Computing
Bob Sinkovits, Gordon
Applications Lead, SDSC
(Joint GSI/CSIG session)
|
| 10:15 - 10:30a |
Break |
| 10:30 - 11:15a |
Introductions, logistics, lightning
round homework
Mike Norman, Director SDSC,
UCSD Professor
|
| 11:15 - 12:00p |
Road to Exa-scale computing,
tools and trends
Allan Snavely, Associate
Director, Emerging
Technologies, SDSC
|
| 12:00 - 1:30p |
Lunch at Café Ventanas
|
| 1:30 - 2:30p |
Value Ladder for Seismic Hazard
Information
Philip Maechling, Information
Technology Architect, SCEC
www.scec.org
Center (Joint GSI/CSIG session)
|
| 2:30 - 2:45p |
Break
|
| 2:45 - 3:30p |
Overview of the Gordon
Architecture
Shawn Strande, Gordon Project
Manager SDSC (Joint GSI/CSIG
session)
|
| 3:30 - 3:45p |
UCSD/SDSC Sustainability .
Leveraging Real-time Data
Infrastructure
www.osisoft.com
David Zeglinski, OSIsoft
(Joint GSI/CSIG session)
|
| 4:00 - 6:00p |
Poster Session/Reception
(location)
(Joint GSI/CSIG session)
|
| Day 2: Tuesday, August 9 |
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| 8:00 - 8:30a | Coffee |
| 8:30 - 9:15ap |
Traversing Massive Graphs with NAND
Flash
Roger Pearce, LLNL/Texas A&M
www.llnl.gov
|
| 9:15 - 10:00a |
SSD.s and I/O. What are they good for,
how to make use of them in your
application
Mahidhar Tatineni, Manager User
Services, SDSC
|
| 10:00 - 10:15a |
Break
|
| 10:15 - 11:00a |
Evaluating the Benefits of An Extended
Memory Hierarchy for Parallel
Streamline Algorithms
David Camp, LBL
|
| 11:00 - 12:00p |
Hands-on using Dash and Gordon I/O
nodes to enhance I/O performance.
Mahidhar Tatineni, Manager User
Services, SDC
|
| 12:00 - 1:30p |
Lunch at Café Ventanas
|
| 1:30 - 2:30p |
Presentation/interactive session: Profiling I/O
Pietro Cicotti, Applications Specialist
SDSC
|
| 2:30 - 2:45p |
Break
|
| 2:45 - 4:30p |
| Lab time[Auditorium] | Breakout session[location . 408 Central
Bldg]: Providing
advanced user support,
developing
documentation for data
intensive computing
Facilitator: Bob Sinkovits,
SDSC |
|
| 4:30 - 5:00p |
SDSC Data Center Tour
|
| Day 3: Wednesday, August 10 |
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| 8:00 - 8:30a | Coffee |
| 8:30 - 9:15a |
Experiences in Simulated Asteroid
Search and Discovery With Dash
Jonathan Myers, Software Developer,
LSST and U of Arizona
www.lsst.org
|
| 9:15 - 10:00a |
De Novo Genome Assembly Using
vSMP
Wayne Pfeiffer, Distinguished
Scientist, SDSC
|
| 10:00 - 10:15a |
Break |
| 10:15 - 11:00a |
Data Mining on Gordon
Nicole Wolter ,User Services, SDSC
Paul Rodriguez, User Services, SDSC
|
| 11:00a - 12:00p |
Hands-on using Dash and Gordon I/O
nodes for large memory jobs.
Mahidhar Tatineni, Manager User
Services, SDSC
|
| 12:00 - 1:30p |
Lunch at Café Ventanas
|
| 1:30 - 2:30p |
Presentation/interactive session:
Developer Productivity and Profiling
Tools
Nir Paikowsky, VP Services, ScaleMP
www.scalemp.com
|
| 2:30 - 2:45p |
Break
|
| 2:45 - 4:30p |
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Lab time[Auditoriu
m]
|
Breakout session[location . 408 Central
Bldg]:
Developing guidelines
for allocation
reviewers and others
in the process
Facilitator: Shawn
Strande, SDSC
|
|
| 5:30 - 8p |
Reception at Wayne Pfeiffer.s House
Shuttle provided from SDSC driveway
|
| Day 4: Thursday, August 11 |
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| 8:00 - 8:30a | Coffee |
| 8:30 - 9:15a |
Modeling Global Societal Evolution
over a Half-Century: Petascale
Humanities Computing
Kalev Leetaru, I-CHASS/NCSA
www.ncsa.illinois.edu
|
| 9:15 - 9:45a |
XSEDE, AUSS and Science Gateway s
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Co-Director
XSEDE AUSS program, SDSC
|
| 9:45 - 10:15a |
Writing a successful Gordon
allocation request
Wayne Pfeiffer, Distinguished
Scientist, SDSC
|
| 10:15 - 10:30a |
Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30a |
Participant lightning round
presentations. 1-2 slides each on
lessons learned and plans for the
future.
Facilitator: Mike Norman, Director
SDSC, UCSD Professor
|
| 11:30 - 12:00p |
Overview to the NSF Computing
Infrastructure
Richard Moore, Deputy Director,
SDSC
|
| 12:00 - 12:15p |
Wrap-up and Thank you
Mike Norman, Director SDSC, UCSD
Professor
|
| 12:15p |
Adjourn (box lunches available)
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