SDSC Big Data Supercomputing

MONDAY, August 6

8:30-9:00

Registration, Coffee

9:00-9:20

Welcome and Overview
Bob Sinkovits, Gordon Applications Lead, (filling in for Mike Norma, SDSC Director, UC San Diego Professor)
(Slides)

9:20-9:50

Overview of XSEDE and National Systems
Richard Moore, Deputy Director, SDSC
(Slides)

9:50-10:10

Staff and Attendee Introductions
Bob Sinkovits, Scientific Applications Lead & Institute Chair, SDSC/UC San Diego

10:10-10:20

Break

10:20-11:20

Gordon, Trestles, and Data Oasis Hardware
Shawn Strande, Gordon Project Manager, SDSC/UC San Diego
(Slides)

11:20-12:00

XSEDE Allocations
Bob Sinkovits, Scientific Applications Lead & Institute Chair, SDSC/UC San Diego
(SDSC SI Basics Slides)
(SDSC Allocations Slides)

12:00-1:30

Lunch

Afternoon

Using SDSC Systems
Mahidhar Tatineni, User Services Manager, SDSC/UC San Diego
*Afternoon session followed by further in-depth on topic or specific applications work
(Slides)

5:00

Wrap-up

5:30-8:30

Reception at Wayne Pfeiffer’s home
UCSD Shuttle provided from SDSC’s driveway

TUESDAY, August 7

8:00-8:30

Coffee

8:30-9:30

Introduction to Parallel Computing
Rick Wagner, HPC Systems Manager, SDSC/UC San Diego
(Slides)

9:30-10:30

OpenMP
Amit Majumdar, Advanced User Support Manager, SDSC/UC San Diego
(Slides)

10:30-10:40

Break

10:40-11:10

OpenMP (cont.)
Amit Majumdar, Advanced User Support Manager, SDSC/UC San Diego
(Slides)

11:10-12:10

Threading Building Blocks
Pietro Cicotti, Applications Specialist, SDSC/UC San Diego
(Slides)

12:10-1:30

Lunch

Afternoon

TAU
Sameer Shende,  Director of the Performance Research Lab, NIC, University of
Oregon
*Afternoon session followed by further in-depth on topic or specific applications work
(Slides)

5:00

Wrap-up

WEDNESDAY, August 8

8:00-8:30

Coffee

8:30-9:30

De Novo Genome Assembly and Phylogenetics
Wayne Pfeiffer, Distinguished Scientist, SDSC/UC San Diego
(Slides)

9:30-10:00

vSMP
Nir Paikowsky, VP Services, ScaleMP
(Slides)

10:00-10:10

Break

10:10- 12:00

vSMP (cont)
Nir Paikowsky, VP Services, ScaleMP

12:00-1:30

Lunch

Afternoon

Introduction to visualization using Visit
Amit Chourasia, Sr. Visualization Scientist, SDSC/UC San Diego
(Slides)

Hank Childs, Chief Software Architect, LBNL
*Afternoon session followed by further in-depth on topic or specific applications work
(Slides) (Short Tutorial on VisIt)

5:00

Wrap-up

THURSDAY, August 9

8:00-8:30

Coffee

8:30-9:30

Cipres Science Gateway
Mark Miller, Principal Investigator
(Slides)

9:30-10:30

Gateways
Suresh Marru, Indiana University
(Slides)

10:30-10:40

Break

10:40-12:00

Gateways (cont.)
Suresh Marru, Indiana University
(Slides)

12:00-1:30

Lunch

Afternoon

Data Analytics
Natasha Balac, PACE Director, SDSC/UC San Diego (Data Mining Slides, Decision Trees Slides, Clustering Slides)
Paul Rodriguez, Nicole Wolter, PACE (KMeans Slides) (WEKA Slides)

Computational Scientist, SDSC/UCSD
*Afternoon session followed by further in-depth on topic or specific applications work

5:00

Wrap-up

FRIDAY, August 10

8:00-8:30

Coffee

8:30-9:00

Feedback
Bob Sinkovits, Scientific Applications Lead & Institute Chair, SDSC/UC San Diego

9:00-10:00

Lightning Round
Bob Sinkovits, Scientific Applications Lead & Institute Chair, SDSC/UC San Diego
(Slides)

10:00-10:10

Break

10:10-11:10

Non-Volatile Memory
Steve Swanson, Asst. Professor CSE, UC San Diego
(Slides)

11:10-11:20

Wrap-up
Bob Sinkovits, Scientific Applications Lead & Institute Chair, SDSC/UC San Diego

11:20-12:00

Tour

12:00

Adjourn (box lunches available)