Program/Schedule
The SDSC Summer Institute: Big Data Supercomputing will be held Monday – Friday, August 5 – 9, 2013, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus. Light refreshments and lunch will be provided throughout.
Required Materials
Participants of the Summer Institute are expected to bring a laptop computer allowing participants to follow along with demos and hands-on instruction throughout the Institute.
August 5 – 9, 2013
SDSC Auditorium at UC San Diego
Agenda
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day4 | Day 5
Monday, August 5, 2013
| 8:30-12:00 | AM: INTRODUCTION, Chaitan Baru |
| 8:30-10:00am | Introduction to the SDSC Summer Institute (Natasha Balac and Chaitan Baru) (Natasha's and Chaitan's Slides in PDF) Introduction to XSEDE (Bob Sinkovits) High Performance Computing and Data Resources at SDSC (Mahidhar Tatineni and Christine Bagwell) |
| 10-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30-11:15am | Attendee Introductions |
| 11:15am-12pm | OpenTopography (Vishu Nandigam, Chaitan Baru) |
| 12-1:30PM | LUNCH |
| 1:30-5PM | PM: INTRODUCTION (cont'd), Mahidhar Tatineni |
| 1:30-2:15pm | Technology presentation on Globus Online (GO), with data transfer demo. (Slides TBD) |
| 2:15:3:00pm | Enabling Phylogenetic Research via the CIPRES Science Gateway. (Wayne Pfeiffer) |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30-4:15pm | Usecase: The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) high-energy physics project. (Frank Wuerthwein) |
| 4:15-5pm | Hands-on session: Running Jobs on SDSC systems and an Overview of Available Data Analytics Software. (Mahidar Tatineni) |
| 6pm | RECEPTION |
Day 2: Tuesday, August 6, 2013
| 8:30-12:00 | AM: DATA MANAGEMENT, Bob Sinkovits |
| 8:30-10:00am | Basics of storage technologies and filesystems including, parallel filesystems, distributed filesystems, and cloud storage, e.g. Lustre, HDFS, OpenStack Swift ObjectStore. Pros and cons. (Rick Wagner) |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30-11:15am | Demo, myHadoop on Gordon and Hadoop. (Mahidhar Tatineni) |
| 11:15am-12pm | Usecase: IntegromeDB search engine for biomedical, biochemical, drug, disease and health related data. (Julia Ponomarenko) |
| 12-1:30pm | LUNCH |
| 1:30-5pm | PM: DATA GENRES, Chaitan Baru |
| 1:30-2:15pm | Basic Data Management (Chaitan Baru) |
| 2:15-3pm | New Technologies for Data Management (structured, semistructured, unstructured data) for Big Data (Chaitan Baru) |
| 3-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30-4:15pm | Usecase: Neurosciences Information Framework. (Amarnath Gupta) |
| 4:15-5pm | Demo/Hands-on: MongoDb, MongoDN vs. Postgress; CYCORE project usecase (Kai Lin) |
Day 3: Wednesday, August 7, 2013
| 8:30-12:00 | AM: DATA GENRES (contd), Amarnath Gupta |
| 8:30-10:00am | Management of data streams, graph data. (Amarnath Gupta) |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30-11:15am | Usecase Presentations: Identification of structurally cohesive subgroups using R and iGraph. (Doug White, Bob Sinkovits) |
| 11:15am-12pm | Demos/Hands-on: Exercises with graph data, e.g. DB2 RDF, GraphLab (Chris Condit, Amarnath Gupta) |
| 12-1:30PM | LUNCH |
| 1:30-5PM | PM: DATA ANALYTICS, Natasha Balac |
| 1:30-2:15pm | Intro to Data mining and Predictive Analytics. (Natasha Balac)
|
| 2:15-3:00pm | Hands-on: Intro to R. (Nicole Wolter)
|
| 3:15-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30-4:15pm | Decision Trees Presentation; Hands-on Decision Trees in R. (Natahsa Balac, Nicole Wolter)
|
| 4:15-5pm | Demo: Clustering overview and Example. (Paul Rodriguez) |
Day 4: Thursday, August 8, 2013
| 8:30-12:00pm | AM: DATA ANALYTICS (cont'd)/HPC, Paul Rodriguez |
| 8:30-10:00am | Algorithms overview; Data Mining Guidelines and Foundations; R Implementations (Paul Rodriguez) |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30am-11:15am | R Parallel options; Hands-on. (Glenn Lockwood) |
| 11:15am-12pm | Random Forest; Use case; Exmple and Implementations; Variable selectio; Demo in R. (Paul Rodriguez) |
| 12-1:30PM | LUNCH |
| 1:30-5PM | PM: HPC/ VISUALIZATION, Amit Chourasia |
| 1:30-2:15pm | Information Visualization Techniques and Use Cases (Lecture) (Amit Chourasia) |
| 2:15-3:00pm | Scientific Visualization Techniques and Use Cases (Lecture). (Amit Chourasia) |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30-5pm: | Introduction to Visit Software (Hands on). (Amit Chourasia) Additional Links of Interest: |
Day 5: Friday, August 9, 2013
| 8:30-12:00 | AM: HPC PROGRAMMING (cont'd) Ilkay Altintas |
| 8:30-10:00am | Introduction to MatLab, parallel MatLab (Ilkay Altintas) |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30-11:15am | Usecase Presentation/Demo: MatLab usecase with workflow (Ilkay Altintas, Jerry Greenberg) |
| 11:15am-12pm | Closing: Lightning Talks by Attendees |