National Center for Computational Sciences

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

8:00 a.m.

Working breakfast to allow participants to discuss their work for the day’s meeting, speakers to check slides, session chairs to finalize introductions, registration pickup for late arrivals. [WMV Video, 400 MB]

8:30 a.m

Welcoming Remarks Barbara Helland , DOE [PDF, .8 MB]

8:45 a.m.

Welcome, Buddy Bland, NCCS

9:00 a.m.

NCCS Overview, Buddy Bland, NCCS [PDF, 1.7 MB]

9:30 a.m.

Keynote - L Buja, NCAR

10:00 a.m.

Break (JICS, Bldg. 5100, Room 125) [WMV Video, 450 MB]

10:15 a.m.

Overview of NCCS User Council & Charge by User Group Chair - J Drake, CSM [PDF, .2 MB]

10:45 a.m.

NCCS National Leadership Computing Facility: – Doug Kothe, ORNL [PDF, 4.6 MB]

• Expectations – both users and NCCS
• Requirements
• RUC
  Queue
• Structure (Ricky Kendall)

Discussion on how NCCS is different/similar to other HPC Centers and why.

11:30 a.m.

User Assistance and Outreach – Julia White, ORNL

11:45 a.m.

Overview of NCCS Support – Ricky Kendall, ORNL [PDF, .4 MB]

12:00 p.m.

Lunch with Open Forum Discussions (Catered); (JICS, Bldg. 5100, Room
125) Parallel Session - Lunch session for Potential New Users, with Julia White, Group Leader, NCCS User Assistance & Outreach, (Room 130). [WMV Video, 460 MB]

1:00 p.m.

Getting Started at the NCCS: What they can expect. – Bobby Whitten, ORNL [PDF, 1.1 MB]

1:30 p.m.

X1E Architecture – Trey White, NCCS [PDF, .4 MB]

2:15 p.m.

XT3/XT4 Architecture and Software – Ramanan Sankaran, NCCS [PDF, .4 MB]

3:00 p.m.

Break (JICS, Bldg. 5100, Room 125)

3:30 p.m.

XT Roadmap – John Levesque, CRAY [PDF, .8 MB]

4:00 p.m.

Getting Ready for Big Machines — What Can They Do For Your Science, What You can Can Do For Them: A View From The Femtoscale – David Dean, ORNL

LCF/INCITE User Presentations:

4:30 p.m.

Via Lactea:  A Billion Particle Simulation of the Milky Way’s Dark Matter Halo – Piero Madau, University of California, Santa Cruz and Juerg Diemand, University of California, Santa Cruz [PDF, 3.3 MB]

4:45 p.m.

Assessing Global Climate Response of the NCAR-CCSM3: CO2 Sensitivity and Abrupt Climate Change – Zhengyu Liu, University of Wisconsin [PDF, .7 MB]

5:00 p.m.

Multidimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae - Tony Mezzacappa, ORNL [PDF, 1.3 MB]

5:15 p.m.

Linear Scale Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanostructures – Lin-Wang Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [PDF, .8 MB]

5:30 p.m.

Break before Reception [WMV Video, 460 MB]

6:00 p.m.

Poster Reception (renewed projects), NCCS Tours of Computer Room and Everest (Bldg. 5700, Main Street Area)

7:00 pm.

Working Dinner with discussions on the renewed projects reviewed/shown at the reception

8:00 p.m.

Adjourn

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

8:00 a.m.

Working breakfast to allow participants to discuss their work for the day’s meeting, speakers to check slides, session chairs to finalize introductions, registration pickup for late arrivals. [WMV Video, 480 MB]

LCF/INCITE User Presentations continued:

8:30 a.m.

High Power Electromagnetic Wave Heating in the ITER Burning Plasma – Fred Jaeger, ORNL [PDF, 1.1 MB]

8:45 a.m.

Modeling Reactive Flows in Porous Media – Richard Mills, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [PDF, 6.6 MB]

9:00 a.m.

Lattice QCD for Hadronic and Nuclear Physics – David Richards, Jefferson Laboratory [PDF, .8 MB]

9:15 a.m.

Steady State GyroKinetic Transport – Mark Fahey, ORNL [PDF, .2 MB]

9:45 a.m.

Visualization at the NCCS – Sean Ahern, ORNL [PDF, 1.8 MB]

10:00 a.m.

Break [WMV Video, 450 MB]

10:15 a.m.

Scientific Data Workflow – Scott Klasky, ORNL

10:45 a.m.

Storage Solutions – Shane Canon, ORNL [PDF, .3 MB]

11:15 a.m.

User Survey Results, Actions Taken – Bill Renaud, ORNL [PDF, .5 MB]

11:45 a.m.

Open User Discussion

12:30 p.m.

Working Lunch (Catered)with Steve Poole, NCCS, speaking on:TBA; (JICS, Bldg. 5100, Room 125)

1:30 p.m.

User Business Meeting – User Chair

• Describe operation of User Council
• Produce a final statement/action plan (user group chair)
• Identify number of times user group will meet
• Council elections

3:00 p.m.

Adjourn

3:00 p.m.

Break before tutorial

3:30 p.m.

In-depth Scientific Visualization Tutorial – Jamison Daniel and George Ostrouchov, ORNL

      Visualization Tutorial

4:30 p.m.

Adjourn from tutorial

Thursday, March 29, 2007

8:00 a.m.

Working breakfast to allow participants to discuss their work for the day’s meeting, speakers to check slides, session chairs to finalize introductions, registration pickup for late arrivals.

8:30 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

Break (JICS, Bldg. 5100, Room 125)

10:15 a.m.

Parallel Sessions continued:

12:00 p.m.

Working Lunch with Open Forum Discussions (Catered); (JICS, Bldg. 5100, Room 125)

1:00 p.m.

Hands-on Tutorial continued

3:00 p.m.

Break

4:45 p.m.

Closing Remarks

5:00 p.m.

Adjourn