First Annual Cray Technical Workshop 2007 - USA

The First Annual Cray Technical Workshop - USA Agenda
Location: Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee


Organizers:  John Levesque, Cray Inc., & Julia White, ORNL
February 26-28, 2007

[Note: All Video files are in Windows Media (WMV) format]

Monday, February 26, 2007 - Day 1 Morning

7:30 a.m. -
8:30 a.m.

Working breakfast to ensure participants have access to computer accounts to perform hands-on workshop sessions and to provide one-on-one support to discuss participant’s individual computational needs.

8:30 a.m. -
10:00 am

Tutorial: Optimization of the Cray XT3 [PDF, 5 MB] - John Levesque, Cray Inc. - (Video ) [WMV, 177 MB]

10:30 a.m. -
11:30 am

Tutorial - Optimization of the Cray XT3 (continued) [PDF, 5 MB] - (Video)[WMV, 177 MB]

11:30 a.m. -

1:00 pm.

Lunch

Monday, February 26, 2007 - Day 1 Afternoon

1:00 p.m. -
1:45 p.m.

Keynote Presentation: Future Cray Architectures [PDF, 5 MB]
Steve Scott, Cray Inc. [Video, WMV, 114 MB] 

1:45 p.m. -
2:30 p.m.

Presentation: Perf. Analysis of Production POP Runs on the Cray XT3 [PDF, 5 MB]
Trey White, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Video, WMV, 180 MB]

2:30 p.m. -
3:00 p.m.

Presentation: Introduction to the Cray XT3 at NCCS [PDF, 5 MB]
Don Frederick, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Video, WMV, 56 MB]

3:00 p.m. -
3:30 p.m.

Break: Sponsored by AMD

3:30 p.m. -
4:00 p.m.

Presentation: Supporting HECToR in the UK [PDF, 5 MB]
Mike Dewar, NAG-UK [Video, WMV, 47 MB]

4:00 p.m. -
4:30 p.m.

Presentation: AMD’s Quad Core Opteron [PDF, 5 MB]
Brian Waldecker, AMD [Video, WMV, 127 MB]

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - Day 2 Morning

7:30 a.m. -
8:30 a.m.

Working breakfast to ensure participants have access to computer accounts to perform hands-on workshop sessions and to provide one-on-one support to discuss participant’s individual computational needs.

8:30 a.m. -
9:15 a.m.

Presentation: Performance Analysis of the Cray XT4[PDF, 5 MB]
Harvey Wasserman, NERSC [Video, WMV, 142 MB]

9:15 a.m. -

9:30 a.m.

A Message from CUG [PDF, 5 MB]
Kevin Wohlever, CUG Treasurer [Video, WMV, 28 MB]

9:30 a.m. -
10:15 a.m.

Presentation: Accelerated Portals [PDF, 5 MB]
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories [Video, WMV, 121 MB]

10:15 a.m. -
10:45 a.m.

Break: Sponsored by AMD

10:45 a.m.-
11:30 a.m.

Presentation: Sandia’s 7X Applications [PDF, 5 MB]
Joel Stevenson, Sandia National Laboratories [Video, WMV, 80 MB]

11:30 a.m. -
12:15 p.m.

Presentation: Cray XT3/XT4 Performance Analysis[PDF, 5 MB]
Pat Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Video, WMV, 108 MB]

12:15 p.m.-
1:30 p.m.

Lunch: Sponsored by BlueArc

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - Day 2 Afternoon

1:30 p.m. -
2:00 p.m.

Presentation: Analysis of MILC on the Cray XT4[PDF, 5 MB]
Steven Gottlieb, Indiana University [Video, WMV, 82 MB]

2:00 p.m. -
2:30 p.m.

Presentation: ORNL Application Requirements Analysis[PDF, 5 MB]
Bronson Messer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Video, WMV, 90 MB]

2:30 p.m. -
3:00 p.m.

Presentation: HPCC on the Cray XT3 and Cray XT4: Results & Analysis[PDF, 5 MB]
Jeff Kuehn, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Video, WMV, 92 MB]

3:00 p.m. -
3:30 p.m.

Presentation: Combustion Simulations on the Cray XT3 at NCCS[PDF, 5 MB]
Ramanan Sankaran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Video, WMV, 86 MB]

3:30 p.m. -
4:00 p.m.

Break: Sponsored by AMD

4:00 p.m. -

4:30 p.m.

Presentation: Performance Analysis in Support of Capability Computing [PDF, 5 MB]
Mahesh Rajan, Sandia National Laboratories [Video, WMV, 106 MB]

4:30 p.m. -
5:00 p.m.

Presentation: Performance Analysis of a DNS code
Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories [Video, WMV, 65 MB]

5:00 p.m. -
5:30 p.m.

Presentation: Compiler Optimization[PDF, 5 MB]
Tyler Simon, US Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC-MSRC)

6:00 p.m. -
7:00 p.m.

NCCS BOF

Wednesday, February 28,  2007 - Day 3 Morning

8:30 a.m. -
9:30 a.m.

Presentation: Using Cray Performance Tools[PDF, 5 MB]
Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc. [Video, WMV, 147 MB]

9:30 a.m. -
10:00 a.m.

Presentation: Ocean Prediction with HYCOM[PDF, 5 MB]
Alan Wallcraft, Naval Research Laboratory [Video, WMV, 83 MB]

10:00 a.m. -
10:30 a.m.

Presentation: Massively Parallel Magnetohydrodynamics on the Cray XT3[PDF, 5 MB]
Joshua Breslau, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory [Video, WMV, 152 MB]

10:30 a.m. -
11:00 a.m.

Break: Sponsored by AMD

11:00 a.m. -
11:30 a.m.

Presentation: CSC Finland’s Cray XT4[PDF, 5 MB]
Juha Fagerholm, CSC-Finland [Video, WMV, 67 MB]

12:00 p.m. -
1:30 p.m.

Lunch: Sponsored by QLogic

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - Day 3 Afternoon

1:30 p.m. -
2:30 p.m.

Presentation: UPC and CAF on Baker[PDF, 5 MB]
Jim Schwarzmeier, Cray Inc. [Video, WMV, 123 MB]

2:30 p.m. -
3:00 p.m.

Presentation: The Effects of System Options on Code Performance[PDF, 5 MB]
Courtenay Vaughan, Sandia National Laboratories [Video, WMV, 42 MB]

3:00 p.m. -
3:30 p.m.

Break: Sponsored by AMD

3:30 p.m.-
4:00 p.m.

Presentation: Materials Chemistry Applications on the ORNL XT3] [PPt, X MB]
Edoardo Apra, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Video, WMV, 89 MB]

4:00 p.m. -
4:30 p.m.

Presentation: Optimization of I/O for the Cray XT4[PDF, 5 MB]
Jeff Larkin, Cray Inc. [Video, WMV, 83 MB]

4:30 p.m. -
4:45 p.m.

Closing Remarks
John Levesque, Cray Inc.