Agenda

SCICOMP4 Agenda

Technical Content of the Meeting

The meeting will consist of presentations by both IBM staff and SP users, as well as tutorials by IBM staff and vendors. Abstracts for all the Tutorials and Presentations will be linked here.
Tutorials One day of the meeting (date to be announced) will be dedicated to tutorials which will be presented by IBM stafff. Links to Tutorial abstracts will be provided below.
Tutorial 1: To Be Announced DPCL by IBM Staff	Tutorial 2: To Be Announcved by IBM Staff
Presentations The regular sessions will be held during the week, May 6 - 10. A draft schedule is shown below, but is subject to change. Links to Presentation abstracts will be provided in the agenda, below.

Monday, October 8 - Registration

 6:00 -  8:00 PM - Registration


Tuesday, October 9 - Tutorials

 8:00 -  9:00 Registration and breakfast
 9:00 -  1:00 Tutorial morning sessions
 1:00 -  2:00 Lunch
 2:00 -  6:00 Tutorial afternoon sessions


Wednesday, October 10 - Sessions

 8:00 -  8:30 Registration and breakfast

Session 1 - Bronis de Supinski, LLNL
 8:30 -  8:45 Opening Remarks - Trey White, ORNL
 8:45 -  9:30 Keynote Address:  From Nano to Peta: ORNL Collaborations with IBM - Thomas Zacharia, ORNL
 9:30 - 10:15 IBM Presentation: Power 4 and Beyond - Peter Ungaro

10:15 - 10:45 Morning break

Session 2 - Jesus LaBarta, CEPBA-UPC
10:45 - 11:45 IBM Presentation: Architecture Roadmap - John McCalpin
11:45 - 12:45 IBM Presentation: Compilers - Bob Blainey

12:45 -  1:45 Lunch

Session 3 - Performance - William Tuel, IBM
 1:45 -  2:30 IBM Presentation: Production Tools - Ted Hoover
 2:30 -  3:00 User Presentation: MPI On-node and Large Processor Count Scaling Performance - Terry Jones, Linda Stanberry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 3:00 -  3:30 User Presentation: Performance Evaluation of Allreduce - Partich K. Worley - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 3:30 -  4:00 Afternoon break

Session 4 - Tools A - Ted Hoover, IBM
 4:00 -  4:30 User Presentation: Analysis of the SPEC OMP2001 Benchmarks with Paraver - Jesus Labarta, Judit Gimemez - CEPBA-UPC
 4:30 -  5:00 User Presentation: IMPRINT: A Tool for Performance Monitoring and Application Steering - Tim Kaiser - San Diego Supercomputer Center
 6:00 - 11:00 Social event: A Ride on the Three Rivers Rambler


Thursday, October 11 - Sessions

 8:00 -  8:30 Breakfast

Session 5 - Tim Kaiser, SDSC
 8:30 -  9:15 IBM Presentation: AIX5L and Thread Scheduling - Tom Mathews
 9:15 - 10:00 IBM Presentation: GPFS: An Enterprise Class Cluster File System - Rama Govindaraju

10:00 - 10:30 Morning break

Session 6 - Shuxia Zhang, UMSCI
10:30 - 11:15 IBM Presentation: What are all these environment variables for? - William Tuel
11:15 - 12:15 IBM Presentation: The ACTC Application Performance Tools for Scientific Programs - Current Status and On-going Work - Luiz DeRose

12:15 -  1:15 Lunch

NOTE: Afternoon sessions will be double-tracked!

Session 7A - Applications - David Klepacki, IBM
 1:15 -  1:45 User Presentation: Porting and Performance Evaluation of Scientific Computation Libraries - Shuxia Zhang - University of Minnsota Supercomputing Institute
 1:45 -  2:15 User Presentation: The Implementation of Asynchronous I/O Servers in NCEP's Eta Model on the IBM SP - Jim Tuccillo - IBM
 2:15 -  2:45 User Presentation: Assessing Performance of Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Programs on SMP Clusters - Edmond Chow - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Session 7B - Tools B - Luiz DeRose, IBM
 1:15 -  1:45 User Presentation: The Catalina scheduler - Kenneth Yoshimoto, San Diego Supercomputer Center
 1:45 -  2:15 User Presentation: The Tool Gear Infrastructure Project  - John Gyllenhaal, John May, Brock Wilcox, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 2:15 -  2:45 User Presentation: Using Hardware Performance Monitoring for Application Performance Tuning on the IBM Power3  - Shirley Moore, Philip Mucci, Daniel Terpstra - Universoty of Tennessee

 2:45 -  3:15 Afternoon Break

Session 8A - ASCI Software PathForward - Jeff Brown, LANL
 3:15 -  3:30 User Presentation: An overview of ASCI Software Pathforward Program, Jeff Brown, LANL
 3:30 -  4:00 User Presentation: ChaMPIon/Pro(TM): A Multidevice MPI 1.2 Implementation for ASCI Blue and White using LAPI and Shared Memory - Anthony Skjellum, Rossen P. Dimitrov, Andrew Watkins - MPI Software Technology, Inc.; Bronis de Supinski - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 
 4:00 -  4:30 User Presentation: An Integrated Performance Visualizer for MPI/OpenMP Programs - Don Gunning, Kai Software of Intel Americas
 4:30 -  5:00 User Presentation: A Technical Update on TotalView 5.0 for the SP - Chris Gottbrath - Etnus L. L. C.

Session 8B - High Performance Storage System (HPSS) - Rama Govindaraju, IBM
 3:15 -  3:45 User Presentation: A User View of the NERSC High Performance Storage System (HPSS) - T. M. DeBoni, Nancy Meyer, Harvard Holmes - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 3:45 -  4:15 User Presentation: HPSS MPI-IO: A Standard Parallel Interface to HPSS File Systems - William Loewe - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 4:15 -  4:45 User Presentation: HPSS Status and Futures - Randall D. Burris - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 4:45 -  5:15 User Presentation: Benchmarking SMP Memory System Performance - Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Membership Meeting
 6:00 -  8:00 Refreshments provided
              Tentative topics:
	      1) Officers' reports
	         a) Secretary's report on filing for Non-Profit Status
                 b) Treasurer's report on finances
              2) By-Law ratification
	      3) SCICOMP 8 Site Selection
              4) IBM response to our feedback letters
	      5) Further feedback to IBM
	      6) Other business from the membership


Friday, October 12 - Sessions

 8:00 -  8:30 Breakfast

Session 9  - Trey White, ORNL
 8:30 -  9:30 IBM Presentation: Blue Gene and Blue Light - David Klepacki
 9:30 - 10:30 IBM Presentation: Status of ACTC, TurboShMem - David Klepacki

10:30 - 11:00 Morning break

Session 10 - Trey White, ORNL
11:00 - 12:45 IBM Presentation: High Performance Computing Roadmap at IBM - Jamshed Mirza
12:45 -  1:00 Closing Remarks

 1:00         Meeting Adjourns

SCICOMP4 Agenda

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