Agenda - ScicomP5

SCICOMP 5 Agenda

Schedule of Sessions

The meeting will consist of presentations by both IBM staff and SP users, as well as tutorials by IBM staff and vendors. Abstracts for the Tutorials and Presentations, and the presentation materials that are made available, 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: Optimization and Tuning on Power 4 Systems Charles Grassl, Bob Blainey, and Luiz Derose, IBM
Presentations The regular sessions will be held during the week, May 6 - 10. Links to Presentation abstracts will be provided in the agenda, below.

Agenda (Tentative, subject to change)


Tuesday, May 7 - Technical Sessions

 8:00 -  8:30 Registration and coffee or tea

Session 1 - Rob Allan 
 8:30 -  8:45 Opening Remarks - Tom DeBoni, Rob Allan
 8:45 -  9:30 Keynote Address: Prof. P. J. Durham, Director of the Computational Science and Engineering Dept., CLRC
 9:30 - 10:15 IBM Presentation: IBM Scientific and Technical Computing Roadmap - Carol Crothers, IBM

10:15 - 10:45 Morning break

Session 2 - Jesus Labarta
10:45 - 11:45 IBM Presentation: MPI Update - Dick Treumann, IBM
11:45 - 12:45 IBM Presentation: Production Tools Update - Dave Wootton, IBM

12:45 -  1:45 Lunch break

Session 3 - Rob Allan
 1:45 -  2:15 User Presentation: Hybrid Monte Carlo Parallel Algorithms for Matrix Computation - Vassil Alexandrov, University of Reading
 2:15 -  2:45 User Presentation: Strategies for Scaling Parallel I/O on the IBM SP - David Skinner, Berkeley Lab, NERSC
 2:45 -  3:15 User Presentation: Programming next generation HPC systems: the mixed-mode model - Mark Bull, Lorna Smith, EPCC, Edinburgh University

 3:15 -  3:45 Afternoon break

Session 4 -  Deborah Salmond
 3:45 -  4:15 User Presentation: Saudi Aramco's Experiences with IBM SP Clusters - Yasir A. Rafie, et al, Saudi Aramco
 4:15 -  4:45 User Presentation: An Operational Parallel Weather Prediction System - Mats Hamrud, ECMWF
 4:45 -  5:15 User Presentation: Computational Chemistry Applications: Performance on High-End and Commodity-class Computers - Martyn Guest, Daresbury Laboratory

 5:15 -  6:00 Evening Break

 6:00 -  9:00 Membership Meeting (Refreshments provided) - Tom DeBoni
              Tentative topics:
	      1) Officers' reports
	         a) Secretary's report on upcoming plans
                 b) Treasurer's report on finances
              2) By-Law ratification
	      3) Future meeting site selection
              4) IBM response to our feedback letters
	      5) Further feedback to IBM
	      6) Officer election
	      7) Other business from the membership


Wednesday, May 8 - Technical Sessions

 8:00 -  8:30 Coffee and tea

Session 5 - Jesus Labarta
 8:30 -  9:15 IBM Presentation: ACTC Tools and Libraries - David Klepacki, IBM ACTC
 9:15 - 10:00 IBM Presentation: Dynamic Logical Partitioning on AIX Power 4 Systems - Stephen Peckham, IBM
10:00 - 10:45 User Presentation: Study of OpenMP with MPI for ECMWF's production weather code (IFS) on IBM Nighthawk2 - Deborah Salmond, ECMWF

10:45 - 11:15 Morning break

Session 6 - Tom DeBoni
11:15 - 12:00 IBM Presentation: Ab-initio Material modeling in IBM Research: extending the size limit via code optimization - Alessandro Curioni, IBM Zurich
12:00 - 12:30 IBM Presentation: The HPM Toolkit: An Interface for Hardware Measurements on IBM Systems - Luiz Derose, IBM ACTC
12:30 -  1:00 User Presentation: On the effect of environment variables - Jesus Labarta, CEBPA-UPC
 1:00 -  1:30 User Presentation: TotalView on the SP: debugging in the large - James Cownie, Etnus LLC

 1:30 -  6:00 Afternoon Excursion: Pastfinder tour of the scenic and historic Roman town of Chester.

 6:00 -  9:00 Social Event: Medieval Banquet at Ruthin Castle.

              Scheduling and transportation information for these events, in Acrobat PDF format and Word Doc format.


Thursday, May 9 - Technical Sessions

 8:00 -  8:30 Coffee and tea

Session 7  - Tom DeBoni
 8:30 -  9:30 IBM Presentation: Architecture Roadmap - Jamshed Mirza, IBM
 9:30 - 10:30 IBM Presentation: IBM Compiler Update - Bob Blainey, IBM

10:30 - 11:00 Morning break

Session 8 - David Klepacki
11:00 - 11:30 User Presentation: Early Evaluation Results from the p690 System at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Patrick H. Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:30 - 12:00 User Presentation: Some peculiarities in the memory subsystem of the IBM pServer 690  - Ulrich Schwardmann, GWDG Göttingen
12:00 - 12:30 User Presentation: Performance Evaluation of KISTI Out-of-core Sparse Solver - Jeong Ho Kim, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)
12:30 -  1:00 User Presentation: Porting scientific codes to the IBM Regatta: initial experiences - Renate Dohmen, Computing Centre Garching of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 

 1:00 -  2:00 Lunch

Session 9 - Rob Allan
 2:00 -  3:00 IBM Presentation: File Systems Update - Dave Craft, IBM

 3:00 -  3:30 Afternoon Break

Session 10 - Rob Allan
 3:30 -  5:00 IBM Presentation: High Performance Computing at IBM: AIX, Linux and the Grid - David Klepacki, IBM ACTC
 5:00 -  5:15 Closing remarks - Tom DeBoni, Rob Allan


Friday, May 10 - Tutorial Sessions

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

SCICOMP 5 Agenda

Schedule of Sessions

Tutorials

Presentations

Agenda (Tentative, subject to change)