Organizers

• Rusty Lusk (Argonne National Lab), "lusk" AT "mcs.anl.gov"
• Pete Beckman (Argonne National Lab), "beckman" AT "mcs.anl.gov"

Abstract

• Become familiar with the architecture, operation, and usability issues for each of the DOE Leadership Class Facilities.
• Understand application scaling bottlenecks on the systems.
• Learn strategies for achieving good performance with message passing and I/O libraries.
• Explore new programming models, languages, and techniques that can provide scalable performance.
• Learn the tools and suggest strategies for understanding the performance of petascale applications.

Final Agenda

Day 1 - Monday, July 19

• 7:00 - 8:30: Breakfast Buffet Provided
• 8:30 - 10:00: Users present 10 minutes each about their projects
• 10:00 - 10:30: Break
• 10:30 - 12:00: Users present 10 minutes each about their projects
  • Eric Bass - Computational Issues in the Continuum Gyrokinetic Code GYRO
  • Jeffrey Comer - Simulating Bionanotechnology at the Petascale
  • Wenjun Deng - Current computing challenges in GTC
  • Thomas Evans - Denovo: A radiation transport code for nuclear applications
  • B. Franzelli -HPC challenges for aerothermal predictions in aeronautical engines
  • D. L. Green - AORSA - All Orders Spectral Algorithm
  • Steven Langer - Performance issues in simulating Laser-Plasma Interactions in National Ignition Facility experiments
  • James Laros - System Software Research for Extreme-Scale Computing
  • Eric McDonald - UNEDF The NuShellX Configuration Interaction Codes
  • R. Numata - AstroGK: Astrophysical Gyrokinetics Code
  • J. Luc Peterson - Predicting the Performance of Nuclear Fusion Experiments
  • Siva Rajamanickam- Towards Exascale Computing in CSCAPES and EASI
  • J. Terasaki - Problems in a large-scale calculation of atomic nuclei
  • Ping Zhu - NIMROD: Computational Aspects and Challenges

• 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch Provided
• 1:30 - 2:15: Vinod Tipparaju - Overview of ORNL Leadership Computing Facility and Usage
• 2:15 - 3:00: Zhengji Zhao - Overview NERSC Facilities and Usage
• 3:00 - 3:30: Break
• 3:30 - 4:15: Scott Parker - Overview of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
• 4:15 - 5:00: Discuss what users want most to cover, their concerns, etc.

• 6:30-8:00: Dinner Provided

Day 2 - Tuesday, July 20

• 7:00 - 8:30: Breakfast Buffet Provided
• 8:30 - 10:00: Rajeev Thakur: Programming in MPI for Performance & Programming Models for HPC, part 1
• 10:00 - 10:30: Break
• 10:30 - 12:00: Rajeev Thakur: Programming in MPI for performance, part 2

• 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch Provided
• 1:30 - 3:00: Brett Estrade: A Guide to OpenMP by UH's HPCTools Group, part 1
• 3:00 - 3:30: Break
• 3:30 - 4:00: Brett Estrade: A Guide to OpenMP by UH's HPCTools Group, part 2
• 4:00 - 5:00: Wyatt Spear: Performance Evaluation With TAU

• 6:30 - 8:00: Dinner Provided
• 8:00 - ???: Late Night hacking: study codes and challenges.
  

Day 3 - Wednesday, July 21

• 7:00 - 8:30: Breakfast Buffet Provided
• 8:30 - 9:30: John Mellor-Crummey: HPCToolkit: Sampling-based performance tools for leadership computing
• 9:30 - 10:30 Paul Hargrove: Introduction to UPC
• 10:30 - 11:00: Break
• 11:00 - 12:00: John Mellor-Crummey: Coarray Fortran: Past, present and future

• 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch Provided
• 1:30 - 6:00: Hands on work with MPI, performance tools, MPI-IO, ...

• 6:30 - 8:00: Dinner Provided
• 8:00 - ???: Late night hacking: continue collaborative work

Day 4 - Thursday, July 22

• 7:00 - 8:30: Breakfast Buffet Provided
• 8:30 - 10:00: Rob Latham: Parallel I/O in Practice, part 1
• 10:00 - 10:30: Break
• 10:30 - 11:00: Rob Latham: Parallel I/O in Practice, part 2
• 11:00 - 12:30: Tom Peterka: Visualization & Data Analysis

• 12:30 - 2:00: Lunch Provided
• 2:00 - 5:30: Hands on work with MPI, performance tools, MPI-IO, ...
• 5:30 - 6:00: Final discussion and workshop wrap-up

• Dinner
• 6:30 - 8:00: Dinner Provided
• 8:30 - ???: Late night hacking: continue collaborative work

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