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.

Agenda

Day 1 - Monday, July 14

• 7:45 - 8:30: Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 - 10:00: Users present 10-15 minutes each about their projects
• 10:00 - 10:30: Break
• 10:30 - 12:00: Users present 10-15 minutes each about their projects

• 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch on your own
• 1:30 - 2:15: Vinod Tipparaju: Overview of ORNL machine, performance, I/O, usage,
• 2:15 - 3:00: Katie Antypas: Overview of NERSC machine, performance, I/O, usage, etc.
• 3:00 - 3:30: Break
• 3:30 - 4:00: Pete Beckman: Overview of BG/L, BG/P, what ANL will be getting
• 4:00 - 4:30: Discuss what users want most to cover, their concerns, etc.

• 6:30-8:00 Working buffet dinner: discuss application challenges

Day 2 - Tuesday, July 15

• 7:45 - 8:30: Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 - 10:00: Rusty Lusk: Programming in MPI for performance (part 1)
• 10:00 - 10:30: Break
• 10:30 - 12:00: Rusty Lusk: Programming in MPI for performance (part 2)

• 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch on your own
• 1:30 - 3:00: Rob Latham: Parallel I/O (part 1)
• 3:00 - 3:30: Break
• 3:30 - 4:00: Rob Latham: Parallel I/O (part 2)
• 4:00 - 5:00: Alan Morris: TAU

• 5:00-7:00 Dinner on your own
• 7:00 - ???: Late Night hacking: study codes and challenges.
  

Day 3 - Wednesday, July 16

• 7:45 - 8:30: Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 - 10:00: John Mellor-Crummey: HPCToolkit performance tools
• 10:00 - 10:30: Break
• 10:30 - 12:00: Oscar Hernandez: OpenMP

• 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch on your own
• 1:30 - 7:00 Hands on work with MPI, performance tools, MPI-IO, ...

• 7:00 - 8:30 Working buffet dinner: discuss afternoon's activities and challenges
• 8:30- ??? Late night hacking: continue collaborative work

Day 4 - Thursday, July 17

• 7:45 - 8:30: Hot Breakfast
• 8:30 - 9:30: Rajesh Nishtala: UPC / Titanium
• 9:30 - 10:00: John Mellor-Crummey: CoArray Fortran (part 1)
• 10:00 - 10:30: Break
• 10:30 - 11:00 John Mellor-Crummey: CoArray Fortran (part 2)
• 11:00 - 12:30: Mark Hereld: Visualization and Data Analysis

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

• Dinner on your own
• 8:30- ??? Late night hacking: continue collaborative work

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