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

Monday, July 23

• 7:00 - 8:30: Breakfast buffet provided
• 8:30 - 12:00: Users present 10 minutes each about their projects
  • Isabelle d'Ast: Large Eddy Simulation of two phase flow combustion in gas turbines:

 Predicting extreme combustion processes in real engines
  • Pedro Diniz: Quantifying the Overhead of Today’s Execution Models
  • Chris Eldred: Nonlinear Shallow Water Testbed Model
  • Jing Fu: Transport Simulations Beyond Petascale
  • Forest Hull: Xolotl: A New Plasma Facing Component Simulator
  • Sai Jayaraman: Atomistic adaptive ensemble calculations of eutectics of molten salt mixtures
  • Chris Knight: Efficient and Accurate Multiscale Reactive Molecular Simulations
  • Zhi Liang: Climate-Weather modeling studies Using a Prototype Global Cloud-System Resolving Model
  • Qiming Lu: Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation (ComPASS) & Synergia
  • Nicolas Michel: Nuclear structure and reactions
  • Brian Miller: MESQUITE: Mesh Optimization Toolkit
  • Cosmin Petra: Stochastic optimization of energy systems
  • Jim Phillips: Petascale Molecular Dynamics Simulations with NAMD
  • Jean Michel D. Sellier: NanoElectronics Modeling tool – NEMO5
  • Xingbo Zhao: Basis Light-Front Quantization:
 a non-perturbative approach
 for quantum field theory

• 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch buffet provided
• 1:30 - 2:15: Nam Hai Ah: Overview of ORNL Leadership Computing Facility and Usage
• 2:15 - 3:00: Jack Deslippe: Overview NERSC Facilities and Usage
• 3:00 - 3:30: Break
• 3:30 - 4:15: Charles Bacon: 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 buffet provided

Tuesday, July 24

• 7:00 - 8:30: Breakfast buffet provided
• 8:30 - 12:00: Pavan Balaji: Advanced Topics in MPI

• 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch buffet provided
• 1:30 - 2:30: John Mellor-Crummey: HPCToolkit: Sampling-based performance tools for leadership computing
• 2:30 - 3:30: Yili Zheng: Unified Parallel C (UPC)
• 3:30 - 4:00: Break
• 4:00 - 5:00: John Mellor-Crummey: Coarray Fortran

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

Wednesday, July 25

• 7:00 - 8:30: Breakfast buffet provided
• 8:30 - 10:30: Yonghong Yan: OpenMP
• 10:30 - 11:00: Break
• 11:00 - 12:30: Wyatt Spear: TAU Performance System

• 12:30 - 1:30: Lunch buffet provided
• 1:30 - 02:00: Yonghong Yan: OpenACC
• 2:00 - 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

Thursday, July 26

• 7:00 - 8:30: Breakfast Buffet Provided
• 8:30 - 10:00: Tom Peterka: Parallel I/O in Practice
• 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 buffet provided
• 8:30 - ???: Late night hacking: continue collaborative work

Friday, July 27

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