Agenda
Monday, September 24, 2007
| 8:00 a.m. | Morning networking session and continental breakfast | Bayou B |
Session I: Key Challenges in Modeling and Simulations of Earth Systems/Climate |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Plenary speakers / panel | David Erickson, Chair |
| Earth systems modeling overview (pdf) | David Erickson, ORNL | |
| 9:15 a.m. | Climate extremes (pdf) | Auroop Ganguly, ORNL |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Climate Modeling in a Changed World: New Directions and Requirements following the breakthrough IPCC AR4 (pdf) | Lawrence Buja, NCAR |
| 11:30 a.m. | Panel Session | |
| 12:00 noon | Lunch Buffet | |
| Session II: Key Challenges in Modeling and Simulation of Advanced Energy Systems | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | Plenary speakers / panel | Gil Weigand, Chair |
| Advanced Energy Systems – Grand Vision | Gil Weigand, ORNL | |
| Fusion Energy Science and ITER | Bill Tang, PPPL | |
| New Nuclear Development and Advanced Fuel Cycle Uses of Simulation (pdf) | Jack Bailey, TVA | |
| Energy Security and the Role of High Performance Modeling and Simulation (pdf) | Vic Reis/Alex Larzerele | |
| Panel Session | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Plenary speakers / panel | |
| BioEnergy Science Center / Biofuels Research (pdf) | Reinhold Mann, ORNL | |
| The ASCI Experience and How it Might be Applied to Energy (pdf) | Doug Kothe, ORNL | |
| How Petascale Computing Will Accelerate the Development of Biological Theory | Folker Meyer/Rick Stevens, ANL | |
| Panel Session | ||
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn for dinner | |
| 5:30 p.m. | Dinner | Ryman Studio MNO |
| 7:00 p.m. | Reassemble for Poster / Networking Session | Ryman Ballroom DE |
| 8:30 p.m. | End Day 1 | |
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
| 8:00 a.m. | Morning networking session and continental breakfast | Bayou B |
| Session IIIa: Key Challenges presented by next generation hardware systems (multi-core, cell, GPGPU, etc.) |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Plenary speakers / panel | Jeff Vetter, Chair |
| GPGPU Performance (pdf) | Jeff Vetter, ORNL | |
| XTRIPS (pdf) | Doug Burger, Texas | |
| System Software Challenges and Opportunities on Asymmetric Multi-core Processors (pdf) | Dimitris Nikolopoulos, VaTech | |
| Scaling Beyond Commodity (pdf) | John Levesque, Cray | |
| Breaking Down Walls | Sid Chatterjee, IBM | |
| High Performance Computing on FPGAs: challenges and opportunities (pdf) | Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA | |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Break | 10:30 a.m. | Plenary speakers / panel | Maya Gokhale, Chair |
| Storage-intensive supercomputing | Maya Gokhale, LLNL | |
| NAND Flash Storage in High-Performance Computing | Craig Ulmer, Sandia | |
| Storage for petaflops systems (pdf) | David Fellinger, DataDirect Networks | |
| Tape Technologies Future | Mark Watson, Sun | |
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| 12:00 noon | Lunch | |
| Session IIIb: Key Challenges in the software tools, libraries and algorithms to exploit next generation hardware |
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| 1:00 p.m. | Plenary speakers / panel | John Mellor-Crummey, Chair |
| HPCToolKit and Performance Monitoring | John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University | |
| Collective MPI-IO | Alok Choudhary, Northwestern U. | |
| Developing Petascale Applications: Case Studies including NAMD and other highly scalable codes | Sanjay Kale, UIUC | |
| Panel Session | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | Break and begin free afternoon and evening to enjoy Nashville | |
| End Day 2 | ||
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
| 8:00 a.m. | Morning networking session and continental breakfast | Bayou B |
| Session IV: Key Challenges in visualization and the supporting data analytics | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | Plenary speakers / panel | Deb Gracio, Chair |
| Data Management (pdf) | Deb Gracio, PNNL | |
| Feature detection/tracking using Morse complex, Jacobi Sets | Valerio Pascucci (LLNL) | |
| Sapphire application to DNS of Rayleigh Taylor instability on LLNL BG/L and 'bubble tracking (pdf) | Chandrika Kamath (LLNL) | |
| Panel Session | ||
| 10: 00 a.m. | Break | 10:30 a.m. | Plenary speakers / panel | Wes Bethel, Chair |
| Occam's Razor and Petascale Visual Data Analysis | Wes Bethel, LBNL | |
| Large-scale viz (GNEP connection) | Hank Childs, LLNL | |
| Parallel viz. pipeline and insitu Feature detection/tracking | Kwan-Liu Ma, UC Davis | |
| Panel Session | 12:00 noon | Wrap up and lunch buffet | Bayou B |
| Meeting adjouned | ||
Poster and Networking Session
Monday, September 24, 2007
| LES Applied to Reacting Flow Research and Advanced Engine Combustion at the CRF | Joe Oefelein, SNL |
| Structured Streams: Data Services for Petascale Science Environments | Karsten Schwan, et al, GaTech |
| Terascale Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion with S3D | Jackie Chen, SNL |
| Physically-based illumination improves geometric inference (pdf) | Chris Weigle and David C. Banks, Univ. of Tennessee |
Determining thermodynamics solubility parameters for nanoscale building block | |
Patrick S. Redmill, Alberto Striolo, Claire McCabe, Peter T. Cummings, Vanderbilt |
| End-to-End Solutions for Petascale Simulations | Scott Klasky, et al., ORNL |
| TBD | Moeljo Hong, Boeing |
| Computational Modeling of the Cellular Remodeling Mechanisms Involved in Intimal Hyperplasia | abstract (pdf) |
Elizabeth O’Quinn, Vanderbilt |
| Computational Chemistry at the Petascale | William Thornton and Robert J. Harrison, ORNL/UTK |
| Next Generation Simulations in Biology: Investigating biomolecular structure, dynamics and function through multi-scale modeling | Pratul Agarwal, ORNL |
| Molecular Dynamics Study of a Rapid DNA Sequencing Device | Christina Payne, Vanderbilt |
| Trace Based Performance Analysis | Vaddadi Chandu, GaTech |
| Computational Challenges in Global Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations of Strongly-Shaped Tokamaks | Stephane Ethier, PPPL |
