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

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.)
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
 . Panel Session  
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
 . Panel Session  
12:00 noon Lunch  
Session IIIb: Key Challenges in the software tools, libraries and algorithms
to exploit next generation hardware
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 |
abstract (pdf)

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
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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