Agenda (Draft)

Sunday, September 7, 2008

6:30 p.m. Welcome networking session Clement Conf. Room C.
  Welcome and introductions Thomas Zacharia / Jeff Nichols

Monday, September 8, 2008

7:15 a.m. Morning networking and breakfast Sign in at buffet
8:15 a.m. Workshop goals/expected outcomes
Jeff Nichols
8:30 a.m. Addressing Energy Problems with Petascale Resources (pdf) Gil Weigand, Session Chair
8:30 a.m. Building New Means of Scientific Insight for Nuclear Energy Systems (pdf) Alex Larzerele, DOE
9:20 a.m. Bio-sciences at the petascale (pdf) Martin Keller, ORNL
9:50 a.m. Molecular Simulation Aimed at Proposed Electrical (Super) Capacitors Based on Nanotube Forests Lawrence R. Pratt, Tulane
10:20 a.m. Break
10:40 a.m. Using computational science to optimize carbon supercapacitors: a step toward efficient energy storage (pdf) Vincent Meunier, ORNL
11:10 p.m.

Moderated panel session: Martin Keller, Alex Larzerele, Lawrence Pratt, Vincent Meunier, Gil Weigand

12:00 noon Lunch and continued discussions Clement
1:00 p.m. Earth Sciences at the Petascale Jim Hack, Session Chair
1:00 p.m. Plenary: A petascale-ready version of the community Atmospheric Model - abstract (pdf) Mark Taylor, SNL
1:50 p.m. The Coupled High-Resolution Modeling of the Earth System (CHiMES) Project - abstract (pdf) V. Balaji, Princeton
2:20 p.m.

Climate Extremes and Uncertainty

Auroop Ganguly, ORNL
2:50 p.m. Break
3:10 p.m.

Petascale Opportunities and Challenges for NASA's Weather and Climate Modeling - abstract (pdf)

Thomas Clune, NASA Goddard
 3:40 p.m. Moderated panel session: Forrest Hoffman, John Drake, Pat Worley, Jim Hack
4:30 p.m. Free time  
7:00 p.m. Dinner and continued discussions Clement Conference Rooms
  End of Day 1  

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

7:15 a.m. Morning networking and breakfast Sign in at buffet
8:30 a.m. Knowledge Discovery thru Data Analytics (pdf) Brian Worley, Session Chair
8:30 a.m. Computational Methods for Sarge-Scale Data Analysis (pdf) Alex Gray, GaTech
9:20 a.m.

A Selected Overview of NSF Programs Relevant to Knowledge Discovery from Data Analytics (pdf)

Doug Fisher, NSF
9:50 a.m. Mining Data Streams (pdf) Philip Yu, UIUC
10:20 a.m. Break
10:40 a.m. Technology Trends Impact on Data Warehousing (pdf) Kostamaa Pekka, TeraData
11:10 a.m. Moderated panel session: Alex Gray, Doug Fisher, Phillip Yu, Kostamaa Pekka, Brian Worley
12:00 noon Lunch and continued discussions Clement Conference Rooms
1:00 p.m. Petascale Hardware Update (pdf) Buddy Bland, Session Chair
1:00 p.m. Roadrunner (pdf) Andy White, LANL
1:30 p.m. Intrepid (pdf) Ray Bair, ANL
  Red Storm (pdf) Jim Tompkins
1:55 p.m. Zia (pdf) Sudip Dosanjh, SNL
2:15 p.m. Kraken (pdf) Jim Ferguson, NICS
2:30 p.m. Jaguar (pdf) Buddy Bland, ORNL
2:45 p.m.

Panel: Future directions for leadership computers – how big can theses computers get?

3:30 p.m. Break and poster set up  
4:30 p.m. Poster Session Clement Conf. Room C
7:00 p.m. Dinner and continued discussions Clement Conference Rooms
  End of Day 2

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

7:15 a.m. Morning networking and breakfast Sign in at buffet
8:30 a.m. Physical Sciences at the Petascale Jerry Bernholc, Session chair
8:30 a.m. Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations at the Petascale (pdf) David Ceperley, U. Illinois
9:20 a.m. Moving to Petascale Applications in Biophysics (pdf)

Charles Brooks, U. Michigan

9:50 a.m. Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience (pdf) Peter Cummings, Vanderbilt
10:20 a.m. Break
10: 40 a.m. Black Hole and Neutron Star Simulations: Computing Gravity's Strongest Grip Pablo Laguna, GaTech
11:10 a.m. Moderated panel session: David Ceperley, Charles Brooks, Peter Cummings, Pablo Laguna, Jerry Bernholc
12:00 noon Wrap up/Lunch and adjourn
Lunch available in restaurant
Sign in at buffet