Napa Valley Mamot Hotel

MONDAY, May 6
1 Tutorials
1A
Chair: James Beyer
1B
Chair: Rick Slick
1C
Chair: Brett Lee
0830
Programming Accelerators using OpenACC in the
Cray Compilation Environment
James C. Beyer, Cray Inc.
System Administration for Cray XE and XK Systems
Rick Slick, Cray Inc.
Lustre Troubleshooting and Tuning
Brett Lee, Corporation
1000
Break
1030
Programming Accelerators using OpenACC in the
Cray Compilation Environment
James C. Beyer, Cray Inc.
System Administration for Cray XE and XK Systems
Rick Slick, Cray Inc.
Lustre Troubleshooting and Tuning
Brett Lee, Intel Corporation
1200
Lunch
2A
Chair: John Levesque
2B
Chair: Jeff Keopp
2C
Chair: Chris Gottbrath
1300
Refactoring Applications for the XK7
John Levesque, Cray Inc., Jeff Larkin, NVIDIA
Debugging Heterogeneous HPC Applications with
Totalview
Jeff Keopp and Harold Longley, Cray Inc.
Configuration and Administration of Cray External
Services Systems
Chris Gottbrath, Rogue Wave Software
1430
Break
1500
Refactoring Applications for the XK7
John Levesque, Cray Inc., Jeff Larkin, NVIDIA
Debugging Heterogeneous HPC Applications with
Totalview
Jeff Keopp and Harold Longley, Cray Inc.
Configuration and Administration of Cray External
Services Systems
Chris Gottbrath, Rogue Wave Software
1630
Break
3A
Chair: Colin McMurtie
3B
Chair: Bilel Hadri
3C
Chair:
1700
System Support SIG
Programming Environments, Applications and
Documentation SIG
No content scheduled
1800
Special Event Sponsored by DDN. Concierge (Garden) Courtyard
2 Tutorials
CUG 2013 Meeting Rooms
Event/Facility
Room
General Sessions............Grand Ballroom
Track A............................Zinfandel/Cabernet
Track B............................Merlot/Syrah
Track C............................Vintner’s Ballroom
Board Room ...................Carneros
Breaks/Lunch..................Napa Valley Ballroom
Napa Valley Mamot Hotel
3 Interactive Sessions and BOFs
TUESDAY, May 7
4 General Session
Chair: Nicholas P. Cardo
0830
CUG Welcome, Nicholas P.Cardo, CUG President, National Energy Research Computing Centre
0900
Keynote Speech, “Why We Need Exascale and why we won’t get there by 2020”, Horst D. Simon, Deputy Director Berkeley Laboratory 1000
Break
5 General Session
Chair: David Hancock
1030
Introduction: David Hancock, CUG Vice-President and Program Chair, Indiana University 1030
Cray Corporate Update, Peter Ungaro, Chief Executive Officer, Cray Inc.
1100
Cray in Supercomputing, Peg Williams, Senior Vice President High Performance Computing Systems, Cray Inc.
1130
Cray in Big Data, Bill Blake, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Cray Inc.
1200
Lunch
6 Technical Sessions
1300
6A
Chair: Tina Butler
6B
Chair: Jason Hill
6C
Chair: Liz Sim
Cray System Software Road Map
Charlie Carroll, Cray Inc.
Instrumenting IOR to Diagnose Performance Issues on
Lustre File Systems
Doug J. Petesch, Cray Inc.
The Cray Programming Environment: Current Status
and Future Directions
Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc.
Enhancements to the Cray Performance
Measurements and Analysis Tools
James A. Simmons ,ORNL
Taking Advantage of Multicore for the Lustre Gemini
LND Driver
Heidi Poxon, Cray Inc.
A file system utilization metric for I/O characterization
Andrew Uselton, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Cray Compiling Environment Update
Suzanne LaCroix, Cray Inc.
7A
Chair: Jeff Broughton
7B
Chair:Andrew Uselton
7C
Chair: Sadaf Alam
New Member Talk: iVEC and the Pawsey Centre
Charles Schwartz, iVEC
Architecting Resilient Lustre Storage Solution ClusterStor 6000
John Fragalla, Xyratex
Optimizing GPU to GPU Communication on Cray XK7
Jeff M. Larkin, NVIDIA
1330
1400
Cray Future Directions in Installation, Image
Management, Provisioning, and Configuration
John Hesterberg, Cray Inc.
1430
Break
7 Technical Sessions
1500
1530
The Evolution of Cray Management Services
Tara Fly, Cray Inc.
BlueWaters I/O Performance
Mark S. Swan, Doug Petesch, Cray Inc.
Debugging and Optimizing Programs Accelerated with
Intel® Xeon® Phi™ Coprocessors
Chris Gottbrath, Rogue Wave Software
1600
Cray XC30 Installation - A System Administration
Overview
Nicola Bianchi, Colin McMurtie, Sadaf Alam, CSCS
Sonexion 1600 I/O Performance
Nicholas P. Cardo, NERSC
Portable and Productive Performance on Hybrid
System with OpenACC Compilers and Tools
Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc.
1630
Cray External Services Systems Overview
Harold Longley, Cray Inc.
OLCF’s new 1 TB/s next-generation Spider filesystem
Sarp Oral, David Dillow, Douglas Fuller, Jason Hill,
Dustin Leverman, Sudharshan Vazkudai, James H.
Rogers, ORNL
Tesla v’s Xeon Phi v’s Radeon: A Compiler Writer’s
Perspective
Brent Leback, The Portland Group
1700
Break
THURSDAY, May 9
15 Technical Sessions
15A
Chair: Liam Forbes
15B
Chair: TBA
15C
Chair: TBA
0830
Preparing SLURM For Use On The Cray XC30
Stephen Trofinoff, Colin McMurtie, CSCS
Introduction to HSA Hardware, Software and HSAIL
with A HPC Usage Example
Vinod Tipparaju, AMD,Inc.
Improving the Performance of the PSDNS PseudoSpectral Turbulence Application on Blue Waters using
Coarray Fortran and Task Placement
Robert A. Fielder, Cray Inc.
0900
Lesson’s From 20 Continuous Years of Cray Systems
Liam Forbes, ARSC
Reliable Computation Using Unpredictable
Components
Joel Stevenson, Sandia National Laboratories
A Review of the Challenges and Results of Refactoring
the Community Climate Code COSMO for Hybrid Cray
HPC Systems
Benjamin Cumming, CSCS, Thomas C. Schulthess,
ETH Zurich
0930
Cray Workload Management with PBS Professional
12.0
Scott J. Suchyta, Sam Goosen, Altair Engineering, Inc.
Requirements Analysis for Adaptive Supercomputing
using the Cray XK7 as a Case Study
Sadaf Alam, CSCS
CloverLeaf: Preparing Hydrodynamics Codes for
Exascale
Andrew Mallinson, University of Warwick
1000
Break
16A
Chair: John Noe
16B
Chair: Liz Sim
16C
Chair: Nicholas Wright
1030
Methods and Results for Measuring Kepler Utilization
on a Cray XK7
Jim Rogers, ORNL, Roger Green, NVIDIA, Kevin
Peterson, Cray Inc.
Building Balanced Systems for the Cray Datacenter
of the Future
Keith Miller, DataDirect Networks.
Measuring Sustained Performance on Blue Waters
with the SPP Metric
William Kramer, NCSA
1100
Resource Utilization Reporting on Cray Systems
Andrew P. Barry, Cray Inc.
Surviving the Life Sciences Data Deluge using Cray
Supercomputers
Bhanu Rekapalli, NICS
Experiences Porting a Molecular Dynamics Code to
GPUs on a Cray XK7
Donald K. Berry, Indiana University
1130
The Complexity of Arriving at Useful Reports to Aid in
the Succesful Operation of an HPC Center
Ashley Barker, Chris Fuson, ORNL
Early Experience on Crays with Genomic Applications
Used as Part of Next Generation Sequencing
Workflow
Carlos P. Sosa, Cray Inc. and University Of Minnesota
Rochester
Chasing Exascale: the Future of GPU Computing
Steve Scott, NVIDIA
1200
Lunch
17A
Chair: Tara Fly
17B
Chair: Jenett Tillotson
17C
Chair
System Monitoring, Accounting and Metrics
Tara Fly, Cray Inc., Jim Rogers, ORNL
Experiences with MOAB and Torque
Jenett Tillotson, Indiana University
No content scheduled
18A
Chair: TBA
18B
Chair: TBA
18C
Chair: Liam Forbes
1300
Blue Waters Acceptance: Challenges and
Accomplishments
Celso L. Mendes, NCSA
High Fidelity Data Collection and Transport Service
Applied to the Cray XE6/XK6
Jim Brandt, Ann Gentile, Sandia National Laboratories
Cray’s Cluster Supercomputer Architecture
John Lee, Shannon Davidson, Cray Inc.
1330
Saving Energy with “Free” Cooling and the Cray XC30
Brent Draney, NERSC
Production I/O Characterization on the Cray XE6
Philip Carns, Argonne National Laboratory
1400
Real-time mission critical supercomputing with Cray
systems
Jason Temple, Luc Corbeil, CSCS
Improvement of TOMCAT-GLOMAP File Access with
User Defined MPI Datatypes
Mark Richardson, Numerical Algorithms Group
Performance Metrics and Application Experiences on
a Cray Xtreme-X Supercomputer Equipped with Intel®
Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors
Vincent C. Betro, NICS
1430
Break
19A
Chair: TBA
19B
Chair: Zhengji Zhao
19C
Chair: John Noe
1500
Effect of Rank Placement on Cray XC30
Communication Cost
Reuben D. Budiardja, NICS
The State of the Chapel Union
Martha B. Dumler, Cray Inc.
A Single Pane of Glass: Bright Cluster Manager
for Cray
Matthijs van Leeuwen, Bright Computing
1530
Evaluating Node Orderings For Improved
Compactness
Carl Albing, Cray Inc.
Recent enhancements to the Automatic Library
Tracking Database infrastructure at the Swiss National
Supercomputing Centre
Timothy W. Robinson, CSCS
Supporting Multiple Workloads, Batch, and Computing
Environments on a Single Linux Cluster
Larry Pezzaglia , NERSC
1600
Improving Task Placement for Applications with 2D,
3D, and 4D Virtual Cartesian Topologies on 3D Torus
Networks with Service Nodes
Robert A. Fielder, Cray Inc.
Comparing Compiler and Library Performance in
Material Science Applications on Edison
Jack Deslippe, NERSC
Tools to Execute An Ensemble of Serial Jobs in
Parallel on a Cray
Abhinav S. Thota, Robert Henschel, Indiana University
8 Interactive Sessions and BOFs
8A
Chair: Nicholas P. Cardo
8B
Chair: Duncan Poole
8C
Chair: John Hesterberg
1715
Open Discussion with CUG Board
Nicholas P Cardo, CUG President
OpenACC Birds of a Feather
Duncan Poole, NVIDIA
System Management Futures
John Hesterberg, Cray Inc.
1800
Cray Inc. Social on the NAPA Valley Wine Train. Assemble in lobby from 18:00. Train departs 18:30 sharp
16 Technical Sessions
WEDNESDAY, May 8
9 General Session
Chair: Nicholas P. Cardo
0830
CUG Business: AC Introductions, Election Presentations, Voting, Nicholas P. Cardo, CUG President, NERSC
0900
Invited Talk: “Big Bang, Big Data, Big Iron – Analyzing Data From The Planck Satellite Mission”, Dr Julian Borrill, Computational Cosmology Centre, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
0945
CUG Business: Election Results
1000
Break
10 General Session
Chair: David Hancock
1030
Introduction and CUG2013 Best Paper Award
1100
Invited Talk: “The Changing Face of High Performance Computing”, Rajeeb Hazra, Intel Corporation
1200
Lunch
17 Interactive Lunchtime Sessions
11 Interactive Lunchtime Session
1200
11A/B
Chair: David Henty
11C
Chair: Jeff Keopp
HPC Training and Education
David Henty, EPCC
Cray External Services Systems
Jeff Keopp, Cray Inc.
1200
18 Technical Sessions
12 General Session
Chair:David Hancock
1300
1 on 100 (or more), Peter Ungaro, CEO, Cray Inc. (No other Cray personnel and no Cray Vendor Partners please)
13 Technical Sessions
13A
Chair: Tina Butler
13B
Chair: Jason Hill
13C
Chair: Helen He
1400
SeaStar Unchained: Multiplying the Performance of
the Cray SeaStar Network
David Dillow, ORNL
The Changing Face of Storage for Exascale
Brent Gorda, Intel Corporation
Using the Cray Gemini Performance Counters
Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories
1430
Intel Multicore, Manycore, and Fabric Integrated
Parallel Computing, Present and Futures
Jim Jeffers, Intel Corporation
Cray’s Implementation of LNET Fine Grained Routing:
Overview and Characteristics
Mark Swan, Cray Inc., Nic Henke, Xyratex
Performance Measurements of the NERSC Cray
Cascade System
Nicholas Wright, LBNL
1500
Understanding the Impact of Interconnect Failures on
System Operation
Matthew A. Ezell, ORNL
Discovery in Big Data using a Graph Analytics
Appliance
Amar Shan, Ramesh Menon, Cray Inc.
From thousands to millions: visual and system
scalability for debugging and profiling
David Lecomber, Ian Lumb, Allinea Software
1530
Break
14A
Chair: TBA
14B
Chair:Steve Simms
14C
Chair: Helen He
1545
Investigating Topology Aware Scheduling
David Jackson, Adaptive Computing
Evaluation of A Flash Storage Filesystem on the
Cray XE-6
Jay Srinivasan, Shane Canon, LBNL
Performance Comparison of Scientific Applications on
Cray Architectures
Haihang You, Ruben D. Budiardja, NICS
1615
External Torque / Moab and Fairshare on the Cray
XC30
Tina Declerck, NERSC
Analysis of Application IO performance on the Blue
Waters File System Architecture
Kalyana Chadalavada, Roberto Sisneros, University
of Illinois
First 12-cabinets Cray XC30 System at CSCS: Scaling
and Performance Efficiencies of Applications
Neil Stringfellow, CSCS
Production Experiences with the Cray-Enabled
TORQUE Resource Manager
Matthew Ezell, ORNL
Trillion Particles, 120,000 cores, and 350 TBs:
Lessons Learned from a Hero I/O Run on Hopper
Surendra Byna, Andrew Uselton, LBNL
Effects of Hyper-Threading on the NERSC workload
on Edison
Zhengji Zhao, LBNL
14 Technical Sessions
1645
1730
CUG Night Out at Castello Di Amorosa, Buses leave at 17:30 * Bring a light jacket or sweater to wear during dinner *
19 Technical Sessions
20 General Session
Chair: Nicholas P. Cardo
1645
LAC Appreciation 1700
Next CUG: CSCS 1715
Adjourn