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Monday October 6 2008

Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing Workshop
9:00am-4:30pm
Co-sponsored by the SC08 Education Committee of the
SC08 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
 
Thurman J. White Forum Building
Room to be announced
Directions

Workshop Slides
Overview of Supercomputing PowerPoint     PDF
The Tyranny of the Storage Hierarchy PowerPoint     PDF
Instruction Level Parallelism PowerPoint     PDF
Stupid Compiler Tricks PowerPoint     PDF
Shared Memory Parallelism PowerPoint     PDF
Distributed Parallelism PowerPoint     PDF
Multicore Madness PowerPoint     PDF
High Throughput Computing PowerPoint     PDF
Grab Bag: Scientific Libraries, I/O Libraries, Visualization PowerPoint     PDF
Parallel Overview PowerPoint     PDF
Introduction to MPI PowerPoint     PDF
Monte Carlo Simulation PowerPoint     PDF
N-Body Simulation PowerPoint     PDF
Transport PowerPoint     PDF
Linear Algebra PowerPoint     PDF
SC08 Education Program Overview PowerPoint     PDF
MPI Overview PowerPoint     PDF
CUDA Programming PowerPoint     PDF

Reception and Poster Session
5:30-7:00pm
Stephenson Research & Technology Center
Atrium
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Tuesday October 7 2008 8:00-5:30pm
Symposium
Thurman J. White Forum Building
Directions

TIME ROOM SPEAKER TOPIC SLIDES
7:30am -
4:00pm
Forum Hub REGISTRATION
7:30am -
5:00pm
Conf Rm A Vendor Exposition
7:30am -
9:00am
Conf Rm A BREAKFAST (continental)
8:00am -
8:15am
Forum Auditorium Dennis Aebersold
Chief Information Officer & Vice President for Information Technology
University of Oklahoma
WELCOME
8:15am -
9:00am
Forum Auditorium Henry Neeman (University of Oklahoma) PLENARY:
"OSCER State of the Center Address"
PowerPoint   PDF
9:00am -
10:00am
Forum Auditorium José Muñoz (National Science Foundation) KEYNOTE:
"High Performance Computing and Cyberinfrastructure Activities at the National Science Foundation"
Slides available after the Symposium
10:00am -
10:15am
Conf Rm A SNACK BREAK
10:15am -
11:00am
Forum Auditorium Michael Mascagni (Florida State University) PLENARY:
"Random Number Generation: A Practitioner's Overview"
PDF
11:15am -
12:00 noon
Forum Auditorium Stephen R. Wheat
(Intel)
PLATINUM SPONSOR:
"Insatiable versus Possible: Challenges on the Road to ExaScale"
PDF
12:00 noon - 1:15pm Conf Rm A LUNCH (buffet taco bar)
1:15pm -
1:45pm
Breakout Sessions I
Seminar Rm A2/A4 William Lu (Platform Computing) "Using and Managing HPC Systems" PDF
Seminar Rm A3/A5 Michael Mascagni
(Florida State University)
"Novel Stochastic Methods in Biochemical Electrostatics"
(1 hour)
PDF
Conf Rm B Dan Stanzione (Arizona State University) "A Scalable Framework for Offline Parallel Debugging" PDF
Seminar Rm A6 Dan Fraser (University of Chicago) "What Happens When Cloud Computing Meets High Performance Computing" PowerPoint   PDF
Seminar Rm A1 Scott Lathrop (TeraGrid) "HPC University" PowerPoint   PDF
1:50pm -
2:20pm
Breakout Sessions II
Conf Rm B Paul Gray (University of Northern Iowa) "High Performance Computing in the Core Computer Science Curriculum" PowerPoint   PDF
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Roger Goff (Sun Microsystems) "Managing Mountains of Data in Large Scale HPC Systems" PDF
Seminar Rm A3/A5 Michael Mascagni
(Florida State University)
"Novel Stochastic Methods in Biochemical Electrostatics"
(continued)
PDF
Seminar Rm A6 Greg Monaco (Great Plains Network) "Roundtable: Great Plains Network Regional CI Planning (Initial Meeting)"
(1 hour)
Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A1 Jeff Pummill (University of Arkansas);
Dana Brunson (Oklahoma State University)
Birds of a Feather session:
"So You Want to Deploy a Production Cluster"
(1 hour)
PDF
2:25pm -
2:55pm
Breakout Sessions III
Conf Rm B Jeff Rufinus (Widener University) "ABINIT: An Open Source Code for Materials Scientists, Computational Chemists, and Solid State Physicists" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Robert Ferdinand (East Central University) "Finite Element Solution of a Groundwater Contaminant Model" PDF
Seminar Rm A6 Greg Monaco (Great Plains Network) "Roundtable: Great Plains Network Regional CI Planning (Initial Meeting)"
(continued)
Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A1 Jeff Pummill (University of Arkansas);
Dana Brunson (Oklahoma State University)
Birds of a Feather session:
"So You Want to Deploy a Production Cluster"
(continued)
PDF
2:55pm -
3:20pm
Conf Rm A SNACK BREAK
3:20pm -
3:50pm
Breakout Sessions IV
Seminar Rm A1 Evan Lemley
and
Tim Handy (University of Central Oklahoma)
"Computational Aspects of Modeling Fluid Flow in Micro-junctions" PDF
Seminar Rm A3/A5 Wesley Emeneker (University of Arkansas) "Cluster Scheduling: Making Everybody Happy All the Time (Yeah Right!)" Slides available after the Symposium
Conf Rm B Dan Weber (Tinker Air Force Base) "Towards a Computationally Bound Numerical Weather Prediction Model" PowerPoint   PDF
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Karen Camarda (Washburn University) "Supercomputing at a Non-PhD Granting Institution" PDF
Seminar Rm A6 Kenji Yoshigoe (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) "Mining for Science and Engineering" PowerPoint   PDF
3:55pm -
4:25pm
Breakout Sessions V
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Takumi Hawa (University of Oklahoma) "Nanoparticle Synthesis and Assembly from Atomistic Simulation Studies" PDF
Seminar Rm A3/A5 Susan J. Schroeder (University of Oklahoma) "Progress Towards Predicting Viral RNA Structure from Sequence: How Parallel Computing Can Help Solve the RNA Folding Problem" PowerPoint2003   PowerPoint2007   PDF
Seminar Rm A1 Keith Brewster (University of Oklahoma) "Using the LEAD Portal for Customized Weather Forecasts on the TeraGrid" PowerPoint   PDF
Seminar Rm A6 Joshua Alexander, Horst Severini (University of Oklahoma) "Implementing Linux-enabled Condor in Multiple Windows PC Labs" PowerPoint   PDF
4:30pm -
5:00pm
Breakout Sessions VI
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Jeni Fan (University of Oklahoma) "Integrating Bayesian Inference with Semantics"  
Seminar Rm A1 Bradley C. Wallet (University of Oklahoma) "GEON2 and the OpenEarth Framework (OEF)" PowerPoint   PDF
Seminar Rm A6 John Antonio (University of Oklahoma) "Reconfigurable Versus Fixed Versus Hybrid Architectures" PowerPoint   PDF
Seminar Rm A3/A5 Larry Fisher (Creative Consultants) "Careers in a Creative Destruction World" PowerPoint   PDF
5:00pm ADJOURN

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