Program

Monday, 01-May-2006 18:13:27 JSTDay1(19th April)  |  Day2(20th April)

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10:00	Welcome and Introduction Yutaka Akiyama, Rajeev Thakur, Ed Jedlicka
10:15	Session 1: BG/L Intro and MPI (Chair: Rajeev Thakur) "BG/L Status and Update" Nobuyuki Koizumi (IBM) "BG/L MPI Performance Secrets" George Almasi (IBM)
11:15	Keynote Speech (Chair: Yutaka Akiyama) "Supercomputing in Japan" Yoshio Oyanagi (Kogakuin Univ.)
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Session 2: File Systems (Chair: Alok Choudhary) "I/O and File Systems, GPFS" Todd Inglett (IBM) "PVFS2 and Parallel I/O on BG/L" Rob Ross (ANL)
14:00	Session 3: OS (Chair: Bill Gropp) "Compute Node, I/O Node OS" Patrick McCarthy and Todd Inglett (IBM) "ZeptoOS" Pete Beckman (ANL)
15:00	Coffee
15:30	Session 4: Experiences from BG/L Sites (Chair: Susan Coghlan) Andrew Pochinsky (MIT) Yasuyuki Yamaguchi (CBRC, AIST) Fumiyasu Ishibashi (IBM)
16:30	Session 5: Applications (Chair: Yutaka Akiyama)  "High Throughput Convolution for Protein Docking" Yuichiro Hourai (CBRC, AIST)  "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Prion Protein"  Masakazu Sekijima (CBRC, AIST)  "Quantum Chromodynamics Simulation"  Shoji Hashimoto (KEK)  "Large scale structural analysis using ADVC on Blue Gene"  Hiroshi Akiba (Allied Engineering) "Scalability of GeoFEM on BG/L prototype" Kengo Nakajima (Univ. Tokyo)
17:45	Adjourn
18:00	Mixer

10:00	Session 6: Resource Allocation (Chair: Masakazu Sekijima) "Resource Managers, Load Leveller" Todd Inglett (IBM) "Cobalt" Narayan Desai (ANL)
11:00	Session 7: System Management (Chair: Ed Jedlicka) "System Management" Patrick McCarthy (IBM) "System Management" Susan Coghlan (ANL)
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Keynote Speech (Chair: Rajeev Thakur) "Blue Gene/L: Enabling Breakthrough Science in Computational Biology and Beyond" Gyan Bhanot (IBM)
14:00	Session 8: Optimization (Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka) "Compilers and Optimization" Allan Martin, Mark Mendell (IBM)
14:30	Blue Protein Tour
15:00	Coffee
15:30	Session 9: Tools (Chair: Pete Beckman) "New Features in the HPC Toolkit to support Ultrascale Systems" David Klepacki (IBM) "Performance Tools, TAU" Alan Morris (Univ. Oregon)
16:30	Panel: "System Software Issues for the Future" (Chair: Bill Gropp)  Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Tech) Alok Choudhary (Northwestern Univ.)  Henry Tufo (Univ. Colorado and NCAR)  Pete Beckman (ANL)  Todd Inglett (IBM)
17:30	Adjourn

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