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OSCER

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Table of Contents


Tuesday October 11 2011

Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing Tutorial
9:00am-4:30pm
Prerequisites: (a) one semester of programming in any of C, C++ or Fortran, recently; (b) one semester of experience with any Unix-like operating system (including Linux), recently.  
Thurman J. White Forum Building
Conference Room B
Directions

Workshop Slides
Please note that this is an
INCOMPLETE collection of slides: Much of what is posted here WON'T be covered, and much of what will be covered ISN'T posted here.
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 Multithreading PowerPoint     PDF
Distributed Multiprocessing PowerPoint     PDF
Applications & Types of Parallelism PowerPoint     PDF
Multicore Madness PowerPoint     PDF
High Throughput Computing PowerPoint     PDF
GPGPU: Number Crunching in Your Graphics Card PowerPoint     PDF
Grab Bag: Scientific Libraries, I/O Libraries, Visualization PowerPoint     PDF
Learning Batch Computing on Sooner Word Doc     PDF
MPI Hello World (very simple program) Word Doc     PDF
MPI Greetings (covered in Charlie's slides) Word Doc     PDF


Reception and Poster Session
Tuesday October 11 2011
5:30-7:00pm
Stephenson Research & Technology Center
Atrium
Directions


Supercomputing Tour
Tuesday October 11 2011
7:30-8:30pm
Merrick Computing Center
Directions


Wednesday October 12 2011 8:00am-5:00pm
Symposium

Thurman J. White Forum Building
Directions

TIME ROOM SPEAKER TOPIC SLIDES
7:30am -
3:00pm
Forum Hub REGISTRATION
7:30am -
4:00pm
Conf Rm A Vendor Exposition
7:30am -
9:00am
Conf Rm A BREAKFAST (continental)
8:00am -
8:15am
Conf Rm B Loretta Early,
Interim Chief Information Officer & Vice President for Information Technology
(University of Oklahoma)
WELCOME
8:15am -
9:00am
Conf Rm B Henry Neeman (University of Oklahoma) PLENARY:
"OSCER State of the Center Address"
PowerPoint2007
9:00am -
9:45am
Conf Rm B Daniel Andresen
(Kansas State University),
Dimitrios Papavassiliou
(University of Oklahoma),
Dan Weber (Tinker Air Force Base),
James Wicksted (Oklahoma EPSCoR, Oklahoma State University)
PLENARY PANEL:
"The Impact of OSCER on OU, Oklahoma and Beyond"
Slides available after the Symposium
9:45am -
10:00am
Conf Rm A SNACK BREAK
10:00am -
11:00am
Conf Rm B Barry I. Schneider (National Science Foundation) KEYNOTE:
"XSEDE: An Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for US Scientists and Engineers"
Slides available after the Symposium
11:00am -
11:30am
Conf Rm B Douglas Cline (Lockheed Martin Aerospace Company) PLENARY:
"Industrial-Strength High Performance Computing for Science and Engineering"
Slides available after the Symposium
11:30am -
12:00noon
Conf Rm B Leesa Brieger (Renaissance Computing Institute/University of North Carolina) PLENARY:
"iRODS and Large-Scale Data Management"
PPTX
PDF
12:00noon - 1:30pm Conf Rm A LUNCH (buffet taco bar)
1:30pm -
2:30pm
Conf Rm B Stephen R. Wheat
(Intel)
PLATINUM SPONSOR:
"On Bringing HPC Home for Growth"
PDF
2:30pm -
2:35pm
TRANSITION
2:35pm -
3:05pm
Breakout Sessions I
Conf Rm B S. Kay Hunt
(Purdue University),
Dana Brunson
(Oklahoma State University),
Jeff Pummill
(University of Arkansas)
"Panel: Engaging Campuses through Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A1 David Bigham
(Isilon Systems)
"Scale Out NAS for High Performance Applications" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Charlie Peck
(Earlham College)
"LittleFe: The HPC Education Appliance" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A3/A5 Justin Wozniak
(Argonne National Laboratory)
"Swift: Parallel Scripting for Clusters, Clouds and Supercomputers" (1 hour) Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A6 Kirk Jordan
(IBM)
"HPC Directions Toward Exascale: An Application Orientation" PDF
3:05pm -
3:20pm
Conf Rm A SNACK BREAK
3:20pm -
3:50pm
Breakout Sessions II
Conf Rm B Dana Brunson
(Oklahoma State University)
"How I Got a Grant for a Supercomputer" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A1 Jim Gutowski
(Dell)
"Dell Research Computing: Giving XSEDE Researchers the POWER TO DO MORE" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Luis Vicente
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico)
"The First Workshop Between OSCER and PUPR: Buildout of a LittleFe in the Caribbean" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A3/A5 Justin Wozniak
(Argonne National Laboratory/ University of Chicago)
"Swift: Parallel Scripting for Clusters, Clouds and Supercomputers" (1 hour, continued) Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A6 Tom Zahniser
(QLogic)
"MPI Performance on AMD & Intel Platforms: Not All IB is Created Equal" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm B2/B4 Larry Fisher
(Creative Consultants)
"Career Development -- Your Six Choices" Slides available after the Symposium
3:50pm -
3:55pm
TRANSITION
3:55pm -
4:25pm
Breakout Sessions III
Conf Rm B Dan Andresen
(Kansas State University), Rick McMullen
(University of Kansas)
"The Emerging Role of the Great Plains Network in Bridging Campuses to Regional and National Cyberinfrastructure Resources" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A1 Brian Forbes
(Mellanox)
"Paving the Road to Exascale Computing" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Charlie Peck
(Earlham College)
"LittleFe Birds-of-a-Feather"  
Seminar Rm A3/A5 James E. Stine, Jr.
(Oklahoma State University)
"Using Parallel Computing to Design and Simulate Multi-Core System on Chip Architectures" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A6 Nicholas Materer
(Oklahoma State University)
"Computational Studies of Surface Reaction: From Small Cluster to Nanoporous Materials" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm B2/B4 Brian Cremeans
(University of Oklahoma)
"Informatics Services and Infrastructure for Research Support" Slides available after the Symposium
4:25pm -
4:30pm
TRANSITION
4:30pm -
5:00pm
Breakout Sessions IV
Conf Rm B Alex Barclay
(Oklahoma Innovation Institute)
"An Introduction to the Tulsa Community Supercomputer" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A1 Keith Brewster (University of Oklahoma) "Nowcasting and Short-term Forecasting of Thunderstorms and Severe Weather using OSCER" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Jim Glover
(Oklahoma State University - Oklahoma City)
"A Day in the Life of an Oklahoma Information Technology Mentorship Program Volunteer" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A3/A5 Dimitrios Papavassiliou
(University of Oklahoma)
"Design of Thermally Conducting Nanocomposites with Computations" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A6 Lina Sawalha
(University of Oklahoma)
"Phase-aware Thread Scheduling for Heterogeneous Systems from Multicore Processors to the Cloud" PDF
Seminar Rm B2/B4 Jeff Pummill
(University of Arkansas)
"Birds of a Feather Session: HPC System Administrator Town Hall" Slides available after the Symposium

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