Petascale Summer Workshop (Monday, June 9, 2008)

Sponsored by the TeraGrid and Blue Waters

Description:

This Petascale workshop is intended to bring the applications and tools communities who will be using Petascale systems together so that they influence each other to improve the overall state of petascale computing.

The workshop is an invitation-only event. Registration is required. There is no cost for this workshop.

Register Here! (use the keyword for both username and password)

Workshop participants are encouraged to attend the TeraGrid '08 conference, for which separate registration is required at http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tg08/index.php?m_b_c=registration

Date and Place (Monday, June 9, 2008)

8:30 - 5:00, Royal Skyboxes 207/208, Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas

Agenda

8:30 - Introduction - National perspective - Abani Patra (NSF)

8:50 - Generic Petascale Machine - Erik DeBenedictis

9:10 - Future tool overview and plans for future tools (what they will do) - Sameer Shende

9:40 - Experiences with tools (general, not machine-specific, what do today's tools tell us for tomorrow) - Tommy Minyard

10:10 - break

10:30 - Discussion/Panel (Moderator: Bob Wilhelmson, Panelists: Dhabaleswar Panda, Erik Schnetter, Allan Snavely)

Questions to be answered/discussed:
• What do application folks think about tools?
• What do they want?
• How can they contribute to testing/proving tools?
• What are the limitations of the tools?

12:00 - lunch

1:00 - Hybrid Programming - Bill Gropp

1:30 - Towards sampling-based performance tools for tuning at the petascale - John Mellor-Crummey

2:00 - Computing on the Petascale Continuum - Paul Henning

2:30 - break

2:45 - Discussion/panel (Moderator: Nick Nystrom, Panelists: Martin Berzins, Jacobo Bielak, Peter Coveney, Kenneth Jansen, Rich Loft)

Questions to be answered/discussed:
• What do apps people see as the hard problems (of things discussed or others)?
• How do the solutions to these problems get shared by the apps folks who develop the solutions?
• What non-application work is needed that would help multiple applications?

4:15 - Closing discussion (Moderator: Scott Lathrop)

Questions to be answered/discussed:
• Should we provide an on-line discussion area where people can share experiences?
• If not, how do we share progress?
• What actions can we take together to move us all forward?
• What petascale meetings are coming next?
• What meetings are missing that we need to have?

Workshop Organizers

Daniel S. Katz, Bob Wilhelmson, Ed Seidel, Burkhard Zink (Blue Waters)
Scott Lathrop, Sergiu Sanielevici, Nick Nystrom (TeraGrid Extreme Scalability Working Group)
Jay Boisseau (TeraGrid'08 Conference Chair)