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Last updated: January 29, 2010.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

7:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Registration Open
8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM
Tutorials
Tutorial I
Taking Scientific Computing Mainstream with Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008R2
Wenming Ye, Microsoft Corporation
Tutorial II
Using POINT Performance Tools (PAPI, PerfSuite, TAU, Scalasca and Vampir) to Understand and Optimize Multicore Codes
Allen D. Malony, Sameer Shende (University of Oregon, US)
Dan Terpstra (University of Tennessee at Knoxville, US)
Nick Nystrom (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, US)
Rui Liu (NCSA)
Tutorial III
Modeling and Visualizing Big and Complex Data: A Tutorial on HDF5 and an Extended Example Based on F5
Werner Benger (Louisiana State University, US)
Albert Cheng, Neil Fortner, Elena Pourmal (The HDF Group, US)
Tutorial IV
Linux Cluster Construction
Matthew Woitaszek, Michael Oberg, Russell Gonsalves (National Center for Atmospheric Research, US)
Paul Marshall (University of Colorado, Boulder, US)
10:00 AM
Tutorials Morning Break
10:30 AM
Tutorial I
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Tutorial II
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Tutorial III
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Tutorial IV
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12:00 PM
Tutorials Lunch
1:00 PM
Tutorial I
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Tutorial II
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Tutorial III
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Tutorial V
Performance Analysis and Optimization with Open|SpeedShop
Martin Schulz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US)
David Montoya (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)
Don Maghrak (Krell Institute, US)
2:30 PM
Tutorials Afternoon Break
3:00 PM
Tutorial I
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Tutorial II
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Tutorial III
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Tutorial V
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6:30 PM
Conference
Welcome
LCI 2010 Conference Chair: Luiz DeRose, Cray, Inc.
6:45 PM
Opening Speaker
Developments in High-End CyberInfrastructure
Ralph Roskies, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
7:30 PM
Opening Reception

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Registration Opens
8:30 AM
Welcome
8:45 AM
Keynote 1
Tom Lange, Proctor & Gamble
10:00 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Technical Sessions
Performance I
MODA: A Memory Centric Performance Analysis Tool
Manzano, et al

Integrating System Measurement into Application Performance Analysis
Karavanic, et al
Architecture and Systems I
Faster High-Quality Processor Allocation
Walker, et al

Fairshare Scheduling -- A Case Study
Bui, et al

Microprocessor Design Tradeoffs and Large Distributed Memory Clusters
Alam, et al
12:00 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Technical Sessions
Performance II
HOMME and POPperf High Performance Applications: Optimizations for Scale
Shainer

Red Sky -- Pushing toward Petascale with Commodity Systems
Constantine Pavlakos, Sandia

Automatic Performance Tuning of Cray Scientific Libraries
Adrian Tate, Cray, Inc
Vendor Presentations I
1:30 PM
Design Considerations for a Maximum Performance GPU Cluster
Steve Lyness, Appro
2:00 PM   Cray

2:30 PM   Microsoft
2:00 PM
Break
2:30 PM
Technical Presentations
SC09 Cluster Challenge
Vendor Presentations II
6:30 PM
Banquet Dinner
9:00 PM
Speaker's Corner

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration Open
8:30 AM
Technical Presentations
Vendor Presentations III
8:30 AM
Petascale application: When processors spend more time talking than working
Goh, SGI

9:15 AM
Mellanox Connectivity Solutions: Key Ingredient for Scalable HPC
Gilad Shainer
10:00 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Technical Sessions
Education
Virtual Clusters for Hands-On Linux Cluster Construction Education
Marshall, et al

Teaching Faculty to Teach Cluster Computing
Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma
GPU Compilers
10:30 AM
PGI Accelerator Compilers and CUDA Fortran
Douglas Miles, STMicroelectronics / The Portland Group

11:15 AM
Heterogeneous Multicore Parallel Programming with HMPP
Francois Bodin, CAPS Enterprise
12:00 PM
Box Lunch
1:30 PM
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) Machine Room Tour
Buses will leave from the conference hotel at 1:30 pm for the PSC lab tour. There is no extra charge but participants must sign up in advance.
5:00 PM
Technical Presentation
Special Session on Next-Generation Computing
During this session, a series of representatives from organizations with recent or planned deployments of clustered systems will provide an update on the status and plans for those deployments
6:00 PM
Keynote II: Are you ready for the next bump in the road for HPC application development?
John Levesque / Cray CTO Office - Applications
6:30 PM
Posters Reception

Thursday, March 11, 2010

7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration Open
8:30 AM
Welcome
8:45 AM
Keynote III: GPU Computing at Scale
Steven Parker, Director, HPC & Computational Graphics, NVidia
10:00 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Technical Sessions
Architecture and Systems II
10:30 AM
Green Flash: Exascale Computing on a Petascale Power Budget
John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

11:30 AM
Power Efficiency Evaluation of Microprocessors
Mayer, et al
Technical Briefs
12:00 PM
Conference Awards Luncheon
1:30 PM
Panel: Pedal to the metal: Experiences programming accelerators for HPC
13:00 PM
Closing Remarks
3:15 PM
Informal Gathering of Attendees