Blue Waters events

2012

Aug. 13-17 Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors

Jul. 30 - Aug. 3 Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Science Cloud Summer School

Jul. 15-16 BW/XSEDE Workshop

Jul. 10-13 Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Programming Heterogeneous Parallel Computing Systems

May 7-9 Charm Workshop

2011

Dec. 13-16 PRAC Workshop

Aug. 15-19 Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors

Jul. 12-15 Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Petascale Programming Environments and Tools

Apr. 18-20 9th Annual Workshop on Charm++ and its Applications

Apr. 14-15 TeraGrid/Blue Waters Symposium on Data-Intensive Analysis, Analytics, and Informatics

2010

Dec. 10 Webinar: Using Eclipse

Sep. 27 Webinar: I/O systems

Oct. 18-20 Fall PRAC Workshop
This workshop provided details about the Blue Waters system and how to prepare applications to take best advantage of IBM's POWER7 multicore chips and the innovative interconnection network linking them. Tools were described and demoed for software development and workflow, performance data collection, debugging, visualization, data movement and storage, application performance simulation, and dynamic load balancing. Additional topics included scientific libraries, advanced programming models, and fault tolerance.

Nov. 18 Blue Waters User Group Meeting

Aug. 26 The Blue Waters Petascale Computer—Scientific research opportunities at the frontiers of computing
Bob Wilhelmson, NCSA Chief Science Officer and leader of a Blue Waters PRAC, gave this talk at Penn State.

Aug. 17 Blue Waters—Computational Research and Education at the Forefront of Ultrascale Computing
Blue Waters co-principal investigator Bill Gropp gave this talk at Argonne National Laboratory.

Aug. 6 Webinar: SIMD coding

Aug. 2-6 Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors

July 26-30 Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Big Data for Science

July 9 Webinar: Performance tools on Blue Drop

July 6-9 Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Petascale Programming Environments and Tools

June 23-24 Building the Data Center of the Future Second Biennial Workshop: HPC Data Centers
More than 110 professionals from around the globe involved in building and operating data centers participated in this workshop.

June 22-24 Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing Workshop
This workshop brought together researchers from INRIA and the University of Illinois to explore challenges related to post-petascale supercomputers and present early results of their joint work. The five main topics were: petascale applications, parallel programming (hybrid, hierarchical, heterogeneous), resilience, numerical algorithms and libraries, and I/O.

June 17 National Petascale Computing Facility Community Day
More than 1,000 visitors toured the new National Petascale Computing Facility, which will house Blue Waters and other supercomputers. Read more, see photos, and watch a short video of Community Day.

June 16 Webinar: General info for PRACs

May 24-June 4 Undergraduate Petascale Institute
The Undergraduate Petascale Institute prepares undergraduate students to integrate computer science and other research disciplines. Participants from throughout the country spent two weeks at NCSA. Watch a short video about the institute.

May 11 Private Sector Program Annual Meeting: IBM POWER7 Technical Workshop

April 26-28 Blue Waters PRAC Workshop

March 25-26 Blue Waters Performance Modeling Workshop
This workshop covered on analytical performance models for petascale applications, training participants in the use of performance modeling techniques.

March 22-24 Extreme Scale I/O and Data Analysis Workshop
This invitation-only workshop at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, co-sponsored by Blue Waters and TeraGrid, included sessions on application needs for I/O and data management, filesystems, I/O libraries, and large-scale data management. Presentation slides are available.

Feb. 25 Webinar: Getting Started with Performance Tools

Feb. 12 Webinar: General info for PRACs

Feb. 1 Webinar: PRAC Process
This webinar described the process for gaining access to the Blue Waters supercomputer through the National Science Foundation's Petascale Computing Resource Allocation (PRAC) program, including tips on writing a successful PRAC proposal. Slides from the webinar are available.

2009

Dec. 2-4 Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing Workshop

Nov. 18 SC09 Birds-of-a-Feather: Early Access to the Blue Waters Sustained Petascale System
Robert Fiedler, Technical Program Manager for Science and Engineering Applications for Blue Waters, gave a presentation at the SC09 Conference Birds-of-a-Feather.

Aug. 10-14 Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Many-Core Processors for Science and Engineering Applications

Aug. 3-7 Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Scaling to Petascale

June 10-12 Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing Workshop

March 19-20 Fault Tolerance for Extreme-Scale Computing
This invitation-only workshop, co-sponsored with TeraGrid, focused on fault-tolerance on large systems in order to determine what work is required to run applications on emerging petascale systems without faults causing large numbers of application failures.

2008

Feb. 12-13 Building the Data Center of the Future: Effective Energy-Efficient Design
This free workshop brought together experts from research centers, the IT industry, and engineering, consulting, and architecture firms to explore the challenges involved in planning, designing, engineering, constructing, monitoring, and maintaining the data center of the future.

Oct. 15-17 Pathways to Blue Waters—Communication-Intensive Algorithms and Applications

Aug. 18-22 Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering summer school: Accelerators for Science and Engineering Applications

June 9 Petascale Summer Workshop
This Las Vegas workshop, co-sponsored by the Blue Waters project and TeraGrid and co-located with the 2008 TeraGrid Conference, attracted about 55 researchers interested in petascale computing.