Agenda
All events are in the NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, Illinois.
Wednesday, April 1
2:15 p.m.
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Bring to NCSA Circle Drive
3:00 p.m.
Registration
3:30 p.m.
Hands-on with GPU/Cell clustersChair: Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA
1030 NCSA
5:00 p.m.
Break/snacks
5:30 p.m.
Hands-on with GPU/Cell clusters(Attendees can continue working with the systems)
1030 NCSA
7:30 p.m.
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Return to Holiday Inn
Thursday, April 2
7:30 a.m.
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Bring to NCSA Circle Drive
8:10 a.m.
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Bring to NCSA Circle Drive
8:00 a.m.
Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.
GPU TechnologyChair: Wen-mei Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NCSA Auditorium
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.
Cell TechnologyChair: Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA
NCSA Auditorium
Noon
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Accelerator ProgrammingChair: John Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NCSA Auditorium
3:00 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
Accelerator Clusters/FrameworksChair: Craig Steffen, NCSA
NCSA Auditorium
5:30 p.m.
Dinner / Poster Session
Some optimization strategies for running weather codes efficiently on GPUs
Mark Govett, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
GPU implementation of multiphase lattice-Boltzmann simulations
Stuart Walsh, Department of Geology and Geophysics, the University of Minnesota
Modeling of Tsunami Equations and Atmospheric Swirling Flows with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Radial Basis Functions (RBF)
Jessica Schmidt, College of Saint Scholastica
Evaluating the Jaccard-Tanimoto Index on Multi-Core Architectures
Vipin Sachdeva, IBM Future Technology Solution Design Center
Quantum Monte Carlo on Graphical Processing Units
Amos Anderson, Caltech
Liouville-von Neumann Molecular Dynamics
Jacek Jakowski, Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University
Two-Electron Integral Evaluation on FPGA, Cell and GPGPU accelerators
Guochun Shi, NCSA
Accelerating Cosmology codes
Robert Brunner, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Solar wind properties at 1 AU, big time series analysis on the Cell cluster at ARSC
Anton Kulchitsky, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, UAF
GPU acceleration of continuum quantum Monte Carlo Simulations
Ken Esler, NCSA
Real-time Registration of 3D Medical Images
Ramtin Shams, The Australian National University
Auto-tuning sparse matrix-vector "stencil" computations for GPUs
Chris Hill, MIT
Porting GENESIS (GENetic-Evolutionary Stokes Inversion Strategy) to NVIDIA's CUDA Architecture
Brian Harker-Lundberg and Kenneth Mighell, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
High-Performance Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of Turbulent Flows using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)
Aaron Shinn and Pratap Vanka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visualization and Computational Steering of Level Sets on the GPU for Seismic Interpretation
Benjamin Kadlec, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
NCSA Atrium
8:00 p.m.
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Return to Holiday Inn
8:45 p.m.
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Friday, April 3
7:30 a.m.
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Bring to NCSA Circle Drive
8:10 a.m.
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Bring to NCSA Circle Drive
8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.
Breakout Sessions
Geosciences
Chair: Robert Wilhelmson, NCSA
1030 NCSA
Computational Chemistry
Chair: Todd Martinez, Stanford
NCSA Auditorium
Astronomy/Astrophysics
Chair: Robert Brunner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1040 NCSA
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.
Breakout Sessions
Geosciences
Chair: Robert Wilhelmson, NCSA
1030 NCSA
Computational Chemistry
Chair: Todd Martinez, Stanford
NCSA Auditorium
Astronomy/Astrophysics
Chair: Robert Brunner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1040 NCSA
Noon
Working Lunch
Summary statements from the communities
1:15 p.m.
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Pick up at NCSA Circle Drive
Take to Willard Airport
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Transportation information
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Return to Holiday Inn
2:00 p.m.
Adjourn