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Table of Contents


Tuesday October 5 2010

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 Basics     PDF
Exercise: Duck, Duck, Goose!     Link


Reception and Poster Session
Tuesday October 5 2010
5:30-7:00pm
Stephenson Research & Technology Center
Atrium
Directions


Supercomputing Tour
Tuesday October 5 2010
7:30-8:30pm
Merrick Computing Center
Directions


Wednesday October 6 2010 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,
Associate 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"
PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
PDF
9:00am -
9:45am
Conf Rm B Jennifer Schopf (National Science Foundation EPSCoR) PLENARY:
"NSF EPSCoR and the Role of Cyberinfrastructure"
PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
PDF
Video
9:45am -
10:00am
Conf Rm A SNACK BREAK
10:00am -
11:00am
Conf Rm B Horst Simon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) KEYNOTE:
"Exascale Challenges for the Computational Science Community"
PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
PDF
11:00am -
11:30am
Conf Rm B Jan E. Odegard (Rice University) PLENARY:
"University Research Cyberinfrastructure: Dreams, Needs and Realities"
Slides available after the Symposium
11:30am -
12:00noon
Conf Rm B Dan Stanzione (Texas Advanced Computing Center) PLENARY:
"The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure to Feed the World"
Slides available after the Symposium
12:00 noon - 1:15pm Conf Rm A LUNCH (buffet taco bar)
1:15pm -
2:15pm
Conf Rm B Stephen R. Wheat
(Intel)
PLATINUM SPONSOR:
"Cycles for Competitiveness: A View of the Future HPC Landscape"
PDF
2:15pm -
2:30pm
Conf Rm A TRANSITION BREAK
2:30pm -
3:00pm
Breakout Sessions I
Conf Rm B Dan Fraser
(University of Chicago),
Horst Severini
(University of Oklahoma)
"High Throughput Parallel Computing (HTPC)" PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
PDF
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Kevin Heisler
(QLogic)
"Advanced TrueScale InfiniBand Fabric Performance Features" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A1 Greg Clifford
(Cray Inc.)
"Breakthrough Science via Extreme Scalability" PDF
Seminar Rm A3 Wade Vinson
(HP)
"Breakthrough Cost Model for New Data Centers from 150 Kilo Watts to 20 Mega Watts"  
Seminar Rm A5 Greg Monaco
(Great Plains Network)
"Cyberinfrastructure Planning Across the Great Plains" PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
PDF
3:05pm -
3:35pm
Breakout Sessions II
Conf Rm B Amy Apon
(University of Arkansas)
"Investment in High Performance Computing as a Predictor of Research Competitiveness in U.S. Academic Institutions" PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
PDF
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Roger Hall
(University of Arkansas Little Rock)
"Agent Designs for Cloud Bioinformatics" PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
PDF
Seminar Rm A1 Blake T. Gonzales
(Dell Inc.)
"Architecting High Performance Computing Systems for Fault Tolerance and Reliability" PDF
Seminar Rm A3 Kent Winchell
(IBM)
"Petascale Computing for Science" PDF
Seminar Rm A5 Steve Rovarino
(Lumenate/ Quantum)
"Points of Consideration in the Need for Long Term Retention of Scientific Data" PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
PDF
3:35pm -
3:55pm
Conf Rm A SNACK BREAK
3:55pm -
4:25pm
Breakout Sessions III
Conf Rm B Dana Brunson
(Oklahoma State University),
Jeff Pummill
(University of Arkansas)
"Introduction to FREE National Resources for Scientific Computing" PDF
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Clay Carley
(East Central University),
Larry Sells
(Oklahoma City University), Charlie Zhao
(Cameron University)
"Using Remote HPC Resources to Teach Local Courses" PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
PDF
Seminar Rm A1 Dan Dawson
NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory
"High Resolution Numerical Simulations of Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes" Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A3 Evan Lemley
(University of Central Oklahoma)
"Building a System to Perform Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Experiments" PDF
Seminar Rm A5 Annette D. Colbert-Latham
(Visage Production, Inc.)
"Royalties" PowerPoint2003
PowerPoint2007
4:30pm -
5:00pm
Breakout Sessions IV
Seminar Rm A2/A4 Brent Eskridge
(Southern Nazarene University)
"Effective (ab)use of HPC with Non-parallelized Software" PDF
Seminar Rm A1 Kendra Dresback (University of Oklahoma) "The Use of Supercomputing in Hurricane Storm Surge and Hydrodynamic Modeling"
Slides available after the Symposium
Seminar Rm A3 Allen LaBryer
(University of Oklahoma)
"A Harmonic Balance Approach for Large-Scale Problems in Nonlinear Structural Dynamics" PDF
Seminar Rm A5 Deepthi Konatham
(University of Oklahoma)
"Graphene Sheets-Oil Nanocomposites: Equilibrium and Transport Properties from Molecular Simulation" Slides available after the Symposium

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