NERSC User Group (NUG) 2019 Meeting

Hilton Washington DC/Rockville
Rockville, MD
July 19, 2019

Agenda

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Friday, July 19, 2019

7:30am - 8:15am
Continental Breakfast
 
8:15am - 8:30am
Welcome and Meeting Introduction (3.54 MB)
Richard Gerber, NERSC HPC Department Head/Sr. Science Advisor
8:30am - 9:00am
NERSC Directors Perspective (22.72 MB)
Sudip Dosanjh, NERSC Director
9:00am - 9:30am
NESAP: Application Readiness, Performance & Portability Programs and Best Practices (5.30 MB)
Jack Deslippe, NERSC Application Performance Lead
9:30am - 10:00am
DOE Update/View from Germantown (17.50 MB)
Ben Brown, US Department of Energy / ASCR
10:00am - 10:30am
Data Science, Superfacility, & AI (12.32 MB)
Debbie Bard, NERSC Data Science Engagement Lead
10:30am - 10:45am
Break
 
10:45am - 11:30am
NERSC Operational Results
 
 
• Allocations and Usage (2.71 MB)
Richard Gerber, NERSC
 
• Operational Metrics (320 KB)
Tina Declerck, NERSC Systems Department Head
 
• User Survey Results (2.90 MB)
Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC User Engagement Lead
11:30am - 12:00pm
Defining NUG: Opportunities and Challenges (1.53 MB)
Richard Gerber, NERSC HPC Department Head/Sr. Science Advisor
Alicia Clum, Berkeley Lab; Balint Joo, Jefferson Lab
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Working Lunch: Introducing IRIS, NERSC's New Account Management System (622 KB)
Cory Snavely, NERSC Infrastructure Services Group
1:00pm - 1:20pm
The role of NUG in Educating Policy Makers and the Role of HPC and NERSC in Advancing DOE Mission Science
Don Medley, Berkeley Lab Head of Government and Community Relations
1:20pm - 1:40pm
Jupyter: Redefining the user interface to HPC (4.84 MB)
Rollin Thomas, NERSC Big Data Architect
1:40pm - 2:00pm
Performance Portability and Programming Models for C++ codes (2.56 MB)
Balint Joo, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
2:00pm - 2:20pm
NESAP code optimizations for ab initio nuclear structure calculations (3.20 MB)
Pieter Maris, Iowa State University
2:20pm - 2:40pm
Projecting the Future of Life on Earth: Challenges in Earth System Modeling and Analysis (8.14 MB)
Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2:40pm - 3:00pm
Lessons Learned Migrating Joint Genome Institute Data Science Workloads to the Cori Supercomputer
Bill Arndt, NERSC
3:00pm - 3:20pm
JGI Data Services at NERSC (755 KB)
Alicia Clum, Berkeley Lab
3:20pm - 3:45pm
Break
 
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Q&A with NERSC, DOE, and NUGEX; Open Discussion
 
5:00pm
Adjourn