Discovery 2015: HPC and Cloud Computing Workshop

June 15-24, 2011

Location, June 15-17: Soda Hall – Wozniak Lounge (430-8) – University of California, Berkeley

Location, June 20-24:  CITRIS Building - Sutardja Dai Hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus.

Organizers: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and CITRIS

Participating Institutions: LBNL, UC Berkeley, Yahoo!, Amazon, Google, Cloudera, Microsoft, CITRIS

 

Wednesday, June 15 – 1pm – 5pm

1:00 - 1:10 pm - Welcome – Keith R. Jackson (LBNL)

1:10 – 5:00 pm – UPC Tutorial – Paul Hargrove (LBNL) [slides]

Thursday, June 16 – 8am – 5pm

8:00 – 9:45 am Current Challenges in HPC – John Shalf (LBNL) [slides]

9:45 – 10:15 am – Morning Break

10:15 – 12:00 pm – Exascale Challenges, Programming Models, and Algorithms – Kathy Yelick (LBNL/UCB) [slides]

12:00 – 1 pm - Lunch

1:00 – 1:45 pm - Introduction to CUDA Hemant Shukla (LBNL/NERSC) [slides]

1:45 – 2:45 am – Autotuning and Optimization – Sam Williams (LBNL) [slides]

2:45 – 3:15 pm – Afternoon Break

3:15 - 4:00 pm – Communication Avoiding Algorithms - Erin Carson (UCB) [slides]

4:00 – 5:00 pm – Green Flash and Co-Design – David Donofrio (LBNL) [slides]

Friday, June 17 – 8am – 5pm

8:00 - 8:45 am – PERI Project – David Bailey (LBNL) [slides]

8:45 – 9:45 am – Performance Optimization for the Multicore Era: Hybrid OpenMP-MPI Programming – Nicholas Wright (LBNL/NERSC) [slides]

9:45 – 10:15 am – Morning Break

10:15 – 11:00 am – Performance Analysis of Flash Storage Devices and their Application

in High Performance Computing – Nicholas Wright (LBNL/NERSC) [slides]

11:00 – 11:45 am – Profiling HPC Workloads via Integrated Performance Monitoring – David Skinner (LBNL) [slides]

11:45 – 12:45 pm - Lunch

12:45 – 1:30 pm – FastBit Indexing – John Wu (LBNL) [slides]

1:30 – 2:15 pm – Exascale Data Visualization – Wes Bethel (LBNL) [slides]

2:15 – 2:45 pm – Afternoon break

2:45 – 3:30 pm – Berkeley Lab Checkpoint Restart – Eric Roman (LBNL) [slides]

3:30 – 4:15 pm – DOE ACTS Collection – Tony Drummond (LBNL) [slides]

4:15 – 5:00 pm – Large-Scale Graph Algorithms – Kamesh Madduri (LBNL) [slides]

 

Monday, June 20 –1pm – 5pm

1:00 - 1:10 pm – Welcome – Keith R. Jackson (LBNL)

1:10 – 2:00 pm – Overview of Cloud Computing Technologies – Keith R. Jackson (LBNL) [slides]

2:00 – 2:45 pm – NERSC/Magellan Cloud computing overview – Shane Canon (LBNL/NERSC) [slides]

2:45 – 3:15 pm – Afternoon Break

3:15 – 4:15 pm - Evaluation of Cloud Computing for Science – Lavanya Ramakrishnan (LBNL) [slides]

4:15 – 5:00 pm – Networking Support for Clouds – Eli Dart (LBNL) [slides]

Tuesday, June 21 – 8am – 5pm

8:00 – 12:00 pm – Hadoop Tutorial – Viraj Bhat (Yahoo!) [slides]

12:00 – 1:00 pm – Lunch

1:00 – 3:30 pm – Pig Tutorial – Viraj Bhat (Yahoo!) [slides] [more slides]

3:30 – 5:00 pm – Optional Tour of Campus or Continued Hands-On Exercises [slides]

Wednesday, June 22 – 8am – 5pm

8:00 – 8:45 am – Real-Time Integration of Lagrangian Sensors and Models – Sebastien Blandin (UCB) [slides]

8:45 – 9:30 am – Virtual Machine Design & Performance for HPC Workloads – Costin Iancu (LBNL) [slides]

9:30 – 10:15 am – Deploying Your Cluster to the Cloud: An ATLAS Experience – Yushu Yao (LBNL/NERSC) [slides]

10:15 – 10:45 am – Break

10:45 – 11:15 am – HPC Cloud Usage for Lattice Optimization at Advanced Light Source - Krishna Muriki (LBNL) [slides]

11:15 – 12:00 pm – Hadoop for Cybersecurity and Network Log Analysis – Taghrid Samak (LBNL)[slides]

12:00 – 1:00 pm - Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 pm – Google Prediction API and Distributed Machine Learning – Max Lin (Google)[slides]

2:00 – 2:45 pm – Google Exacycle – Running Large Scale Scientific Codes at Google – David Konerding (Google) [no slides checkout Google Exacycle]

2:45 – 3:15 pm – Afternoon Break

3:15 – 4:15 pm – BitBlaze, Cloud Security, Security Analytics and Data Mining – Dawn Song (UCB) [slides]

4:15 – 5:00 pm – No-SQL databases – Dan Gunter (LBNL) [slides]

Thursday, June 23 – 8am – 5pm

8:00am – 8:45 am –– LINQ, Dryad and Windows HPC – Ade Miller (Microsoft) [slides]

8:45 – 12:00 pm – Amazon AWS Overview – Jinesh Varia (Amazon) [slides]

Noon – 1:00 pm - Working lunch

1:00 – 2:00 pm – Production Hadoop-based Big Data Systems in Enterprise Organizations – Charles Zedlewski (Cloudera)[slides]

2:00 – 2:15 pm – Afternoon Break

2:15 – 3:15 pm – Eucalyptus Overview – Lavanya Ramakrishnan (LBNL/NERSC)[slides]

3:30 – 5 pm – Tour of LBNL

Friday, June 24 – 8am – 11am

8:00 – 11:00 am Eucalyptus Tutorial – Iwona Sakrejda (LBNL/NERSC)[slides]