Agenda

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There will also be SciDAC workshops at MIT on Friday following the conference.

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Sunday, June 24

6:00 pmNetworking Reception with CSGF poster session (in lieu of working dinner) - courtesy of Cray/AMD
Tod A. Pascal, CalTech; Amber Bess Sallerson, UNC; Peter Kekenes-Huskey, CalTech; and Michael Wolf, U. Illinois
9:00 pmAdjourn for the day

Monday, June 25

7:30 am Working breakfast: participants to discuss their work for the day’s meeting, session chairs to finalize introductions, and Boardroom & BOF signup
8:30 amWelcome & Announcements - David Keyes, Columbia
8:50 am Opening Session
Session Chair: John Negele, MIT
[8:50-9:15]SciDAC:The Next Generation Michael Strayer, DOE
SciDAC Director
[9:15-10]Keynote:Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Discovery Tony Chan, NSF
10:00 am Discussion Break: (light refreshments)
10:30 am Technical Session: Three 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: Rick Stevens, ANL
[10:30-11]Life Sciences: Reconstruction and Modeling of the Transcriptional Regulatory Network in E. Coli Bernhard Palsson
UCSD
[11-11:30]Life Sciences: Reverse Engineering the Bacterial Cell's Control System Harley McAdams
Stanford Medical
[11:30-12]Climate: Recent Transformational Changes in Climate Research: The Intersection of Science, Computational Science, and Information Technology Dave Bader
LLNL
Noon Working Lunch: BOFs (discussion topics assigned to individual tables)
1:30 pm Technical Session: Three 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: Patrick Worley, ORNL
[1:30-2]Computer Science: The New Landscape of Parallel Computing Architecture John Shalf
LBNL
[2-2:30]Computer Science: A Compiler-Based Strategy for Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications Mary Hall
USC-ISI
[2:30-3]Accelerators: Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation John Cary
TechX
3:00 pm Discussion Break: (light refreshments)
3:30 pm Technical Session: Two 25-minute invited talks and one 40-minute featured talk
Session Chair: Wes Bethel, LBNL
[3:30-4]Computer Science: Understanding Failures in Petascale Computers Garth Gibson
CMU
[4-4:30]Sci. Visualization: In-Situ Visualization for Ultrascale Simulations Kwan-Liu Ma
UC-Davis
[4:30-5:15]Japanese HPC: High Performance Computing beyond Peta Scale in Japan Toichi Sakata
Riken
5:30 pm Free Time: Enjoy Boston!
7:30 pm Special Session: "Right Brain Night" aka "SciDARK" -- a social event
Session Chair: David Keyes, Columbia

Musical (and other arts) performances, including a rendition of the SciDAC anthem (words and music by David Keyes). Attendees who play are encouraged to bring their musical instruments. Vocalists may request sheet music and lyrics in advance.

9:00 pmAdjourn for the day

Tuesday, June 26

7:30 am Working breakfast: participants to discuss their work for the day’s meeting, session chairs to finalize introductions, and Boardroom & BOF signup
8:30 am Technical Session: Two 40-minute featured talks
Session Chair: Phil Colella, LBNL
[8:30-9:15]DoD: Supercomputing in DoD Cray Henry
DoD
[9:15-10]Physics: Building a Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional George Bertsch
U. Washington
10:00 am Discussion Break: (light refreshments)
10:30 am Technical Session: Three 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: John Cary, TechX
[10:30-11]Applied Math: Optimization Problems and Algorithms in SciDAC Applications Jorge Moré
ANL
[11-11:30]Accelerators: Parallel Simulation of Electron Cooling Physics for Relativistic Ion Beams David Bruhwiler
TechX
[11:30-12]Accelerators: Three-Dimensional Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Laser Wakefield Experiments Frank Tsung
UCLA
Noon Working Lunch: BOFs (discussion topics assigned to individual tables)
1:30 pm Technical Session: Three 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: Giullia Galli, UC-Davis
[1:30-2]Chemistry/Materials: Ab initio Simulations of Materials and Molecular Systems Eric Schwegler
LLNL
[2-2:30]Chemistry/Materials: The Multi-Scale Challenge to Many Body Theory Mark Jarrell
U. Cincinnati
[2:30-3]Combustion: Whole-System Simulation of Solid Propellant Rockets Mike Heath
U. Illinois
3:00 pm Discussion Break: (light refreshments)
3:30 pm Technical Session: Three 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: William Tang, PPPL
[3:30-4]Fusion: Plasma Microturbulence Simulation of Instabilities at Highly Disparate Scales Jeff Candy
GAT
[4-4:30]Fusion: Evolution of Nonthermal Particle Distributions in Radio Frequency Heating of Fusion Plasmas Paul Bonoli
MIT
[4:30-5]Sci. Visualization: Petascale Visual Data Analysis in a Production Computing Environment Sean Ahern
ORNL
5:00 pm Free Time: Enjoy Boston!
7:30 pm Poster Session: light refreshments (in lieu of working dinner) - courtesy of SiCortex
Accelerators (Lee, Geddes, Cary)
Astrophysics (Bell, Burrows, Endeve, Kasen, Messer, Salmonson, Spurzem)
Combustion (Cook, Im, Najm)
Fusion (Adams, Batchelor, Cary, CS Chang, Smithe, Sovinec)
Life Sciences (Brenner, Chris Chang, Samatova)
Applied Math (Hovland, Khamayseh, Samtaney, Trebotich, Yang)
Computer Science (Moore, Bernholdt, Hollingsworth, Husbands, Keahey, Tierney)
Viz (Ma/Sanderson, Parker)
9:30 pmAdjourn for the day

Wednesday, June 27

7:30 am Working breakfast: participants to discuss their work for the day’s meeting, session chairs to finalize introductions, and Boardroom & BOF signup
8:30 am Technical Session: Two 40-minute featured talks
Session Chair: Dean Williams, LLNL
[8:30-9:15]Climate: The Future Radiative Forcing of the Earth's Climate System Bill Collins
LBNL/NCAR
[9:15-10]Applied Math: Performance and Scaling of Locally Structured Grid Methods for Partial Differential Equations Phil Colella
LBNL
10:00 am Discussion Break: (light refreshments)
10:30 am Technical Session: Three 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: Peter Lichtner, LANL
[10:30-11]Subsurface Flow: Subsurface Multiphase Flow and Multicomponent Reactive Transport Modeling using High-Performance Computing Glenn Hammond
PNNL
[11-11:30]Subsurface Flow: Particle Methods for Simulation of Subsurface Multiphase Fluid Flow and Biogeological Processes Paul Meakin
INL
[11:30-12]Computer Science: Enabling Petascale Computational Science through Combinatorial Algorithms Alex Pothen
ODU
Noon Working Lunch: BOFs (discussion topics assigned to individual tables)
1:30 pm Technical Session: Three 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: Tony Mezzacappa, ORNL
[1:30-2]Combustion: New Insights into Type Ia Supernova Explosions from Large-Scale Simulations Don Lamb
U. Chicago
[2-2:30]Astrophysics: Modeling Nature's Biggest Bombs: Type Ia Supernovae Stan Woosley
UCSC
[2:30-3]Astrophysics: Binary Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Numerical Relativity Joan Centrella
NASA Goddard
3:00 pm Discussion Break: (light refreshments)
3:30 pm Technical Session: Three 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: Ian Foster, ANL
[3:30-4]Grids: Pleasantly Parallel Computing - Accomplishments and Opportunities Miron Livny
U. Wisconsin
[4-4:30]Sci. Visualization: Architectural Challenges and Solutions for Petascale Visualization and Analysis Hank Childs
LLNL
[4:30-5]Applied Math: Toward Massively Parallel Adaptive Simulations on Unstructured Meshes Mark Shephard
RPI
5:00 pm Free Time: Enjoy Boston!
7:30 pm Poster Session: light refreshments (in lieu of working dinner) - courtesy of IBM
Chemistry/Materials (Canning, Fann, Gordon, Harrison, Shepard/Wagner, Takada, Kalia, Wang)
Climate (Hoffman/Covey, Jacob, McGraw, Middleton, Schuchardt, Stout, Tufo, Taylor/Edwards, Worley/Mirin, Zhu )
Groundwater (Lu/Lichtner, Mills, Palmer, Scheibe, Schuchardt)
QCD (Fleming, Gottlieb, Joo, Van de Water, Zhang)
Applied Math (Bell, Diachin, Li)
Computer Science (Shoshani)
Viz (Johnson, Ma, Owens, Bremer)
9:30 pmAdjourn for the day

Thursday, June 28

7:30 am Working breakfast: participants to discuss their work for the day’s meeting, session chairs to finalize introductions, and Boardroom & BOF signup
8:15 am Technical Session: One 40-minute featured talk and two 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: Habib Najm, SNL
[8:15-9:00]Computer Science: Enabling Distributed Petascale Science Ian Foster
ANL
[9-9:30]Computer Science: Harnessing the Power of the Emerging Petascale Platforms John Mellor-Crummey
Rice U.
[9:30-10]Applied Math: Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing for Petascale Applications Karen Devine
Sandia
10:00 am Discussion Break: (light refreshments)
10:30 am Technical Session: Three 25-minute invited talks
Session Chair: Richard Brower, Boston U.
[10:30-11]QCD: QCD and the Blue Gene Pavlos Vranas
LLNL
[11-11:30]QCD: Lattice QCD with Chiral Quarks - Using Symmetry to Explore Symmetry Breaking Bob Mawhinney
Columbia
[11:30-12]QCD: High-Precision Numerical QCD: Simulation Strategies for Highly Nonlinear Field Theories Peter LePage
Cornell
Noon Working Lunch: BOFs (discussion topics assigned to individual tables)
1:30 pm Technical Session: One 25-minute invited talk followed by TownHall
Session Chair: David Keyes, Columbia
[1:30-2]Sci. Visualization: Visualization and Analytics Advances for SciDAC Science Ken Joy
UC-Davis
[2-3] Town Hall: Outbriefing on the Exaflops for Environment meetings
Horst Simon, LBNL      Thomas Zacharia, ORNL      Rick Stevens, ANL
3:00 pm Discussion Break: (light refreshments)
3:30 pm Vendor response to Town Hall: the Challenges of Exaflops
Session Chair: David Keyes, Columbia
4:30 pmClosing Remarks
David Keyes, John Negele, Rick Stevens
5:00 pmMeeting Adjourns -- Have a safe trip home!

Friday, June 29

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