Agenda SanFrancisco11

Draft Agenda (6-7Apr11) for the San Francisco meeting

The meeting agenda is also available in PDF.

The slides from the meeting are being put on-line as they become available.

April 5th, Tuesday: On your own arrive at Hilton Hotel, Union Square in San Francisco, CA (US). Note that high speed Internet access in your room is NOT complementary to IESP attendees or provided by the workshop. If you would like internet access in your hotel room, you will be billed; this as an incidental cost. We will have internet access provided during the meeting.

• 6:00 - 8:00 pm Reception/light finger food at Hilton Hotel, Union Square The reception will be in Hilton’s Vista ("Executive") Lounge located on the 45th floor of Tower 1.

Day 1

April 6, Wednesday

• 7:30 am Registration and breakfast buffet
• 8:45 am Welcome, Objectives and Organization of the meeting - Jack Dongarra and Pete Beckman
• 9:00 am IESP meetings summarized, Peter Michielse, NCF/NWO
• 9:30 am Report on software stacks that are in use today at major centers, Bernd Mohr, Julich
• 10:15 am Break
• 10:45 am European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI)
  • EESI Current status, JY Berthou/EDF R&D (5 mins.)
  • Enabling technologies for Exaflop computing and Application Grand Challenges EESI WPs, Stéphane Requena/GENCI and/or Bernd Mohr/JSC (10 mins.)
  • System software F. Cappello (15 mins.)
  • Focus on EESI Working Groups
    • Industrial & Engineering Apps (Transport, Energy), JC. André - CERFACS (15 mins.)
    • Weather, Climatology and Earth Sciences, G. Aloisio - ENES - CMCC (15 mins.)
    • Fundamental Sciences G. Sutmann - CECAM/JSC (15 mins.)
    • Life Sciences and Health, Ramon, Goni - BSC (15 mins.)
    • Hardware roadmap, links with Vendors, a European perspective, Riccardo Brunino - CINECA (15 mins.)
• 12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
• 1:30 -3:30pm DOE DOE’s Exascale Software Center – Pete Beckman, ANL – 30 mins
  • 5 Component Areas report – 15 mins each
    • OSR: Ron Brightwell
    • Programming Models: Barbara Chapman
    • Tools: Bronis de Supinski
    • Mathlibs: Jack Dongarra
    • Data I/0: Rob Ross
  • App inventory report - Al Geist, ORNL– 15 mins
• 3:30 - 4:00 pm Break
• 4:00-4:30pm Report on Japanese efforts – Satoshi Matsuoka, TiTECH, Mitsuhisa Sato, U of Tsukuba; Yutaka Ishikawa, U of Tokyo
• 4:30-5:15pm Reports from G8 Awardees on Exascale Software for Applications -Marc Snir, Bill Tang, and others
• 5:15- 5:45pm Report on Chinese Computing efforts – Jin Zhong, CAS; Lu Yutong, NUDT
• 7:00 pm Banquet at the San Francisco Hilton, Union Square

Day 2

April 7th, Thursday
Morning focus on Co-Design

• 8:00 am Breakfast buffet
• 9:00 - 10:15 am DOE Co-Design Centers
  • Andrew Siegel, ANL, Nuclear Energy;
  • Alice Koniges, LBNL, Fusion;
  • Sriram Swaminarayan, LANL, Materials;
  • Anshu Dubey, U. Chicago, High-Energy Density Physics;
  • Jackie Chen, SNL, Combustion
• 10:15 am - 12:00 am Three breakout groups: Software (Leader: Pete Beckman), Hardware (Leader:Robert Wisniewski, IBM), Apps (Leader:David Keyes, KAUST)

Each group goes off and discusses what they need from the other groups.

• Lay out plan for the next 3 years for collaboration on exascale software -- Reexamine roadmap plans
• Further development of the model of software support

• 12:00 - 12:45 am Plenary: Each of the three groups from the morning reports on their discussions (20 minutes each). Then general discussion and what needs to be traded off.
• 12:45 - 1:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Afternoon session focus on three topics via breakout groups (2.5 hours)

1. Integration of Co-Design, this group creates strawman outline and roadmap from the morning discussion (Leader: Pete Beckman, Bernd Mohr, John Taylor)
   1. Outline of suggested processes, activities, technical issues to enable Co-design between HW vendors, SW developers, and Applications
   2. For co-design to impact the software for exascale systems, the software community will need to understand goals, roadmaps, and key performance characteristics for a variety of crucial applications, and provide feedback to HW vendors and applications on how that will impact the software designs, performance envelopes, programmability.
   3. This breakout group will put together an outline for how exascale software developers can work closely with the application and hardware groups to improve deployed systems.
   4. What are the key performance metrics that need to be defined for system software?
2. IESP Organizational discussion and review (Leaders: Bob Lucas, Satoshi Matsuoka, Jean-Yves Berthou)
   1. Critical issues for IESP
   2. How will the IESP engage the three big projects, X-Stack, EESI, JP
   3. What are the roles for various parts, ie ESC, EESI, IESP, Japan, etc.
   4. Come up with big picture org chart of the IESP, and outline the goals for interaction, how we would work together, and transition IESP from brainstorming/barnstorming of the roadmap to the actual key organizational bits that interact with HW and App groups, and share system software bits and roadmaps.
3. X-Stack from an international perspective; overview and current project plan (Leaders: Paul Messina, Patrick Aerts, Ryutaro Himeno)
   1. Overview of X-Stack plan
   2. Discussion of roadmap and X-Stack work
   3. How to work internationally
   4. Timetable

• 4:00 pm Final session breakout report and charge for next meeting (1 hour; 20 mins for each group above)

Dinner on your own