National Center for Computational Sciences

When: July 29-31, 2008
Where: Pollard Technology Conference Center (Oak Ridge, TN)
Agenda: Download Agenda (Updated 7/11/08)

Attention: As of July 29, registration for the Blue Gene/P Workshop has closed.

Workshop Documents

Day 1 (July 29, 2008)

• New IBM Arrives at NCCS (7.65 MB)
• Blue Gene/P Architecture (23.6 MB)
• BG/P Software Overview (1.83 MB)
• BG/P Software Overview- Debugging (606 KB)
• Application Development for Blue Gene/P (131 KB)

Day 2 (July 30, 2008)

• Blue Gene/P Universal Performance Counters (190 KB)
• The IBM High Performance Computing Toolkit (1.80 MB)

Day 3 (July 31, 2008)

• Compiler Optimization (136 KB)
• General Slides (35.5 KB)
• MASS, MASSV & ESSL 4.3 (406 KB)

Overview

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and IBM have teamed to bring the next generation of the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer to the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National laboratories (ORNL). The Blue Gene/P system configuration, with 8,192 compute cores, will provide more than 27 teraflops of computing capability.

This new system has completed acceptance testing and will enter production in Spring 2008. The NCCS and IBM are presenting a 3-day workshop to provide an introduction to the IBM Blue Gene/P computing environment, describe the policies associated with obtaining access to the system, and demonstrate the features unique to this system that facilitate productive science. Attendees are encouraged to bring their applications with them. The workshop will feature adequate time for “hands-on” sessions on the system and assistance from IBM experts in porting applications to the BG/P system.

The workshop will be held on July 29 - 31, 2008, at the Pollard Technology Conference Center , in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. There is no registration fee, however, registration is required and there will be a limited number of available workshop seats.

The workshop is open only to members of ORNL, and the following
universities:

• Duke University
• Florida State University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• North Carolina State University
• University of Virginia
• University of Tennessee
• Vanderbilt University
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The workshop will be led by staff from IBM’s Deep Computing Emerging Solution Executive team.

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Hotels

Workshop attendees are responsible for their own lodging arrangements. More information on nearby hotels and motels can be found at the Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau web-site:

http://oakridgevisitor.com/accommodations.html

Google Maps list of hotels in Oak Ridge, TN.

Registration

Attention: As of July 22, registration for the Blue Gene/P Workshop has closed.