free Blue Waters workshop Dec. 3-5 at NCSA

Registration

The registration page is now up.

Accommodations

Hampton Inn

1200 W. University Ave., Urbana

Use the group name "Blue Waters" when making your reservations.

The Hampton Inn is within walking distance (less than 1 block) of NCSA and offers free parking.

Check the online Champaign County Visitors Guide for information on Urbana-Champaign accommodations.

Location

Room 1030
NCSA Building
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801

This event will be made available via WebEx to Blue Waters users who are unable to attend in person.

Parking at NCSA

Metered parking is available near the NCSA Building on Clark Street, in the parking garage just north of NCSA, and on other surrounding streets. Rates are $1.00/hour, and all meters accept quarters, dimes, nickels and dollar coins. While you can park all day in the garage, time limits for surrounding streets are usually two hours. There is no attendant in the parking garage, but you do have the option to pay for metered parking in the parking structure by credit card by calling 1-866-234-PARK (7275); the garage is location 4801. For more information, go to paybyphone.com.

Agenda (Subject to Change)

Tuesday, December 3rd

7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast (NCSA foyer)

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome - Bill Kramer

8:45 - 9:30 Blue Waters Overview - Greg Bauer

9:30 - 10:00 Programming and Programming Models on Blue Waters 

10:00 - 10:30 Running Jobs on Blue Waters

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 Opimizing Applications for Blue Waters

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch  (NCSA foyer)

1:00 - 2:00 Performance Tools 

2:00 - 3:00 XK Programming environment and tools

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 4:00 Approaches to job resiliency on Blue Waters 

4:00 - 5:00  Hands on time (SEAS staff will be available) 

6:00 - Dinner

Wednesday, December 4th

7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast (NCSA foyer)

8:30 - 9:30 Debugging on Blue Waters

9:30 - 10:30 Data Managment Best Practices

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 Topology consideration 

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch  (NCSA foyer)

1:00 - 3:00 Advanced CUDA K20x programming (Guest NVIDIA Presenter) 

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 4:00 How not to fool the masses: fair representation of performance improvement. 

4:00 - 5:00 Hands on time (SEAS staff will be available) 

6:00 - Dinner

Thursday, December 5th

7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast (NCSA foyer)

8:30 - 10:30 Advanced HDF programming (Guest HDF Presenter)

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:00 Rapidfire presentations and/or topical table discussions with SEAS staff

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch  (NCSA foyer)