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Sunday, July 13
6:00 pm Conference registration opens Garden
7:00 pm CSGF Poster Session reception Garden
9:00 pm Adjourn for the day  
 
Monday, July 14
7:15 am Welcome & Opening Remarks Rick Stevens, ANL Spanish Ballroom
7:30 Working Breakfast: Participants to discuss status and milestones of SciDAC research projects, collaboration opportunities, and conference content; Session Chairs to finalize introductions; Boardroom sign-ups Two locations: Spanish Foyer & Garden
8:35 Opening Session
Session Chair: Rick Stevens, ANL

Spanish Ballroom
8:35 - 9:00 SciDAC Update Michael Strayer, DOE SciDAC Director
9:00 - 9:45 DEISA2 Engaging for a European HPC Ecosystem Hermann Lederer, Max Planck Institut
9:45 Break: Discussions continued, refreshments served Spanish Foyer
10:15 Technical Session - COMBUSTION
Session Chair: Jackie Chen, SNL
Spanish Ballroom
10:15 - 11:00 Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Reacting Flows of Real Burners: Status and Challenges Laurent Gicquel, CERFACS
11:00 - 11:30 Terascale Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion: Fundamental Understanding Towards Predictive Models David Lignell, SNL
11:30 - 12:00 Science-Based Model for Particle Formation from Novel Fuels Angela Violi, U of Mich
12:00 noon Working Lunch: Birds of Feather Roundtable Discussions Two locations: Spanish Foyer & Garden
1:15 Technical Session - LATTICE QCD & NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Session Chair: David Nowak, ANL
Spanish Ballroom
1:15 - 2:00 Quantum Chromodynamics with Advanced Computing (Remote Talk) Andreas Kronfeld, FNAL
2:00 - 2:30 Getting Ready for Petaflop Capacities and Beyond: A Utility Perspective Jean-Francois Hamelin, EDF
2:30 - 3:00 The Role of Supercomputing in Developing Fuel for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors Tom Arsenlis, LLNL
3:00 Break: Discussions continued, refreshments served Spanish Foyer
3:30 Technical Session - FUSION PHYSICS
Session Chair: Vincent Chan, GA
Spanish Ballroom
3:30 - 4:15 Scientific and Computational Challenges for the Fusion Simulation Project (FSP) William Tang, PPPL
4:15 - 4:45 Scalable Parallel Implicit Solvers for 3D Magnetohydrodynamics Luis Chacon, LANL
4:45 - 5:15 Validating Simulations of Core Tokamak Turbulence: Current Status and Future Directions Christopher Holland, UCSD
5:30 Free time
6:30 Special Session: Electronic Visualization and Poster Night Fox Sports Grill
9:00 Adjourn for the day
Tuesday, July 15
7:15 am Announcements Rick Stevens, ANL Spanish Ballroom
7:30 Working Breakfast: Participants to discuss status and milestones of SciDAC research projects, collaboration opportunities, and conference content; Session Chairs to finalize introductions; Boardroom sign-ups Two locations: Spanish Foyer & Garden
8:15 Technical Session - ASTROPHYSICS
Session Chair: Anthony Mezzacappa, ORNL
Spanish Ballroom
8:15 - 9:00 Multidimensional Radiative Transfer Modeling of the Light Curves and Spectra of Supernovae Daniel Kasen, UCSC
9:00 - 9:30 Multidimensional, Multiphysics Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae Bronson Messer, ORNL
9:30 - 10:00 The Via Lactea INCITE Simulation: Galactic Dark Mattter Substructure at High Resolution Michael Kuhlen, IAS
10:00 Break: Discussions continued, refreshments served Spanish Foyer
10:30 Technical Session - DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS & APPLIED MATH
Session Chair: Ian Foster, ANL
Spanish Ballroom
10:30 - 11:00 CLOUD Werner Vogels, Amazon
11:00 - 11:30 Balancing Cybersecurity and Open Science Charlie Catlett, ANL
11:30 - 12:00 Embedded Boundary Algorithms and Software for Partial Differential Equations Brian Van Straalen, LBNL
12:00 noon Working Lunch: Birds of Feather Roundtable Discussions Two locations: Spanish Foyer & Garden
1:15 Technical Session - APPLIED MATH
Session Chair: Lori Diachin, LLNL
Spanish Ballroom
1:15 - 2:00 Adjoint-Fueled Advances in Error Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Multiscale, Multiphysics Problems Don Estep, Colorado State
2:00 - 2:30 Newton-Krylov Nonlinear Solvers and Their Application Carol Woodward, LLNL
2:30 - 3:00 Peridynamics for Multiscale Materials Modeling Rich Lehoucq, SNL
3:00 Break: Discussions continued, refreshments served Spanish Foyer
3:30 Technical Session - HPC
Session Chair: Bob Lucas, USC
Spanish Ballroom
3:30 - 4:15 Energy, Climate and Materials: New Approaches and the Role of Simulation Tomas Diaz De La Rubia, LLNL
4:15 - 4:45 Memory Evolution and Challenges Dean Klein, MICRON
4:45 - 5:15 A New DoD Initiative: The Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environment (CREATE) Program Douglass Post, DoD
5:30 Vendor Session
Session Chair: Jeff Nichols, ORNL
Metropole
5:30 - 6:00 CRAY - Growing a "Green" HPC Future Barry Bolding, CRAY
6:00 - 6:30 Challenges on the Road to Exascale Computing Eric Kronstadt, IBM
6:30 - 7:00 Petascale, Exascale, Infinity and Beyond George Michaels, INTEL
7:00 Free time
7:30 Poster Session - Dessert Reception Garden
9:30 Adjourn for the day
 
Wednesday, July 16
7:15 Announcements Rick Stevens, ANL Spanish Ballroom
7:30 Working Breakfast: Participants to discuss status and milestones of SciDAC research projects, collaboration opportunities, and conference content; Session Chairs to finalize introductions; Boardroom sign-ups Two locations: Spanish Foyer & Garden
8:15 Technical Session - CLIMATE
Session Chair: David Bader, LLNL
Spanish Ballroom
8:15 - 9:00 Decadal Climate Prediction: Challenges and Opportunities James Hurrell, NCAR
9:00 - 9:30 Petascale Atmospheric Models for the Community Climate System Model: New Developments and Evaluation of Scalable Dynamical Cores Mark Taylor, SNL
9:30 - 10:00 WRF Nature Run Allan Snavely, UCSD
10:00 Break: Discussions continued, refreshments served Spanish Foyer
10:30 Technical Session - ACCELERATORS
Session Chair: Panagiotis Spentzouris, FNAL
Spanish Ballroom
10:30 - 11:15 Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation: Advancing Computational Science for Future Accelerators and Accelerator Technologies Panagiotis Spentzouris, FNAL
11:15 - 11:45 Design and Optimization of Large Scale Accelerator Systems through High-Fidelity Electromagnetic Simulations Cho-Kuen Ng, Stanford
11:45 - 12:15 Computational Studies and Optimization of Wakefield Accelerators Cameron Geddes, LBNL
12:15 pm Working Lunch: Birds of Feather Roundtable Discussions Two locations: Spanish Foyer & Garden
Parallel Sessions
Location: Metropole
Location: Spanish Ballroom
1:30 Data Management & Data Analytics for Apps
Session Chair: James Ahrens, LANL
Moving Applications to Extreme Parallelism
Session Chair: Jeff Nichols, ORNL
1:30
1:30 - 2:15 Doing Science on the Grid with the CMS Experiment at the LHC
- Frank Wuerthwein, UCSD
Exascale Technology Challenges
- Bob Lucas, USC
1:30 - 2:15
2:15 - 2:45 Data Management and Analysis for the Earth System Grid
- Dean Williams, LLNL
Sequioa Language / Mapping to Multicore
- Willliam Dally, Stanford
2:15 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:15 Multiscale Morse Theory for Science Discovery
- Valerio Pascucci, LLNL
New Languages for Enabling Exascale Science
- Richard Barrett, ORNL
2:45 - 3:15
3:15 Break: Discussions continued, refreshments served - Spanish Foyer 3:15
3:45 pm Session Chair: Michael Papka, ANL Session Chair: Kathy Yelick, LBNL/UCB 3:45 pm
3:45 - 4:15 Quantitatively Driven Visualization and Analysis on Emerging Architectures
- Patrick McCormick, LANL
Some Essential Techniques for Developing Efficient Petascale Applications
- Laxmikant Kale, UIUC
3:45 - 4:30
4:15 - 4:45 Sunfall: A Collaborative Visual Analytics System for Astrophysics
- Cecilia Aragon, LBNL
PERI, Tuning for Multicore
- Samuel Williams, UCB
4:30 - 5:00
4:45 - 5:15 Sapphire: Scientific Data Mining
- Chandrika Kamath, LLNL
Design Issues for Numerical Libraries on Multicore Architectures
- Michael A. Heroux, SNL
5:00 - 5:30
5:30 Vendor Session
Session Chair: Pete Beckman, ANL
Metropole
5:30 - 6:00 Toward an Understanding of the Building Blocks: Constructing Programs for High Processor Count Systems Matt Reilly, SiCortex
6:00 - 6:30 Meeting Next Generation High Performance Computing Requirements Using Cloud Computing Kent Koeninger, HP
6:30 Free time
7:30 Poster Session - Dessert Reception Garden
9:30 Adjourn for the day
Thursday, July 17
7:15 Announcements Rick Stevens, ANL Spanish Ballroom
7:30 Working Breakfast: Participants to discuss status and milestones of SciDAC research projects, collaboration opportunities, and conference content; Session Chairs to finalize introductions; Boardroom sign-ups Spanish Foyer
8:15 Technical Session - MATERIAL SCIENCE
Session Chair: Thomas Schulthess, ORNL
Spanish Ballroom
8:15 - 9:00 Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Electronic Structure at the Petascale: Endstation Project David Ceperley, UIUC
9:00 - 9:30 Large-Scale Linear Scaling Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanosystems Lin-Wang Wang, LBNL
9:30 - 10:00 Challenges of Large-Scale Long-Time First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Paul Kent, UT/ORNL
10:00 Break: Discussions continued, refreshments served Spanish Foyer
10:30 Technical Session - VISUALIZATION
Session Chair: Jim Ahrens, LANL
Spanish Ballroom
10:30 - 11:15 Software Infrastructure for Exploratory Visualization and Data Analysis: Past, Present and Future Claudio Silva, Utah
11:15 - 12:00 Parallel I/O and Visualization at Extreme Scale Rob Ross, ANL
12:00 noon Working Lunch: Birds of Feather Roundtable Discussions Spanish Foyer
1:15 Technical Session - LIFE SCIENCE
Session Chair: Moe Khaleel, PNNL
Spanish Ballroom
1:15 - 1:45 Photons, Photosynthesis, and High-Performance Computing: Challenges, Progress, and Promise of Modeling Metabolism in Green Algae Christopher Chang, NREL
1:45 - 2:15 Bringing High-Performance Computing to the Biologist's Workbench: Approaches, Applications and Challenges Christopher Oehmen, PNNL
2:15 Technical Session - CHEMISTRY
Session Chair: Mark Gordon, Ames
2:15 - 2:45 Building Fast, Reliable and Adaptive Software for Computational Science Alistair Rendell, ANU
2:45 - 3:15 Large Scale Monte Carlo Simulations of Cluster Nucleation Using Quantum Mechanical Potentials Theresa Windus, Ames
3:15 Break: Discussions continued, refreshments served Spanish Foyer
3:45 Closing Session
Session Chair: Rick Stevens, ANL
Spanish Ballroom
3:45 - 4:30 Computing: The Road Ahead Dan Reed, Microsoft
4:30 - 5:00 Closing and '09 Rick Stevens, ANL / Horst Simon, LBNL
5:00 Meeting Adjourns