Utah Advanced Computing Summer Institute 2008

The 1st annual Utah Advanced Computing Summer Institute will be held August 12th through the 15th, 2008. The planned schedule is as follows:

All day tutorials offered from CHPC and HPC @ USU. Room numbers will be provided at Sign-in.

Organized by Guy Adams, CHPC, UofU and Larry Gardner, Information Technology, SUU

8:30 – 9:30
- Hardware and OS configuration panel
  Various hardware offerings for HPC
9:30 – 10:30
- Security Panel, Storage Panel
  Ideas and best practices of security implementation, some solutions regarding storage, and parallel file systems
10:30 – 11:30
- Scheduling issues on HPCs and Grids
  Panel on scheduling schemas, policy decisions, accounting and system administration concerns… what is needed for a Utah grid
11:30 – 1:00
- Lunch
1:00 – 2:00
- Networks: get the most from your interconnect
  Operating system configuration issues, system tuning and additional panel discussion focused on networks
2:00 – 3:00
- Open Panel Discussion
  Time to talk about what we couldn’t before
3:00 – 3:30
- Break
3:30 – 5:00
- Monitoring & Lights Out Management Panel
  System monitoring and “Lights Out” solutions

12:00 - 12:30
- Opening, Michael T. Benson, SUU President & Tamara Goetz, Utah State Science Advisor
12:30 - 1:30
- Lunch
1:30 - 2:20
- Academic Keynote “HPC in Academia and Industry - Synergy at Work” Michael Resch, Director, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany
2:20- 3:00
- “Biomolecular Simulation at the Petascale: Challenges and Promise” Thomas E. Cheatham, III , Professor, Departments of Medicinal Chemistry and of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, UofU
3:00 - 4:20
- Break
4:20 - 4:30
- Panel discussion – Incorporating Computational Science in Undergraduate/Graduate Curricula, Michael Resch, Chair; Martin Berzins, Professor & Chair, School of Computing, UofU; Utah CI Consortium
4:30 - 6:00
- Vendor Presentations
6:00 7:00
- Dinner, Vendor Presentations
7:30
- Shakespearean Festival performance (ticket purchase required)

8:30 9:20
- Industry Keynote "The Ohio Blue-Collar Computing Initiative” Stanley Ahalt, Executive Director, Ohio Supercomputer Center
9:20 10:00
- Break, Vendor Exhibits
10:00 10:45
- "HPC Use in Analysis of Solid Rocket Motors" Joe Thompson, Manager of Related Technologies, ATK Launch Systems
10:45 - 11:30
- “Turbo Charging Gas Turbine Engine Development: How Pervasive Supercomputing is Helping P&W Develop a “Greener” Jet Engine” Pete Bradley, Fellow in High Performance Technical Computing, United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney
11:30 - 12:00
- Vendor Exhibits
12:00 1: 50
- Lunch - “HPC: Driving Industry Competitiveness” Invited Speaker Suzy Tichenor, Vice President and Director, High Performance Computing Initiative, Council of Competitiveness
2:00 2:45
- “The HPC Behind Everyday Products” Tom Lange, Director for Modeling & Simulation in Corporate R&D, Procter & Gamble
2:45 - 3:30
- “HPC in the Kitchen and Laundry Room: Optimizing Everyday Appliances for Customer Satisfaction and Market Share” Clifford Hutton, Manager, Simulation Based Design, Whirlpool
3:30 - 4:50
- Break
4:50 - 5:00
- Panel Discussion – Collaboration Between Industry and HPC Centers in Utah, Stan Ahalt, co-chair; Suzy Tichenor, co-chair; Priz Przybyla, Associate Director, Technology Transfer Office, BYU; Utah CI consortium; USTAR
5:30 - 7:00
- Dinner
7:30
- Shakespearean Festival performance (ticket purchase required)

9:00 – 3:00
- bring your own computational problem and experts from UoU and USU will be on hand for help
12:00
- Lunch