CAS2K9 Agenda


Sunday, September 13, 2009
             
1200-1830   Registration       Congress Lobby
1400   Opening Remarks       Salle de l'Europe
  Al Kellie, NCAR   Session Moderator    
     
1400   KEYNOTE SPEAKER
  Buddy Bland, ORNL   Challenges for High Performance Computing Facilities    
1500   Facilities Panel Discussion Facility Challenges in Provisioning High Performance Computing
    Aaron Andersen, NCAR        
    Bill Kramer, NCSA        
    Tim Pugh, BOM Australia        
    Henning Weber, DWD        
    Isabella Weger, ECMWF        
  1700   Welcome Reception       Congress Foyer
  
Monday, September 14, 2009
             
0800-1800   Registration       Imperial Palace Congress Lobby
800   Welcome Coffee       Salle de l'Europe
850   Opening Remarks       Salle de l'Europe
  Tom Bettge, NCAR   Morning Session Chair    
             
900   KEYNOTE SPEAKER      
    Jeff Anderson, NCAR Ensemble Data Assimilation for Large Atmospheric Models    
1000   Dominique Birman and
M. Eric Sevault, Meteo-France
  Computing Activities at Meteo-France    
1030   Coffee Break       Foyer
1100   Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, SDSC   Science Gateways and Their Tremendous Potential for Science and Engineering

   
1130   Clifford Jacobs, U.S. NSF   US Climate Science and Cyberinfrastructure

   
1200   Jairo Panetta, CPTEC   Recent and Planned HPC Activities at CPTEC    
1230   Lunch Buffet       Brasserie du Parc
  Gene Harano, NCAR   Afternoon Session Chair    
1400   Eng Lim Goh, SGI   HPC Directions at Silicon Graphics International

   
1430   Francesc Subirada, Barcelona Supercomputing Center   HPC at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center    
1500   Michel Desgagne, Peter Silva, and Michel Valin (presenter), CMC   HPC at Canadian Meteorological Centre    
             
1530   Coffee Break       Foyer
1600   Isabella Weger, ECMWF   Computing at ECMWF

   
1630   Jim Kinter, COLA   Climate Modeling at the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

   
1700   Richard Dracott, Intel   Advances in Intel Architectures for Weather and Climate Modeling    
1800   Reception       Foyer

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
             
0800-1800   Registration       Imperial Palace Congress Lobby
800   Welcome Coffee       Salle de l'Europe
850   Opening Remarks       Salle de l'Europe
  Steve Worley, NCAR   Morning Session Chair    
             
900   KEYNOTE SPEAKER        
    Arndt Bode, Leibniz Supercomputer Centre, Garching/München   Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)    
1000   Tim Pugh, BOM   Computing Update from Australia Bureau of Meteorology    
1030   Coffee Break       Foyer
1100   Deborah Salmond and Tomas Wilhelmsson, ECMWF

  Performance and Optimisation of IFS at ECMWF

   
1130   Warren Washington, NCAR   Scientific Grand Challenges: Challenges in Climate Change Science and the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale

   
1200   Henning Weber, DWD   DWD Computing Update    
1230   Lunch Buffet       Brasserie du Parc
  Anke Kamrath, NCAR   Afternoon Session Chair    
1400   Thomas Schoenemeyer, NEC   NEC’s Future Directions in HPC

   
1430   Michael Lautenschlager, DKRZ   Status of WDC Climate and Long-Term Archiving at DKRZ    
1500   Coffee Break       Foyer
1530   Zhou Lin and Wang Bin, CMA   Recent Advances in Computational Grids and HPC Resource Management in CMA Zhou Lin and Wang Bin

   
1600   Bette Otto-Bliesner, NCAR   Modeling of Paleoclimate

   
1630   Don Grice, IBM   Challenges in Application Scaling in an Exascale Environment    
1800   Reception       Foyer
1900   CAS2K9 Banquet       La Rotonde de l'Europe

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
             
0800-1800   Registration       Imperial Palace Congress Lobby
800   Welcome Coffee       Salle de l'Europe
850   Opening Remarks       Salle de l'Europe
  Don Middleton, NCAR   Morning Session Chair    
900   Joachim Biercamp, DKRZ   Experiences with High Resolution Coupled Climate Models at DKRZ    
930   John Clyne, NCAR   VAPOR: A Desktop Analysis Tool for Computational Science    
1000   Leif Laursen, DMI   High Performance Computing at Danish Meteorological Institute    
1030   Coffee Break       Foyer
1100   Mark Govett, NOAA/ESRL   Using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) for Next Generation Weather and Climate Prediction Models

   
1130   Mariana Vertenstein, NCAR   CCSM4 - A Flexible New Infrastructure for Earth System Modeling

   
1200   Andy Malcolm, Met Office   Met Office HPC Update    
1230   Lunch Buffet       Brasserie du Parc
  Al Kellie, NCAR   Afternoon Session Chair    
1400   Torben Kling-Petersen, Sun Micro. Inc.   Sun and HPC: From Systems to Petascale Computing

   
1430   Sophie Valcke, CERFACS, France   IS-ENES, the European Infrastructure project for Earth System Modelling, and the OASIS4 coupler    
1500   Coffee Break       Foyer
1530   Gene Harano, NCAR   On the Road to Petaflop Computing at NCAR

   
1600   Dave Norton, PGI   The Portland Group - Premier Service Success Stories

   
1630   Per Nyberg, Cray Inc.   Cray Solutions for the Earth System Modeling Community    
1730   Closing Reception       Foyer

 


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