2013 International Computing for the Atmospheric Sciences Symposium
Sunday, September 8th
1200-1600 Early Registration 1900-2030 Welcome Reception
Monday, September 9th
0800-1730 Registration Desk Open 0800 Welcome Coffee
0845 Opening Remarks / Morning Chair - Al Kellie, Anke Kamrath, NCAR
0900 KEYNOTE SPEAKER - William P Mahoney III, NCAR
Wind and Solar Energy Prediction: Challenges and Opportunities
1000 Tim Pugh, The Centre of Australian Weather and Climate Research
Australian Computational Climate and Weather Advances
1030 Break
1100 Sara Graves, University of Alabama Huntsville
Taming Big Data for Weather and Climate Application Needs
1130 Robert Raymond, ORACLE
Current and Emerging Storage Technologies
1200 Lunch
1400 Afternoon Session Chair - Gene Harano, NCAR
1400 Luis Kornblueh, Max-Planck-Institute
Real Application on Parallel Systems: A European Community Benchmark Effort
1430 TBD
1500 Break
1530 Seth McGinnis, NCAR
Distilling Regional Climate Model Data from NARCCAP for Use in Impacts Analysis
1600 Jean-Pierre Panziera, BULL
1630 Adjourn
1800 Reception
Tuesday, September 10th
0800 - 1700 Registration Desk Open
0830 - Welcome Coffee
0900 - Opening Remarks / Morning Chair - Steve Worley, NCAR
0910 - Leadership Computing Directions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory:Navigating the Transition to Heterogeneous Archetectures, James J. Hack, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
0940 - Cray Solutions for Earth System Modeling, Per Nyberg, Cray
1010 - The OASIS3-MCT Parallel Coupler, Sophie Valcke, CERFACS
1040 - Break
1110 - Preparing for the Next Probable IPCC Assessment Report: Moving to Higher Resolution and Complexity, Warren Washington, NCAR
1140 - Air Quality Forecasting System: Needs of Computational Resources and Database, Jose Baldasano, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre
1210 - Adjourn Afternoon Free
Wednesday, September 11th
0800 - 1700; Registration Desk Open
0830 - Welcome Coffee
0900 - Opening Remarks / Morning Chair - Dave Hart, NCAR
0900 - KEYNOTE SPEAKER - A Scientific Visualization Perspective, Charles Hansen, University of Utah
1000 - The European Infrastructure for Earth System Modeling: IS-ENES, Sylvie Joussaume, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
1030 - Break
1100 - Preparing for Exascale: Efficiency from the Siliscon to the Data Center, Michael K. Patterson, Intel
1130 - Data Compression of Climate Simulation Data, John Dennis, NCAR
1200 - Towards Operational Implementation of COSMO on Accelerators at MeteoSwiss, Oliver Fuhrer, MeteoSwiss
1230 - Lunch
1400 - Afternoon Session Chair - Srinath Vadlamani, NCAR
1400 - GPU Progress and Directions for Earth System Modeling, Stan Posey, NVIDIA
1430 - A PGAS Implementation of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) NWP Model, George Mozdzynski, ECMWF
1500 - Big Data and Long-Term Preservation: Challenges and Opportunities, Jamie Shiers, CERN
1530 - Break
1600 - The Development of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Services for the Earth Sciences at the National Supercomputing Center of Korea, Minsu Joh, KISTI
1630 - Energy Aware Application Deployment, Don Grice, IBM
1700 - Adjourn
1800 - Reception
1900 - Banquet
Thursday, September 12th
0800 - 1700 Registration Desk Open
0900 - Delayed Start with Welcome Coffee
0930 - Opening Remarks / Morning Chair - Steve Sain, NCAR
0930 - KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Extreme Scale Computational Atmospheric Science - Insights for the Petascale Vantage Point, William Kramer, NCSA
1030 - CMIP5 Data Management, Michael Lautenschlager, DKRZ
1100 - Trials and Triumphs with Next Generation Compute Nodes, Dave Norton, PGI
1130 - HPC and Big Data: COLA's Experience in the Advanced Scientific Discovery Program, James Kinter, COLA
1200 - Lunch
1400 - Afternoon Session Chair - Aaron Andersen, NCAR
1400 - Advancing Applications Performance With InfiniBand, Pak Lui, Mellanox
1430 - The Impacts of Climate Extremes on Ocean Ecosystems, Joan Kleypas, NCAR
1500 - Break
1530 - Evolution in High Performance Computing, Khaled Alhussan, AERO
1600 - Ensemble Data Assimilation for Climate and Weather Models: A Fascinating Challenge for Scalable Computing, Nancy Collins, NCAR
1630 - Design of Peta+scale Storage for High Performance Computing, Robert Dilmore, NetApp
1700 - Adjourn
1800 - Farewell Reception