2015 International Computing in the Atmospheric Sciences (iCAS) Symposium
Sunday
1300–1700 - Early Registration
1830–2000 - Welcome Reception
Monday
0800–1700 Registration Desk Open
800 - Welcome Coffee
845 - NCAR Welcome - Al Kellie, NCAR
850 - Opening Remarks/Morning Chair -Anke Kamrath, NCAR
900 - Keynote Speaker - Justin Small, NCAR, "The Use of Yellowstone for Very High Resolution Climate Runs"
1000 - Bryan Lawrence, National Centre for Atmospheric Science - UK, "UK Academic Infrastructure to Support (big) Environmental Science"
1030 - Break
1100 - Michael Lautenschlager, DKRZ, "CMIP Data Management and Challenges at DKRZ"
1130 - Zaphiris Christidis, LENOVO, "Solving Helmholtz's Equation in NWP Models With a Stabilized Bi-conjugate Gradient Iterative Solver"
1200 - Lunch
1400 - Afternoon Session Chair - Allison Baker, NCAR
1400 - Michael Patterson, INTEL, "A CORAL System and Implications for Future HPC Hardware and Data Centers"
1430 - Torsten Wilde, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, "I Don't Want to Move to the Artic - A HPC Data Center Take on PUE and Energy Efficiency"
1500 - Break
1530 - Sheri Mickelson, NCAR, "CESM CMIP6 Data Workflow"
1600 - V. Balaji, NOAA, "Recent Advances in Coupling in the GFDL Flexible Modeling System"
Tuesday
0800–1300 Registration Desk Open
800 - Welcome Coffee
850 - Opening Remarks/Morning Chair - John Clyne, NCAR
900 - Warren Washington, NCAR, "Climate Change Modeling: Present and Future"
930 - Leigh Orf, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, "Simulating and Visualizing Tornadic Thunderstorms at Ultra High-Resolution"
1000 - Greg Astfalk, HEWLETT PACKARD, "Computation Matters Less Than Communication and Memory"
1030 - Allison Baker, NCAR, "An Ensemble-based Consistency Test for CESM"
1100 - Break
1130 - Stan Posey, NVIDIA, "GPU Considerations of ESMs for the Pre-Exascale HPC Phase"
1200 - Oliver Fuhrer, MeteoSwiss, "Co-designing a System for Regional Weather and Climate Prediction"
1230 - Afternoon Free
Wednesday
0800–1700 Registration Desk Open
800 - Welcome Coffee
850 - Opening Remarks/Morning Chair - Al Kellie, NCAR
900 - Keynote Speaker - Don Grice, IBM, "40 Year Perspective of Technical Computing at IBM"
1000 - Dave Norton, PGI
1030 - Break
1100 - Hank Childs, University of Oregon, "Exascale Visualization: Get Ready for a Whole New World"
1130 - Rich Graham, MELLANOX, "Paving the Road to Exascale"
1200 - Lunch
1400 - Afternoon Session Chair - Steve Worley, NCAR
1400 - Laurent Chardon/Luc Corbeil, Canadian Met Office, "Canadian Meteorological Centre HPC Renewal Initiative"
1430 - Isabella Weger, ECMWF, "ECMWF System Update"
1500 - Break
1530 - Adam Voysey, MetOffice, UK, "An Update on the Met Office HPC"
1600 - Doug Schuster, NCAR, "Accessing Multi-TB-sized Datasets: RDA"
1630 - Joachim Biercamp, DKRZ, "DKRZ System and European Commission Center of Excellance in Simulation of Climate and Weather"
1800 - Banquet Dinner
Thursday
0930–1600 Registration Desk Open
930 - Delayed Start w/Welcome Coffee
950 - Opening Remarks/Morning Chair - Doug Schuster, NCAR
1000 - Keynote Speaker - Dave Randall, Colorado State University, "Cloud Resolving Models or Futures in Climate Modeling"
1100 - Aaron Andersen, NCAR, "NWSC Facility - Successes and Lessons Learned"
1130 - Robert Raymond, ORACLE, "The Exciting Future of Archive Data Storage Technologies"
1200 - Lunch
1400 - Afternoon Session Chair - Aaron Andersen, NCAR
1400 - Philip Brown, CRAY, "Cray Earth Sciences Update"
1430 - Bill Kramer, NCSA/University of Illinois, "Atmospheric Sciences Plus Blue Waters Create Exceptional Insights"
1500 - Break
1530 - Janice Coen, NCAR, "Understanding and Predicting Wildland Fire Growth Using Coupled Weather"
1600 - Phil Webster, NASA, "High Resolution Nature Runs and the Big Data Challenge"
1800 - Farewell Reception