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Wednesday September 16, 2015 |
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| 8:45 | Workshop Introduction and Opening Remarks | Rich Loft, NCAR |
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9:00 |
Session 1-Overviews and Strategies - Session Chair: Chris Kerr |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 | Weather, Climate, and Earth System Modeling on Intel HPC Architectures: Practice, Experience, and Preparing for Future Generations – (Slides) | Richard Tran Mills, Intel |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Update on GPU Acceleration of Earth System Models – (Slides) | Carl Ponder, NVIDIA |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | The CSIRO Accelerated Computing Strategy – (Slides) | John Taylor, CSIRO |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Morning Break | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Lessons Learned from Selected NERSC Application Readiness Application – (Slides) | Helen He, LBL |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Comparison of Parallelization Approaches for a Prototypical Climate Application | Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach, LBNL |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Session 1 Discussion | |
| 11:40 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
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1:00 |
Session 2: Tools and Techniques - Session Chair: Mike Ashworth |
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| 1:00 - 1:20 | What's New in Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 – (Slides) | Milind Girkar, Intel |
| 1:20 - 1:40 | To Thread or Not to Thread – (Slides) | Jed Brown, CU |
| 1:40 - 2:00 | Adventures with Automatic Code Transformation – (Slides) | Chris Maynard, UKMO |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Afternoon Break | |
| 2:30 - 2:50 | PSyclone: A Code Generation and Optimization System for Finite Element and Finite Difference Codes – (Slides) | Rupert Ford, STFC |
| 2:50 - 3:10 | Evaluating Performance and Scalability of Candidate Dynamical Cores for the Next Generation Global Prediction System at NOAA – (Slides) | John Michalakes, NOAA |
| 3:10 - 3:30 | KGEN in Practice – (Slides) | Youngsung Kim, NCAR |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Session 2 Discussion | |
| 4:00 | Adjourn | |
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Thursday September 17, 2015 |
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8:45 |
Session 3: US Climate Models - Session Chair: Ilene Carpenter |
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| 8:45 - 9:05 | Experiences with CUDA and OpenACC from Porting ACME to GPUs – (Slides) | Matt Norman, ORNL |
| 9:05 - 9:25 | GPU Implementations of the CAM-SE Advection Limiter – (Slides) | Irina Demeshko, SNL |
| 9:25 - 9:50 | Many-core Optimization of the Community Earth System Model – (Slides) | John Dennis, NCAR |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Morning Break | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Challenge in GFDL’s FMS Model Scaling: Communication – (Slides) | Jeff Durachta, NOAA |
| 10:30 -11:00 | Session 3 discussion | |
| 11:00 | Group Photo | |
| 11:15 – 12:30 | Lunch – on your own in the NCAR Cafeteria | |
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12:30 |
Session 4: Weather Models - Session Chair: Mark Govett |
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| 12:30 - 12:50 | Porting and Optimizing NCEP's GFS Physics Package for Unstructured Grids on Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi – (Slides) | Jim Rosinski, NOAA |
| 12:50 - 1:10 | Optimzation of MPI Message Passing in a Multi-Core NWP Dynamical Core Running on NVIDIA GPUs | Jacques Middlecoff, NOAA |
| 1:10 – 1:30 | Porting Operational Models to Multi- and Many-Core Architectures – (Slides) | Ulrich Schaettler, DWD |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Session 4 discussion | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Afternoon Break | |
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2:30 |
Session 5: Ocean Models - Session Chair: Chris Kerr |
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| 2:30 - 2:50 | HBM Code Modernization - Current Status with a Focus on the Intel Xeon Phi Architecture – (Slides) | Jacob Weismann Poulsen, DMI |
| 2:50 - 3:10 | Multi-core Efforts within the MPAS Framework with a Focus on the Ocean Core – (Slides) | Doug Jacobsen, LANL |
| 3:10 - 3:20 | Performance Analysis of the PSyKAl Approach for a NEMO-based Benchmark – (Slides) | Mike Ashworth, STFC |
| 3:20 - 3:50 | Session 5 Discussion | |
| 3:50 - 4:00 | Workshop Summary and discussion of plans for 2016 | |
| 4:00 | Adjourn | |
