Preliminary Program

	Sunday May 1st, 2011
5:00-7:00pm	Registration

	Monday May 2nd, 2011
7:00am-5:00pm	Registration
8:00-9:00am	Breakfast
9:00am	Welcome and Introductions Speaker: Chuck Niggley, President, SGIUG and George Skaff, CMO, SGI
9:15am	SGI Keynote Speaker: Mark Barrenechea CEO, SGI
10:30-11:00am	Break
11:00am	Technology Talk Speaker: Dr Eng Lim Goh CTO, SGI
12:00pm	Customer Keynote: National Geographic Speaker: Kyle Knack Director, Infrastructure Systems National Geographic Global Media
1:00-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm	SGI Product Overview Speaker: Conor Malone VP Engineering, SGI
3:00-3:30pm	Break
	General Track session chair: Simon Burbidge	Storage Track session chair: Liz Cox
3:30pm	Session A-1 New Insights into Multithreaded, Multicore Performance Behavior Characteristics Speaker: Ed Hinkel Rogue Wave Software	Session B-1 LSI HPC Storage Systems Speaker: Steve Pettit Senior Consulting Engineer, LSI
4:00pm	Session A-2 SGI Development Suite Speaker: Leslie Tung Marketing Manager, SGI	Session B-2 Lustre Speaker: Vlad Shvedoff MTS-Design, SGI
4:30pm	Session A-3 SGI Prism™ XL and Hybrid Computing Speaker: Matthias Foquet-Lapar, Principal Engineer, SGI John Baron, Principal Engineer, SGI	Session B-3 Lustre Update Speaker: Brent Gorda President & CEO, Whamcloud, Inc.
5:00-6:00pm	Session A-4 Debugging OpenMP/MPI and Hybrid applications - Using tools to for faster time to result and debugging at Scale Speaker: Dave Maples Allinea Software Inc	Session B-4 Exploring Lustre Performance with System Tap Speaker: Jason Rappleye NASA Ames
7:00-9:00pm	SGI Reception at SGI Headquarters in Fremont Event requires RSVP

	Tuesday May 3rd, 2011
7:00-10:00am	Registration
8:00-900am	Breakfast
9:00am	Customer Keynote: NASA Supercomputing at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility Speaker: Bill Thigpen NASA Ames
9:45am	Server Deep Dive Speaker: Bill Mannel VP Product Marketing, SGI
10:30-10:45am	Break
10:45	SGI Services and Support Speaker: Rick Rinehart SVP Services, SGI
11:30	Customer Feedback Forum Moderator: Chuck Niggley President, SGIUG
12:00-1:00pm	Lunch
	General Track session chair: Gabe Turner	Altix Ice Track session chair: Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba	Storage Track session chair: Liz Cox
1:00pm	Session A-5 Tutorial 1A: Infiniband Speaker: Jeff Becker NASA Ames Research Center	Session B-5 Tutorial 1B: How to Modify Tempo for Large Scale ICE Installations Speaker: Jim Karellas NASA Ames Research Center	Session C-1 Tutorial 1C: DMF Speaker: Ted Wood Engineering Department Manager, SGI
2:00pm	Session A-6 ICE Cube Deployment Services Speaker: Lee Kirby VP & GM Lee Technologies	Session B-6 Altix Ice Memory Management Speaker: Simon Burbidge Imperial College London	Session C-2 Smart Data Management Solutions for Technical Computing Speaker: Thomas Kosik Business Development Manager, Harwood International
2:30pm	Session A-7 UV/Windows Speaker: Jill Matzke Director of Marketing, SGI	Session B-7 Experience with installation of SGI Ice cluster at JPL Speaker: Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba NASA JPL	Session C-3 19 Years and 19 Lessons with DMF Speaker: Robert Bell CSIRO
3:00-3:30pm	Break
3:30pm	Session A-8 PBS Works: A Quick Look at What's New Speaker: Bill Nitzberg CTO, PBS Works	Session B-8 Ice Topology Study Speaker: Paul Kinyon, Marketing Team Manager, SGI John Baron, Principal Engineer, SGI	Session C-4 HA Failover/Edge Serving Speaker: Zsolt Ferenczy Systems Engineer, SGI
4:00pm	Session A-9 pbs_analyze - Consolidates PBSPro Jobs' Logs on ICE for Debugging Speaker: David Roland NASA Ames Research Center	Session B-9 Pleiades Infiniband Update Speaker: Bob Ciotti NASA Ames Research Center	Session C-5 Strategies for Data Processing on a Migrating File System Speaker: Robert Bell CSIRO
4:30pm	Session A-10 Job Scheduling on a Large UV System Speaker: Chad Vizino PSC		Session C-6 COPAN/ArcFiniti Speaker: Lance Evans Chief Engineer, SGI
5:00-6:00pm	BOF 1A ICE Customer Experiences Moderator: Paul Kinyon Marketing Team Manager, SGI		BOF 1C Best Practices in Parallel File Systems Moderator: Kelly Cash Terascala
7:00-9:00pm	SGIUG Reception

	Wednesday May 4th, 2011
7:00-10:00am	Registration
8:00-9:00am	Breakfast
9:00am	Customer Keynote: Blacklight Speaker: Michael Levine Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
9:45am	Intel Keynote:HPC for the Every-Scale, Every Person Speaker: Mark Seager Intel
10:30-11:00am	Break
11:00am	Software Deep Dive Speaker: Christian Tanasescu VP, Software Engineering, SGI
11:45am	Storage Deep Dive Speaker: Jose Reinoso VP, Storage Engineering, SGI
12:30-1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Plug-ins: a Run-time Environment for Agility and Innovation Speaker: Bill Nitzburg CTO, PBS Works
2:00pm	Addressing the Increasing Challenges of Multi-Threaded and Multi-Process Software Development Speaker: Ed Hinkel Rogue Wave Software
2:30pm	HPC & Active Archive - Solving the Big Data Dilemma Speaker: Jim McKinley VP of HPC, Spectra Logic
3:00-3:30pm	Break
	General Track session chair: Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba	Storage Track session chair: Liz Cox
3:30pm	Session A-11 Altix UV for today's "Big Data" Analytics Speaker: Sanhita Sarkar, Ph.D Sr. Manager, Performance Engineering, SGI	Session B-10 SSD or Not to SSD Speaker: Jeremy Higdon SGI
4:00pm	Session A-12 Mission Koronis: The Ups and Downs of UV Deployment Speaker: Gabe Turner University of Minnesota	Session B-11 GFDL's 25+ PB pDMF Deployment Speaker: Alan Powers GFDL,NOAA
4:30pm	Session A-13 Performance-per-Watt Best Practices on SGI Rackable servers Speaker: Sanhita Sarkar, Ph.D Sr. Manager, Performance Engineering, SGI	Session B-12 Architecting the Right Backup and Archive Solution the First Time Speaker: Matt Starr CTO, Spectra Logic
5:00pm	Session A-14 UV2 Design Review Speaker: Greg Thorson Chief Engineer, SGI	Session B-13 Using DMF as a Target for BackupsUsing DMF as a Target for Backups Speaker: Robert Bell CSIRO
5:30-6:30pm	BOF-2A UV Customer Experiences Moderator: Jill Matzke Director of Marketing, SGI	BOF-2B HPC Storage Considerations Moderator: Steve Pettit Senior Consulting Engineer, LSI
7:00-9:00pm	Partner Pavillion Reception

	Thursday May 5th, 2011
7:00-10:00am	Registration
8:00-9:00am	Breakfast
	General Track Session chair: Simon Burbidge	Application Track Session chair: Gabe Turner	General Track Session chair: Liz Cox
9:00am	Session A-15 SUSE Linuz Enterprise from Novell - the Perfect Fit For HPC Speaker: Phillip Cockrell Novell	Session B-14 Japanese Challenge for Dense Private Cloud beyond Amazon EC2 Speaker: Hideyuki Nagai Director, Cross Marketing	Session C-7 Cyclone: HPC on Demand Speaker: Tony Devarco Strategic Partner Manager, SGI
9:30am	Session A-16 Virtualization on SGI Speaker: Sunny Sundstrom Director of Marketing, SGI	Session B-15 Ecco2 ocean surface carbon flux estimates Speaker: Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba NASA JPL	Session C-8 Professional Services Case Studies Speaker: Rod Cressey Director of Professionsl Services, SGI
10:00am	Session A-17 Carlsbad 3.0 Overview Speaker: Steve Dean, Program Director, SGI Paul Kinyon, Marketing Team Manager, SGI	Session B-16 "Biomass burning aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation - WRF-CHem simulations" by Longtao Wu, Hui Su, Jonathan Jiang, JPL Speaker: Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba NASA JPL	Session C-9 LLNL Modular Data Center Speaker: Anna Maria Bailey LLNL
10:30-11:00am	Break
11:00am	Customer Keynote: High order spectral/hp element modelling of incompressible flows: from vascular flow to Formula 1 Speaker: Professor Spencer Sherwin Imperial College, London
12:00pm	General Administration & Elections
12:30pm	Closing Remarks and Slideshow
1:00-5:00pm	Visit to Computer History Museum Event requires RSVP. Bus leaves hotel for museum at 1:00 pm and leaves museum at 4:30 to return to hotel around 5:00 pm.

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