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QCD BlueGene/L Software Workshop

Jan 27 and 28, 2006
Center for Computational Sciences
Boston University
Physics Research Building
3 Cummington Street, room PRB595
Boston, MA 02115

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8:30

Coffee

9:00

Claudio Rebbi

BU

Welcome

9:10

Pavlos Vranas

IBM US

BG/L architecture and high performance

10:00

Hao Yu

IBM US

Programming the BG/L, MPI, I0 etc.

10:50

Coffee Break

11:10

Jun Doi

IBM Japan

Part I Double Hummer

Jun Doi

IBM Japan

Part II communication

12:30

Lunch Break

1:30

Shoji Hashimoto

KEK

Physics plans on KEK BG/L

2:00

Thomas Lippert/Stefan Krieg

NIC Julich

Julich BlueGene/L program

2:30

Chulwoo Jung

Columbia

Lessons from high performance code on QCDOC

3:00

Coffee Break

3:30

Mike Clark (for P. Boyle)

BU/Edinburgh

BAGEL on the QCDOC vs BG/L

4:00

Robert Edwards

JLab

Goals for QDP++ and Chroma on BG/L

6:00

Dinner at Local Boston Restaurant

Saturday Jan 28, 2006

9:00

Gyan Bhanot

IBM US

Mapping on BG/L Torus to optimize communication

9:40

Andrew Pochinsky

MIT

Plans for Optimization of lattice QCD on BG/L

10:20

Dmitry Sigaev

MIT

Exotic BG/L performance for Exotic hadrons

10:50

Coffee Break

11:10

Steve Gottlieb

Indiana

MILC experience on the BG/L

11:40

Ying Zhang

Illinois

PERC peformance tests on BG/L

12:00

James Osborn

BU

First impressions of MILC and QDP on the BG/L

12:30

Tony Kennedy

Edinburgh

Future of Chiral Fermion Algorithms

1:00

Lunch (and search for Boston Ice Cream Parlour)