HPCS 2006 Workshop
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Agenda

Location: Building 5600, C212-A

Wednesday, July 12th (Building 5600, C212-A)

 7:00 am ORNL Bus Pickup at Doubletree Hotel
 7:30 am Continental Breakfast: Discussions with Program Manager and on HPCS Language Development
 8:30 am Welcome - Robert Harrison
Charge - Bill Harrod and Fred Johnson
Overview of the agenda - Rusty Lusk
 8:45 am Vendor updates - 45 minutes each
Brad Chamberlain - Cray
Vivek Sarkar - IBM
Guy Steele - Sun
11:00 am Break (5700 Main Street Foyer area by flags)
11:15 am Comparing and Contrasting the HPCS Languages - Kathy Yelick
12:00 pm Lunch (5700 Main Street Foyer area by flags)
Working Lunch to Continue Discussions on HPCS Language Development
 1:00 pm Applications Panel - 30 minutes each
NSA - Flash Gordon
NNSA - Brian McCandless
DOE - Robert Harrison
Requirements and other questions from the announcement related to adoption of a new language
 2:30 pm Break (5700 Main Street Foyer area by flags)
 3:00 pm Implementation issues for performance and portability - 30 minutes each
Accomplishments and experiences from HPF and CAF - John Mellor-Crummey
Implementation and Use of UPC and Titanium - Kathy Yelick
 Can there be a common runtime communication system?
Requirements and experiences - Bill Gropp
 4:30 pm Discussion
 5:00 pm Adjourn
 6:00 pm Dinner - arranged by ORNL
Achieving the P in HPCS - Greg Watson

Thursday, July 13th (Building 5600, C212-A)

 7:00 am ORNL Bus Pickup at Doubletree Hotel
 7:30 am Continental Breakfast: Discussions with Program Manager and on HPCS Language Development
 8:30 am Vendor panel
Brad Chamberlain - Cray
Vivek Sarkar - IBM
Guy Steele - Sun
The vendor-oriented questions from the announcement (on web site) related to future directions for HPCS languages
10:00 am Break (5700 Main Street Foyer area by flags)
10:30 am Tour of Spallation Neutron Source
12:00 pm Lunch (5700 Main Street Foyer area by flags)
Working Lunch to Continue Discussions on HPCS Needs With Vendors
1:30 pm

Issues in defining a path forward - Rusty Lusk
for multiple time frames (18 mo., 3 yr., 5 yr.)
for multiple communities (vendors, CS researchers, apps)
some alternatives to consider

2:15 pm Discussion of alternatives
3:00 pm Break (5700 Main Street Foyer area by flags)
3:30 pm Wrapup discussion
5:00 pm Adjourn


    
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