Program and Schedule

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 

Design, Development, and Testing

Time Speaker Session
08:00 AM - 08:30 AM   Registration
08:30 AM - 08:45 AM Rich Loft Welcome
08:45 AM - 09:45 AM Neal Ford Keynote: Functional Thinking
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM Johnny Wei-Bing Lin Critical Strategies for Improving the Code Quality and Cross-Disciplinary Impact of the Computational Earth Sciences
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Jessica Popp Agile in High Performance Computing
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Ian Truslove Completely Test Driven
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Paul Madden Building a 3rd Generation Weather-Model System Test Suite
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch break
01:00 PM - 01:45 PM Gary Granger Modular Software Building with Python SCons
01:45 PM - 02:30 PM Doug Lindholm A Unified Data Model and Programming Interface for Working with Scientific Data
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM   Coffee break
02:45 PM - 03:45 PM Neal Ford Agile Engineering Practices
03:45 PM - 04:30 PM Danielle Harper The Human Side of Agile in Earth Sciences Application Development
04:30 PM - 05:15 PM R. Sky Bristol Agile development methodology as applied to a government software engineering project
05:30 PM - 07:00 PM   Reception - Cafeteria
   

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Performance

Time Speaker Session
08:30 AM - 09:15 AM Zbigniew Piotrowski Towards petascale simulation of atmospheric circulations with soundproof equations
09:15 AM - 09:45 AM David Knox Stochastic Modeling of Gene Transcription in a Single Cell
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM Raffaele Montuoro Developing a high-resolution coupled regional climate model for the tropical Atlantic region
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Daniel Nagle Standard Fortran Preprocessing
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM   Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Kaushik Datta Finite Volume Advection Kernel Optimization On State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Architectures
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Tom Henderson Experience Applying Fortran GPU Compilers to Numerical Weather Prediction
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM   Lunch break
01:15 PM - 02:00 PM Maciej FijaƂkowski Fast numeric in Python - NumPy and PyPy
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Grigori Fursin cTuning 2: Collaborative application characterization and optimization
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Coffee break
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Daniel Nagle Coarrays in Fortran 2008
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Johnny Wei-Bing Lin A Python implementation of the Neelin-Zeng Quasi-Equilibrium Tropical Circulation Model and implications for how modeling science is done
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM Jay Alameda
Using the Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform to Improve Software Engineering for Earth Science Model Development and Optimization on High Performance Computers
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM Chris A. Mattmann A Strategy for Open Source Software at NASA
   

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

User interface and Big Data

 Time  Speaker  Session
08:30 AM - 09:15 AM Jeff Smith The Quest For The Perfect User Interface Technology
09:15 AM - 10:15 AM Markus Stobbs Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) at UCAR
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM S Dave Bouwer Space Weather and Smart-Phones: Re-defining Space Weather Products
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM   Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM   Free time
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM   Lunch break
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM Robert Jacob
Software Engineering and the Parallel Climate Analysis Library
01:00 PM - 01:45 PM Aijun Chen Processing NASA Earth Science Data on Nebula Cloud
01:45 PM - 02:30 PM David Gallaher Data Rods: High Speed, Time-Series Analysis of Massive Data Sets Using Pure Object Database Methods
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM   Coffee break
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM Chris A. Mattmann  The Apache OODT Ecosystem: A Birds Eye View
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM Zaihua Ji Operational Dataset Update Functionality Included in the NCAR Research Data Archive Management System
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM Thomas Cram The TIGGE Model Validation Portal: An Improvement In Data Interoperability
04:15 PM - 05:00 PM Gary Strand The 800 lb Gorilla - Really Big Data
   

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Tutorial

Time  Speaker  Session
08:30 AM - 12:00 PM Jay Alameda A New and Improved Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform: Advancing the Development of Scientific Applications