Welcome to the Third NPACI Allhands Meeting AHM

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Welcome to the Third NPACI All-hands Meeting
(AHM)

• AHM Our annual opportunity to discuss progress,
  establish new collaborations, and plan future
  projects
• Last years theme Building bridges with the user
  community
• This years theme From building to crossing
  bridgesUsing the NPACI infrastructure
• This theme guided all planning decisions

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Program Committee New This Year
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Outline of the Meeting

• Core of meeting today and tomorrow organized by
  tracks
• Resources
• Tools
• Data
• Applications
• Education, Outreach, and Training (EOT)
• Three plenary sessionsled by Taylor, Messina,
  and Graham
• A dozen BOFs at lunch during the two days
• Poster session/pizza party tonight (5-8 PM)

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Other Activities

• Education, Outreach, and Training day - Tuesday
• Nine tutorials (!) - Wednesday
• User Advisory Committee meeting - Wednesday
• Closed Executive Committee meeting - Saturday

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Agenda - Thursday AM

• 830-1000 AM
• Video of a starship flight through the Orion
  NebulaBernard Pailthorpe
• Bridges to the User Community Maximizing the
  Impact of NPACI InfrastructurePeter Taylor
• 1000-1030 AM Break
• 1030-noon
• High-end Compute ResourcesWayne Pfeiffer
• Programming Tools and Environments ToolsJoel
  Saltz
• Instructional Technology and Asynchronous
  LearningCharles Severance
• Noon-130 PM
• Pick up box lunches outside this auditorium
• Many BOFs - see signs outside this auditorium
  and SDSC lobby

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Agenda - Thursday PM

• 130-300 PM
• Official AHM photograph - here
• Trends in High-end Scientific ComputingPaul
  Messina
• 300-330 Break
• 330-500 PM
• Network Research/ToolsHans-Werner Braun and
  David Moore
• Building Tools for Scalable VisualizationArt
  Olson and Bernard Pailthorpe
• What Users Want from NPACIAron Kuppermann
• 500-800 PM
• Poster session and reception, SDSC
  auditorium/lobby - note posters continue tomorrow
• Session for Site Coordinators (500-600 PM)

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Agenda - Friday AM

• 830-1000 AM
• Developing a Cluster Strategy for NPACIAndrew
  Chien
• Building Data InfrastructureChaitan Baru
• Moving Computational Science into the
  Undergraduate CurriculumKris Stewart Rubin
  Landau
• Strategic Applications Collaboration ProjectsJay
  Boisseau Bob Sinkovits
• 1000-1030 AM Break
• 1030-noon
• Using Data InfrastructureHeather Drury
• Connecting with Minority-Serving
  InstitutionsAllison Clark
• Web Portals and ApplicationsJay Boisseau John
  Towns

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Agenda - Friday PM

• Noon-130 PM
• Lunches (same pickup area) and more BOFs
• 130-300 PM
• Using the Grid Applications Experiences within
  NPACIAndrew Grimshaw
• Computational Biology How NPACI Resources Are
  Used by BiologistsRuss Altman
• Mentoring Women and MinoritiesAnne Condon Ann
  Redelfs
• 300-330 PM Break
• 330-500 PM
• Future Directions and Challenges A PanelSusan
  Graham
• Award of recognition honoraria for student
  postersMike Bailey
• Raffle You must be present to win!Tom Guptill
• Closing commentsSid Karin

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Meeting Logistics

• NPACI support team in red T-shirts
• Meeting turnout higher than expected all
  sessions likely to be crowded
• Jobs, announcements can be posted on board in
  SDSC lobby
• All questions -- registration desk and SDSC
  receptionist
• Meeting evaluation forms - please fill them out!
• Feedback can be offered to anyone with a badge
  ribbon, especially Program Committee