ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
December 9-10, 2015

AGENDA
ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
December 9-10, 2015
American Geophysical Union - 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Wednesday December 9, 2015

8:00 AM

Public Registration

8:00 AM-8:30 AM

Swearing in of new ASCAC members – session intended for ASCAC and the public do not need to attend 

8:30 AM-8:45 AM

Opening remarks from the committee chair and introduction of new members
Dan Reed, ASCAC

8:45 AM-9:45 AM

VIEW FROM GERMANTOWN 
Steven Binkley, Associate Director of the Office of Science for Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

9:45 AM-10:45 AM

THE ROLE OF HPC IN FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES (Embedded Videos Removed)
Ed Synakowski, Associate Director of the Office of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences

10:45 AM-11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM-11:45 AM

THE NATIONAL STRATEGIC COMPUTING INITIATIVE
Erin Szulman, Office of Science and Technology Policy

11:45 AM1:30 PM

Committee Lunch

1:30 PM-2:15 PM

PROGRAM RESPONSE TO THE REPORT FROM ASCAC SUBCOMMITTEE ON OSTI
Brian Hitson, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy

2:15 PM- 3:00 PM

REQUIREMENTS REVIEWS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
Barbara Helland, Advanced Scientific Computing Research

3:00 PM-3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM-4:15 PM

UPDATE ON CASL
Alex Larzelere, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

4:15 PM-5:15 PM

MEMORY ERRORS:  Results of a 4 year field study of memory error on DOE supercomputers, with projections to the future
John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

5:15 PM-5:30 PM

Public Comment after which ASCAC will Adjourn

Thursday December 10, 2015

8:00 AM

Public Registration

8:30 AM-8:35 AM

Opening remarks from the committee chair
Dan Reed, ASCAC

8:35 AM-9:30 AM

Report from the networking committee of visitors 
Wendy Huntoon, ASCAC

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

NERSC systems roadmap and plans for supporting extreme data science
Richard Gerber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

10:30 AM-10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM-11:45 AM

REVERSIBLE SOFTWARE EXECUTION SYSTEMS
Kalyan S. Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

11:45 AM- NOON

Public Comment after which ASCAC will AdjOurn