Energy Efficiency Events at SC11

Visit ESnet at the Berkeley Lab booth #512 at the Supercomputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle. Contact Inder Monga at imonga@es.net to set up an appointment to talk about green networking collaboration ideas.

SC11 Events

ESnet is co-organizing an SC11 workshop: “Data Centers Have Gone Green (Or Haven't They?) When Will Networks Follow?”

9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13
Organizers: Thierry Klein and Dan Kilper, Alcatel-Lucent; Inder Monga, Berkeley Lab/ESnet

Panel Discussion SC11

10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16
Moderator: Wael Diab, Broadcom
Panelists: Brent Draney, Berkeley Lab/NERSC; Keren Bergman, Columbia University; David Law, Hewlett-Packard; Kannan Raj, Oracle Labs

SC11 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

The SC Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions are among the most interactive, popular, and well-attended sessions of its Conference Series. The BOF sessions provide a non-commercial, dynamic venue for conference attendees to openly discuss topics of mutual interest within the high-performance computing community with a strong emphasis on audience-driven discussion, professional networking, and grass-roots participation.

“Setting Trends for Energy Efficiency”

12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15
Primary Session Leader: Erich Strohmaier, Berkeley Lab
Session Co-leaders: Wu Feng, Virginia Tech; Nicolas Dube, Hewlett-Packard

“‘Hot’ for Warm-Water Cooling”

5:30 – 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15
Session Leaders: William Tschudi, Berkeley Lab
Session Co-leaders: David Martinez, Sandia National Laboratories; Farhad Banisadr, Los Alamos National Laboratory

“TOP500 Supercomputers”

5:30 – 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15
Session Leader: Erich Strohmaier, Berkeley Lab

“Network Measurement”

12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16
Primary Session Leader: Jon Dugan, Berkeley Lab/ESnet
Co-leader: Aaron Brown, Internet2

“Network Service Interface: Providing virtualized, dynamic services over the Wide Area Network”

5:30 – 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16
Primary Session Leader: Inder Monga, Berkeley Lab/ESnet
Co-leaders: Tomohiro Kudoh, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology; Guy Roberts, DANTE

“Terabit Networks: Opportunity and Challenges in Extreme-Scale Science and Massive Data Movement”

12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17
Primary Session Leader: Thomas Ndousse, DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research

Co-Leader: Steve Cotter, Berkeley Lab/ESnet

ESnet is also participating in the co-scheduled GreenTouch meeting.

GreenTouch Members Meeting
Date: November 14-17, 2011
Location: Seattle, Washington USA

GreenTouch Open Forum Session
Date: November 17, 2011
Location: Seattle, Washington USA

All SC'11 Technical Sessions with Energy Efficiency Focus, Listed Chronologically

Workshop: “Data Centers Have Gone Green (Or Haven't They?). When Will Networks Follow?” Sunday, 8:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Workshop: “High Performance Computing, Networking and Analytics for the Power Grid” Sunday, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: “Towards and Beyond Energy Efficiency: HPC System and Datacenters” Monday, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Exhibitor Forum: “Increasing Data Center Efficiencies with Liquid Cooling” Tuesday, 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Paper: “GreenSlot: Scheduling Energy Consumption in Green Datacenters” Tuesday, 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Doctoral Research Showcase: “Iso-energy-efficiency: An approach to scalable system power-performance optimization” Tuesday, 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Paper: “A `Cool' Load Balancer for Parallel Applications” Tuesday, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Paper: “Reducing Electricity Cost Through Virtual Machine Placement in High Performance Computing Clouds” Tuesday, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Paper: “High-Efficiency Server Design” Tuesday, 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Paper: “Using the TOP500 to Trace and Project Technology and Architecture Trends” Tuesday, 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Poster: “New Features of the PAPI Hardware Counter Library” Tuesday, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Poster: “MINT: A Fast and Green Synchronization Technique” Tuesday, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Poster: “A Top-20 Supercomputing Facility Rethinks Its Cooling Efficiency with Liquid-Submersion Cooling” Tuesday, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Poster: “eeClust - Energy-Efficient Cluster Computing” Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:00PM

Poster: “Power Modeling of High Performance Computer Clusters” Tuesday, 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Panel: “Energy Efficient Networks in Next Generation Data and Compute Centers” Wednesday, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Exhibitor Forum: “Fluid Submersion Cooling Field Trial Results and Learnings” Wednesday, 1:30 - 2:15 PM

Exhibitor Forum: “Enhanced Thermal Solutions for 25Gbps Pluggable I/O's” Wednesday, 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.

Paper: “MAximum Multicore POwer (MAMPO) - An Automatic Multithreaded Synthetic Power Virus Generation Framework for Multicore Systems” Wednesday, 4:00PM - 4:30PM

Paper: “Scalable Stochastic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems” Thursday, 2 - 2:30 p.m.

Paper: “Hardware, Software Co-design for Energy Efficient Seismic Modeling” Thursday, 4 to 4:30 p.m.