Energy Efficiency Events at SC11
November 10, 2011
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 a 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”
- 12:15PM – 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 PM
- Workshop: “High Performance Computing, Networking and Analytics for the Power Grid” Sunday, 8:30AM - 5:00PM
- Workshop: “Towards and Beyond Energy Efficiency: HPC System and Datacenters” Monday, 8:30AM - 5:00PM
- Exhibitor Forum: “Increasing Data Center Efficiencies with Liquid Cooling” Tuesday, 11:15AM - 12:00PM
- Paper: “GreenSlot: Scheduling Energy Consumption in Green Datacenters” Tuesday, 1:30PM - 2:00PM
- Doctoral Research Showcase: “Iso-energy-efficiency: An approach to scalable system power-performance optimization” Tuesday, 1:45PM - 2:00PM
- Paper: “A `Cool' Load Balancer for Parallel Applications” Tuesday, 2:00PM - 2:30PM
- Paper: “Reducing Electricity Cost Through Virtual Machine Placement in High Performance Computing Clouds” Tuesday, 2:30PM - 3:00PM
- Paper: “High-Efficiency Server Design” Tuesday, 4:00PM - 4:30PM
- Paper: “Using the TOP500 to Trace and Project Technology and Architecture Trends” Tuesday, 4:30PM - 5:00PM
- Poster: “New Features of the PAPI Hardware Counter Library” Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:00PM
- Poster: “MINT: A Fast and Green Synchronization Technique” Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:00PM
- Poster: “A Top-20 Supercomputing Facility Rethinks Its Cooling Efficiency with Liquid-Submersion Cooling” Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:00PM
- Poster: “eeClust - Energy-Efficient Cluster Computing” Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:00PM
- Poster: “Power Modeling of High Performance Computer Clusters” Tuesday, 5:15PM - 7:00PM
- Panel: “Energy Efficient Networks in Next Generation Data and Compute Centers” Wednesday, 10:30AM - 12:00PM
- Exhibitor Forum: “Fluid Submersion Cooling Field Trial Results and Learnings” Wednesday, 1:30PM - 2:15PM
- Exhibitor Forum: “Enhanced Thermal Solutions for 25Gbps Pluggable I/O's” Wednesday, 2:15PM - 3:00PM
- 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, 2:00PM - 2:30PM
- Paper: “Hardware, Software Co-design for Energy Efficient Seismic Modeling” Thursday, 4:00 to 4:30PM
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ESnet provides the high-bandwidth, reliable connections that link scientists at national laboratories, universities and other research institutions, enabling them to collaborate on some of the world's most important scientific challenges including energy, climate science, and the origins of the universe. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science and located within the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides scientists with access to unique DOE research facilities and computing resources.
