by Shira Feldman

NSF NCAR and CISL have a slate of activities planned for SC24 in Atlanta at the Georgia World Conference Center, November 17 to 22, 2024. You can find us in Booth #931. We will feature presentations, opportunities to meet with CISL staff experts on a range of topics, and an in-booth reception.

SC24 Booth Schedule

All times below are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Come join us in our booth Monday evening (11/18) during the opening gala from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. to get to know NSF NCAR, the ideal environment to study the Earth. Talk to our scientists, researchers, planners, and decision-makers, and learn what we have planned for the upcoming year. 

On Tuesday (11/19) from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., we’ll hold the Collaborate & Connect Reception in our booth, offering drinks and snacks. Meet Thomas Hauser, the Director of CISL. Learn what CISL is, where it's going, and what we're doing to advance Earth systems science.

On Wednesday (11/20), for SC24 Family Day, we’ll have some snacks and drinks Wednesday afternoon from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. for students and families. We'll feature robots, virtual reality headsets, engineering kits, and games on screen. Everyone is welcome!

In addition to these activities, we will also feature a series of presentations on activities at NSF NCAR and CISL, including our supercomputer, Derecho. We'll have raffles every day, and CISL staff will also be on hand throughout the exhibition. 

Booth Presentations

Tuesday (Nov. 19)

• Jian Sun; "Developing performant and energy-efficient scientific code at NCAR"; 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Helen Kershaw; "CROCODILE and Clouds: Bringing Ocean data assimilation to where it matters - your community"; 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• Break from presentations, but booth is staffed; 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Kate Keahey; "Chameleon: A configurable environment for large-scale edge to cloud research"; 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
• Michèle Weiland; "CONTINENTS: A collaboration towards net-zero weather and climate simulations"; 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• Thomas Hauser; "An overview of NSF NCAR activities in CISL"; 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Wednesday (Nov. 20)

• Virginia Do; "SIParCS internship program and student opportunities"; 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Marlee Smith; "DART: Community, software, and science for ensemble data assimilation"; 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• Break from presentations, but booth is staffed; 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Michael Kercher; "Developing a data center digital twin for NWSC"; 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
• Matt Rehme; "Art of HPC: photorealistic visualization of a cloud simulation"; 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• Agbeli Ameko; "The internet of things for 3D-printed weather technologies and forecasting"; 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
• Abrar Hossein; "Environmental Data Sensing and Monitoring System Using a Community-based Private LoRa Network"; 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Ask An Expert

Tuesday (Nov. 19)

• Daniel Howard (Performance profile, energy efficiency on GPUs); 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Jian Sun (GPU computing); 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• Bill Anderson (NSF NCAR storage systems); 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
• Jenett Tillotson (HPC systems engineering); 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
• John Clyne (CISL R&D); 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• Prentice Bisbal (HPC systems engineering); 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• Jared Baker (HPC systems engineering); 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
• Dave Hart (Allocations, ACCESS, NAIRR); 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• Michael Kercher (NWSC facility); 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Wednesday (Nov. 20)

• Jessica Wang (HPC trainings, education and outreach); 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Orhan Eroglu (Data analysis software); 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• Helen Kershaw (Research software engineering); 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
• Jenett Tillotson (HPC systems engineering); 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
• John Clyne (CISL R&D); 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• Matt Rehme (Data visualization); 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• Prentice Bisbal (HPC systems engineering); 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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  Marlee Smith (Research software engineering); 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• Irfan Elahi (HPC for Earth systems science); 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Thursday (Nov. 21)

• Summer Wasson (NWSC data center); 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Emma Shaub (HPC systems engineering); 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• Aric Werner (HPC systems engineering); 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• Dave Hart (Allocations, ACCESS, NAIRR); 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
• Virginia Do (SIParCS internships); 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
• Agbeli Ameko (IoTwx weather stations); 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

SC24 Technical Program

You’ll also find NSF NCAR and CISL staff participating in the SC24 Technical Program. Look for us in the following sessions and activities.

Sunday (Nov. 17)

• Helen Kershaw will participate in the workshop, "Research software engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2024)." 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in location B311.
• Jared Baker will deputy-chair the CUG-Xtreme session, details TBD.  
• Jenett Tillotson and Bodhi Rubinstein are participating in the students@SC program, from Sunday, November 17 to Tuesday, November 19.
• Helen Kershaw is serving on the committee for the tutorials program, from Sunday, November 17 to Monday, November 18.

Monday (Nov. 18)

• Allison H. Baker is part of the team presenting "The fused multiply-add and global atmospheric models: A distributional investigation into a surprising correctness scenario." 9:09 a.m. to 9:29 a.m. in location B315.
• Jenett Tillotson is serving as Chair Emeritus in the student cluster competition, from Monday, November 18 to Wednesday, November 20, 2024. Opening ceremonies for the Student Cluster Competition will take place shortly after the SC24 opening Gala, which runs from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Monday, November 18.

Tuesday (Nov. 19)

• Allison H. Baker is part of the team presenting "Boosting Earth system model outputs and saving petabytes in their storage using exascale climate emulators." 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in location B312-B313A. 
  • This work has been selected as a finalist for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling, which will be presented at the SC24 conference. 
• Work by Matt Rehme, Hugh Morrison, and Kamal Kant Chandrakar, "Visualization of a CM1 cloud simulation," will be part of the Art of HPC Display, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., location B301.
• NSF NCAR and CISL will be participating in the SC24 Job Fair, recruiting CI professionals and students for internships and positions with NCAR. 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The NSF NCAR table is 14JF. 
• Daniel Howard will lead the "OpenACC users forum" session. 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. in location B207. (See more detailed description here.)

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  Emma Shaub is participating in the SC papers program, taking place from Tuesday, November 19 to Thursday, November 21, as a committee member in the SIGHPC SysPro conference paper selection process.

• Helen Kershaw, Anh Pham, and Suman Shekhar are participating in the poster presentation occurring from Tuesday, November 19, to Thursday, November 21. Authors: Anh Pham, Suman Shekhar, Helen Kershaw, Dan Amrhein, Ufuk Turuncoglu. post263: DART-X: Software Infrastructure for Prototyping in-memory Data Transfer between Ensemble Data Assimilation and Coupled Earth Systems Models.

Wednesday (Nov. 20)

• Helen Kershaw will give a lightning talk as part of the Birds of a Feather session, "Scientific software and the people who make it happen: Building communities of practice." 5:15 to 6:45 p.m. in location B306.

• Dave Hart will participate in the Birds of a Feather session, "The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot user experience BoF." 5:15 to 6:45 p.m. in location B311.

  

• Work by Summer Wasson and Kayla Lyday, "The heart of HPC," will be part of the Art of HPC Display, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., location B301.

Friday (Nov. 22)

• Jared Baker will chair the session, "HPC systems professionals workshop (HPCSYSPROS24)," 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in location B312-B313A. 
  • He will present "Welcome and opening remarks," 8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
  • He will present "Community service award and closing remarks," 11:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
• Aric Werner will present the presentation, "Increasing effective storage capacity with hierarchical storage management (HSM) for NCAR’s campaign storage." Ben Kirk and Joseph Mendoza will also be participating in the presentation. 10:50 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in location B312-B313A.