Introductions from NERSC Leadership
Sudip Dosanjh, Jordan Thomas, Jonathan Carter 

NERSC Overview and Year in Review (PDF)
Rebecca Hartman-Baker

Break

NERSC 10 Status Presentation (PDF, Google Slides)
Presenter: Debbie Bard, NERSC

Lunch provided only for registered, in-person attendees.

Lunch: Lightning Talks
12:30 p.m. Rajat Goel (PDF)
12:35 p.m. Chao Lyu (PDF)
12:45 p.m. Meghraj Sengupta
12:50 p.m. Adrian Perez Dieguez (PDF)
12:55 p.m. Ryan McCarthy (PDF)

Session: How to Write an Effective ERCAP Proposal (PDF)
Richard Gerber and Clayton Bagwell

Session: How to Make the Most of Perlmutter Panel
Chair: Brandon Cook

Open Discussion and Networking

Lunch provided only for registered, in-person attendees.

Lunch: Lightning Talks
12:30 p.m. Alexey Knyazev
12:35 p.m. Caitlin Victoria Hetherington
12:40 p.m. Brendan Boyd
12:45 p.m. Malcolm Jardine
12:50 p.m. Zaheer Masood
12:55 p.m. Elizabeth Cucuzzella (PDF)

Invited talk - "Highly-parallelized simulation for pixelated neutrino detectors"

Stefano Roberto Soleti, Donostia International Physics Center

The rapid development of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is allowing the implementation of highly-parallelized Monte Carlo simulation chains for particle physics experiments. This technique is particularly suitable for the simulation of a pixelated charge readout for time projection chambers, given the large number of channels that this technology employs. Here we present the first implementation of a full microphysical simulator of a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) equipped with light readout and pixelated charge readout, developed for the DUNE Near Detector. The software is implemented with an end-to-end set of GPU-optimized algorithms. The algorithms have been written in Python and translated into CUDA kernels using Numba, a just-in-time compiler for a subset of Python and NumPy instructions. The GPU implementation achieves a speed up of four orders of magnitude compared with the equivalent CPU version. The simulation of the current induced on 10^3 pixels takes around 1 ms on the GPU, compared with approximately 10 s on the CPU. The results of the simulation are compared against data from a pixel-readout LArTPC prototype.

Contributed Talks
10 a.m. Xiongtao Ruan (PDF)
10:15 a.m. Karan Vahi (PDF)

Coffee Break

Contributed Talks
11 a.m. Gabriel Perez
11:15 a.m. Jonathan Owens (PDF)
11:30 a.m. Tajinder Singh
11:45 a.m. Christopher Ciccarino (PDF)

Lunch provided only for registered, in-person attendees.

Lunch: Lightning Talks
12:30 p.m. James Duncan (PDF)
12:35 p.m. Muhammed Emin Ozturk (PDF)
12:40 p.m. Shinae Kim (PDF)
12:45 p.m. Yixuan Sun (PDF)
12:50 p.m. Chen Hu (PDF)

Contributed Talks
1:30 p.m. Sudipta Kundu (PDF)
1:45 p.m. Junbeom Kwon (PDF)
2 p.m. Matt Kramer (PDF)
2:15 p.m. George Vahala (PDF)

NUGEX Nominations and Closeout
Message from the Chair, Message from NERSC, Open Discussion

Adjourn