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2008

Conference

• Sam Williams, Jonathan Carter, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Kathy Yelick (2008). Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Optimization on Leading Multicore Architectures. .
• Shoaib Kamil, John Shalf, Erich Strohmaier (2008). Power Efficiency in High Performance Computing. IPDPS.

Journal

• Shantenu Jha, Hartmut Kaiser, Andre Merzky, John Shalf (2008). " SAGA - The Simple API for Grid Applications - Motivation, Design, and Implementation." Encyclopedia of Grid Technologies and Applications, Volume 1. Information Science Reference (www.info-sci-ref.com): 2008.

Report

• Gabrielle Allen (LSU/CCT), Gene Allen (MSC Inc.), Kenneth Alvin (SNL), Matt Drahzal (IBM), David Fisher (DoD-Mod), Robert Graybill (USC/ISI), Bob Lucas (USC/ISI), Tim Mattson (Intel), Hal Morgan (SNL), Erik Schnetter (LSU/CCT), Brian Schott (USC/ISI), Edward Seidel (LSU/CCT), John Shalf (LBNL/NERSC), Shawn Shamsian (MSC Inc.), David Skinner (LBNL/NERSC), Siu Tong (Engeneous) (2008). Frameworks for Multiphysics Simulation : HPC Application Software Consortium Summit Concept Paper.
• LBNL-1014E. Antypas, K., Shalf, J., and Wasserman, H. (2008). NERSC-6 Workload Analysis and Benchmark Selection Process. LBNL-1014E .

Talk

• Harvey Wasserman (2008). NERSC Workload Analysis and Benchmark Approach.
• Harvey Wasserman (2008). Breakthrough Science at NERSC.
• John Shalf, Honzhan Shan, Katie Antypas (2008). I/O Requirements for HPC Applications.
• John Shalf (2008). NERSC User IO Cases.
• Harvey Wasserman (2008). Future Scientific Computing Challenges at NERSC.

2007

Conference

• L. Oliker; A. Canning; J. Carter; C. Iancu; M. Lijewski; S. Kamil; J. Shalf; H. Shan; E. Strohmaier; S. Ethier; T. Goodale (2007). Scientific Application Performance on Candidate PetaScale Platforms. .
• LBNL-62662. Jonathan Carter, Yun (Helen) He, John Shalf, Hongzhang Shan, Erich Strohmaier, and Harvey Wasserman (2007). The Performance Effect of Multi-Core on Scientific Applications. CUG.org.
• LBNL-62647. Hongzhang Shan and John Shalf (2007). Using IOR to Analyze the I/O performance for HPC Platforms. CUG.org.
• LBNL-63314. Julian Borrill, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Honzhang Shan (2007). Investigation Of Leading HPC I/O Performance Using A Scientific-Application Derived Benchmark. .

  (accepted)

• S. Williams, L. Oliker, R. Vuduc, J. Shalf, K. Yelick, J. Demmel (2007). Optimization of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on Emerging Multicore Platforms. International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.

  In Press

• LBNL-60060. S. Kamil, A. Pinar, D. Gunter, M. Lijewski, L. Oliker, J. Shalf (2007). Reconfigurable Hybrid Interconnection for Static and Dynamic Scientific Applications. ACM.

Journal

• LBNL-63186. S. Williams, J. Shalf, L. Oliker, P. Husbands, S. Kamil, K. Yelick (2007). " The Potential of the Cell Processor for Scientific Computing." International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), Volume . DOI 10.1007/s10766-007-0034-5,: 2007.
• J. Carter, L. Oliker, J. Shalf (2007). " Performance Evaluation of Scientific Applications on Modern Parallel Vector Systems." Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Volume LNCS 4395. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 2007.
• L. Oliker, J. Shalf, J. Carter, A. Canning, S. Kamil, M. Lijewski, S. Ethier (2007). " Performance Characteristics of Potential Petascale Scientific Applications." Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications (David Bader: editor), Volume . Chapman & Hall / CRC Press: 2007.

  Book Chapter

• John Shalf (2007). " The New Landscape of Parallel Computer Architecture." Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume . IOP Electronics Journals: 2007.

Report

• LBL-62500. John Levesque, Jeff Larkin, Martyn Foster, Joe Glenski, Garry Geissler, Stephen Whalen (Cray, Inc); Brian Waldecker (AMD); Jonathan Carter, David Skinner, Helen He, Harvey Wasserman, John Shalf, Hongzhang Shan, and Erich Strohmaier (2007). Understanding and Mitigating Multicore Performance Issues on the AMD Opteron Architecture.
• Shoaib Kamil, John Shalf (2007). Measuring Power Efficiency of NERSC's Newest Flagship Machine.

Talk

• Harvey Wasserman (2007). NERSC XT3/XT4 Benchmarking.
• John Shalf (2007). Landscape of Computing Architecture: Introduction to the "Berkeley View".
• John Shalf (2007). About Memory Bandwidth and Multicore.
• John Shalf (2007). The Landscape of Parallel Computing Architecture.
• John Shalf (2007). Overturning the Conventional Wisdom for the Multicore Era: Everything You Know is Wrong.
• John Shalf, Honzhang Shan (2007). User Perspective on HPC I/O Requirements.
• John Shalf (2007). NERSC Workload Analysis.
• John Shalf (2007). NERSC Power Efficiency Analysis.
• John Shalf (2007). Memory Subsystem Performance and QuadCore Predictions.
• John Shalf, Shoaib Kamil, David Skinner, Leonid Oliker (2007). Interconnect Requirements for HPC Applications.
• John Shalf, Shoaib Kamil, David Bailey, Erich Strohmaier (2007). Power Efficiency and the Top500.
• John Shalf (2007). Power, Cooling, and Energy Consumption for the Petascale and Beyond.
• John Shalf (2007). Petascale Computing Application Challenges.
• Leonid Oliker, Julian Borrill, Hongzhang Shan, John Shalf (2007). Investigation Of Leading HPC I/O Performance Using A Scientific-Application Derived Benchmark.
• Shoaib Kamil, John Shalf (2007). Power Efficiency Metrics for the Top500.

2006

Conference

• J. Carter, L. Oliker, J. Shalf (2006). Performance Evaluation of Scientific Applications on Modern Parallel Vector Systems . High Performance Computing for Computational Science.

  Highest Ranked Conference Paper

Journal

• LBNL-59066. Tom Goodale, Shantenu Jha, Hartmut Kaiser, Thilo Kielmann, Pascal Kleijer, Gregor von Laszewski, Craig Lee, Andre Merzky, Hrabri Rajic, Hrabri, John Shalf (2006). " SAGA: A Simple API for Grid Applications -- High-Level Application Programming on the Grid." Computational Methods in Science and Technology, Volume 12(1). Poznan: 2006.

Report

• Hongzhang Shan, John Shalf (2006). Analysis of Parallel IO on Modern HPC Platforms.

  Analysis of the parallel IO requirements from a number of HPC applications, combined with microbenchmarks to aid in understanding their performance.

• LBNL-59066. Lin-Wang Wang (2006). A Survey of Codes and Algorithms used in NERSC Chemical Science Allocations.
• LBNL-63794. Lin-Wang Wang (2006). A Brief Comparison Between Grid-Based Real-Space Algorithms and Spectral Algorithms for Electronic Structure Calculations.
• LBNL-63793. Lin-Wang Wang, Zhengji Zhao, Juan Meza (2006). Petascale Calculations of Electronic Structures of Nanostructures with Hundreds of Thousands of Processors.
• LBNL-16691. Lin-Wang Wang, Zhengji Zhao, Juan Meza (2006). Linear Scaling 3D Fragment Method for Large-Scale Electronic Structure Calculations.

Talk

• John Shalf and David Bailey (2006). Top500 Power Efficiency.

2005

Journal

• LBNL-56545. Horst Simon, William Kramer, William Saphir, John Shalf, David Bailey, Leonid Oliker, Michael Banda, C. William McCurdy, John Hules, Andrew Canning, Marc Day, Philip Colella, David Serafini, Michael Wehner, Peter Nugent (2005). " Science-Driven System Architecture: A New Process for Leadership Class Computing." Journal of the Earth Simulator, Volume 2. : 2005.

Report

• John Shalf, John Bell, Andrew Canning, Lin-Wang Wang, Juan Meza, Rob Ryne, Ji Qiang, Kathy Yelick (2005). Berkeley Petascale Applications.
• LBNL-61051. Lin-Wang Wang (2005). A Survey of Codes and Algorithms used in NERSC Materials Science Allocations.