William T.C. Kramer

Publications and Presentations

Refereed Journals

Simon, Horst, William Kramer, William Saphir, John Shalf, David Bailey, Leonid Oliker,Michael Banda, C. William McCurdy, John Hules, Andrew Canning, Marc Day,PhilipColella, David Serafini, Michael Wehner and Peter Nugent, Science-Driven System Architecture: A New Process for Leadership Class Computing, Journal of the Earth Simulator, Vol 2, p 1-9, January 2005, ISSN 1349-2675.

Kramer, William, Deborah A Agarwall, Arie Shoshani, Brent Draney, Guojin Jin, Gregory Butler and John Hules, Deep Scientific Computing Requires Deep Data, featured article in the IBM Journal on Research and Development, Volume 48, Number 2, March 2004.

McCurdy, C. William, Horst D. Simon, William T.C. Kramer, Robert F. Lucas, William E. Johnston, David H. Bailey, Future Directions in Scientific Supercomputing for Computational Physics, Computer Physics Communications, August 2002 issue 147, Elsevier Science, p 34-39.

Kramer, William T.C., Building Network Testbeds for High Performance Applications, IEEE Computer Magazine, June 2002 (Cover Article).

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Kramer, William T.C., PERCU Results in a Reawakended Relationship for NERSC and Cray, Cray User Group (CUG 2007) Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2007.

Kramer, William T.C., NERSC Experience Implementing a Facility Wide Global File System, 12th ECMWF (European Center for Mid-range Metrological Forecasting) Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology, Reading, England, October 2006.

Xu, Wei, Joseph Hellerstein, William Kramer and David Patterson, Control Considerations for Scaling Event Correlation, 16th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 05), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, October 24-26, 2005.

Skinner, David and William Kramer, Understanding the Causes of Performance Variability in HPC Workloads, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC-2005), October 6-8, 2005, Austin, Texas.

Kramer, William T.C. Creating Science Driven Architectures, Report for the Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology, Reading England, October 2004, Workshop proceedings 2005.

Kramer, William and Clint Ryan, Performance Variability on Highly Parallel Architectures, the International Conference on Computational Science 2003, Melbourne Australia and St. Petersburg Russia, June 2-4, 2003.

McCurdy, C. William, Horst D. Simon, William T.C. Kramer, Robert F. Lucas, William E. Johnston and David Bailey, Future Directions in Scientific Supercomputing for Computational Physics, Conference on Computational Physics 2001, September 5-8 2001, Aachen Gremany.

Wong, Adrian T., Leonid Oliker, William T. C. Kramer, Teresa L. Kaltz, and David H. Bailey, Evaluating System Effectiveness in High Performance Computing Systems, Proceedings of SC2000, November 2000.

Wong, Adrian T., Leonid Oliker, William T. C. Kramer, Teresa L. Kaltz, and David H. Bailey, System Utilization Benchmark on the Cray T3E and IBM SP, 5th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, May 2000, Cancun, Mexico.

Simon, Horst D., William T. C. Kramer, and Robert F. Lucas, Building the Teraflops/Petabytes Production Supercomputing Center, EuroPar '99 in Toulouse, France, September 1999, and published in the Proceedings.

K. Castagnera, D. Cheng, R. fatoohi, E. Hook, B. Kramer, C. Manning, J. Musch, C. Niggley, W. Saphir, D. Sheppard, M. Smith, I. Stockdale, S. Welch, R. Williams, and D. Yip, NAS Experiences with a Prototype Cluster of Workstations, referreed,  paper presented at Supercomputing 94, Washington, D.C., November 15, 1994.

Kramer, William T.C., and Horst Simon, High Performance Distributed Computing in a Supercomputing Environment: Computational Services and Applications Issues, referred, half day tutorial for the Third International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, San Francisco CA, August 4, 1994.

Kramer, William T.C., System Wide Performance Analysis for the Cray-2, Fall 1987 Cray User Group Meeting Proceedings for Bologna, Italy, September, 1987.

Kramer, William T.C., Techniques of Protocol Validation, May 1985, Proceedings of the Digital Equipment Users Society Vol. 11 No. 1.

Refereed Tutorials

Lau, Steven, Scott Campbell, William Kramer, Brian Tierney; Computing Protection in Open HPC Environments, a full day Tutorial at SC|06, November, 2006 in Tampa, FL

William Kramer, Best Practices in HPC Procurements, a presentation at the Petascale Data Storage Workshop at SC 06, November, 2006 in Tampa, FL.

William Kramer and Michael Resch, Best Practices in HPC Procurements, accepted as a full day Workshop at SC 06, November, 2006 in Tampa, FL.

Lau, Steven, Scott Campbell, William Kramer, Keeping Ahead of the Bad Guys, High Performance Computing Protection , accepted as a half day Tutorial at SC|05, November, 2005 in Seattle, WA.

Paxson, Vern, Steven Lau, James Rothfuss and William Kramer; Cybersecurity at Open Scientific Facilities, accepted as a full day Tutorial at SC 2004, November, 2004 in Pittsburgh, PA.

Paxson, Vern, Steven Lau, James Rothfuss and William Kramer; Computer Protection at Open Scientific Facilities, accepted as a half day Tutorial at SC 2003, November, 2003 in Phoenix, AZ.

Kramer, William and Steven Lau; Trends in Computer Security for Open Scientific Facilities, accepted as a half day Tutorial at the Global Grid Forum – 8, June 27, 2003 in Seattle, WA.

Kramer, William and Steven Lau; Trends in Computer Security for Open Scientific Facilities, accepted as a 1/2 day High Performance Distributed Computing Conference – 12, June 22, 2003 in Seattle, WA.

Paxson, Vern, Steven Lau, James Rothfuss and William Kramer; Trends in Computer Security for Open Scientific Facilities, accepted as a full day Tutorial at SC 2002, November 16-22 in Baltimore, MD.

Kramer William, Francesca Verdier, Keith Fitzgerald, James Craw, and Tammy Welcome, High Performance Computing Facilities for the Next Millennium, presented at SC99, Portland, OR, and published as part of the Tutorials Program, November 1999.

Shoshani, Arie, Craig Tull, Brian Tierney, Harvard Holmes, Robert  Lucas and William T.C. Kramer, Large Scale, Data Intensive Computing, referred, full day tutorial at the SC '98 Conference, November 8, 1998, Orlando, FL.

Kramer, William T.C., Horst Simon, C. William McCurdy, Reinventing the Supercomputer Center, refereed tutorial at the Supercomputing ‘96 Conference, November 1996, Pittsburgh, PA.

Kramer, William T.C., Computational Services in the UNIX Supercomputer Environment, referred, full day tutorial presented at Supercomputing 93, Portland, OR, November 15, 1993.

Kramer, William T.C., Computational Services in the UNIX Supercomputer Environment, half day tutorial presented at Supercomputing 92, Minneapolis, MN, November 1992.

Workshop Reports

Ray Bair (Editor), Deborah Agarwal, Arthur S. Bland, Julian Bunn, Charles Catlett, C.W. Cork, David Dixon, T.N. Earnest, Ian Foster, Dennis Gannon, M.J. Greenwald, Jason Hodges, William Johnston, William Kramer, James Leighton, G. McDermott, Sandy Merola, Thomas Ndousse-Fetter, Harvey Newman, Larry Rahn, David Schissel, Mary Anne Scott, Gary Strand, Rick Stevens, J.R. Taylor, Brian Tierney, James B. White III, Michael Wilde, Linda Winkler, High-Performance Networks for High- Impact Science: Report of the August 13-15, 2002, Workshop Conducted by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The final report is composed of two documents. Report of the High-Performance Network Planning Workshop and High-Impact Science Scenarios

Bailey, David, et al. Valuation of Ultra-Scale Computing Systems: A White Paper, published as an official report of the Department of Energy, December 22, 1999.

White Papers

Horst D. Simon, C. William McCurdy William T.C. Kramer - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory; Mike McCoy, Mark Seager, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Thomas Zacharia, Jeff Nichols, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Ray Bair, Scott Studham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; William Camp, Robert Leland, Sandia National Laboratories; John Morrison, Bill Feiereisen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Creating Science-Driven Computer Architecture: A New Path to Scientific Leadership, White Paper submitted to the High End Computing Revitialization Task Force, June 2003.

R. Scott Studham, Arthur S. Bland, William T.C. Kramer, Robin Goldstone, Cheryl Wampler, David A. Dixon, Robert Ayers, Best practices for the procurement process of high performance computers by the Federal government, White Paper submitted the High End Computing Revitialization Task Force, June 2003.

Johnston W.E., W. T. C. Kramer, J. F. Leighton, Charlie Catlett; A Vision for DOE Scientific Networking Driven by High Impact Science, March 15, 2002 - a white paper for the DOE Community.

Invited Presentations

Kramer, William T.C., Organizer, DOE Workshop on Petascale System Integration into Large Scale Facilities, Petascale Systems Integration into Large Scale Facilities Workshop, San Francisco, CA, May 2007.

Kramer, William T.C., PERCU Results in a Reawakened Relationship for NERSC and Cray, Cray User Group (CUG 2007) Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2007.

Kramer, William T.C., Keynote Speaker at the Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) Workshop, Springfield OH , March 2006.

Kramer, William T.C., Keynote Speaker at the 3 rd Annual Symposium, On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large Scale Scientific Applications, Greenbelt MD, July 26-28, 2005.

Kramer, William T.C., Keynote Speaker at the DOD High Performance Modernization Program User's Meeting, NERSC and HPCMP Cooperation, Nashville, TN, June, 2005.

Kramer, William T.C., Science Driven Computer Design, and invited presentation at 11 th ECMWF (European Center for Mid-range Metrological Forecasting) Workshop on Terascale Computing, - Reading England, November 2004.

Kramer, William T.C., NERSC: Where Simulation Meets Data, invited keynote at the 2004 IBM Academy Meeting in San Francisco, October 2003

Kramer, William, T.C., NERSC: Where Data Meets Simulation, Computational Atmospheric Sciences conference, Annecy France, September 2, 2003.

Kramer, William T.C., NERSC and Blue Planet, invited presentation at the 7 th SciCOMP Conference, Gottingen, Germany, March 7, 2003.

Kramer, William T.C., Accelerating Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computation, and invited keynote presentation at 10 th ECMWF ( European Center for Mid-range Metrological Forecasting) Workshop on Terascale Computing, - Reading England, November 2002.

Kramer, William T.C., Climate Research at the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC), Computational Atmospheric Sciences conference, Annecy France, October 29 to November 2, 2001.

Kramer, William T.C., The National Energy Scientific Research Supercomputer Center, an invited presentation to the University of California Science and Technology Panel, June 2001.

Kramer, William T.C., NERSC - A Supercomputer Facility for the Next Millennium, Invited presentation at the Arctic Region Supercomputer Center Technology Panel, February 13, 2001

Kramer, William T.C., et. al., Building and Measuring a High Performance Network, LBNL Technical Report # 47274, January 4, 2001

Kramer, William T.C., So, now that you have your Teraflops computer, what do you do?, invited presentation at the LBNL Science and Technology Seminars Series, September 11, 1998 at the LBNL Washington D.C. office.

Kramer, William T.C., Computational Climate Activities at NERSC, invited presentation at  1998 Computing in Atmospheric Sciences Workshop, Imperial Palace Annecy France, July 2, 1998.

Kramer, William T.C., Horst  Simon, William Saphir, HECC Strategies, invited presentation at the DOE High End Computing Workshop,  Sandia National Laboratory, October  7, 1997.

Kramer, William T.C., NASA's Advanced Air Transportation Technologies Program and Free Flight, November 5, 1995, an invited presentation at Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Cambridge MA.

Kramer, William T.C., NASA's Advanced Air Transportation Technologies Program and Free Flight, October 21, 1995, an invited presentation at Airline Dispatcher Federation Annual Symposium, Dallas Texas.

Kramer, William T.C., Distributed Computing Activities at NAS, invited presentation at Distributed Computing for Aeroscience Applications Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, Oct. 18-20, 1993.

Kramer, William T.C., NAS Experiences with UNICOS, December 9, 1987, an invited presentation for the CRI UNICOS Advisory Committee meeting.

Kramer, William T.C., Supercomputing in the NAS Environment, October 8, 1987, an invited presentation at the University of Stuttgart Regional Computer Center in Stuttgart, Germany.

Other Publications

Horst Simon, William T.C. 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 and Peter Nugent, Science-Driven System Architecture: A New Process for Leadership Class Computing, Journal of the Earth Simulator, vol. 2, no. 1 (Jan 2005), pg 1-9.

Kramer, William T.C., Vaxes Share the Supercomputer Environment, invited, feature article, August 3, 1987, Digital Review.

Kramer, William T.C., Digital Signal Processing with Microprocessors, a graduate thesis at the University of Delaware.

Other Conferences

Kramer, William T.C., Large Memory Applications, invited presentation at the Digital Equipment Computer User Society Symposia, Anaheim, CA, December 1992.

Kramer, William T.C., Selection of Computer Graphics Hardware and Software, May 1986, a two day seminar offered at the University of Delaware.

 Kramer, William T.C., DEC-10 FORTRAN Optimization, December 1981, Reports of the DECsystem-10/20 Fall 1981 U.S. DECUS Meeting.

 Kramer, William T.C., DEC-10 User's Guide to Running Large FORTRAN Programs, Nov. 1980, Reports of the DECsystem-10/20 Fall 1980 U.S. DECUS Meeting.

Other Training and Tutorials

Kramer, William T.C. and Flatten, James, Selection of Computer Graphics Hardware and Software, two day seminar for University of Delaware Extension, May 1986.

Kramer, William T.C. and Flatten, James, Selection of Computer Graphics Hardware and Software, May 1985 and December 1984, a one day seminar offered at the respective Spring and Fall U.S. DECUS Symposium.

Technical Reports

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

William T.C. Kramer and John Hules, How Are We Doing? A Self-Assessment of the Quality of Services and Systems at NERSC, 2005-2006, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-62117, March 2007.

William T.C. Kramer, Jonathan Carter, David Skinner, Leonid Oliker, Parry Husbands, Paul Hargrove, John Shalf, Osni Marques, Esmond Ng, Leroy Drummond, and Katherine Yelick, Software Roadmap to Plug and Play Petaflop/s, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-59999, July 2006.

William T.C. Kramer, John Shalf, and Erich Strohmaier, The NERSC Sustained System Performance (SSP) Metric, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-58868, September 2005.

Horst D. Simon, William T. C. Kramer, David H. Bailey, Michael J. Banda, E. Wes Bethel, Jonathan T. Carter, James M. Craw, William J. Fortney, John A. Hules, Nancy L. Meyer, Juan C. Meza, Esmond G. Ng, Lynn E. Rippe, William C. Saphir, Francesca Verdier, Howard A. Walter, Katherine A. Yelick, Science-Driven Computing: NERSC's Plan for 2006-2010, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-57582, May 2005.

Horst D. Simon, William T.C. Kramer, William Saphir, John Shalf, David Bailey, Leonid Oliker, Michael Banda, W. William McCurdy, John Hules, Andrew Canning, Marc Day, Philip Colella, David Serafini, Michael Wehner, and Peter Nugent, Science-Driven System Architecture: A New Process for Leadership Class Computing, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-56545, October 2004.

Horst D. Simon, William T.C.Kramer, William Saphir, John Shalf, David Bailey, Leonid Oliker, National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center: From Here to Petaflops, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-2512, June 2004.

Horst D. Simon, William T.C. Kramer, William Saphir, John Shalf, David Bailey, Leonid Oliker, Michael Banda, C. William McCurdy, John Hules, Andrew Canning, Marc Day, Phillip Colella, David Serafini, Michael Wehner, and Peter Nugent, National Facility for Advanced Computational Science: A Sustainable Path to Scientific Discovery, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-5500, April 2004.

Jonathan Carter, Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Bill Kramer, Automatic Analysis of Regulatory Networks, LBNL Technical Publication, Number TBD, June 2003.

Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Bill Kramer, Gene Transcription Networks: An Algorithmic Perspective, LBNL Technical Publication, Number TBD, June 2003.

William T.C. Kramer, and Clint Ryan, Performance Variability of Highly Parallel Architectures, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-52291, May 2003.

William T.C. Kramer, How Are We Doing? A Self-Assessment of the Quality of Services and Systems at NERSC (2001), LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-51725, November 2002.

C. William McCurdy, Rick Stevens, Horst Simon, William Kramer, David Bailey, William Johnston, Charlie Catlett, Rusty Lusk, Thomas Morgan, Juan Meza, Michael Banda, James Leighton, John Hules, Creating a Science Driven Computer Architecture: A Path to Scientific Leadership, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-5483, October 2002.

Kramer, William, Wes Bethel, James Craw, Brent Draney, William Fortney, Brent Gorda, William Harris, Nancy Meyer, Esmond Ng, Francesca Verdier, Howard Walter, and Tammy Welcome; NERSC Strategic Implementation Plan 2002-2006, LBNL Technical Report #TBD, May 2002

Johnston W.E., W. T. C. Kramer, J. F. Leighton, and Charlie Catlett; A Vision for DOE Scientific Networking Driven by High Impact Science, March 15, 2002 - a http://www.lbl.gov/CS/Network_Vision_Whitepaper.pdf

NERSC 2001 Annual Report, LBNL Technical Report, March, 2002 at http://www.nersc.gov/research/annrep01/04RD_scidac.html

Horst D. Simon, William T.C. Kramer, William E. Johnston, Robert F. Lucas, and David H. Bailey, Strategic Proposal for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center FY2002 - FY2006, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-5465, December 2001.

William T.C. Kramer, Timothy Toole, Chuck Fisher, Jon Dugan, David Wheeler, William R. Wing, William Nickless, Gregory Goddard, Steven Corbato, E. Paul Love, Paul Daspit, Hal Edwards, Linden Mercer, Basil Decina, Eli Dart, Paul Reisinger, Riki Kurihara, Matthew J. Zekauskas, Eric Plesset, Julie Wulf, douglas Luce, James Rogers, Rex Duncan, and Jefferey Mauth, Building and Measuring a High Performance Network Architecture, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-47274, April 2001.

Adrian Wong, Leonid Oliker, William T.C. Kramer, Tereas L. Kaltz, and David H. Bailey, ESP: A System Utilizaition Benchmark, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-48595, November 2000.

Adrian Wong, Leonid Oliker, William T.C. Kramer, Teresa Kaltz, and David Bailey, System Utilization Benchmark on the Cray T3E and IBM SP, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-45141, February 2000.

Wong, Adrian T., Leonid Oliker, William T. C. Kramer, Teresa L. Kaltz, and David H. Bailey, Evaluating System Effectiveness in High Performance Computing Systems, LBNL Technical report LBNL 44542, November 1999

Horst D. Simon, William T.C. Kramer, and Robert F. Lucas, Building the Teraflops/Petabytes Production Supercomputing Center, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-44337, September 1999.

Kramer William, Francesca Verdier, Keith Fitzgerald, James Craw, and Tammy Welcome, High Performance Computing Facilities for the Next Millennium, LBNL Technical Report, LBNL-44700, October 1999.

Kramer, William, How Are We Doing? A Self Assessment of the Quality of Services and Systems at NERSC ( Oct. 1, 1997- Dec 31, 1998, LBNL Technical Report LBNL-43131, May 1999

Kramer, William. T.C., et al., How are we Doing? A self Assessment of the Quality of Services and Systems at NERSC (Oct. 1 1996 to Sept. 30, 1997), LBNL Technical Report # 41522, February 1998.

Simon, Horst, C. William McCurdy, William T.C. Kramer, and Alexander X. Merola, The New NERSC Program for FY 1997 — An Overview of Current and Proposed Efforts, December 18 1996, revised April 3, 1997.

NASA

Kramer, William T.C., Metrics Forum Improves Quality of NAS Products and Services, NAS News, Vol. 2/No 6, November-December, 1994, NAS Technical Report, RNS-94-003, April 1994.

K. Castagnera, D. Cheng, R. fatoohi, E. Hook, B. Kramer, C. Manning, J. Musch, C. Niggley, W. Saphir, D. Sheppard, M. Smith, I. Stockdale, S. Welch, R. Williams, and D. Yip, NAS Experiences with a Prototype Cluster of Worksations, NAS Computational Services Technical Report, RNS-94-003, April 1994.

NASA's "Office of Aeronautics Scientific and Engineering Computing Plan" - August 1994

NASA's "Aeronautics Consolidated Supercomputing Facility Project Plan" - June 1993

"NAS Systems Division Extended Operation Configuration Design and Development Plan" - 1987

"Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Program NPSN System Specification for the Extended Operation Configuration" - September 1986

Numerous Reviews

Other Presentations

Overview of NERSC and Blue Planet to the DOE/SC OMB Budget Examiner.

2004 Policy Board Review of the NERSC Program

2003 Laboratory Director's Review on Computing Science

2002 Policy Board Review of the NERSC Program

2002 Laboratory Director's Review of the Computing Sciences

2001 Policy Board Review of the NERSC Program

2001 Laboratory Director's Review of the Computing Sciences

2000 Policy Board Review of the NERSC Program

2000 Laboratory Director's Review of the Computing Sciences

1999 Laboratory Director's Review of the Computing Sciences

1998 Laboratory Director's Review of the NERSC Program

1997 Laboratory Director's Review of the NERSC Program