12:30 p.m.

Shuttle departs Homewood Suites for Center Green 

1:00 p.m.

Convene in plenary session – Center Green 1 (CG1) Auditorium North and Center Bays

Logistical information and introduction of workshop staff and program committee

Welcome and opening remarks:
"Toward Petascale Research in the Geosciences"

Krista Laursen


Tim Killeen 

1:15 p.m.

"The Challenge of Using Petascale Computing for Research"

Steve Meacham

1:45 p.m.

"Geosciences and Petascale Computing: NSF Role and Concerns"

Margaret Leinen

2:15 p.m.

Break

2:30 p.m.

"Petascale Computing and the Ocean Sciences: Opportunities and Challenges"

Dale Haidvogel

3:15 p.m.

"SCEC Pathways to Petascale Computing in Earthquake System Science"

Thomas Jordan

4:00 p.m.

"Advancing Science: Lessons from the Past in Facing a Petascale Future"

Robert Wilhelmson

4:45 p.m.

Overview of Day Two planned parallel session discussions

Lawrence Buja and Peter Fox 

5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

5:10 p.m. – Shuttle departs Center Green for Homewood Suites

Shuttle service to the Mesa Laboratory for the evening reception provided for workshop participants. Shuttle bus departures from participant hotels will be as follows:

Residence Inn – 5:45 p.m. Homewood Suites – 6:00 p.m.

6:15 p.m.

Welcoming reception – Mesa Lab Cafeteria

7:15 p.m.

Buffet service and seated dining – Mesa Lab Cafeteria

8:00 p.m.

Evening presentation - Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room

"Petaflop Computing and Reliable Climate Prediction – a European Perspective"

Tim Palmer

8:45 p.m.

Reception ends

9:00 p.m.

Shuttle bus departs Mesa Lab for workshop participant hotels

8:00 a.m.

Shuttle departs Homewood Suites for Center Green

8:15 a.m.

Parallel session leader and recorder meeting – CG1 Auditorium North and Center Bays

8:30 a.m.

Convene in plenary session – CG1 Auditorium North and Center Bays

"A Petascale Collaboratory for the Geosciences – The Backstory"

"A Geoscience Collaboratory: A Blueprint for a Distributed Domain-Specific Enterprise"

Each presentation 30 minutes; 15-minute question and discussion period after each talk

Frank Bryan

 Rich Loft

10:00 a.m.

Morning parallel sessions

Six (6) discipline-oriented groups, with each group asked to address the following questions:

1)  How can a Geosciences high performance computing (HPC) enterprise best be structured to meet the needs of your discipline?

2)  What will be required to make such an enterprise function effectively?

3)  What are the characteristics of a computing resource allocation model that will best meet the needs of your discipline?

4)  What types of service and support will your discipline require and what are the types of applications that will need to be supported?

Group 1 – Meteorology, CG1 Auditorium South Bay

Group 2 – Space Physics, CG1 Auditorium North and Center Bays

Group 3 – Hydrology and Sedimentology, CG1 Room 3150

Group 4 – Solid Earth, CG1 Room 3131

Group 5 – Oceanography, CG1 Room 2126

Group 6 – Paleoclimate, CG1 Room 2503

 Session leaders

Group 1 – James Kinter

Group 2 – Mark Rast

Group 3 – L. Ruby Leung

Group 4 – Chuck Meertens

Group 5 – Mick Follows

Group 6 – Lisa Cirbus Sloan

Session recorders

Group 1 – Lawrence Buja

Group 2 – Michael Wiltberger

Group 3 – Krista Laursen

Group 4 – Peter Fox

Group 5 – Frank Bryan

Group 6 – Rich Loft

NSF session representatives

Group 1 – Cliff Jacobs

Group 2 – Jarvis Moyers

Group 3 – Peter Milne

Group 4 – Leonard Johnson

Group 5 – Eric Itsweire

Group 6 – Art Goldstein

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

Convene in plenary – CG1 Auditorium North and Center Bays

Lunch presentation: "Overview of NCAR Supercomputing Support for the Atmospheric and Related Sciences"

 Tom Bettge

1:00 p.m.

Morning parallel session reports (10 minutes per group) and plenary discussion

Session leaders and reporters to give each presentation; three (3) slides maximum

Moderator: Krista Laursen

2:30 p.m.

Break

2:45 p.m.

Afternoon parallel sessions

Four (4) cross-discipline groups, with each group asked to address the following implementation-specific questions:

1) How can the community best facilitate – through collaboration in geoscience cyberinfrastructure – better collaboration in the areas of education, outreach, training, and workforce development?

2) How can the economy of scale for a Geosciences high-performance computing (HPC) enterprise best be demonstrated?

3) What is the best model for establishing a fair relationship between available resources, required science, and allocation of computing?

4) How can a Geosciences HPC enterprise best be designed in order to provide the capability for addressing emerging opportunities and for supporting “hero” computing requirements?

Group 1 (Red) – CG1 Auditorium South Bay

Group 2 (Blue) – CG1 Auditorium North and Center Bays

Group 3 (Green) – CG1 Room 3131

Group 4 (Yellow) – CG1 Room 2126

Session leaders

Group 1 – Chuck Hakkarinen

Group 2 – David Randall

Group 3 – David Yuen

Group 4 – Thomas (Zack) Powell

Session recorders

Group 1 – Pat Waukau

Group 2 – Tom Bettge

Group 3 – Aaron Andersen

Group 4 – Marla Meehl

NSF session representatives

Group 1 – Peter Milne

Group 2 – Sarah Ruth

Group 3 – Cliff Jacobs

Group 4 – Jarvis Moyers

4:45 p.m.

Convene in plenary session – CG1 Auditorium North and Center Bays

Day Two wrap-up and overview of Day Three final discussions

 Peter Fox

5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

No evening event scheduled for workshop participants

5:10 p.m. – Shuttle departs Center Green for Homewood Suites

5:00 p.m.

Program committee meeting – CG1 Room 3131

NCAR management representatives, program committee members, and NSF workshop attendees

8:30 a.m.

Shuttle departs Homewood Suites for Center Green

9:00 a.m.

Convene in plenary session – CG1 Auditorium North and Center Bays

Day Two afternoon parallel session group reports (10 minutes per group) and plenary discussion

Session leaders and reporters to give each presentation; three (3) slides maximum

Synthesis session – general discussion of Day Two parallel session group discussions and outcomes

Moderator: Michael Wiltberger

10:30 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m.

Community panel – synthesis of workshop discussions, perspective on required next steps, and open discussion

Dag Nummedal, Tim Palmer, Thomas (Zack) Powell, Jimmy Raeder, James Syvitski, and Kraig Winters (members under confirmation)

11:30 a.m.

Definition of next steps and outline of plans for reporting outcomes from the workshop

Tim Killeen

11:45 a.m.

Closing arrangements and travel reimbursement information

Krista Laursen

12:00 p.m.

Adjourn

Lunch on your own

12:10 p.m. – Shuttle departs Center Green for Homewood Suites