Present: Henry van den Bedem, Joe Blaylock, Arno Candel, Igor Gaponenko, Chris O'Grady, Vineet Rawat, Bebo White
At the start of the meeting, Arno presented the following collection of candidates:
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Candidates as of March 7 2011:
Horst Simon suggests:
* himself (Deputy Lab director – LBNL, Director NERSC) – Status of HPC in the US
* Peter Nugent (Group leader - LBNL) – Cosmology
* Julian Borrill (Staff scientist - LBNL) – Cosmology
* Jamie Sethian (Prof. - UC Berkeley) – General Applied Math and Sci Comp
* Filipe Maia (Postdoc - LBNL) – GPUs/Hawk
* Jim Demmel (Prof. - UC Berkeley) - Optimizing Performance by Avoiding Communication
* Andrew Canning (Sen. Staff - LBNL) - Mat Science on Many Core Architectures (PARATEC)
* Sam Williams (PhD08 - LBNL) - Auto-Tuning Memory-Intensive Kernels for Multicore
Jakec Becla suggests:
* Jeff Hammerbacher (wall street, facebook, cloudera,
see http://www.accel.com/bio/jeffhammerbacher.php
* Oliver Ratzesberger (director of eBay analytics)
Travis Brooks suggests:
* Facebook Data Science group (friends visualization etc)
* Eugene Kim (Wikimedia strategic planning)
Igor Gaponenko suggests:
* David Patterson (CS Prof. - UC Berkeley)
Co-founder of ParLab @ UC Berkeley, Led the design of RISC 1 -> SPARC, Leader of RAID project. National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, etc.
Henry van den Bedem suggests:
* Tony DeRose from Pixar http://graphics.pixar.com/people/derose/index.html.
* Mohammed AlQuraishi (Stanford) “De novo inference of protein-DNA energy potentials using compressed sensing"
Bebo White suggests:
* Danese Cooper – Wikimedia CTO
* Leo Paporte (leoville.com) – Online Social Media
* Jeff Johnson – Book “Designing with the Mind in Mind” (About Interfaces)
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During and after the meeting, a few new recommendations were made:
Henry suggested:
* Mike Huffer (SLAC, RCE for LSST/ATLAS)
* Todd Martinez (SLAC, GPUs for chemistry)
* SUNCAT (SLAC, catalysts for clean energy created using computational methods)
Igor suggested:
* Anton Barty (DESY Germany, work on LCLS imaging):
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v2/n7/pdf/nphoton.2008.128.pdf
* Garth Williams (LCLS Coherent X-ray Imaging) - he agreed to give the first talk!
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MEETING OUTCOME:
1) We agreed that while the content should stay mostly in line with SLAC's research programs, a healthy mix of more general (but still strongly computing related) talks from outside speakers would greatly improve the changes for overall success. Ratio 2:1 or so.
2) Frequency: Monthly OK, gives us freedom to sprinkle in the occasional surprise speaker
3) Time and location does not have to be strictly fixed, since it's monthly, people might forget / don't care. We prefer the Kavli auditorium, if available.
4) Which day?
Monday: ruled out because of weekly colloquium at 4PM
Tuesday: OK?
Wednesday: ruled out because of weekly LCLS seminar (around 3PM)
Thursday: 3PM OK?
Friday: ruled out because of proximity to weekend
5) Proposed time line for the first seminars (Please provide feedback):
- End of April (or as soon as Amber is here): 1st seminar: Garth Williams (LCLS Coherent X-ray Imaging) - confirmed
- End of May: 2rd seminar: Bill Dally (TBD?) (Comp Science Prof. Stanford, http://cva.stanford.edu/billd_webpage_new.html) or someone from the movie/gaming industry (Pixar or Electronics Arts) (TBD)
- End of June: 3rd seminar: Ralf Kaehler (Cosmology visualization, possibly including a tour to the 3D visualization room upstairs from Kavli auditorium) - confirmed
- End of June: sci comp workshop (updated date, according to Richard on March 9)
- End of June: 4th seminar: Anton Barty (LCLS, Imaging - pending availability) or Mike Huffer (LSST storage)
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ACTION ITEMS:
* SCSC members to decide on the time slot. Is Thursday 3PM OK?
* Henry to check with Pixar
* UPDATE Mar 9 (Thanks Igor): Anton is interested in giving a talk, but won't be here late May/early June. Quoting Anton: "Our next round of experiments at LCLS will be in late June (I'm scheduled to leave LCLS before July 3). I don't think there's any reason for me to be over SLAC way before then."
* Arno: Wait for feedback from SCSC members, then contact the first few speakers