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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
1:00– 5:00 p.m.	Earth System Modeling Framework training, Visualization Lab
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 All sessions are in the Main Seminar Room of the Mesa Lab unless otherwise noted.
7:45 a.m.	Registration and continental breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Welcome and overview, Tom Bettge, SCD
9:00 a.m.	The new cybersecurity environment Anatomy of a compromise, Rich Johnson, SCD Break A university's perspective on last spring's security incident, Daryl Herzmann, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University Security awareness: tools and techniques, Lynda McGinley, SCD
11:00 a.m.	Update on SCD, Tom Bettge
11:50 a.m.	Group photo for all participants (on front steps of building)
11:55 a.m.	Lunch (on your own)
12:10 p.m.	Optional roundtable (bring your own lunch): Strategies for graduate student development in the use of computational tools, Pat Behling, Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Visualization Lab
1:15 p.m.	IMAGe (Institute of Mathematics Applied to Geosciences): Introduction, Doug Nychka, IMAGe The data assimilation research testbed: A community data assimilation facility, Jeff Anderson, IMAGe Adaptive mesh refinement with the turbulence code GASpAR, Duane Rosenberg, IMAGe
2:00 p.m.	Earth System Modeling Framework capabilities, Cecelia Deluca, SCD
2:20 p.m.	Use of SCD/ERA-40 data sets for research in weather and climate at FSU, Vijay Kumar Tallapragada, Department of Meteorology, Florida State University
2:40 p.m.	Break and poster viewing ECMWF 45-year reanalysis data from NCAR, Steve Worley and Joey Comeaux (SCD) Coupling sub-grid scale moist convection with global dynamics, Amik St.-Cyr and Stephen Thomas (SCD), Andrzej Wyszogrodski (IBM), and Wojciech Grabowski (MMM) Grid–BGC: A Grid-enabled terrestrial carbon cycle modeling system, Henry Tufo, Matthew Woitaszek , and Jason Cope (SCD) Community Data Portal, Michael Burek (SCD)
3:10 p.m.	Key new features in the research data archive Introduction, Steven Worley, SCD ERA-40 data, Joey Comeaux, SCD NARR data, Chi-Fan Shih, SCD Near real-time data from the IDD, Doug Schuster, SCD Metadata: Building data discovery and access, Bob Dattore, SCD
3:50 p.m.	New data portals for the community: The Community Data Portal and the Earth System Grid, Luca Cinquini, SCD Climate model data management: Lessons learned from IPCC AR4, Gary Strand, CGD
4:30 p.m.	Experience with multiresolution methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of terascale turbulence data sets, John Clyne, SCD and Mark Rast, HAO
5:00 p.m.	Reception for 2005 User Forum attendees, Damon Room
6:30 p.m.	Adjourn
Thursday, May 19, 2005
7:40 a.m	Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.	Programming tips from SCD's Consulting Services staff: Introduction, Dick Valent, SCD How to use the MSS efficiently, Mike Page, SCD Scheduler basics, Juli Rew, SCD Secure file transfer, Sidd Ghosh, SCD Programming for efficiency: Strategies for code porting and efficiency, Juli Rew, SCD
9:40 a.m.	Break
10:00 a.m.	The three P's of SCD: People, petabytes, and pixels—A university perspective, Bjorn Stevens, UCLA
10:20 a.m.	Field support with WRF using bluesky, Wei Wang, MMM
10:40 a.m.	Towards a comprehensive environment for data analysis and visualization, Pam Gilman and John Clyne, SCD
11:05 a.m.	SCD Portal: Gateway to SCD supercomputers and account information, Lana Stillwell, SCD
11:35 a.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Community data analysis and visualization software: NCL and PyNGL, Mary Haley, SCD
1:25 p.m.	SCD computer center expansion, Aaron Anderson
1:50 p.m.	Overview of NCAR's Blue Gene/L computer, Rich Loft, SCD
2:20 p.m.	Wrap-up, Tom Bettge
2:30 p.m.	Adjourn