FZ workshop
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Thank you for considering attending the FZ workshop at Sarasota!
Dates, address, contact:
- Date: Feb 14-15, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Address: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota, FL 34243
- Meeting room: Chao Lecture Hall.
- Important: Do NOT use the main museum entrance. Please refer to this map for parking and entrance.
- Meeting Zoom: One Zoom link for all the sessions
- Meeting docs: All slides can be found in this shared folder
- Please fill out this form no matter you will attend in person or online)
- We use Eastern Time (ET) for this workshop.
- Host: Dr. Kai Zhao (kai.zhao@fsu.edu)
Schedule:
Day before (Feb. 13)
- 5:00 PM Reception (Cost on your own, Rico’s Pizzeria & Pasta House, Address: 5131 N Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34234)
Day 1 (Feb 14)
- 8:30 AM Door opens for Chao lecture hall
- 8:45 AM Please arrive at the Chao lecture hall by 8:45 AM.
- 9:00 AM Workshop opening by Dr. Franck Cappello
- 9:05 AM Welcome talk by Dr. Stacey Patterson (Vice President for Research, Florida State University)
- 9:15 AM Welcome talk by Dr. Varun Chandola (NSF Program Director, CISE/OAC)
- 9:20 AM A general introduction: workshop participants with their expertise.
- 9:40 AM Training on existing compressors (SZ, ZFP, LC, SPERR, LibPressio, etc.) (1h)
- Overview (40 min)
- Hands-on (20 min)
- 10:40 Break (20 min)
- 11:00 AM A general introduction to the FZ project and the 3 different thrusts of the FZ project (programming interface and specific compressor generation, building of the compression module library, visualization, quality assessment, and optimization) (1h)
- 12:00 PM Lunch (Cost on your own)
- 1:30 PM A presentation of the FZ project progress so far and the next milestones (1h)
- 2:30 PM A discussion about FZ module design with other compressors (30min)
- 3:00 PM Break (20 min)
- 3:45 PM Application session, part 1 (1h40min)
- (4 application domains, 15 min each) A presentation of the different application domain requirements and constraints concerning lossy compression by the application attendees (1h)
- 5:00 PM End of day
Day 2 (Feb 15)
- 9:00 AM Application session, part 2 (1h40min)
- (5 application domains, 12 min each) A presentation of the different application domain requirements and constraints concerning lossy compression by the application attendees (1h)
- one-to-one break-out sessions with the application developers and users to collect (i) use case requirements
concerning compression ratio, speed, and accuracy criteria, (ii) practical compression interface requirements,
including APIs and I/O library integration, and shell command. (40min)
- Group 1-4 (20 min)
- Group application 1: Climate, lead: Robert + compressor developers
- Group application 2: Seismology, lead: Dingwen + compressor developers
- Group application 3: Quantum circuit, lead: Sheng + compressor developers
- Group application 4: Fusion, lead: Hanqi + compressor developers
- Group 5-9 (20 min)
- Group application 5: Cosmology, lead: Dingwen + compressor developers
- Group application 6: Light sources, lead: Robert + compressor developers
- Group application 7: Molecular Dynamics, lead: Kai + compressor developers
- Group application 8: Combustion, lead: Hanqi + compressor developers
- Group application 9: System logs, lead: Sheng + compressor developers
- In parallel, Preparation of the slides summarizing discussion/test results for every application. Robert, Dingwen, Sheng, Kai, Hanqi (2 application domains each).
- Group 1-4 (20 min)
- 10:40 AM Break (20 min)
- 11:00 AM Hackathon sessions where multiple existing compression schemes will be tested for every application to identify relevant compression methods and gaps that could be addressed with lossy compressor customization (1h)
- 12:00 PM Lunch (Cost on your own)
- 1:00 PM Presentation of the discussion/test results for every application (1h30)
- 2:30 PM Discussion/Reconciliation of the break-out session results
- 5:00 PM End of the workshop
- 9:00 AM Application session, part 2 (1h40min)
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