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2021 OLCF User Meeting

June 22-24, 2021
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM (ET)

  • This meeting will be held as a virtual (online-only) event via Zoom. Please register using the form below.  You will be emailed the Zoom coordinates for the meeting upon successful registration.  The last day to register for this event is June 12, 2021.
About the Meeting

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) will hold its annual OLCF User Meeting remotely from June 22-24, 2021. The purpose of the user meeting is to share selected computational science and engineering achievements emerging from the OLCF’s user programs, to enable interactions among users, to advance the OLCF’s relationships with our user community, and to highlight computational requirements for the future. The 2021 meeting will feature OLCF Facility updates, User-experience talks on Summit and Frontier early hardware, deep dive discussions with OLCF staff, and OLCF executive board election results.

 

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2021 Virtual OLCF User Meeting Agenda

  • All times reflected below are in the Eastern time zone
  • The event will be hosted in Zoom and the coordinates will be provided after registration

Tuesday, June 22nd Agenda

Time (all times EDT) Topic Presenter
11:00 AM Welcome

 Dr. Gina Tourassi, Division Director, National Center for Computational Sciences
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Summit Updates

 Session Leader:  Thomas Papatheodore, OLCF System Acceptance and User Environment

Speakers:

  • Don Maxwell, OLCF HPC Scalable System
  • Ryan Prout, OLCF User Assistance
  • Suzanne Parete-Koon, OLCF User Assistance
  • William Renaud, OLCF User Assistance
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Table-Top Breakout Discussions Day #1 Session Leader: Chris Fuson, OLCF User AssistanceTable-Top Breakout Topics:

  1. Storage and I/O
    • Dustin Leverman, OLCF HPC Storage and Archive
    • Sarp Oral, OLCF Technology Integration
  2. Node Local Storage Use Cases
    • Chris Zimmer, OLCF Technology Integration
  3. CPU/GPU/Memory Affinity on Summit
    • Subil Abraham, OLCF User Assistance
    • Bill Renaud, OLCF User Assistance
  4. Jupyter Notebooks
    • Ryan Prout, OLCF User Assistance
    • Jason Kincl, OLCF Platforms
  5. Performance measurement and optimization
    1. Phil Roth, OLCF Algorithms & Performance Analysis
  6. Training Resources
    • Suzanne Parete-Koon, OLCF User Assistance
    • Tom Papatheodore, OLCF System Acceptance and User Environment
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Break
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM User-Led Talks (recording)

  • Car:  Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics on SUMMIT
  • Randles:  Accelerating Fluid-structure-interaction Models of Human Hemodynamics on Summit
  • Glaser:  Structure-Based Virtual Screening and Data Analytics on Summit for COVID-19
Session Leader: Jens Glaser, OLCF Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials

Speakers:

  • Roberto Car, Princeton’s Ralph W. *31 Dornte Professor in Chemistry and a professor with the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
  • Amanda Randles, Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University
  • Jens Glaser, OLCF Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials

 

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2021 Virtual OLCF User Meeting Agenda

  • All times reflected below are in the Eastern time zone
  • The event will be hosted in Zoom and the coordinates will be provided after registration

Wednesday, June 23rd Agenda

Time Topic/Title Speaker
11:00 – 12:00 2020 Survey Outcomes

  • Short Review of 2020 Survey Result & New Initiatives in the Pipeline (slides)
  • Containers Update (slides)
 Session Leader:  Ashley Barker, OLCF OperationsSpeakers:

    • Ashley Barker, OLCF Operations
    • Ryan Prout for Jason Kincl, OLCF Platforms
12:00 – 1:00 Table-Top Breakout Discussions Day #2 Session Leader: Chris Fuson, OLCF User AssistanceTable-Top Breakout Topics:

  1. Using the Parallel File System Well
    • Dustin Leverman, OLCF HPC Storage and Archive
    • Rick Mohr, OLCF Technology Integration
    • Sarp Oral, OLCF Technology Integration
  2. HPSS
    • Brenna Miller, OLCF HPC Storage and Archive
    • Vicky White, OLCF Technology Integration
  3. Data transfer between OLCF and external sites (Globus)
    • Jesse Hanley, OLCF HPC Storage and Archive
    • Ryan Landfield, OLCF User Assistance
    • Bill Renaud, OLCF User Assistance
  4. ML/DL at Scale
    • Junqi Yin, OLCF Analytics and AI Methods at Scale
    • Aristeidis Tsaris, OLCF Analytics and AI Methods at Scale
  5. Visualization and Data Analysis
    • Benjamin Hernandez, OLCF Analytics and AI Methods at Scale
    • Woong Shin, OLCF Analytics and AI Methods at Scale
  6. Container Support Requirements Gathering
    • Subil Abraham, OLCF User Assistance
    • Matt Davis, OLCF System Acceptance and User Environment
    • Ryan Prout, OLCF User Assistance
  7.  User Needs in Regards to Supporting the Scientist’s Dataflows
    • Olga Kuchar, Data Lifecycle and Scalable Workflows
1:00 – 1:30 Break
1:30-3:00 User-Led Talks (recording)

  • Genetic architecture of health and disease across diverse populations – A Million Veteran Program Study using DOE SuperComputing
  • Harnessing Summit, DLHub, funcX and HAL to enable accelerated and reproducible AI-driven gravitational wave detection
  • Urbannet: Graph based Critical Infrastructure Analysis Tool
  • ProtTrans:  Towards Cracking the Language of Life’s Code Through Self-Supervised Deep Learning and High Performance Computing
 Session Leader: Feiyi Wang, OLCF Analytics and AI Methods at ScaleSpeakers:

  • Ravi K Madduri, Scientist, Data Science and Learning, Argonne National LaboratorySenior Scientist, University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering (UChicago CASE)
  • Eliu Huerta, Head of Translational AI and Advanced Computing, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Matt Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Michael Heinzinger, ROSTLAB, Christian Dallago, and Tobias Olenyi, Technical University of Munich
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2021 Virtual OLCF User Meeting Agenda

  • All times reflected below are in the Eastern time zone
  • The event will be hosted in Zoom and the coordinates will be provided after registration

Thursday, June 24th Agenda

Time Topic/Title Speaker
11:00 – 12:00 Center-Led Frontier Updates

 Session Leader:  Phil Roth, OLCF Algorithms & Performance Analysis

Speakers:

  • Balint Joo, Advanced Computing for Nuclear, Particles, & Astrophysics Group
  • Michael Brim, Intelligent Systems and Facilities
  • Sarp Oral, OLCF Technology Integration
  • Phil Roth, OLCF Algorthms & Performance Analysis
12:00 – 1:00 Table-Top Breakout Discussions Day #3 Session Leader: Chris Fuson, OLCF User Assistance

Table-Top Breakout Topics:

  1. A Look Ahead to Frontier
    • Scott Atchley, OLCF Technology Integration
  2. Interop of Frontier and A21 programming models
    • Philip Roth, OLCF Algorithms and Performance Analysis
    • Reuben Budiardja, OLCF Advanced Computing for Nuclear, Particles, and Astrophysics
  3. Writing competitive INCITE/DD proposal
    • Bronson Messer, OLCF Director of Science
    • Mark Berrill, Advanced Computing for Life Sciences and Engineering
  4. Quantum at OLCF
    • Ryan Landfield, OLCF User Assistance
  5. UnifyFS
    • Mike Brim, Intelligent Systems & Facilities
  6. Slate
    • Ryan Prout, OLCF User Assistance
    • Jason Kincl, Platforms
  7. Recruiting, Available Scientific Computing Positions at ORNL
    • Kate Carter, Talent Acquisition Partner
1:00 – 1:30 Break
1:30-3:00 User-Led Talks on Preparing for Frontier

 

 

 

Challenges and Opportunities: Preparing PIConGPU for Frontier (slides/recording)

 

E3SM-MMF Experiences with AMD Hardware (slides/recording)

 

Astrophysics at Exascale: Preparing Cholla for Frontier (slides/recording)

 

How I learned to be HIP: Experiences in porting a CUDA application (slides/recording)

 Session Leader: Reuben Budiardja, Advanced Computing for Nuclear, Particles, & Astrophysics Group

Speakers:

  • Dr. Sunita Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware
  • Dr. Matthew Norman, Group Leader, Advanced Computing for Life Science & Engineering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Dr. Evan Schneider, Assistant Professor in Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
  • Dr. Balint Joo, Group Leader, Advanced Computing for Nuclear, Particles, & Astrophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3:00-3:30 Wrap-Up

  • OUG Election Results
  • Open Floor
 Session Leader:  Ashley Barker, Operations

Speakers:

  • Reuben Budiardja, OLCF Advanced Computing for Nuclear, Particles, & Astrophysics Group
  • OLCF Users
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Date

Jun 22 - 24 2021
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Time

11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Category

Organizer

Ashley Barker
Phone
(865) 574-1841
Email
[email protected]
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