As the 30th annual Supercomputing Conference approaches, the OLCF and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are once more playing an active role in this premiere high-performance computing (HPC) event.
Held from November 11–16 in Dallas, SC18 gives OLCF staff members the opportunity to share their work and knowledge with the HPC community and learn about the latest technologies and accomplishments from the world’s leading vendors, research organizations, and universities. The theme of this year’s conference is “HPC Inspires.”
Leading up to SC18, OLCF staff members have helped shape this year’s conference by participating in organizing committees. ORNL staff members who chaired committees for SC18 include Dustin Leverman, who is serving as the Infrastructure Chair; OLCF User Assistance and Outreach Group Lead Ashley Barker, who is serving as the State of the Practice Vice-Chair; Scientific Computing Group Lead Judith Hill, who is serving as the Workshops Vice-Chair; OLCF Networking Administrator Benny Sparks, who is the Wireless Team Chair; and National Center for Computational Sciences Director of Computing and Facilities Jim Rogers, who is serving as the Executive Director for SC18.
During the conference, OLCF staff members are slated to participate in a wide variety of activities, including tutorials, workshops, panel discussions, invited talks, poster sessions, technical paper presentations, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and more.
Schedule
Sunday, November 11
- 9:00am-5:30pm: “The 3rd International Workshop on Post-Moore Era Supercomputing (PMES)” D161
- 9:00am-12:30pm: “Fifth Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives (WACCPD)” D175
- 9:05–9:35am: Jack Wells “WACCPD KEYNOTE: Experiences in Using Directive-based Programming for Accelerated Computing Architectures” D175
- 9:35-10:00am: Wayne Joubert (Wenlu Zhang, presenter) “Heterogeneous Programming and Optimization of Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code Using Directives” D175
- 10:30-10:50am: Ada Sedova, Andreas F. Tillack, Arnold Tharrington “Using Compiler Directives for Performance Portability in Scientific Computing: Kernels from Molecular Simulation” D175
- 10:30am-12:00pm: Philip Roth “Students@SC: Careers in Industry, Research Labs, and Academia” D227
- 11:10-11:40am: Aaron Welch “A Compiler and Profiler Based Tool for Querying HPC Application Characteristics” D172
- 3:55-4:20pm: Philip Roth “Using Deep Learning for Automated Communication Pattern Characterization: Little Steps and Big Challenges” D171
Monday, November 12
- 8:30am-5:00pm: Tom Papatheodore Tutorial “Application Porting and Optimization on GPU-Accelerated POWER Architectures” C145
- 8:30am-5:00pm: David Bernholdt Tutorial “Better Scientific Software” C155
- 8:30am-5:00pm: Scott Klasky, Norbert Podhorszki, David Pugmire Tutorial “High Performance I/O Frameworks 101” C147
- 9:00am-5:30pm: Al Geist, Christian Engelmann Workshop “9th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems” D161
Tuesday, November 13
- 10:30-11:00am: Christopher Zimmer, Don Maxwell, Stephen McNally,Scott Atchley, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai “GPU Age-Aware Scheduling to Improve the Reliability of Leadership Jobs on Titan” C141/143/149
- 11:00-11:30am: Hyogi Sim “BESPOKV: Application Tailored Scale-Out Key-Value Stores” C146
- 12:00–12:25pm: Jack Wells, “Latest Results from the Summit Supercomputer,” NVIDIA booth (#2417, Hall D)
- 12:15-1:15pm: Sarp Oral BOF “LUSTRE Community BOF: Lustre in HPC and Emerging Data Markets: Roadmap, Features and Challenges” C140/142
- 12:15-1:15pm: Matt Belhorn BOF “Spack Community BoF” D227
- 3:30-5:00pm: Buddy Bland Panel “How Can Lessons Learned in the Past Forty Years Guide Future HPC Research Strategies?” C155/156
- 4:00pm: Oscar Hernandez “Co-design of Parallelware Tools by Appentra and ORNL: Addressing the Challenges of Developing Future Exascale HPC Applications” DOE booth (#2433) Demo Station 1
- 4:45pm: Jack Wells, ORNL, and Alexei Klimentov, BNL, “Big BigPanDA project. Workflow and Workload Management System for High Energy and Nuclear Physics, and for Extreme Scale Scientific Applications,” DOE booth (#2433)
Wednesday, November 14
- 10:30am-12:00pm: Ashley Barker Panel “Innovative Approaches for Developing Accessible, Productive, Scalable HPC Training” C155/156
- 11:00-11:30am: Tjerk Straatsma, “Scientific Application Development and Early Results on Summit” Mellanox booth (#3207)
- 11:30am: Buddy Bland “An Overview of ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer” DOE booth (#2433)
- 3:00-3:50pm: Tjerk Straatsma, “Scientific Application Development and Early Results on Summit” Tokyo Tech booth (#427)
- 3:30-5:00pm: Ashley Barker Session Chair “Large Scale System Deployments” C140/142
- 3:30-4:00pm: “The Design, Deployment, and Evaluation of the CORAL Pre-Exascale Systems” C140/142
- 5:15-6:45pm: Oscar Hernandez BOF “OpenSHMEM in the Era of Exascale” C145
- 5:15-6:45pm: David Bernholdt BOF “Software Engineering and Reuse in Computational Science and Engineering” D168
- 5:15-6:45pm: George Markomanolis BOF “The IO-500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O” D173
Thursday, November 15
- 8:30am-5:00pm on display; 5:15-7:00pm presenters present: Philip Roth, David Bernholdt Poster “Improving the I/O Performance and Memory Usage of the Xolotl Cluster Dynamics Simulator” C2/3/4 Ballroom
- 8:30am-5:00pm: Harsh Khetawat, Christopher Zimmer, Frank Mueller, Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Scott Atchley Poster “Using Darshan and CODES to Evaluate Application I/O Performance” C2/3/4 Ballroom
- 10:30am-12:00pm: Judith Hill “Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates: Careers in HPC” D169
- 11:30am-12:00pm: Wayne Joubert, Daniel Jacobson ACM Gordon Bell Finalist “Attacking the Opioid Epidemic: Determining the Epistatic and Pleiotropic Genetic Architectures for Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction” A2 Ballroom
- 12:00-12:25pm: Tjerk Straatsma, “Scientific Application Development and Early Results on Summit,” NVIDIA booth (#2417)
Friday, November 16
- 8:40-8:55am: Ada Sedova, Reuben Budiardja, Arnold Tharrington, Jeremy C. Smith “High-Performance Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Biological and Materials Sciences: Challenges of Performance Portability” D174
- 9:40-10:00am: Yawei Hui, Byung Hoon Park, Christian Engelmann,
“A Comprehensive Informative Metric for Analyzing HPC System Status Using the LogSCAN Platform” D171 - 10:30-10:50am: Rizwan A. Ashraf, Christian Engelmann, “Analyzing the Impact of System Reliability Events on Applications in the Titan Supercomputer” D174