The 32nd International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, or SC20, is taking place virtually this year. Despite the adaptations, the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are once again playing an active role in this premier high-performance computing (HPC) event.

Held from November 9–19 in a virtual platform, SC20 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 “More than HPC.”

Here are some of the OLCF and ORNL-related contributions to SC20:

ORNL Staff with Committee Roles at SC20

• Ashley Barker – Chair of Student Volunteers, Students@SC; Member of State of the Practice, Technical Program
• Mike Bernhardt – SC Perennials Chair, Conference Management
• David Bernholdt – Member of Early Career Program, Technical Program
• Michael Brim – Committee Member of Research Posters, Technical Program
• Joel Brogan – Birds of a Feather Member, Technical Program
• Ana Gainaru – Vice Chair of Tutorials, Technical Program; Birds of a Feather Member, Technical Program
• John Gounley – Member of Test of Time Award, Technical Program
• Judith Hill – Chair of Applications, Technical Program
• Travis Johnston – Member of Journal Special Issue, Technical Program
• Jason Kincl – SCC Infrastructure & Logistics Lead; Vice Chair of Student Cluster Competition, Students@SC
• Dustin Leverman – Finance Liaison for Students@SC, Financial Management; Volunteer Services Team Deputy Chair, SCinet; Member of Student Volunteers, Students@SC
• Qing Liu – Committee Member of Research Posters, Technical Program
• Arthur McCabe – Member of Clouds and Distributed Computing, Technical Program
• Kshitij Mehta – Committee Member of Research Posters, Technical Program
• Verónica Melesse Vergara – Chair of State of the Practice, Technical Program; Co-Chair of Student Cluster Competition, Students@SC
• Paul Peltz – Virtual Student Cluster Competition Member, Students@SC
• James Rogers – Finance Contract Reviewer, Financial Management; Deputy Chair of Housing, Local Arrangements
• Philip Roth – Chair of Workshops, Technical Program; Mentor for mentor-protégé program; Security Team for Virtual Logistics; PC Member, Performance Portability and Productivity Workshop (P3HPC)
• Piyush Sao – Algorithms Member, Technical Program
• Arjun Shankar – PC Member, SuperCompCloud: 3rd Workshop on Interoperability of Supercomputing and Cloud Technologies
• Brian Smith – Contributor Relations Team Chair, SCinet; Logistics/Equipment Team Deputy Chair, SCinet; Virtual Student Cluster Competition Member, Students@SC
• Benny Sparks – Technical Director, SCinet
• Sudharshan Vazhkudai – Member of Clouds and Distributed Computing, Technical Program
• Becky Verastegui – Conference Vice Chair, Conference Management
• Jeffrey Vetter – Member of Invited Speakers, Technical Program
• Matthew Wolf – Member of Early Career Program, Technical Program
• Bing Xie – Member of Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage, Technical Program

SC20 Schedule and Events

Thursday, November 5, 2020

• 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM: Tom Papatheodore, Suzanne Parete-Koon, Subil Abraham, Dan Dietz, Bill Renaud, Brian Smith, Tutorial Presenters, “SC20 Hands-On with Summit” Students@SC Program

Sunday, November 8, 2020

• 5:00-5:30pm:  Veronica G. Melesse Vergara, Scott Michael, Co-Session Chairs, “Virtual Student Cluster Competition Kickoff“

Monday, November 9, 2020

• 12:00pm: Ross Miller, Virtual Talk, “A sysadmin’s perspective of Apollo 80 / Apollo 70” Arm HPC Users Group
• 2:30-6:30pm: Sunita Chandrasekaran, Robert Henschel, Junjie Li, Veronica Melesse Vergara, Tutorial Presenters, “Using the new SPEC HPC2021 Scientific Application Benchmark Suite” Track 6
• 10:00-6:00pm:  Scott Michael, Bruce Loftis, Veronica G. Melesse Vergara, “Virtual Student Cluster Competition“
• 2:30-6:30pm:  Sunita Chandrasekaran, Robert Henschel, Junjie Li, Veronica Melesse Vergara, Co-Session Chairs, “Using the new SPEC HPC2021 Scientific Application Benchmark Suite” Track 6

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

• 10:00-6:00pm:  Veronica G. Melesse Vergara, Scott Michael, Co-Session Chairs, “Virtual Student Cluster Competition”
• 10:00-11:30am:  Ashley Barker, Session Chair, “Students@SC Program“
• 2:30-6:30pm: David E. Bernholdt, Anshu Dubey, Patricia A. Grubel, Rinku Gupta, Deborah Stevens, Tutorial Presenters, “Better Scientific Software” Track 9

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

• 10:00-6:30pm: Yuri Alexeev, Travis Humble, Michael McGuigan, Scott Pakin, Co-Session Chairs, “First International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software” Track 3
  • 10:15-11:00am: Travis Humble, Presenter, “First International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software-Keynote” Track 3
  • 11:20-11:40am: Daniel Claudino, Anthony Santana, Tyler Kharazi, Alexander McCaskey, Co-Presenters, “XACC: A Service-Oriented Software Architecture for Quantum Computing” Track 3
  • 3:40-4:00pm: Thien Nguyen, Dmitry Liakh, Eugene Dumitrescu, Alex Mccaskey, Co-Presenters, “Tensor Network Quantum Virtual Machine for Exascale Computing” Track 3
  • 5:00-5:30pm: Travis Humble, Presenter, “First International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software-Concluding Remarks” Track 3
• 10:00-1:30pm: John Daly, Nathan DeBardeleben, Scott Levy, Keita Teranishi, Co-Session Chairs, “FTXS:  Workshop on Fault-Tolerance for HPC at Extreme Scale” Track 11
  • 11:05-11:35am: Mohit Kumar, Christian Engelmann, Co-Presenters, “Models for Resilience Design Patterns” Track 11
• 10:00-6:30pm: Ron Brightwell, Maya Gakhale, Xian-He Sun, Yonghong Yan, Co-Session Chairs, “MCHPC’20:  Workshop on Memory Centric High-Performance Computing” Track 5
  • 11:31-12:00pm:  Awais Khan, Hyogi Sim, Sudharashan S. Vazhkudai, Jinsuk Ma, Myeong-Hoon Oh, Youngjae Kim, Co-Presenters, “Persistant Memory Object Storage and Indexing for Scientific Computing” Track 5
  • 12:00-12:30pm:  T. Chad Effler, Michael R. Jantz, Terry Jones, Co-Presenters, “Performance Potential of Mixed Data Management Modes for Hetrogeneous Memory Systems” Track 5
  • 3:30-4:00pm: Mohammad Alaul Haque Monil, Seyong Lee, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Allen D. Malony, Co-Presenters, “Understanding the Impact of Memory Access Patterns in Intel Processors” Track 5
• 10:00-6:30pm: Evguenia Alexandrova, Scott Lathrop, Julia Mullen, Nitin Sukhija, Co-Session Chairs, “Seventh SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education” Track 6
  • 3:00-3:15pm: Osni Marques, Ashley Barker, Co-Presenters, “How the ECP Training Project is Helping the Entire HPC Community Prepare for Exascale Computing” Track 6

 Thursday, November 12, 2020

• 10:00-6:30pm: Vassil Alexander, Jack Dongarra, Christian Engelmann, Al Geist, Co-Contributors, “11^th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems” Track 8
  • 10:00-10:10am: Vassil Alexandrov, Jack Dongarra, Al Giest, Christian Engelmann, Co-Organizers, “Introduction:  11^th Workshop on Lastest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems ” Track 8
  • 1:30-1:55pm: Drew Schmidt, Presenter, “A Survey of Singular Value Decomposition Methods for Distributed Tall/Skinny Data ” Track 8
  • 5:50-6:15pm: Weile Wei, Arghya Chatterjee, Kevin Huck, Oscar Hernandez, Hartmut Kaiser, Co-Presenters, “Performance Analysis of a Quantum Monte Carlo Application on Multiple Hardware Architectures Using the HPX Runtime” Track 8
• 10:00-6:30pm: Richard Shane Canon, Reid Priedhorsky, Sanjana Sudarshan, Andrew Younge, Co-Contributors, “CANOPIE-HPC:  Containers and New Oschestration Paradigms for Isolated Environments in HPC” Track 9
  • 2:40-3:05: Wael R. Elwasif, Ross Whitfield, Jin Myung Park, Mark Cianciosa, Co-Presenters, “Containers for Massive Ensemble of I/O Bound Hierarchical Coupled Simulations” Track 9
• 10:00-6:30pm: Mark Ainsworth, Ian Foster, Scott Klasky, Qing Liu, Co-Organizers, “DRBSD-6-Introduction:  The 6^th International Workshop on Data Analysis and Reduction for Big Scientific Data” Track 1
  • 10:01-10:10am: Scott Klasky, Presenter, “DRBSD-6-Welcome and Introduction” Track 1
  • 11:20-11:55am: Kshitij Mehta, Swati Singhal, Matthew Wolf, Norbert Podhorszki, Jeremy Logan, Jong Youl Choi, Alan Sussman, Scott Klasky, Co-Presenters, “Toward a Framework for Policy-Driven Adaptive in Situ Workflows” Track 1
  • 3:40-4:15pm: Jong Youl Choi, Dave Pugmire, Scott Klasky, Co-Presenters, “Data Compression with Deep Learning Based Generative Modeling” Track 1
  • 4:45-5:20pm: Richard Archibald, Presenter, “Data Analytics for Scientific Data Compression” Track 1
  • 6:29-6:30pm: Scott Klasky, Organizer, “DRBDS-6-Closing Remarks ” Track 1
• 10:00-6:02pm: Wes Bethel, Silvo Rizzi, Christopher Garth, Bruno Raffin, Sean Ziegeler, Nicola Ferrier, Earl Duque, Patrick O’Leary, Tom Vierjahn, Kenneth Moreland, Gunter Weber, Matthew Wolf, Co-Organizers, “ISAV 2020:  In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization” Track 7
  • 10:00-10:01: Wes Bethel, Silvo Rizzi, Christopher Garth, Bruno Raffin, Sean Ziegeler, Nicola Ferrier, Earl Duque, Patrick O’Leary, Tom Vierjahn, Kenneth Moreland, Gunter Weber, Matthew Wolf, Co-Organizers, “ISAV 2020:  In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization” Track 7
  • 4:35-5:57pm: Christoph Garth, Oliver Rubel, David Pugmire, Amanda Randles, Joseph A. Insley, Silvo H. R. Rizzi, Co-Presenters, “ISAV Panel:  In Situ-Experiences from the Trenches” Track 7
• 10:00-6:30pm: James C. Brodman, Hal Finkel, John Leidel Alexis Perry-Holby, Co-Session Chairs, “LLVM-HPC2020:  The Sixth Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC” Track 6
  • 4:45-5:25pm: Hal Finkel, Alex McCaskey, Tobi Popoola, Dmitry Lyakh, Johannes Doefert, Co-Presenters, “Really Embedding Domain-Specific Languages into C++” Track 6
• 10:00-5:20pm: Mike Houston, Janis Keuper, Sueng-Hwan Lim, Xipeng Shen, Co-Session Chairs, “Machine Learning in HPC Environments” Track 3
  • 10:00-10:10am: Seung-Hwan Lim, Xipeng Shen, Janis Keuper, Michael Houston, Co-Presenters, “Introduction:  Machine Learning in HPC Environments” Track 3
• 12:00-3:00pm: (no Session Chair named), “Early Career Program Day 1”
  • 2:10-2:55pm: Sunita Chandrasekaran, Michael Wolf , “Communications Panel” EarlyCareer
• 2:30-5:30pm: Abhinav Bhatele, Harsh Bhatia, David Boehme, Markus Geimer, Andreas Kneupfer, “ProTools 2020:  Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools” Track 11
  • 2:45-3:15pm: Camille Coti, Joel Denny, Kevin Huck, Seyong Lee, Allen Malony, Sameer Shende, Jeffrey Vetter, Co-Presenters, “OpenACC Profiling Support for Clang and LLVM using Clacc and TAU” Track 11

Friday, November 13, 2020

• 10:00-6:30pm: Lynn Borkon, Sally Ellingson, Sean Hanlon, Petrina Hollingsworth, Patricia Kovatch, Eric Stahlberg, Co-Session Chairs, “CAFCW20:  Sixth Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop” Track 3
  • 12:45-1:00pm: Peter Balogh, John Gounley, Amanda Randles, Co-Presenters, “An Efficient, Data-Driven Approach To Model Specific Cancer Cell Lines” Track 3
  • 4:10-4:40pm: Mohammed Alawad, Presentor, “Integration of Domain Knowledge using Medical Knowledge Graph Deep Learning for Cancer Phenotyping” Track 3
• 10:00-6:10pm: David P. Bunde, Debzani Deb, Trilce Estrada,Sushil Prasad, Co-Session Chairs, “EduHPC20:  Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing” Track 5
  • 10:10-10:35am: Jan Ciesko, David Poliakoff, Daisy Hallman, Christian Trott, Damien Lebrun-Grandie, Co-Presenters, “Towards Generic Parallel Programming in Computer Science Education with Kokkos” Track 5
  • 4:20-4:45pm: Anshu Dubey, Katherine Riley, David Bernholdt, Co-Presenters, “Teaching Software Sustainability for High Performance Computing at ATPESC” Track 5
• 10:00-2:00pm: Matt Bidwell, Jhn Blass, Gary Jackson, Co-Session Chairs, “HPCSYSPROS20” Track 4
  • 12:50-1:10pm: Benjamin S. Allen, Matthew A. Ezell, Douglas Jacobsen, Gory Lueninghoener, Paul Peltz, Eric Roman, J. Lowell Wofford, Co-Presenters, “Modernizing the HPC System Software Stack” Track 4
• 10:00-6:30pm: Rob Neely, CJ Newburn, Scott J. Parker, John Pennycook, Co-Session Chairs, “P3HPC: 3^rd International Workshop on Performance Portability and Productivity” Track 2
  • 11:40-12:10pm: Mathialakan Thavappiragasam, Aaron Scheinberg, Wael Elwasif, Oscar Hernandez, Ada Sedova, Co-Presenters, “Performance Portability of Molecular Docking Miniapp on Leadership Computing Platforms” Track 2
  • 5:10-5:40pm: Beau Johnston, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Josh Milthorpe, Co-Presenters, “Evaluating the Performance and Portability of Contemporary SYCL Implementations” Track 2
• 10:00-2:00pm: Sridutt Bhalachandra, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Guido Juckeland Sandra Wienke, Co-Session Chairs, “WACCPD 2020: Seventh Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives” Track 10
  • 1:25-1:50pm: Joshua H. Davis, Christopher Daley, Swaroop Pophale, Thomas Huber, Sunita Chandrassekaran, Nicholas Wright, Co-Presenters, “Performance Assessment of OpenMP Compilers Targeting NVIDIA V100 GPUs” Track 10
• 12:00-3:00pm: (no Session Chair named), “Early Career Program Day 2” EarlyCareer
  • 12:05-12:55pm: Sunita Chandrasekaran, Matthew Wolf, Co-Speakers, “Pitch/Lightning talks” EarlyCareer
  • 12:55-2:55pm: Guido Juckeland, Hakizumwami Birali RUNESHA, Session Co-Chairs, “Understanding inter-continental career paths and geographical diversity: opportunities and impacts” EarlyCareer
    • Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, Panelist
• 2:30-6:30pm: Nicola Ferrier, Albert Reuther, Michael Ringenburg, Rollin Thomas, Co-Session Chairs, “Fourth Workshop on Interactive High-Performance Computing” Track 11
  • 2:35-3:10pm: Jens Glaser, Presenter, “InteractiveHPC Keynote” Track 11
  • 3:50-4:15pm: Ralph Kube, Randy Michael Churchill, Jong Youl Choi, Ruonan Wang, Scott Klasky, CS Chang, Minjun Choi, Jinseop Park, Co-Presenters, “Accelerating Fusion Energy Experimental Workflows using HPC Resources” Track 11

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

• 10:00-11:30am.: Dean Hildebrand, “I/O” Track 5
  • 10:30-11:00am: Zhenbo Qiao, Qing Liu, Norbert Podhorszki, Scott Klasky, Jieyang Chen, “Taming I/O Variation on QoS-Less HPC Storage: What Can Applications Do?” Track 5
• 10:00-11:30a.m: Sadaf R. Alam, William D. Gropp, Co-Session Chairs, “Post von Neumann Architectures” Track 1
  • 10:00-10:45am: Catherine Schuman, “The Future of AI and HPC:  Neuromorphic Computing and Neural Accelerators” Track 1
• 10:00am-5:00pm: Sally Ellingson, Session Chair “Students@SC Program”
  • 3:30-3:30pm: Veronica G. Melesse Vergara, Moderator for “Student Cluster Competition Talks #2”
• 1:00-2:30pm: Jenett Tillotson, Session Chair, “Software Provisioning” Track 6
  • 2:00-2:30pm.: Joseph M. Voss, “Anchor: Diskless Cluster Provisioning Using Container Tools” Track 6
• 3:00-3:45pm: Amanda Randles, Session Chair, “Test of Time Award Presentation” Track 1
  • 3:00-3:45pm: Jose Moreira and Jeffrey Vetter, “An Overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer”
• 3:00-4:30pm: Ashley Barker, Session Chair for State of Practice “Responding to Pandemic Driven Change” Track 7
• 3:00-4:30pm:  “System Software at Scale”
  • 3:30-4:00pm: George Ostrouchov, Don Maxwell, Rizwan A. Ashraf, Christian Engelmann, Mallikarjun Shankar, James H Rogers, “GPU Lifetimes on Titan Supercomputer:  Survival Analysis and Reliability” Track 4

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

• 10:00am-5:00pm: Sally Ellingson, Session Chair, “Students@SC Program” Track 11
  • 2:00-3:00pm: Veronica G. Melesse Vergara, Moderator, “Student Cluster Competition Talks #5” Track 11

Thursday, November 19, 2020

• 10:00am-5:00pm: Sally Ellingson, Session Chair, “Students@SC Program” Track 11
  • 10:00-11:00am: Veronica G. Melesse Vergara, Moderator, “Student Cluster Competition Talks #7”
  • 12:30-1:30pm: Ashley Barker, Moderator, “Student Volunteer Lightning Talks #5”
• 10:00am-12:00pm: “Gordon Bell COVID-19 Prize Finalists Session 1” Track 10
  • 10:30-11:00am: Jens Glaser, Josh V. Vermaas, David M. Rogers, Jeff Larkin, Scott LeGrand, Swen Boehm, Matthew B. Baker, Aaron Scheinberg, Andreas F. Tillack, Mathialakan Thavappiragasam, Ada Sedova, Oscar Hernandez, “High-Throughput Virtual Laboratory for Drug Discovery Using Massive Datasets”
• 1:00-2:30pm:  “Gordon Bell Prize Finalists Session 2” Track 10
  • 1:30-2:00pm: Ruonan Wang, Rodrigo Tobar, Markus Dolesky, Tao An, Andreas Wicenec, Chen Wu, Fred Dulwich, Norbert Podhorszki, Valentine Anantharaj, Eric Suchyta, Baoqiang Lao, Scott Klasky, “Processing Full-Scale Square Kilometre Array Data on the Summit Supercomputer” Track 10
  • 2:00-2:30pm: Ramakrishnan Kannan, Piyush Sao, Hao Lu, Dasha Herrmannova, Vijay Thakkar, Robert Patton, Richard Vuduc, Thomas Potok, “Scalable Knowledge Graph Analytics at 136 PetaFLOPS” Track 10
• 1:00-2:15pm: Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandez, Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, Benjamin Hernandez, Silvio Rizzi, Esteban Meneses, Philippe Navaux, Co-Session Leaders for BoF “Americas HPC Collaborations: Virtual”  Track 9
• 2:30-3:45pm: David Bernholdt, Session Leader for BoF “Software Engineering and Reuse in Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics for Science and Engineering” Track 9
• 3:00-4:00p.m: “Compiler Optimizations” Track 4
  • 3:40-4:00pm.: Jacob Lambert, Seyong Lee, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Allen D. Malony, “CCAMP: An Integrated Translation and Optimization Framework for OpenACC and OpenMP” Track 4

Virtual Exhibits

• U.S. DOE at SC20: https://scdoe.info/
• OpenMP:
  • SOLLVE OpenMP Validation and Verification Effort: Swaroop Pophale – (Video) (PDF)
  • Portable extreme-scale turbulence simulations using OpenMP: P.K. Yeung, Kiran Ravikumar – (Video) (PDF)
  • Targeting Accelerator using OpenMP with GenASiS: Reuben D. Budiardja – (Video) (PDF)
• NVIDIA:
  • Featured demos: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/events/supercomputing/