SC21: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis

The 33rd International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, or SC21, is taking place in St. Louis, Missouri, this year. 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 14–19 at the America’s Center Convention Center in St. Louis, and on a virtual platform, SC21 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 “Science & Beyond.”

Here are some of the OLCF and ORNL-related contributions to SC21:

ORNL Staff with Committee Roles at SC21

• Seher Acer, ACM Undergraduate Posters Committee Member
• Scott Atchley, Tutorials Member
• Ashley Barker, Infrastructure, Signage Chair; Student Volunteer Reviewer; ACM Undergraduate Posters Committee Member; Virtual Logistics Technical Program Liaisons, Virtual Logistics Keynote, Plenaries and Invited Speakers Liaison
• Anthony Cabrera, Inclusivity Liaison for Local Arrangements
• Guojing Cong, Machine Learning in HPC Environments Co-Program Committee Member
• Dan Dietz, Student Cluster Competition Member
• Jack Dongarra, Executive, Keynote Chair, Session Chair, Local Arrangements Chair
• Matthew Ezell, HPCSYSPROS21 Workshop Program Committee
• Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Clouds & Distributed Computing, Technical Member, WORKS21:  16^th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large Scale Science Co-Chair
• Chris Fuson, Student Volunteer Reviewer
• Ana Gainaru, Performance Measurement, Modeling, and Tools Member
• Antigoni Georgiadou, Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives (WACCPD) Committee Chair
• John Gounley, Test of Time Award Member; Applications Member
• Austin Harris, Workshops Member
• Leah Huk, Student Volunteer Reviewer
• Scott Klasky, Data Analytics, Visualization & Storage Member
• Jack Lange, 11^th International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS) Program Committee Member
• Ryan Landfield, Student Volunteer Reviewer
• Seyong Lee, Workshops Member
• Dustin Leverman, Infrastructure, AV/PC Chair, Virtual Logistics Infrastructure AV Liaison; Virtual Logistics Operations Subcommittee, Virtual Logistics Infrastructure AV Liaison
• Seung-Hwan Lim, Machine Learning in HPC Environments Co-Organizer and Co-Program Committee Member
• Xu Liu, Performance Measurement, Modeling, and Tools Member
• Arthur Maccabe, Clouds & Distributed Computing Member
• Addi Malviya-Thakur, AD/AE Appendices Member/Assistant
• Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, SC Steering Committee; Finance Liaison For Students@SC; Journal Special Issue Member; Tutorials Member; Virtual Logistics Operations Subcommittee, Virtual Logistics Data Management Specialist
• Pablo Moriano, Research Posters Committee Member; ACM Graduate Poster Committee Member
• Sarp Oral, Data Analytics, Visualization & Storage Member, Lustre BOF Co-Chair, SuperBench’21 Co-Chair
• Rachel Palumbo, Panelist/Organizer
• Tom Papatheodore, Student Volunteer Reviewer; Reviewer for the SC21 WACCPD (Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives)
• Robert M. Patton, Machine Learning in HPC Environments Co-Organizer
• Arnab Kumar Paul, ACM Graduate Posters Committee Member; Doctoral Showcase Posters Committee Member
• Paul Peltz, Student Cluster Competition Member
• Swaroop Pophale, PAW-ATM 2021 Workshop Panel Chair
• Thomas Potok, Machine Learning in HPC Environments Co-Steering Member
• Ryan Prout, Student Volunteer Reviewer
• James H. Rogers, Housing Chair
• Philip C. Roth, Infrastructure, Security Liaison for SCINET, Physical Security Team Chair; Program Committee Member for the 2021 International Workshop on Performance, Portability & Productivity in HPC (P3HPC) workshop
• Catherine Schuman, Machine Learning and HPC Member
• Arjun Shankar, Xloop-2021, Workshop Steering Committee
• Brian E. Smith, SCinetContributor Relations Team Chair, SCinet Logistics Team
• Benny Sparks, Wireless Network Team Chair
• Gina Tourassi, Xloop-2021, Invited Plenary Speaker;
  High-Performance Statistical Computing: Building a Statistics Community within Supercomputing, Invited Panelist
• Becky Verastegui, Local Arrangements, Catering
• Feiyi Wang, Reproducibility Challenge Member
• Bing Xie, 6^th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW 2021) Co-Program Committee Member
• Steven R. Young, Machine Learning and HPC Co-Program Committee Member

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SC21 Schedule

Friday, 29 October 2021

• Hands-On with Summit Tutorial for Students@SC21, Tom Papatheodore and Suzanne Parete-Koon, Workshop Co-Organizers

Sunday, 14 November 2021

• 8:00am-5:00pm: Steven Farrell, Wahid Bhimji, Thorsten Kurth, Josh Romero, Aristeidis Tsaris, Junqi Yin, Peter Harrington, Tutorial Presenters, “Deep Learning at Scale.”
• 9:00am-5:00pm: Matthew Ezell, Workshop Committee, “HPCSYSPROS21.”
• 9:00am-5:30pm: Scott Klasky, Qing Liu, Ian Foster, Mark Ainsworth, Workshop Co-Organizers, “DRBSD-7: The 7^th International Workshop on Data Analysis and Reduction for Big Scientific Data.” Location 242
• 9:00am-5:30pm: Sridutt Bhalachandra, Christopher Daley, Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, Workshop Co-Organizers, “WACCPD 2021: Eighth Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives,” Location 225
• 9:00am-5:30pm: Joel C. Adams, David P. Bunde, Henry Gabb, Sushil K. Prasad, Co-Organizers, “EduHPC-21: Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing,” Location 241
  • Henri Casanova, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Herman Li, Co-Presenters, “Peachy Assignment: Introduction to Batch Scheduling Concepts and Practices”

Monday, 15 November 2021

• 8:00am-5:00pm: David E. Bernholdt, Anshu Dubey, Patricia A. Grubel, Rinku Gupta, Gregory R. Watson, David Rogers, Tutorial Co-Presenters, “Better Scientific Software.”
• 9:00am-12:30pm: Balazs Gerofi, Torsten Hoefler, Kamil Iska, Co-Worksop Chairs, “11^th International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS).”
  • John Lange, Nicholas Gordon and Brian Gaines, Co-Presenters, “Low Overhead Security Isolation using Lightweight Kernels and TEEs.”
• 9:00am-5:30pm: Seung-Hwan Lim, Janis Keuper, Michael Houston, Robert Patton, Workshop Co-Organizers, “7^th Workshop on Machine Learning in High Performance Environment,” Location 220-221
  • Junqi Yin, Aris Tsaris, Arjun Shankar, and others, “MLPerf HPC: A Holistic Benchmark Suite for Scientific Machine Learning on HPC Systems.”
  • Sajal Dash, Junqi Yin, Mallikarjun, Feiyi Want, Wu-Chun Feng, Co-Presenters, Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Deep Learning in a Streaming Setting Using Historical Summary.”
  • Ada Sedova, Presenter, “High-Performance Deep Learning Toolbox for Genome-Scale Prediction of Protein Structure and Function.”
• 9:00am-5:30pm: Shadi Ibrahim, General Chair, 6^th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW 2021).
  • Jean Luca Bez, Houjun Tang, Bing Xie, David Williams-Young, Rob Latham, Rob Ross, Sarp Oral, Suren Byna, Co-Presenters, “I/O Bottleneck Detection and Tuning: Connecting the Dots using Interactive Log Analysis.”
  • Houjun Tang, Bing Xie, Suren Byna, Philip Carns, Quincey Koziol, Sudarsun Kannan, Jay Lofstead, Sarp Oral, Co-Presenters, “SCTuner: An Auto-tuner Addressing Dynamic I/O Needs on Supercomputer I/O Sub-systems.”
• 9:00am-5:30pm: Silvo Rizzi, Dave Pugmire, Sean Ziegeler, Matt Larsen, Earl Duque, Nicola Ferrier, Guido Reina, Workshop Co-Organizers, “ISAV21: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme Scale Analysis and Visualization,” Location 225
• 9:00am-5:30pm: Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Rosa Filgueira, Workshop Co-Organizers, “16th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large Scale Science,” Location Online
  • Henri Casanova, Ryan Tanaka, William Koch, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Co-Presenters, “Learning Fundamental Workflow Concepts with EduWRENCH”
  • Sandra Gesing, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Ewa Deelman, Michael Hildreth, Mary Ann McDowell, Natalie Meyers, Ian Taylor, Douglas Thain, Co-Presenters, “VisDict: Enhancing the Communication between Workflow Providers and User Communities via a Visual Dictionary”
  • Thien Nguyen, Llindsay Bassman, Dmitry Lyakh, Phillip C. Lotshaw, Alexander McCaskey, Ryan S. Bennink, Vicente Leyton-Ortega, Raphael C. Pooser, Travis S. Humble, Wibe A de Jong, Co-Presenters, “Scalable Programming Workflows for Validation of Quantum Computers,” Location 229
• 9:00am-5:30pm: Wibe A de Jong, Hausi A. Müller, Yuri, Alexeev, Travis S. Humble, Co-Organizers, “Second International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software,” Location 229
• 3:30pm-4:30pm: Gene Cooperman, Bogdan Nicolae, Sarp Oral, Eric Roman, John Shalf, Co-Panelists, “Panel Discussion:  Can checkpoint/restart tools ever keep pace with fast-changing HPC architectures, technologies, and workloads?” Location 227
• 3:50pm-4:10pm: Debasmita Biswas, Sarah Neuwirth, Arnab K. Paul, Ali R. Butt, Workshop Co-Presenters, “Bridging Network and Parallel I/O Research for Improving Data-Intensive Distributed Applications,” Location 228
• 4:10pm-4:25pm: Neena Iman, Workshop Presenter, “Lightning Talk:  Performance Profile Estimation for Emulated Multi-Site Federations,” Location 228

Tuesday, 16 November 2021

• 10:30am-11:00am: Harsh Bhatia, Francesco Di Natale, Joseph Y. Moon, Xiaohua Zhang, Joseph R. Chavez, Fikret Aydin, Chris Stanley, Tomas Oppelstrup, Chris Neale, Sara Kokkila Schumacher, Dong Ahn, Stephen Herbein, Timothy S. Carpenter, Sandrasegaram Gnanakaran, Peer-Timo Bremer, James N. Glosli, Felice C. Lightstone, Helgi I. Ingólfsson, Paper Co-Authors, “Generalizable Coordination of Large Multiscale Ensembles:  Challenges and Learnings at Scale,” Location 227-228
• 10:30am-12:00pm: Ana Klimovic, Feiyi Wang, Anthony Kougkas, Chris (CJ) Newburn, Abdulrahman Salem, Co-Panelists, “Beyond the Hype:  Is there a Typical AI/ML Storage Workload?” Location 223-224
• 11:30am-12:00pm: Woong Shin, Vladyslav Oles, Ahmad Maroof Karaimi, J. Austin Ellis, Feiyi Wang, Best Paper Co-Award Finalists, “Revealing Power, Energy and Thermal Dynamics of a 200PF Pre-Exascale Supercomputer,” Location 227-228
• 11:30am-12:00pm: Peng Chen, Mohamed Wahib, Xiao Wang, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Hirotaka Ogawa, Ander Biguri, Richard Boardman, Thomas Blumensath, Satoshi Matsuoka, Paper Co-Presenters, “Scalable FBP Decomposition for Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction,” Location 220-221
• 12:15pm-1:15pm: Michael Ott, Rachel Palumbo, Torsten Wilde, Keiji Yamamoto, Additional Session Chairs, “Operational Data Analytics.”
• 12:15pm-1:15pm: Venkatram Vishwanath, Scott Bachman, J. Austin Ellis, Riccardo Balin, Additional Session Chairs, “Two Worlds Collide:  Traditional HPC Simulation and the Modern AI/Machine Learning Stack.”
• 1:30pm-2:15pm: Martha S. Head, Invited Talks Presenter, “Going slow to go fast:  An integrated approach to COVID-19 therapeutic discovery at the DOE National Laboratories,” Location Hall 6-South
• 3:30pm-5:00pm: George Ostrouchov, Moderator, “High-Performance Statistical Computing:  Building a Statistics Community within Supercomputer,” Location 225-226
• 3:30pm-5:00pm: Mack G Genton, David Keyes, Norman Matloff, Douglas Nychka, Georgia Tourassi, Rio Yokota, Co-Panelists, “High-Performance Statistical Computing:  Building a Statistics Community within Supercomputer,” Location 225-226
• 5:15pm-6:45pm: Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, Birds of a Feather Session Leader, “HPC System Test:  Towards Improving Availability and Portability of HPC Test Suites,” Location 229
• 5:15pm-6:45pm: David Grant, Dale Sartor, Herbert Huber, Fumiyoshi Shoji, Dave Martinez, Birds of a Feather Additional Session Leaders, “Liquid Cooling Challenges and Facility Experiences:  What’s Next?” Location 220-221
• 5:15pm-6:45pm: David Bernholdt, Birds of a Feather Session Leader, “Software Engineering and Reuse in Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics for Science and Engineering.”
• 5:15pm-6:45pm: Kentaro Sano, Christian Plessl, Jeffrey Vetter, Kazutomo Yoshi, Taisuke Boku, Torsten Hoeffler, Venkata Krishnan, Birds of a Feather Additional Session Leaders, “Successful FPGA programming methods and tools for HPC,” Location 225-226
• 5:15pm-6:45pm: Jack Dongarra, Horst Simon, Martin Meuer, Birds of a Feather Additional Session Leaders, “TOP500 Supercomputers,” Location Hall 6-South

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

• 11:00am-11:30am: Andrew E. Blanchard, John Gounley,Debsindhu Bhowmik, Mayanka Chandra Shekar, Isaac Lyngaas, Shang Gao, Junqi Yin, Aristeidis Tsaris, Feiyi Wang, Jens Glaser, ACM Gordon Bell Finalist Awards Presentation “Language Models for the Prediction of SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitors” Location 240-241-242
• 12:15pm-1:15pm: Kevin Barker, Mark Klein, Allice Koniges, Jim Laros, Jeffrey Vetter, Birds of a Feather Additional Session Leaders, “Advanced Architecture Testbeds:  Community Resources for Enhanced HPC Research.”
• 3:30pm-5:00pm: Patricia Kovatch, Martha (Marti) Head, Erin Crowgey, Sean Davis, David Jaffray, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Co-Panelists, “Bioinformatics, HPC and AI:  Convergence, Perspectives and the Future for Biomedical Applications,” Location 223-224
• 5:15pm-6:45pm: Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, Esteban Meneses, Silvio Rizzi, Benjamin Hernandez, Philippe Navaux, Birds of a Feather Additional Session Leaders, “Americas HPC Collaboration.”
• 5:15pm-6:45pm: Cory Snavely, Maxime Martinasso, Birds of a Feather Co-Session Leaders, “Software APIs for Programming Exascale HPC.”
  • Sean Wilkinson, Birds of a Feather Presenter, “Cross-Facility Data Movement and Management with DataFed.”

Thursday, 18 November 2021

• 12:15pm-1:15pm: Sarp Oral, Birds of a Feather Session Chair, “Lustre in HPC, AI, and the Cloud.”
• 1:30pm-2:00pm: Xin Lang, Qian Gong, Jieyang Chen, Ben Whitney, Lipeng Wan, Qing Liu, David Pugmire, Rick Archibald, Norbert Podhorszki, Scott Klasky, Paper Co-Authors, “Error-Controlled, Progressive, and Adaptable Retrieval of Scientific Data with Multilevel Decomposition,” Location 230-231-232
• 1:30pm-3:00pm: Catherine Schuman, Panel Moderator, “The Computing Cambrian Explosion:  The Future of HPC with Non-Von Neumann Computing,” Location 223-224
• 1:30pm-3:00pm: Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Michael Frank, Catherine Graves, Jennifer Hasler, Travis Humble, Advait Madhavan, Co-Panelist, “The Computing Cambrian Explosion:  The Future of HPC with Non-Von Neumann Computing,” Location 223-224
• 3:30pm-4:00pm: Wei Zhang, Suren Byna, Hyogi Sim, SangKeun Lee, Sudharshan Vazhudai, Yong Chen, Paper Co-Authors, “Exploiting User Activeness for Data Retention in HPC Systems,” Location 240-241-242

Friday, 19 November 2021

• 8:30am-12:00pm: Vassil Alexandrov, Jack Dongarra, Al Geist, Christian Engelmann, Workshop Co-Organizers, “12^th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large Scale Systems,” Location 227-228
• 8:30am-12:00pm: Mehmeet E. Belviranti, Seyong Lee, Shuaiwen Leon Song, Workshop Co-Organizers, “RSDHA:  Redefining Scalability for Diversity Heterogeneous Architectures,” Location 265-266
  • Jeff Vetter, Invited Talk 8:31am – 9:10am 
  • Aris Tsaris, Presenter, “Distributed Training for High Resolution Images: A Domain and Spatial Decomposition Approach.
• 8:30am-12:00pm: Terry Jones, Estela Suarez, Ann Gentile, Michael Jantz, Workshop Co-Organizers, “First International Symposium on Quantitative Codesign of Supercomputers,” Location 230-231-232
• 8:30am-10:00am: David Keyes, Rick Stevens, Florent Duchaine, Makoto Tsubokura, Daniel Jacobson, Patricia Kovatch, Co-Panelists, “HPC Response to the COVID19 Pandemic,” Location 225-226