Stanford Conference and Exascale Workshop 2014

Welcome!

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Welcome!

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Media Sponsors

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Day 1 Agenda

9:00-9:30 Opening / welcome session (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council; Steve Jones, Stanford)

9:30-10:30 Keynote 1 : Emerging Technologies on the Path to Exascale (Mark Seager, Intel)

10:30-11:30 Keynote 2 : Programming Models for Exascale Systems (Dhabaleswar K. Panda, OSU)

11:30-11:50 A System View of Productive Exascale Systems (Barry Bolding, Cray)

11:50-12:10 Gold sponsors presentation (Mellanox Technologies)

12:10-13:10 Lunch and vendor exhibits

13:10-13:30 Gold sponsor presentation (Intel)

13:30-14:30 HPC Market Update (Addison Snell, Intersect 360)

14:30-15:30

The Road to Exascale Panel:

Mark Seager (Intel)

Michael Kagan (Mellanox Technologies)

Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State University)

Bill Boas (Cray)

Alan Poston (Xyratex International)

moderator: Gilad Shainer (HPC Advisory Council)

15:30-16:00 Break and vendor exhibits

16:00-17:00 Streamlining Computing Infrastructure: A Small School's Experience (Gowtham, Michigan

Technological University)

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Day 2 Agenda

9:00-9:30 Gathering

9:30-10:30 Keynote 1: TBD - Paul Messina (Director of Science, Argonne)

10:30-11:30 Keynote 2: The future of interconnect technology (Michael Kagan, Mellanox Technologies)

11:30-11:55 Gold sponsors presentation (Alan Poston, Xyratex Technical Director, ClusterStor )

11:55-12:20 Gold sponsor presentation (IBM)

12:20-13:10 Lunch and vendor exhibits

13:10-14:00 Big Data: Hadoop and Memcached (Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University)

14:00-14:45 OpenPower Initiative (Steve Fields, IBM)

14:45-15:15 HPC and Exascale for the SKA Telescope (Bill Boas, Cray)

15:15-15:45 Break and vendor exhibits

15:45-16:15 Securing Access to HPC Systems and Software (Christopher Atwood, HPCMP)

16:15-16:45 UberCloud HPC Experiment (Burak Yenier)

16:45-17:15 Wherefore Liquid – Liquid cooling (Phil Hughes, Clustered Systems Company)

17:15 Raffle

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Day 3 Agenda

8:30-8:50 PSAAP II Program (Professor Gianluca Iaccarino, Stanford)

8:50-9:10 ExaCT ~ Center for Exascale Simulation of Combustion in Turbulence (J.H. Chen, Sandia)

9:10-9:30 Scientific Computing on GPUs (W.H. Dally, NVIDIA)

9:30-9:50 European Exascale Software Initiative (P. Ricoux, Total)

9:50-10:10 INCITE Program (R. Balakrishnan, Argonne)

10:10-10:30 High Performance Computing Innovation Center @ LLNL - F. Strietz, Livermore

10:30-10:50 BREAK

10:50-11:10 Leveraging national computing resources for simulation-based discovery and understanding

(F. Ham, Cascade Technologies)

11:10-11:30 Computational Design of combustors (J. Citeno, GE Power & Water)

11:30-11:50 High Performance Comupting for CFD at UTRC (P. Von Slooten, UTRC)

11:50-12:10 Masssively Parallel computations of gas turbines and building explosions on INCITE and

PRACE systems (G. Staffelbach, CERFACS)

12:10-12:30 Bubble collapse ~ Gordon Bell Award SC13

(Babak Hejazialhosseini, Petascale simulations of cloud cavitation collapse)

12:30-1:30 Lunch/networking

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Administration

• The workshop goals

– Education, training, solutions, futures

• 3 day workshop and a tight schedule

– We encourage live discussions

– We want to have all sessions start in time

– There are breaks for offline discussions

• Speakers – make sure we have your slides!

• Raffle

– Tuesday afternoon!

• Don’t forget the raffle...

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HPC Advisory Council Members

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HPC Advisory Council HPC Center

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720xd/R720

32-node cluster HP Cluster Platform 3000SL

16-node cluster

HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8

4-node cluster

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815

11-node cluster

Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6145

6-node cluster Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610

38-node cluster

Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6100

4-node cluster

InfiniBand-based Storage (Lustre)

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University Award Program

• University award program – Universities are encouraged to submit proposals for advanced research – Once / twice a year, the HPC Advisory Council will select a few proposals

• Selected proposal will be provided with: – Exclusive computation time on the HPC Advisory Council’s Compute Center – Invitation to present in one of the HPC Advisory Council’s worldwide workshops – Publication of the research results on the HPC Advisory Council website

• 2010 award winner is Dr. Xiangqian Hu, Duke University – Topic: “Massively Parallel Quantum Mechanical Simulations for Liquid Water”

• 2011 award winner is Dr. Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino – Topic: “Effective Streaming on Multi-core by Way of the FastFlow Framework’

• 2012 award winner is Jacob Nelson, University of Washington – “Runtime Support for Sparse Graph Applications”

• 2013 award winner is Antonis Karalis – Topic: “Music Production using HPC”

• To submit a proposal – please check the HPC Advisory Council web site

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ISC’13 Student Cluster Challenge

Stanford Conference and Exascale Workshop 2014

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