Conveners
HPC: I: Techniques
- Davini Maurizio (University of Pisa)
HPC: II: Technology
- Milfeld Kent (TACC)
Matthew Anderson
(Indiana University)
05/12/2017, 11:00
HPC Techniques and Computer Science
Talk
Future Exascale architectures will likely make extensive use of computing accelerators such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) given that these accelerators are very power efficient. Oftentimes, these FPGAs are located at the network interface card (NIC) and switch level in order to accelerate network operations, incorporate contention avoiding routing schemes, and perform computations...
Prof.
Antonio Cisternino
(University of Pisa)
05/12/2017, 11:25
HPC Techniques and Computer Science
Talk
In this talk we will look at Knights Landing capabilities and its use for computations that are not strictly accelerator-oriented. The platform supports heterogeneous computations given the flexibility of their cores, allowing vector code to execute side by side along with more enterprise-oriented codes.
Dr
Milfeld Kent
(TACC)
05/12/2017, 11:50
HPC Techniques and Computer Science
Talk
Mr
Sean Murray
(CHPC, CSIR)
05/12/2017, 12:15
HPC Techniques and Computer Science
Talk
CODE-RADE is a platform for user-driven, continuous integration and delivery of research applications in a distributed environment. Starting with 6 hypotheses describing the problem at hand, we put forward technical and social solutions to these. Combining widely-used and thoroughly-tested tools, we show how it is possible to manage the dependencies and configurations of a wide range of...
Mr
Yossi Avni
(Mellanox Technologies)
05/12/2017, 13:30
HPC Techniques and Computer Science
Talk
The latest revolution in High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence is the move to a Data-Centric architecture, a collaborative effort among industry, academia, and manufacturers to reach Exascale performance by taking a holistic system-level approach to fundamental performance improvements. Data-Centric architecture exploits system efficiency and optimizes performance by creating...
Mr
Ernst Burger
(Altair Engineering S.A. (Pty) Ltd)
05/12/2017, 14:00
HPC Technology
Talk
HPC technology is advancing more rapidly than at any time in the history of computing. Exa-scale compute frameworks will start to emerge in the coming years and will offer enormous raw compute power. Coupled with this, various commercial vendors are developing user-centric HPC business models in the cloud to drive access to these capabilities. The potential of this technology to help solve...
Mr
Martin Hilgeman
(Dell EMC)
05/12/2017, 14:30
HPC Techniques and Computer Science
Talk
With all the advances in massively parallel and multi-core computing with CPUs and accelerators it is often overlooked whether the computational work is being done in an efficient manner. This efficiency is largely being determined at the application level and therefore puts the responsibility of sustaining a certain performance trajectory into the hands of the user. It is observed that the...
