Centre for High Performance Computing 2021 National Conference

Name: Centre for High Performance Computing 2021 National Conference
Start: 2021-12-01T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-12-03T20:00:00+02:00
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1-3 December 2021

Africa/Johannesburg timezone

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2 Dec 2021, 11:00

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HPC Technology

Chair: Dr Samuel Mabakane (CHPC) ()

HPC Technology

Chair: Dr Ricardo Harry (CHPC) ()

HPC Technology: Storage & IO

Chair: Dr Jay Lofstead (SANDIA) (Sandia National Laboratories)

HPC Technology: Storage & IO

Chair: Dr Jay Lofstead (SANDIA) (Sandia National Laboratories)

HPC Technology

Chair: Dr Sean Murray (CHPC) ()

HPC Technology: BoF Deep Learning Institute

Chair: Dr Kevin McFall (Nvidia) ()

HPC Technology: BoF Online Education: Surprises & Insights

Chair: Mr Bryan Johnston (Chair) ()

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7. Introducing Cloud-Native Supercomputing: Bare-Metal, Secured Supercomputing Architecture

Mr Gilad Shainer (NVIDIA), David Slama

02/12/2021, 11:00

HPC Technology

Talk

High-performance computing and artificial intelligence have driven supercomputers into wide commercial use as the primary data processing engines enabling research, scientific discoveries, and product development. Extracting the highest possible performance from supercomputing systems while achieving efficient utilization has traditionally been incompatible with the secured, multi-tenant...

154. Update on High Performance Computing at HPE

Dr Duncan Roweth

02/12/2021, 11:30

HPC Technology

Talk

This talk will provide an update on the way HPE is working with customers to provide technology and solutions to address the most challenging problems in high performance computing. It will include the need to make use of heterogeneous computing elements, and how AI can be combined with HPC to enable end users to be more productive

170. Trends and challenges in HPC from Dell Technologies

Mr Kris Buggenhout

02/12/2021, 12:15

HPC Technology

Talk

The talk will cover some of the trends in power, cpu tech, and the challenges we are being faced by our technology partners pushing the limits.

133. HPC Cloud Use Cases and Best Practices

Mr Fritz Ferstl (Altair)

02/12/2021, 12:45

This talk will discuss the current state-of-the-art of HPC cloud usage in various application sectors and will look at best practices and common pitfalls when adopting cloud infrastructures for HPC. The focus will be on non-trivial use cases. Concrete examples of existing cloud deployments will showcase what is feasible and advisable today. The talk will also give a perspective on trends and...

15. Virtual Log-Structured Storage for High-Performance Streaming

Dr Ovidiu-Cristian Marcu (University of Luxembourg)

02/12/2021, 14:00

Storage and IO

Talk

Over the past decade, given the higher number of data sources (e.g., Cloud applications, Internet of things) and critical business demands, Big Data transitioned from batch-oriented to real-time analytics. Stream storage systems, such as Apache Kafka, are well known for their increasing role in real-time Big Data analytics. For scalable stream data ingestion and processing, they logically...

18. Evaluating and Characterizing Parallel I/O in HPC Systems: Best Practices and Future Directions

Sarah Neuwirth (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

02/12/2021, 14:30

Storage and IO

Talk

As a recent I/O behaviour analysis [1] has revealed, High Performance Computing(HPC) storage systems may no longer be dominated by write I/O – challenging the long- and widely-held belief that HPC workloads are write-intensive. HPC applications are evolving to include not only traditional scale-up modelling and simulation bulk-synchronous workloads but also scale-out workloads...

97. SCTuner— an autotuner for I/O library

Dr Bing Xie (ORNL)

02/12/2021, 15:15

Storage and IO

Talk

In HPC, typical scientific codes often manage a massive amount of data utilizing I/O middleware libraries, such as HDF5, PnetCDF, ADIOS, etc. These libraries support a variety of data structures and allow end users to optimize I/O performance by tuning configurations across multiple layers of the HPC I/O middleware stack. This work proposes SCTuner, an autotuner built...

51. Leveraging New Interfaces to Low-Latency Storage

Luke Logan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

02/12/2021, 15:45

Storage and IO

Talk

The gap between I/O performance and memory performance is decreasing due to the emergence of fast, low-latency storage such as NVMe and persistent memory (PMEM). However, traditional interfaces to storage (e.g., POSIX) do not fully leverage these new device characteristics, resulting in significant performance degradation. New interfaces to storage must be utilized in order to achieve the full...

2. Prime Number algorithm for massively parallel Processor-in-memory machine

Andy Rabagliati (UCT)

03/12/2021, 12:15

HPC Technology

Talk

Prime Number algorithm for massively parallel Processor-in-memory machine

Doing Sieve of Eratosthenes on a 1024-way bit-serial processor implemented on an FPGA

The bit-serial processors very simple, backed with 512 bits of RAM.

All processors perform the same operation, subject to individual processor
enables, encompassing boolean logic, and can read and write their own
512 bit...

22. FPGA Acceleration of GWAS Permutation Testing

Yaniv Swiel (Wits)

03/12/2021, 12:45

HPC Technology

Talk

The large sample sizes of modern genetic datasets has necessitated the development of high-throughput accelerators in order to allow bioinformatics research to be performed in a reasonable amount of time. Although the inherently parallel nature of FPGAs makes them well suited to accelerating high-throughput workloads, they are not commonly employed as bioinformatics accelerators (in lieu of...

128. BoF: NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute – bringing AI and GPU-accelerated computing to Academic Institutions

Kevin McFall (NVIDIA)

03/12/2021, 14:00

HPC Technology

Talk

Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF)

The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) offers resources for diverse learning needs giving individuals, teams, organizations, educators, and students what they need to advance their knowledge in accelerated computing, AI, accelerated data science, graphics and simulation, and more. Many DLI programs specifically target academia with the goal of providing faculty...

135. Online Education: Surprises and Insights

Bryan Johnston (CHPC), Verena Ras (University of Cape Town ; H3ABioNet)

03/12/2021, 15:15

HPC Technology

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BoF: Online Education: Surprises and Insights

For some, the move to online education and training took place many years ago, while for others, the need to move online was thrust upon them due to the global pandemic. No matter what the circumstances or motivations for the move, the community of online educators and trainers have all encountered challenges, experienced surprises, and...

131. TBC, Dell

114. TBC, HPE

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