Agenda
The SOS21 Workshop theme is Convergence with Data Science: a New Beginning for HPC.
The SOS21 Workshop will take place at Davos Congress Centre.
Monday, March 20, 2017
Independent arrival and check-in
17:00 - 17:30 Registration - Foyer, Davos Congress Centre
17:30 - 18:20 Opening Lecture, "True Artificial Intelligence will Change Everything", Jürgen Schmidhuber, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
Chair: Thomas Schulthess, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre - Aspen Meeting Room, Davos Congress Centre
18:30 - 20:00 Welcome Reception - Restaurant Extrablatt
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
07:50 - 08:00 Welcome and Overview, Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Session I: Beyond C++ and Python (Session Chair: Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories)
08:00 - 08:30 "Interactive Parallel Computing with Jupyter, IPython and Dask", Benjamin Ragan-Kelley, Simula Research Laboratory
08:30 - 09:00 "Beyond the Hype: Convergence Technologies", Dan Reed, University of Iowa
09:00 - 09:30 "Docker and Shifter: Portable and Performant Scientific Computing”, Lucas Benedicic, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
09:30 - 10:00 Panel Discussion
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Session II: Data Science: Will HPC Ever Be the Same? (Session Chair: Marcel Schöngens, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)
10:30 - 11:00 "Distributed Machine Learning - Current Bottlenecks in Algorithms and Software Frameworks on HPC and Cloud Architectures", Martin Jaggi, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
11:00 - 11:30 "The 'ABC' of Data Science on HPC Scale", Antonietta Mira, Università della Svizzera italiana
11:30 - 12:00 "Transforming Additive Manufacturing through Exascale Computing: Workflow and Data Needs", James Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
12:00 - 12:30 Panel Discussion
12:30 - 17:20 Lunch and Afternoon Free (ski/side meetings)
Session III: Post Moore's Era Supercomputing (Session Chair: Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
17:20 - 17:50 "SpiNNaker, a Neuromorphic Supercomputer", Steve Temple, University of Manchester
17:50 - 18:20 "Open HPC and Big Data / AI Infrastructure - Towards True Convergence", Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology
18:20 - 18:50 “Quantum High Performance Computing”, Matthias Troyer, Microsoft Research
18:50 - 19:20 Panel Discussion
19:20 Independent Evening Program
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
08:30 - 09:15 "SDSC – A National Center for Data Science", Olivier Verscheure, Swiss Data Science Center
Chair: Michele De Lorenzi, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Session IV - Vendors' Presentations - Part 1: Convergence-Driven HPC Marketplace: Vision and Planning (Session Chair: Jack Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
09:15 - 09:30 Rich Graham, Mellanox
09:30 - 09:45 "Leveraging the DL Software Stack for HPC:Vision and Planning", Peter Messmer, NVIDIA
09:45 - 10:00 Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Research
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Session V: Bringing Together Exascale and Cloud I/O (Session Chair: Dirk Pleiter, Forschungszentrum Juelich)
10:30 - 11:00 "Leveraging the Expanded Memory Hierarchy to Support Diverse IO Workloads", Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories
11:00 - 11:30 "Data Federations for HPC; Status and Options", Patrick Fuhrmann, DESY
11:30 - 12:00 "On the Convergence of EXAScale and Cloud", James Coomer, DDN
12:00 - 12:30 Panel Discussion
12:30 - 17:00 Lunch and Afternoon Free (ski/side meetings)
Session VI: Crystal Ball (Session Chair: Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)
17:00 - 17:15 Thomas Schulthess, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
17:15 - 17:30 Jeff Nichols, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
17:30 - 17:45 Kenneth Alvin, Sandia National Laboratories
18:00 - 22:30 Night Out Event
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Session VII: The Role of Lightweight Virtualization in HPC Systems (Session Chair: Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories)
08:30 - 09:00 "If Virtualization is the Answer, What Was the Question?", Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
09:00 - 09:30 "The Hobbes Node Virtualization Layer: Lessons Learned and Path Forward", Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories
09:30 - 10:00 "User-Mode Containers: Keepin' it Real . . . and Contained", Larry Kaplan, Cray
10:00 - 10:30 Panel Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Session IV - Vendors' Presentations - Part 2: Convergence-Driven HPC Marketplace: Vision and Planning (Session Chair: Jack Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11:00 - 11:10 "ClusterStor Nytro Intelligent IO Manager", Ulrich Michaelis, Seagate
11:10 - 11:20 "Building Systems for Big Data, Big Compute and Deep Learning", Steve Scott, Cray
11:20 - 11:30 "Convergence-Driven HPC Market", Tommaso Cecchi, DDN
Session VIII: Exascale Computing Project Updates (Session Chair: John Turner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11:30 - 11:50 "ECP Overview and Hardware Technology Status", James Ang, Sandia National Laboratories, Director of Hardware Technology
11:50 - 12:10 Doug Kothe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Director of Application Development
12:10 - 12:30 "Demo of DOME Watercooled Microdatacenter New Real-Time SKA Antenna Imaging Algorithm", Ronald Luijten, IBM Research
12:30 - 12:40 Invitation to SOS22, Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories
12:40 - 13:30 Lunch