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SC12 Featured Videos

This year at SC12, we shot over 50 video interviews. It was a lot of work, but we want to bring you the very best of what this amazing conference had to offer.

SC12 Videos (Alphabetical by Vendor Name):

Adaptive Computing

• Big Data Debate at SC12. In this video, Adaptive Computing hosts a Big Data Debate at SC12 in Salt Lake City.
• Interview: Adaptive Computing CEO on HPC, Clouds and Big Data. Robert A.Clyde describes how the company’s system management software helps customers manage the world’s largest HPC clusters and private Clouds.
• Moab HPC Suite Remote Visualization Software Speeds Innovation at SC12. Moab HPC Suite Remote Visualization Edition enables you to create easy, centralized access to shared visualization compute, application and data resources.
• Adaptive Computing Enhances Moab Cloud Suite 7.2. Brady Kimball from Adaptive Computing describes enhancements to the Moab Cloud Suite, an intelligent cloud management end-to-end platform. The suite provides touchless cloud service optimization across the full cloud service life cycle including agility, cost savings and service performance.
• Adaptive Computing Leverages Torque to Manage Intel Xeon Phi Resources. Nick Ihli from Adaptive Computing demonstrates how the company’s Torque resource manager works with Intel Xeon Phi. By relaying Intel Xeon Phi instrumentation such as memory availability to the company’s Moab workload manager, the system is able to schedule coprocessor resources efficiently.
• Adaptive Computing Enhances Moab HPC Suite at SC12. Brady Kimball describes enhancements to the Moab Compute Manager 7.2 suite.

Adaptive Computing SC12 Booth Theater

• Overview of Warewulf Node Health Check Software. Michael Jennings Jackie Scoggins from LBNL describe Warewulf Node Health Check software.
• Community HPC Clusters at Purdue University. Andrew Howard from Purdue discuss has the community cluster program has moved forward with the help of Moab software at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing.
• What’s New in Moab HPC Suite 7.2? Brady Kimball describes enhancements to the company’s resource management software.
• COSMOS – Fundamental Cosmology, Dark Energy, and the Cosmic Microwave Sky. The COSMOS Supercomputer Consortium, founded by Stephen Hawking and part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council DiRAC High Performance Computing facility, has chosen Moab HPC Suite 7.2 to manage its groundbreaking scientific computing workloads.
• Moab/TORQUE Support for Intel Xeon Phi. The latest version of Moab was designed to recognize and work with the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, including the ability to automatically detect coprocessors and determine their location and availability.
• Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Overview at SC12. Mike Haedrich from Intel presents an overview of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
• HPC Cloud ROI and Opportunities Cloud Brings to HPC. Brady Kimball from Adaptive Computing presents on the Moab Cloud Suite.
• Moab HPC Suite – Remote Visualization Edition at SC12. With Moab HPC Suite — Remote Visualization Edition, you can improve the productivity, collaboration and security of the design and research process by only transferring pixels instead of data to users to do their simulations and analysis.
• Using Moab Node-sets to Improve Job Scheduling. Gabriel Mateescu from Virginia Tech presents how Node-sets work to improve scheduling efficiency.
• Configuring Moab to Fairly Share a Supercomputer while Preventing Starvation in a University Setting. Jenett Tillotson from Indiana University presents this talk on Moab.
• Demo: Adaptive Computing All-Spark Cube at SC12. Ian Nate from Adaptive demonstrates the company’s resource management software through a custom-built All Spark cube.
• Realizing Energy Efficient Scheduling in a Network of Datacenters. Dr. Bastian Koller from the HPC Center in Stuttgart presents this talk on Moab at HLRS.
• The Technical Cloud: When Remote 3D Visualization Meets HPC. Andrea Rodolico from NICE Software presents on remote visualization.
• HPC at ACC Cyfronet. Lukasz Fils from Cyfronet presents a talk on Moab at Cyfronet in Poland.
• NCRC Scheduling Environment. Frank Indiviglio from NOAA describes how Moab software is used for job scheduling.

Aeon

• Aeon Computing Showcases Award-Winning Data Oasis at SC12. Doug Johnson from Aeon Computing describes the company’s innovative Data Oasis technology powered by the Lustre file system.

Allinea

• Allinea Helps Scientists Run their Applications Faster and Better. Allinea CTO David Lecomber describes the company’s powerful tools for debugging at scale.
• Demo: Allinea MAP Profiling Tool. Mark O’Connor from Allinea demonstrates the company’s new MAP performance profiler tool, a unique offering with extremely low overheard.

Altair

• Interview: SGI Teams with Altair on the Road to Exascale. Paul Kinyon from SGI’s product management team describes how the company is working with partners like Altair to solve customer’s toughest computational challenges. The company is looking at a range of technologies that could enbable Exascale computing capabilities at a practical level of power consumption.
• Altair Speeds RADIOSS at SC12 Using Intel Xeon Phi. James Reinders and Paresh Pattani from Intel discuss how the new Intel Xeon Phi is already powering engineering applications like RADIOSS. Altair was able to port both the explicit and implicit versions of the RADIOSS code in short order.
• Altair PBS Pro Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors. Altair’s Mary Bass describes the company’s PBS Pro system management software, now with support for the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
• Demo: Altair RADIOSS Finite Element Analysis on Intel Xeon Phi at SC12. Eric Lequiniou, Director of High Performance Computing at Altair demonstrates a port of RADIOSS to the new Intel Xeon Phi that uses both explicit and implicit solvers.

AMD

• AMD Powers Penguin Computing at SC12. Penguin Computing CTO Phil Pokorney describes the company’s full range of power-efficient integrated cluster solutions for HPC.
• Supermicro Showcases AMD Opteron Solutions for HPC. Don Clegg from Supermicro describes the company’s wide array of HPC solutions powered by AMD Opteron.

Asetek

• Asetek Reinvents the Datacenter with Innovative Hot Water Cooling at SC12. Asetek founder & CEO André Eriksen describes how CPUs are liquid cooled with the company’s proprietary liquid cooling while a liquid-to-air heat exchanger inside the server cools the inside server air.

Bull

• New Bull Supercomputer Blades Featuring Intel Xeon Phi. Pascale Bernier-Bruna from Bull describes the company’s new hpc blade offerings with the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
• French Supercomputer Vendor Bull Optimizes Apps for Intel Xeon Phi. In this video from SC12, Mathieu Dubois from Bull discusses the company’s application optimization efforts on the new Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor.

CAPS-Enterprise

• Caps-Enterprise Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi. Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s programming tools for new Intel Xeon Phi.
• CAPS-Enterprise Tops Off Accelerators for Accelerators with OpenACC. Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s tools with support for programming Directives with OpenACC.

Colfax International

• Colfax Offers Powerhouse Xeon Phi Server and Code Optimization Course at SC12. Mike Fay from Colfax International describes the company’s new CXP9000 server with up to eight Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. After that, Vardim Karpusenko provides an overview of the company’s new training courses on optimizing code for Xeon Phi.

Cycle Computing

• Cycle Computing Spins up HPC in the Cloud. Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing describes how the company helps customers maximize the utilization of existing supercomputing infrastructure and bridge the gap between traditional data centers and on-demand utility supercomputing.
• Demo: Cycle Computing Spins Up Big AWS Clusters on-the-fly at SC12. Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe demonstrates how easy it is to use the company’s software to provision large compute instances on the AWS cloud.

DDN

• DDN Powers Genomics at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. Dr. Harold (Skip) Garner from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute describes how Big Data I/O is required to crunch Genomics data in the fight against cancer.
• DDN Ramps Up for Exascale at SC12. Jeff Denworth from Data Direct Networks describes the company’s high performance storage solutions for HPC. Used by 60 percent of the TOP100 supercomputers in the works, DDN recently announced a $100 Million dollar investment in Exascale technologies.
• Steve Simms on the Data Capacitor II at Indiana University. Steve Simms from Indiana University describes a recent upgrade to the Data Capacitor project, a high-speed, high-capacity storage facility for very large data sets. With 5 PB of storage, Data Capacitor II will support big data applications used in computational research. IU partnered with DDN to develop Data Capacitor II, which is scheduled to be installed in the IU Data Center in spring 2013.

Dell

• Dell Powers Genomics Research Computing and Personalized Medicine at SC12. Glen Otero from Dell discusses his Birds of Feather session on Personalized Medicine at SC12. The company is working with researchers to enable faster, more cost-effective genome sequencing to enable better healthcare for us all.
• Dell HPC Keeps Focus on Helping Researchers. Tim Carroll from Dell discusses the company’s recent Stampede supercomputer installation at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and how the company focuses on helping researchers.

Gnodal

• Gnodal Showcases Fully Adaptive Load Balancing Ethernet Fabric at SC12. Fred Homewood from Gnodal describes escribes the company’s high bandwidth, low latency 40 GigE Ethernet switch solutions for HPC and the Enterprise.

HPC Advisory Council

• HPC Advisory Council Announces Student Cluster Teams for ISC’12. Gilad Shainer, Tong Liu, and Pak Lui from the HPC Advisory Council revue the organization’s outreach efforts for the past year and look forward to 2013. The council is an active sponsor of international Student Cluster Competitions that encourage young people to learn parallel programming skills.

IBM

• IBM Platform HPC Speeds Applications with Intel Xeon Phi. Jie Wu from IBM Platform Computing describes how the company’s Platform HPC software manages computing resources from the new Intel Xeon Phi.

IDC

• IDC HPC Market Update from SC12. Did you know that 3Q2012 was the biggest quarter of revenue in the history of HPC? In this video from SC12, Earl Joseph from IDC presents the latest on the supercomputing market.

Inktank

• Inktank Boosts Open Source Ceph File System. Neil Levine from Inktank describes the company’s efforts to commercialize and support the Ceph open source file system. With high reliability and nearly unlimited scalability, Ceph has great potential for Big Data applications as well as an enabling technology for Exascale computing.

Intel

• TACC Stampede Supercomputer Comes in at #7 on the TOP500 with Intel Xeon Phi. Lars Koesterke from the Texas Advanced Computing Center describes how hundreds of science applications are being ported to the the new Stampede supercomputer powered by the Intel Xeon Phi.
• Altair Speeds RADIOSS at SC12 Using Intel Xeon Phi. James Reinders and Paresh Pattani from Intel discuss how the new Intel Xeon Phi is already powering engineering applications like RADIOSS. Altair was able to port both the explicit and implicit versions of the RADIOSS code in short order.
• Colfax Offers Powerhouse Xeon Phi Server and Code Optimization Course at SC12. Mike Fay from Colfax International describes the company’s new CXP9000 server with up to eight Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. After that, Vardim Karpusenko provides an overview of the company’s new training courses on optimizing code for Xeon Phi.
• Intel Xeon Phi Adds Smarts to SGI UV. SGI’s Chief Marketing Office Franz Aman describes the company’s full range of solutions featuring the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor for HPC.
• Intel Xeon Phi at the University of Tokyo. Professor Kei Hiraki from the University of Tokyo discusses the historical development of accelerator technology that has culminated in the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
• Rogue Wave Steps up with HPC Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave software describes the company’s Totalview debugger for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
• IBM Platform HPC Speeds Applications with Intel Xeon Phi. Jie Wu from IBM Platform Computing describes how the company’s Platform HPC software manages computing resources from the new Intel Xeon Phi.
• Caps-Enterprise Steps up with Support for Intel Xeon Phi. Caps-Enterprise CTO François Bodin describes the company’s programming tools for new Intel Xeon Phi.
• NAG Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. David Cassell from NAG describes the company’s programming environment for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
• New Bull Supercomputer Blades Featuring Intel Xeon Phi. Pascale Bernier-Bruna from Bull describes the company’s new hpc blade offerings with the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
• James Reinders on Exploiting Parallelism with the Intel Xeon Phi. Intel’s James Reinders describes the new Intel Xeon Phi and how scientists can exploit parallelism in its many cores to speed their HPC applications.
• Seneca Accelerates HPC Apps with Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Kepler K20X Side by Side. Bret Stouder from Seneca describes the company’s latest contract with Jefferson Labs for the first-ever hybrid servers with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and Nvidia Kepler K20X accelerators running side by side.
• Intel Parallel Studio XE Demo at SC12. Steve Lionel from Intel demonstrates the Intel Parallel Studio XE. Available for Linux and Windows, the studio suite eases application development for Xeon CPUs and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors.
• Intel Cluster Studio XE Demo at SC12. Gergana Slavova from Intel demonstrates the Intel Cluster Studio XE, an integrated tool suite for HPC development.
• Demo: Intel Advisor XE 2013 Transforms Serial Code for Intel Xeon Phi at SC12. In this video from SC12, David R. Mackay from Intel demonstrates the Intel Advisor XE 2013, a design tool that helps you to transform serial code to run well on multicore hardware (such as the Intel Xeon Phi) by forecasting what might happen if the code executes in parallel.

Intersect360 Research

• The Effect of HPC on Everyday Lives. Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presents at the SC12 Opening Press Conference.

NAG

• NAG Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. David Cassell from NAG describes the company’s programming environment for the new Intel Xeon Phi.

Nirvana

• Nirvana Large-scale Data Federation Technology at SC12. As a division of General Atomics, Nirvana commercializes data grid technology originally developed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)

Numascale

• Numascale Aggregates Big Memory SMPs from Commodity Servers at SC12. Einar Rustad from Numascale describes the company’s hardware-based server aggregation platform that enables large shared-memory systems to be built from commodity servers.

Nvidia

• Nvidia GPU Technology Theater at SC12. Livestreamed from the show, the complete theater shedule from SC12 features terrific talks on science and engineering.
• Introducing Nvidia Kepler K20X – the GPU that Powers the World’s Fastest Supercomputer. Nvidia’s Sumit Gupta describes the 64-bit Kepler K20 architecture for HPC applications.
• Buddy Bland on How the #1 Titan Supercomputer will Power Science. As a hybrid system, Titan derived 100 percent of its LINPACK performance from NVIDIA K20X  accelerators.

Mellanox

• Mellanox Breaks Performance Records, Dominates TOP500 at SC12. Todd Wilde from Mellanox describes the company’s recent advancements in high speed InfiniBand interconnects. Infiniband recently InfiniBand has become the leading interconnect on the TOP500 with 224 clusters and the Connect-IB dual-port 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand adapter recently achieved the industry’s highest throughput of more than 100Gb/s utilizing PCI Express 3.0 x16 and over 135 million messages per second, 4.5X higher than previous or competing solutions.

OpenSFS & EOFS

• OpenSFS and EOFS Foster the Lustre Community at SC12. Norm Morse from OpenSFS and Hugo Falter from the European EOFS discuss the latest developments in the Lustre community.

Panasas

• Panasas Showcases ActiveStor 14 at SC12. By accelerating small file and metadata performance with Solid State Drive (SSD) technology, ActiveStor 14 delivers extreme performance, for the technical computing and big data workloads commonly found in HPC environments.
• Panasas Chief Scientist on Where HPC Meets Big Data and Hadoop. Panasas ActiveStor not only accelerates product design and scientific discovery applications, but will perform seamless Hadoop analyses, ensuring that customers can extract maximum value from their existing big data infrastructure.

Penguin Computing

• AMD Powers Penguin Computing at SC12. Penguin Computing CTO Phil Pokorney describes the company’s full range of AMD Opteron integrated cluster solutions for HPC.

Rogue Wave Software

• Rogue Wave Steps up with HPC Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Phi. Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave software describes the company’s Totalview debugger for the new Intel Xeon Phi.
• TotalView Debugger Stands Above with Support for Blue Gene/Q. Scott Lasica from Rogue Wave Software discusses the company’s new Totalview programming tools for IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputers with a million processing cores or more.

Samplify

• Samplify APAX: Lowering the Cost of Big Science, Big Data, and Cloud Computing. APAX accelerates the performance of multicore CPU-based applications bound by memory, I/O, and storage bottlenecks.
• Slidecast: Samplify APAX Compression Lowers Cost of Big Science. APAX is the only solution that accelerates the throughput DDRx, SAS/SATA, SSD, PCIe, Ethernet, and Infiniband, by up to six times.

SC12 Committee

• SC12 Press Conference with Jeff Hollingsworth. In this video, SC12 General Chair Jeff Hollingsworth opens the show press conference in Salt Lake City. This year there were a record number of exhibitors have booths at the show. Recorded Nov. 12, 2012.

Scalable Informatics

• Scalable Informatics at SC12 – A Keen Eye on Real Storage Performance. Joe Landmand from Scalable Informatics describes the company’s latest storage technologies for HPC.

Seneca

• Seneca Accelerates HPC Apps with Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Kepler K20X Side by Side. Bret Stouder from Seneca describes the company’s latest contract with Jefferson Labs for the first-ever hybrid servers with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and Nvidia Kepler K20X accelerators running side by side.

SGI

• Interview: SGI Teams with Altair on the Road to Exascale. Paul Kinyon from SGI’s product management team describes how the company is working with partners like Altair to solve customer’s toughest computational challenges. The company is looking at a range of technologies that could enbable Exascale computing capabilities at a practical level of power consumption.
• Intel Xeon Phi Adds Smarts to SGI UV. SGI’s Chief Marketing Office Franz Aman describes the company’s full range of solutions featuring the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor for HPC.

Solarflare

• Solarflare ApplicationOnLoad Engine – HPC Processing on a “Bump in the Wire”. With their ApplicationOnLoad Engine (AOE) the company is enabling applications to be processed on the fly right on the NIC server adapter.
• Slidecast: Solarflare Processing NICs Do HPC Custom Compute. Solarflare President & CEO Russell Stern describes how the company develops network interface software and hardware to transform the way applications use networks, providing industry-leading application acceleration for the most demanding scale-out compute environments.

Spectra Logic

• Spectra Logic Tape Storage Technologies Taking Off at SC12. Molly Rector from Spectra Logic describes the latest advancements in the company’s tape-based storage technologies. Along the way, she debunks the myth that Amazon’s AWS Glacier offering will be the death of tape.

Supermicro

• Supermicro Showcases AMD Opteron Solutions for HPC. Don Clegg from Supermicro describes the company’s wide array of HPC solutions powered by AMD Opteron.

Sugon

• Chinese Supercomputer Vendor Sugon Sponsors SC12 Student Cluster Competition. Sha Chaoqun from Sugon describes the company’s products for high performance computing. As a leading Chinese server vendor, Sugon helped sponsor the SC12 Student Cluster Challenge.

Texas Instruments

• Texas Instruments Offers System on a Chip for HPC. Based on its award winning KeyStone architecture, TI’s SoCs are designed to revitalize cloud computing, inject new verve and excitement into pivotal infrastructure systems and, despite their feature rich specifications and superior performance, actually reduce energy consumption.
• Slidecast: Texas Instruments SoC’s Increase Performance and Reduce Power Consumption. Arnon Friedmann from TI presents details on the the company’s new SoCs, which now have the capability to boot Linux and run conventional HPC software.

The Portland Group

• PGI’s Michael Wolfe on OpenACC Directives for GPUs. Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group discusses the origins of the OpenACC standard for programming directives in GPUs. He also weighs in on the recent OpenMP 4.0 technical report, which proposed to incorporate OpenACC directives into OpenMP 4.0 sometime in 2013.

VMware

• Interview: Josh Simons on HPC Cloud Trends at SC12. Josh Simons from the VMware CTO office describes recent trends in Cloud Computing for HPC. The company is looking at how virtualization technologies could benefit supercomputing on the road to Exascale.

Xyratex

• Xyratex Announces OEM Deals with Dell and HPC at SC12. Mike Stoltz from Xyratex describes the company’s ClusterStor products for HPC. The company recently announced that HP and Dell will resell ClusterStor to power their advanced HPC clusters.

Energy Efficiency Focus in the SC12 Technical Program

by Natalie Bates, Co-chair Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG)

Energy efficiency will again be a hot topic at SC12, with at least 38 Technical Program sessions focused on energy efficiency.  A complete list of these sessions organized both chronologically and by topic can be found on the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group website.  SC12, the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, will be held Nov. 10-16 in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, see the SC12 website.

BROAD SCOPE SESSIONS

“The Third Annual Workshop on Energy Efficient High Performance Computing – Redefining System Architecture and Data Centers” promises to be interesting to a broad audience.  Some of the featured speakers include; Peter Kogge, University of Notre Dame who will look at the historical trends of power, energy and supercomputing; John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory whose talk will focus on the energy requirements for applications; as well as Herbert Huber, Leibniz Supercomputing Center and Steve Hammond, National Renewable Energy Laboratory who will speak about energy efficient data centers.

There are four other technical programs that will cover the topic of energy efficiency at a high level.  Kirk Cameron, Virginia Tech is on the slate to give two talks, both of which have clever and enticing titles with phrases about a “Growing Power Struggle” and “Energy Oddities.”  Prohibitive energy costs motivated Thomas Ludwig, German Climate Computing Center to consider the cost and benefits of “HPC-Based Science in the Exascale Era.”  Finally, there is a “Cool Supercomputing” Birds of Feather (BoF) organized by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that covers tools and techniques for optimizing energy consumption at all levels.

“Setting Trends for Energy Efficiency” is a BoF representing a collaborative effort by the Top500, Green500, the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group and The Green Grid to standardize the power measurement methodology used when running system workloads for architectural comparison, such as High Performance Linpack.  This is one of seven sessions that cover energy efficiency measures and metrics.  The Green500, Top500 and now the Graph500 have their own BoFs and will report power consumption and energy efficiency as well as performance for their Lists.   The High Performance Group  at at the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has also organized a BoF that will discuss  a new OpenMP benchmark suite with an optional energy metric that scales to 512 threads.  From the home of the Green500 at Virginia Tech, Balaji Subramaniam will present his doctoral showcase on metrics for energy efficiency.  Finally, an Intel team will present a paper on tuning for the Graph500 Traversal which includes both performance and energy efficiency results.

SESSIONS FOCUSSED ON SYSTEM HARDWARE

Thirteen of the sessions are exploring system hardware energy efficiency.  Of these thirteen, seven of them focus on alternative processors like GPU and ARM that are continuing the trend towards aggregating low-power processors and using accelerators. There are three BoFs that explore alternative processors and all three are organized by Europeans. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) explores a set of prototypes to test and evaluate promising new technologies for future multi- Petaflop/s systems that include GPUs, ARM processors, DSPs and FPGAs.  The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is heading up an ARM-based exascale demonstration and will review their research results and plans at two BoFs; “Energy Efficient HPC” and “Exascale Research- The European Approach.” Besides these BoFs, there is a session as part of Broader Exchange where Calxeda, an ARM-based server provider, will present their products and roadmaps.  NEC is presenting an exhibitor forum on “Hybrid Solutions with a Vector-Architecutre for Efficiency.”  There is also a paper on “Multi-Core DSP” and a poster on modeling “Power-Performance Efficiency” for GPUs.

A new topic for SC this year is a focus on memory technologies, which was presaged by a keynote at the International Supercomputing Conference held in Hamburg, Germany last June when Dr. Byungse So, Samsung Senior Vice President gave a talk on “Advanced Memory Technology – #1 Factor for Energy Efficient HPC”.  Two papers, RAMZzz and Mage, both explore novel memory system designs.  Samsung and Micron, respectively are presenting exhibitor forums on “How Memory and SSDs can Optimize Data Center Operations” and “Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC)”.

Whereas memory is on the uptake, the focus on liquid cooling has waned with only two sessions this year compared to six last year at SC’11.  Eurotech will present an exhibitor forum on “Differences Between Cold and Hot Water Cooling on CPU and Hybrid Supercomputers” and Green Revolution Cooling will present on “100% Server Heat Recapture in Data Centers is Now a Reality.”

DATA CENTER SESSIONS

Kimberly Cupps, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will present on “The Sequoia System and Facilities Integration Story”.  It appears that she will be giving the same talk at two different sessions; on Monday during Broader Engagement as well as on Tuesday as an Invited Speaker.  Also, the M+W Group will present an exhibitor forum on “Reducing First Costs and Improving Future Flexibility in the Construction of High Performance Computing Facilities.”

APPLICATION TUNING AND JOB SCHEDULING

There are nine sessions that describe research on tuning applications for energy efficiency and various aspects of energy efficient job scheduling.  Seven of the nine sessions are doctoral showcases, papers or posters.  There is a BoF on “Power and Energy Measurement Modeling”.  In this BoF, members of the research community and industry will present current state-of-the-art and limitations in measuring and modeling power and energy consumption and their effect on HPC application performance. An open discussion about future directions for such work will follow, with the intention of creating a “wish list” of feature requests to HPC vendors.  Another BoF of interest is the SLURM User Group Meeting, which provides an open source job scheduler.  Also, Charles Lively, ORNL will give a talk during Broader Engagement on “Heading Towards Exascale – Techniques to Improve Application Performance and Energy Consumption Using Application-Level Tools”.

Following is a list of the titles for the doctoral showcases:

• High Performance Non-Blocking and Power-Aware Collective Communication for Next Generation InfiniBand Clusters
• Total Energy Optimization for High Performance Computing Data Centers

Following is a list of the titles for the papers:

• T* – A Data-Centric Cooling Energy Costs Reduction Approach for Big Data Analytics Cloud
• NUMA-Aware Graph Mining Techniques for Performance and Energy Efficiency

Following is a list of the titles for the posters:

• Statistical Power and Energy Modeling of Multi-GPU kernels
• Virtual Machine Packing Algorithms for Lower Power Consumption

OTHER SESSIONS

Two other sessions that will cover energy efficiency include an all day workshop on “High Performance Computing, Networking and Analytics for the Power Grid” and a poster on “Pay as You Go in the Cloud: One Watt at a Time.”

Although this is a list of sessions with a specific focus on energy efficiency, many more sessions will include energy efficiency as part of a broader focus.