Steve Conway and Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research
Registration is now open for the HPC User Forum at Argonne National Lab. The event takes place September 9-11.
Our global steering committee representing leading HPC centers has worked with Hyperion Research to provide a powerful agenda representing key trends at the forefront of government, academic and private sector HPC use around the world. You’ll hear about recent developments in the exascale race, architectures, HPDA-AI, smart cities, cloud computing, industrial-commercial HPC and other important topics.
HPC User Forum Agenda
Monday, September 9, 2019
6:30 PM Welcome and Special Dinner Reception Event (at the Guest House)
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
7:15 AM Networking Breakfast (at the Conference center)
8:00 AM Welcome: Paul Muzio, Rupak Biswas, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway
8:10 AM Welcome and Overview of HPC at Argonne National Laboratory, David Martin
8:30 AM HPC Global Market Update, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway, Hyperion Research
Morning Session Chair: David Martin
8:45 AM Future Directions in HPC Architectures, Rick Stevens, ANL
9:30 AM The Cray Shasta Architecture, Steve Scott, Cray
9:45 AM Update on Exascale Computing Project (ECP), Doug Kothe, Director, ECP
10:15 AM Networking Break
10:45 AM HPC at DOE Office of Science, Steve Binkley (invited)
11:15 AM ECP Applications Development, Andrew Siegel, ANL
11:45 AM Vendor technology update: Dell/EMC
12:00 PM Networking Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Paul Muzio
1:00 PM The European Processor Initiative, Jean-Marc Denis, EPI
1:30 PM CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Center) Update, Thomas Schulthess
2:00 PM Vendor Technical Update NEC
2:15 PM Addressing Complexity in Leadership-Class Supercomputers, Arno Kolster and Ryan Quick, Providentia Worldwide
2:30 PM Networking Break
3:00 PM EPCC/University of Edinburgh Update, Mark Parsons
3:30 PM Vendor technology update: Intel
3:45 PM The Cancer Computer, Roy Chartier, Cancer Computer
4:15 PM Vendor Technical Update (AWS)
4:30 PM Cloud Computing Research Findings, Earl Joseph and Alex Norton, Hyperion Research
4:45 PM Quantum Computing Research Findings, Bob Sorensen, Hyperion Research
5:00 PM Meeting Ends
6:30 PM Special Dinner Event at the Advanced Photon Source (Building 409)
Wednesday, September 11
8:10 AM Welcome: Paul Muzio, Rupak Biswas, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway
Morning Session Chair: Rupak Biswas
8:15 AM HPDA-AI Research Findings: Steve Conway and Alex Norton, Hyperion Research
8:30 AM The E3SM MMF Atmosphere General Circulation Model on Hybrid Leadership Architectures, David Bader, LLNL
9:00 AM Vendor Technical Update: HPE
9:15 AM Research Using the Blue Waters Supercomputer, Bill Kramer, NCSA
9:45 AM HPC in Industry, Brendan McGinty, NCSA
10:15 AM Networking Break
10:45 AM Special end user presentation
11:15 AM Innovative Technologies Panel Session, Earl Joseph, Hyperion Research (chair)
12:00 PM Networking Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Keith Gray
1:00 PM HPC at BP, Keith Gray
1:30 PM The ANL Exascale Training Program, Ray Loy, ANL
2:00 PM Using Graphs for Unstructured Data, Keshav Pingali, TACC
2:30 PM New AI Hardware Efforts around the World, Alex Norton, Hyperion Research
3:45 PM Networking Break
3:15 PM Urban Center for Computation and Data, Charlie Catlett, ANL
3:45 PM Vendor technology update
4:00 PM AI and Smart Cities special speaker
4:30 PM How the Results of Summit and Sierra are Influencing Exascale, Al Geist, ORNL
5:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up, Paul Muzio, Rupak Biswas, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway
