insideHPC Events Calendar

The HiPEAC conference is the flagship networking event of our 2000-strong community of computing experts,’ says HiPEAC coordinator Koen de Bosschere of Ghent University. “This year we are very happy to have two leading European companies (ARM for mobile computing and DeepMind for deep learning) as the main sponsors of the event. They are creating the key technological components of future smart devices.” Learn more.

Every year since 2012, experts and leaders from all over the world converge in February to beautiful New Zealand for three full days of the most thought-provoking sessions in the latest high-technology evolution and its applications. Learn more.

Sponsored by the HPC Advisory Council, this open forum brings industry luminaries and leading subject matter experts together to examine emerging and major domains and share in-depth insights on AI, Data Sciences, HPC, Machine Learning and more.

We'll delve into a wide range of interests, disciplines and usage models including the latest trends and newest technologies, and share all new best practices in applications, tools, techniques and more. Registration is required, the conference is open to all and free of charge. Learn more.

The IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era (HiPINEB) has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place February 25, 2018 in Vienna, Austria in conjunction with HPCA 2018 Conference. The main goal of the fourth edition of HiPINEB is to gather and discuss in a full-day event the latest and most prominent efforts and advances, from both industry and academia, in the design and development of scalable high-performance interconnection networks, especially those oriented to meet the Exascale challenge and Big-data demands. Learn more.

The goal of this hackathon is to accelerate the execution of simulation applications coded by developers with no experience in parallel programming. Our goal is to help you in doing more science and less coding using OpenMP and OpenACC technologies. Your outcome of the hackathon will be either an OpenMP/OpenACC-enabled application or a clear roadmap of how to get there. Learn more.

ORNL is hosting a series of GPU Hackathons in 2018. The goal of each Hackathon is for current or prospective user groups of large hybrid CPU-GPU systems to send teams of at least 3 developers along with either (1) a (potentially) scalable application that could benefit from GPU accelerators, or (2) an application running on accelerators that need optimization. There will be intensive mentoring during this 5-day hands-on workshop, with the goal that the teams leave with applications running on GPUs, or at least with a clear roadmap of how to get there.  Our mentors come from national laboratories, universities, and vendors, and besides having extensive experience in programming GPUs, many of them develop the GPU-capable compilers and help define standards such as OpenACC and OpenMP. Additional events are planned for Australia, Boulder, CO, Brookhaven Lab, Switzerland and ORNL. Learn more.

The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users (www.hpcuserforum.com). The organization has grown to 150 members. It is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of users from government, industry and academia, and operated for the users. We hold two full-membership meetings a year in the United States, and also hold two meetings annually in international locations. Learn more.

High Performance Computing Saudi Arabia (HPC Saudi) is the premier regional event in the field, where participants can meet each other, share ideas and experiences, and discuss cooperation and collaboration. This is the eighth HPC Saudi event and this year it will focus on the themes related to the future evolution and/or revolution of the HPC landscape with topics including HPC, big data, quantum computing, benchmarks, and applications. Learn more.

Supercomputing Frontiers is an annual international conference that provides a platform for thought leaders from both academia and industry to interact and discuss visionary ideas, important visionary trends and substantial innovations in supercomputing. The fourth edition of Supercomputing Frontiers will be held from March 12 – 15, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland and will feature an exciting lineup of speakers. Learn more.

The OpenPOWER Foundation is an open technical community based on the POWER architecture, enabling collaborative development and opportunity for member differentiation and industry growth. The goal of the OpenPOWER Foundation is to create an open ecosystem, using the POWER Architecture to share expertise, investment, and server-class intellectual property to serve the evolving needs of customers and industry. Learn more.

cHiPSet is a COST Action funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme. COST Actions are bottom-up science and technology networks, open to academic and industry researchers and practitioners. Specifically, cHiPSet is establishing collaborative connections around High-Performance Modeling and Simulation for Big Data Applications. Learn more.

​The Dell EMC HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that fosters the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, technologists, and engineers and promotes the advancement of innovative, powerful HPC solutions. Dell EMC customers, staff, and partners are invited to become members and to attend this exclusive workshop featuring insightful keynote presentations by HPC experts, as well as valuable technical sessions and discussions. Learn more.

Think is for those who seek inspiration and education, reinvention and innovation, for those who want to connect with experts and achieve unexpected results. It is for understanding what is going on in the world around AI, Cloud, Data, Security and Systems and discovering what’s possible. IBM Think is the conference where thinkers like you gather to make the world of business work smarter. Where the journey to cloud and AI take center stage. Where you can find the expertise to modernize and secure your enterprise. Learn more.

The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering 2018 Symposium will feature eminent scientists from around the world and the U-M campus. The symposium this year will show how computational science is leading the research at all scales in our lives, from the molecular level to the sky. Learn more.

GTC is the largest and most important AI and deep learning event of the year for GPU developers. Come explore GTC and the global GTC event series for valuable training and a showcase of the most vital work in the computing industry today. See the latest breakthroughs in everything from healthcare to virtual reality, accelerated analytics, and self-driving cars. Learn more.

Organized by NSCC, SupercomputingAsia 2018 (SCA18) is the inaugural annual conference that will encompass an umbrella of notable supercomputing and allied events in Asia. SCA18 will be held from 26 to 29 March 2018.

The key objective is to promote a vibrant and shared HPC ecosystem in Asia, where the most exciting HPC developments are taking place. Delegates will be able to gain access to visionary insights from thought leaders in academia and industry, optimum networking opportunities and the HPC community in Singapore. Learn more.

The first annual CoNGA conference will focus on next generation arithmetic, specifically universal number (unum) and posit arithmetic. The event will held in conjunction with Supercomputing Asia (SCA18). Learn more.

Delve into a wide range of interests, disciplines and topics in HPC – from present day application to its future potential. Join the Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS), HPC Advisory Council members and colleagues from around the world for invited and contributed talks and immersive tutorials at the ninth annual Swiss Conference! Knowledgeable evaluations, prescriptive best practices and provocative insights, the open forum conference brings together industry experts for three days of highly interactive sessions.

Plus we’ve added a fourth day and welcome the HPCXXL User Group! The self-organized and sustained group is for sites with large scale installations of IBM and/or Lenovo platforms. The HPCXXL Meeting will co-locate with the Swiss Conference providing members more opportunities to participate in both sessions. Learn more.

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is committed to accelerating the development of high performance fabrics. The annual OFA Workshop is a premier means of fostering collaboration among those who develop fabrics, deploy fabrics, and create applications that rely on fabrics. It is the only event of its kind where fabric developers and users can discuss emerging fabric technologies, collaborate on future industry requirements, and address problems that exist today. Workshop participants include:

• Application developers and end users
• Communications middleware developers
• Network and storage vendors and researchers
• OS solutions developers
• Enterprise data center managers and architects
• System & network administrators
• System OEMs, architects & integrators
• Kernel developers and maintainers

Click here to view the 2018 Call for Sessions – deadline to submit a proposal is February 16, 2018 by 5 p.m. PST.

Click here to register – Early Bird registration discount available through March 19, 2018.

HPCXXL is a user group for sites which have large installations of IBM or Lenovo equipment. The focus of the HPCXXL group is on large-scale scientific/technical computing using IBM or Lenovo hardware. Some of the areas we cover are: Applications, Code Development Tools, Communications, Networking, Parallel I/O, Resource Management, System Administration, and Training. We address topics across a wide range of issues that are important to sustained multi-petascale scientific/technical computing on scaleable parallel machines.

The upcoming HPCXXL Winter Meeting 2018 will be colocated together with the HPC Advisory Council meeting in Lugano, Switzerland on April 9-12, 2018.

The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users. The organization has grown to 150 members. It is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of users from government, industry and academia, and operated for the users. We hold two full-membership meetings a year in the United States, and also hold two meetings annually in international locations. Learn more.

ORNL is hosting a series of GPU Hackathons in 2018. The goal of each Hackathon is for current or prospective user groups of large hybrid CPU-GPU systems to send teams of at least 3 developers along with either (1) a (potentially) scalable application that could benefit from GPU accelerators, or (2) an application running on accelerators that need optimization. There will be intensive mentoring during this 5-day hands-on workshop, with the goal that the teams leave with applications running on GPUs, or at least with a clear roadmap of how to get there.  Our mentors come from national laboratories, universities, and vendors, and besides having extensive experience in programming GPUs, many of them develop the GPU-capable compilers and help define standards such as OpenACC and OpenMP. Additional events are planned for Australia, Boulder, CO, Brookhaven Lab, Switzerland and ORNL. Learn more.

The scale of today’s leading HPC systems, which operate at the petascale, has put a strain on many simulation codes – both scientific and commercial. Only a small number of applications worldwide have, to date, demonstrated performance at the petaflop/s level. Many of the scientific challenges behind these codes are driving the need for the next generation of exascale HPC systems. Example scientific challenges originate from energy, climate, nanotechnology and medicine and are widely accepted to be of global significance. For simulation codes that are already struggling to scale up to petaflop levels, major investment is required to enable these codes to run at the exascale. Application optimisation and algorithmic modifications only represent part of this challenge. Systems of the scale envisaged present enormous challenges in terms of reliability, programmability, power consumption and usability. Programming models, libraries, languages, compilers and tools all need adaption and improvement. Applications must interact with many of these software aspects to be able to exploit exascale systems efficiently. The aim of this conference is to bring together all of the stakeholders involved in solving the software challenges of the exascale – from application developers, through numerical library experts, programming model developers and integrators, to tools designers. Learn more.

This event aims to raise awareness on the role of High Performance Computing in transforming Europe's digital future by providing solutions to a wide range of societal, scientific, and industrial challenges. The European strategy on HPC will be presented and the impact of the EC proposal on EuroHPC Joint Undertaking on the European scientific, economic and societal developments, including digital skills, will be discussed. The event is co-organised by the Bulgarian Presidency and the European Commission. Learn more.

Save the Date! The 2018 Lustre User Group (LUG) conference will be held during the week of April 23rd in the Chicago, Illinois area.

LUG 2017 successfully moved to a user-governed model and we intend for future events to be hosted at or near member sites. LUG 2018 will be hosted at Argonne National Laboratory, sponsored by Globus. Why you should attend: As always, LUG provides technical sessions on the latest Lustre developments and best practices, while providing opportunities to share information, network, and collaborate with your peers. The OpenSFS Board election results will also be announced. Download the LUG 2017 presentations. Learn more.

Join the expansive and international RISC-V ecosystem in Barcelona this May to discuss current and prospective RISC-V projects and implementations, as well as influence the future evolution of the instruction set architecture (ISA).

The microprocessor IP market is being disrupted, and RISC-V is fast gaining support as an attractive license-free approach to architecture. This open standard collaboration will transform and reshape established world order of the silicon market, and the implications of this change will resonate from Silicon Valley to Silicon Fenn and beyond. Now is the time to explore this disruptive technology, learn about its benefits, and understand the commercial implications for the strategy of your company and for those of your competitors. Learn more.

Distributed & Heterogeneous Programming in C/C++ (DHPCC++18)

In response to the demand for heterogeneous programming models for C/C++, and the interest in driving these models in ISO C++, Distributed & Heterogeneous Programming in C/C++ includes all the programming models that have been designed to support heterogeneous programming in C and C++.

Many models now exist including SYCL, HPX, KoKKos, Raja, C++AMP, HCC, Boost.Compute, and CUDA to name a few. This conference aims to address the needs of both HPC and the consumer/embedded community where a number of C++ parallel programming frameworks have been developed to address the needs of multi-threaded and distributed applications. The C++11/14/17 International Standards have introduced new tools for parallel programming to the language, and the ongoing standardization effort is developing additional features which will enable support for heterogeneous and distributed parallelism into ISO C++ 20/23. This conference is an ideal place to discuss research in this domain, consolidate usage experience, and share new directions to support new hardware and memory models with the aim of passing that experience to ISO C and C++.

Since the conference was founded by the leading national laboratories, MSST has been a venue for massive-scale storage system designers and implementers, storage architects, researchers, and vendors to share best practices and discuss building and securing the world's largest storage systems for high-performance computing, web-scale systems, and enterprises.

This year, MSST will focus on distributed storage system technologies, including persistent memory, long-term data retention (tape, optical disks...), solid state storage (flash, MRAM, RRAM...), software-defined storage, OS- and file-system technologies, cloud storage, big data, and data centers (private and public). The conference will focus on current challenges and future trends in storage technologies. Learn more.

The premier meeting place for the Chief Analytics Officer community

Join 200+ Delegates, 60+ Speakers, in San Francisco on May 14 - 17 for 4 days of inspiring content.

The third edition of Corinium’s Chief Analytics Officer Spring is set to return to the West Coast and will be taking place in San Francisco on May 14-17, 2018.

This conference is not just for Chief Analytics Officers: it may be led by CAO’S but all top level Analytics, Data, Data Science, Business Intelligence specialists cross-industry are welcome, allowing you to meet and network with the very best of your peers from a range of organizations and backgrounds.

This year we will be hosting 4 days of industry leading content.

Day 1 - The Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI for Strategic Innovation Pre-Conference Focus Day will be making its return on May 14 covering topics such as Hype vs Reality, Anomaly Detection, Definitions of ML and AI and much more.

Day 2 & 3 – Corinium’s signature 2 day Main Conference will be taking place on May 15 – 16 featuring all of the hottest topics for Data and Analytics leaders everywhere. Featuring inspiring Keynotes, insightful Panel Discussions and our innovative Discussion Groups.

Day 4 – Will feature our newly launched C-Suite Connections event, the C-Level networking event designed to bring business leaders from all areas of the business to address common challenges. This edition will be focusing on Digital Transformation and strategies for overcoming its associated challenges. Bringing together C-Suite leaders from across industries, for a day of workshop style interactive sessions and case studies where we discuss key areas.

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This workshop focuses on understanding the implications of accelerators and heterogeneous designs on the hardware systems, porting applications, performing compiler optimizations, and developing programming environments for current and emerging systems. It seeks to ground accelerator research through studies of application kernels or whole applications on such systems, as well as tools and libraries that improve the performance and productivity of applications on these systems. Learn more.

The UK OpenMP User Conference has issued its Call for Sessions. The event takes place May 21-22 at St Catherine’s College in Oxford. This inaugural event is intended to become the annual meeting of the growing UK-based community of developers who use OpenMP. Learn more.

PRACEdays18 is the central event of the European HPC Summit Week, and is hosted by PRACE’s Slovenian Member ULFME – University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The conference will bring together experts from academia and industry who will present their advancements in HPC-supported science and engineering. PRACE opens also a call for contributions and posters for PRACEdays18 within the EHPCSW18 week. Learn more.

ORNL is hosting a series of GPU Hackathons in 2018. The goal of each Hackathon is for current or prospective user groups of large hybrid CPU-GPU systems to send teams of at least 3 developers along with either (1) a (potentially) scalable application that could benefit from GPU accelerators, or (2) an application running on accelerators that need optimization. There will be intensive mentoring during this 5-day hands-on workshop, with the goal that the teams leave with applications running on GPUs, or at least with a clear roadmap of how to get there.  Our mentors come from national laboratories, universities, and vendors, and besides having extensive experience in programming GPUs, many of them develop the GPU-capable compilers and help define standards such as OpenACC and OpenMP. Additional events are planned for Australia, Boulder, CO, Brookhaven Lab, Switzerland and ORNL. Learn more.

The iRODS User Group Meeting gives iRODS users and those interested in using iRODS the chance to learn about the latest updates to iRODS software, hear about iRODS implementations from users in different research domains and business sectors, discuss iRODS-enabled applications and discoveries, and glimpse the future of iRODS and the iRODS Consortium. Learn more.

Nimbix cordially invites you to the 2018 HPC Cloud Summit on Wednesday, June 6th in Silicon Valley. "We are bringing together some of the best and brightest minds in accelerated computing at the Computer History Museum, an institution dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computer history."

Join us for discussions spanning topics including: Advanced Cloud Simulation, Deep Learning, AI, GPU/FPGA Acceleration, and Containerized Cloud Workflows. Both users and developers will enjoy interacting with leaders and peers at this event to discuss real-world use cases for advanced high-performance cloud computing. Learn more.

For its 13th year, the Teratec Forum will take place in Palaiseau (France), on the Campus of Ecole Polytechnique, next June 19th and 20th. During two days, this large event where international experts in HPC, Digital Simulation and Big Data meet will be offering the most complete market vision, covering among the following:

Plenary sessions to keep abreast of latest developments in numerical technologies and stress the importance of current and future stakes regarding HPC Simulation and Big Data.

 Technical and Applications Workshops, presenting emerging and most promising methodologies and technologies in hardware and software in the field of HPC, Digital Simulation and Big Data.

Exhibition, with more than 70 booths, allowing you to discover what is most innovative in the fields of hardware, software and service technologies nowadays.

Thematic spots, adding to the Forum at large in an educational, user-friendly mode:

- SiMSEO area dedicated to spread the Digital Simulation practice within SMEs and ETIs - The European Café for Research - The Collaborative Projects’ area - The Networking area to mingle with like-minded French and International Participants

This year’s 4^th Awards of Simulation and Digital Technologies is organized in Partnership with L'Usine Nouvelle and L'Usine Digitale magazines.

Check for more information in real-time on: Teratec Forum

Attendees will spend time on the exhibit floor looking for solution provides across the range of smart city technologies. Anchored by the Transportation Supercluster Conference the three-day conference will feature Transportation/Mobility with participation from other project areas including Energy/Water/Waste Management, Public Safety, Wireless, City Platform/Dashboard, Data Governance and Exchange, and Agriculture and Rural.  It will feature on-site and pre-event opportunities to grow attendance and draw traffic to the exhibition. Learn more.

HPC Knowledge Meeting '18 aims to share expertise and strategies in High Performance Computing, High Performance Data Analysis, and Clustering.

HPC has become a highly valuable, even indispensable tool in many important enterprises such as the defense, pharmaceutical, chemical, automotive and aerospace industries. This is the context in which HPCNow! was founded by three partners with wide experience in the management of high performance computers and a thorough background in the use of scientific HPC codes. The company offers its expertise and knowledge with the aim of helping customers to get the most out of HPC technologies by providing effective and efficient supercomputer administration. HPCNow! also offers professional training and consultancy services for HPC scientists and engineers, so that they can obtain the highest level of performance and maximum security for their research. Learn more.

Returning to the Frankfurt Marriott, HP-CAST computing users group works to increase the capabilities of Hewlett Packard Enterprise solutions for large-scale scientific and technical computing. HP-CAST provides guidance to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on the essential development and support issues for such systems. HP-CAST meetings typically include corporate briefings and presentations by HPE executives, technical staff, and HPE partners (under NDA), and discussions of customer issues related to high-performance computing. Learn more.

ETP4HPC is organizing a workshop at ISC 2018 to prepare the post Horizon 2020 HPC vision and technology roadmap. The event takes place Sunday, June 24 in Frankfurt, Germany.

What will be next? What will be the role of High-Performance Computing and related technologies in the post Horizon 2020 era? What should be the main priorities of the EC Framework Programme 9 in that area? What will be the key assumptions for the next Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) of ETP4HPC, for the HiPEAC vision and other similar documents in the area of HPC, Big Data and AI?

This workshop is the first in a series of events that aim to define a shared vision for the European HPC technology roadmap for the period of 2021-26. This vision should form the basis of the European HPC Research and Innovation Work Pro- grammes following Horizon 2020 (e.g. FP9). We expect our Vision document to be available in the first quarter of 2019. Our partners in the European Big Data and Ar- tificial Intelligence (AI) communities are working on similar documents and we will collaborate with them in order to reach a shared view. Learn more.

​The Dell EMC HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that fosters the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, technologists, and engineers and promotes the advancement of innovative, powerful HPC solutions. Dell EMC customers, staff, and partners are invited to become members and to attend this exclusive workshop featuring insightful keynote presentations by HPC experts, as well as valuable technical sessions and discussions. Learn more.

ISC High Performance will be embracing a range of subject matter that is critical to the development of high performance computing. We also present you with the latest industry trends, networking and partnership opportunities. Join over 3,500 attendees and 150 exhibitors in Frankfurt, Germany, for the most comprehensive HPC conference in Europe. Visit the conference website today.

The 12th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2018) in New Zealand takes place June 25-29 in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Over the past decade, the ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event‐Based Systems (DEBS) has become one of the leading venues for contributions in the fields of distributed and event‐based systems. The ACM DEBS conference provides a forum dedicated to the dissemination of original research, the discussion of practical insights, and the reporting of experiences relevant to distributed systems and event‐based computing. It brings together academia and industry to discuss innovative technology and exchange ideas.

The DEBS conference covers topics both in distributed and in event-based computing. The scope of the conference includes systems dealing with detecting, processing and responding to events and with massively distributed middleware and applications. Learn more.

With a rapidly expanding user base and growing software ecosystem, D-Wave is the world leader in quantum computing systems and software. Register for this seminar to hear about the latest advances in quantum computing, software tools, and applications, and how it can be applied to problems in optimization, machine learning, materials simulation and more. Learn more.

Hyperion will host their Annual HPC Market Update Breakfast at ISC18.

"We look forward to seeing you at our annual HPC Market Update Breakfast Briefing at the ISC conference. If you plan to attend, we encourage you to register soon because this event tends to fill quickly.  In addition to presenting our updated market numbers and forecast, this year I and my fellow Hyperion Research analysts Steve Conway, Bob Sorensen and Alex Norton will discuss our latest research in HPDA-AI, quantum computing, cloud computing and the global exascale race. Learn more.

Univa will host a Breakfast Briefing on HPC in the Cloud at ISC 2018. The event takes place 8:00am – 10:00am on June 27 at the Frankfurt Marriott.

Hybrid cloud computing has become an essential approach to HPC architectures. You are invited to attend this briefing on HPC in the Cloud at ISC 2018. A panel of product executives from Amazon Web Services and Nvidia will join Univa to share real-world use cases and discuss best practices for accelerating HPC cloud migration. Please join us and see how to increase the efficiency of on-premise data centers, and address peak needs with hybrid cloud bursting. Learn more.

This workshop provides leaders and managers in the HPC community with methods to improve diversity and also to provide early career women with an opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. Following the overwhelming success of the 2017 WHPC workshops we will once again discuss methods and steps that can be taken to address the under-representation of women. Learn more.

The ExaComm 2018 International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale is returning to Frankfurt for ISC 2018. Extreme Scale computing in HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds are marked by multiple-levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity ranging from the compute units (many-core CPUs, GPUs, APUs etc) to storage devices (NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics etc) to the network interconnects (InfiniBand, High-Speed Ethernet, Omni-Path etc). Owing to the plethora of heterogeneous communication paths with different cost models expected to be present in extreme scale systems, data movement is seen as the soul of different challenges for exascale computing. On the other hand, advances in networking technologies such as NoCs (like NVLink), RDMA enabled networks and the likes are constantly pushing the envelope of research in the field of novel communication and computing architectures for extreme scale computing. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures. The objectives of this workshop will be to share the experiences of the members of this community and to learn the opportunities and challenges in the design trends for exascale communication architectures. Learn more.

PASC18 is an international platform for the exchange of high performance computing competences in computational science, with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, and application challenges. PASC18, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), will be held from July 2 to 4, 2018 at the Congress Center Basel, located in Basel, Switzerland. Learn more.

Multiscale phenomena are ubiquitous and are the key to understanding the complexity of our world. In computational research, tackling problems in a multiscale way reveals a deeper understanding of a system under investigation and higher-fidelity output. With the advent of exascale supercomputing power, multiscale simulations hold unprecedented power for researchers. The key to unlocking this power is being able to wield it.

In this 3-hour session, with our guidance, you will use one of our applications and couple it in a multiscale manner on your laptop locally. Following that, you will run that multiscale application on a supercomputer using ComPat tools and services. We will describe the principles, concepts, tools, and codes along the way. By the end of the session, you will be able to run a multiscale application on HPC. Then, over the lunch we provide, you can chat with our experts about how you can apply what you’ve learned to make your own application a multiscale and HPC application. Learn more.

ORNL is hosting a series of GPU Hackathons in 2018. The goal of each Hackathon is for current or prospective user groups of large hybrid CPU-GPU systems to send teams of at least 3 developers along with either (1) a (potentially) scalable application that could benefit from GPU accelerators, or (2) an application running on accelerators that need optimization. There will be intensive mentoring during this 5-day hands-on workshop, with the goal that the teams leave with applications running on GPUs, or at least with a clear roadmap of how to get there.  Our mentors come from national laboratories, universities, and vendors, and besides having extensive experience in programming GPUs, many of them develop the GPU-capable compilers and help define standards such as OpenACC and OpenMP. Additional events are planned for Australia, Boulder, CO, Brookhaven Lab, Switzerland and ORNL. Learn more.

PEARC18 is for everyone who works to realize the promise of advanced computing as the enabler of seamless creativity. Scientists and engineers, scholars and planners, artists and makers, students and teachers all depend on the efficiency, security, reliability and sustainability of increasingly complex and powerful digital infrastructure systems. If your work addresses these challenges in any way, PEARC18 is the forum to share, learn and inspire progress.

The theme of this year’s conference is Seamless Creativity. It is for scientists and engineers, scholars and planners, artists and makers, students and teachers, all who depend on the efficiency, security, reliability and sustainability of increasingly complex and powerful digital infrastructure systems. Learn more.

Featuring customer presentations on validations, benchmarks, and case studies, the 2018 FLOW-3D Americas Users Conference takes place August 7-8 at the Warwick Hotel in Denver, CO.

Advanced training for water & environmental professionals will be offered the afternoon of August 6. The training will offer a complex set of simulation challenges so that attendees can explore best practices for model setup and in-depth results analysis. Learn more.

The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG 2018) has published its Speaker Agenda. The event will take place from August 6-8 in Columbus, Ohio. MUG aims to bring together MVAPICH2 users, researchers, developers, and system administrators to share their experience and knowledge and learn from each other. The event includes Keynote Talks, Invited Tutorials, Invited Talks, Contributed Presentations, Open MIC session, hands-on sessions  MVAPICH developers, etc. Learn more.

Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Learn more.

Join fellow industry luminaries and leading subject matter experts from all over the world to explore major and emerging domains and share in-depth insights on AI, Data Sciences, HPC, Deep/Machine Learning, Visualization and more. The 2018 agenda will feature invited and contributed talks and immersive tutorials on a range of topics from the latest trends and newest technologies, to breakthrough works and all new best practices in applications, tools and techniques. Learn more.

The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users. The organization has grown to 150 members. It is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of users from government, industry and academia, and operated for the users. We hold two full-membership meetings a year in the United States, and also hold two meetings annually in international locations. Learn more.

General-purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) potentially offer exceptionally high memory bandwidth and performance for a wide range of applications. A challenge in utilizing such accelerators has been learning how to program them. These hackathons are intended to help overcome this challenge for new GPU programmers and also to help existing GPU programmers to further optimize their applications - a great opportunity for graduate students and postdocs. Any and all GPU programming paradigms are welcome. Learn more.

The IEEE Cluster 2018 conference has issued it Call for Papers. The event takes place September 10-14, 2018 in Belfast UK.

Following the successes of previous IEEE Cluster conferences, for IEEE Cluster 2018, which will be held September 10-14, 2018 in Belfast UK, we again solicit high-quality original work that advances the state-of-the-art in clusters and closely related fields. All papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed for their originality, technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate novel research contributions while papers reporting experiences must clearly describe lessons learned and impact, along with the utility of the approach compared to previous ones.

Clusters are the primary architecture for building today’s rapidly evolving cloud and HPC infrastructures, and are used to solve some of the most complex problems. The challenge to make them scalable, efficient, and more functional requires a community effort in the areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring, at the hardware, system, middleware and application levels. Learn more.

EuroMPI is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of message-passing parallel computing, in particular in and related to the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The annual meeting has a long, rich tradition, and has been held in European countries. The EuroMPI 2018 edition will continue to focus on not just MPI, but also extensions or alternative interfaces for high-performance homogeneous/heterogeneous/hybrid systems, benchmarks, tools, parallel I/O, fault tolerance, and parallel applications using MPI and other interfaces. Through the presentation of contributed papers, poster presentations and invited talks, attendees will have the opportunity to share ideas and experiences to contribute to the improvement and furthering of message-passing and related parallel programming paradigms. Learn more.

The HPML 2018 High Performance Machine Learning Workshop has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place September 24 in Lyon, France. This workshop is intended to bring together the Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High Performance Computing (HPC) communities. In recent years, much progress has been made in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in general. This progress required heavy use of high performance computers and accelerators. Moreover, ML and AI have become a “killer application” for HPC and, consequently, driven much research in this area. These facts point to an important cross-fertilization that this workshop intends to nourish. Learn more.

The Lustre Administrators & Developers group (LAD’18) event takes place Sept. 24-25 in Paris. LAD’18 is sponsored by the EOFS (European Open File System). The organization was founded in 2010 as a Non-Profit organization. The purpose of the European Open File System SCE is the promotion and servicing of the member’s needs. Learn more.

Intel will host the Intel eXtreme Performance User Group (IXPUG) event Sept. 25-28 in Hillsboro, Oregon.

This IXPUG conference is focused on all aspects of employing and adopting many-core processing technologies and techniques for optimal application execution, including topics that cover system hardware beyond the processor (memory, interconnect, etc.), software tools, programming models, new workloads (visualization, data analytics, machine learning, etc.) and more. The conference will provide an interactive experience focused on key topics associated with high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, data analytics, cloud computing, and more.

The meeting is being co-organized by Sandia National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and will be held at the Intel Corporation (Hillsboro, Oregon) facility. The conference activities include a keynote, plenary sessions, 30-minute technical lectures, 10-15 minute Lightning Talks, Posters and Tutorials. Attendees will experience an open forum, where Intel and industry experts will share best practices and techniques used for maximizing software efficiency using Intel architecture with fellow application programmers, software developers, scientist, researchers, academic, students, data analyst, etc. The challenges surrounding application performance and scalability will be covered across all levels, including application tuning on large HPC systems. Learn more.

Intel will host the Intel eXtreme Performance User Group (IXPUG) event Sept. 25-28 in Hillsboro, Oregon.

This IXPUG conference is focused on all aspects of employing and adopting many-core processing technologies and techniques for optimal application execution, including topics that cover system hardware beyond the processor (memory, interconnect, etc.), software tools, programming models, new workloads (visualization, data analytics, machine learning, etc.) and more. The conference will provide an interactive experience focused on key topics associated with high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, data analytics, cloud computing, and more.

The meeting is being co-organized by Sandia National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and will be held at the Intel Corporation (Hillsboro, Oregon) facility. The conference activities include a keynote, plenary sessions, 30-minute technical lectures, 10-15 minute Lightning Talks, Posters and Tutorials. Attendees will experience an open forum, where Intel and industry experts will share best practices and techniques used for maximizing software efficiency using Intel architecture with fellow application programmers, software developers, scientist, researchers, academic, students, data analyst, etc. The challenges surrounding application performance and scalability will be covered across all levels, including application tuning on large HPC systems. Learn more.

Intel will host the Intel eXtreme Performance User Group (IXPUG) event Sept. 25-28 in Hillsboro, Oregon.

This IXPUG conference is focused on all aspects of employing and adopting many-core processing technologies and techniques for optimal application execution, including topics that cover system hardware beyond the processor (memory, interconnect, etc.), software tools, programming models, new workloads (visualization, data analytics, machine learning, etc.) and more. The conference will provide an interactive experience focused on key topics associated with high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, data analytics, cloud computing, and more.

The meeting is being co-organized by Sandia National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and will be held at the Intel Corporation (Hillsboro, Oregon) facility. The conference activities include a keynote, plenary sessions, 30-minute technical lectures, 10-15 minute Lightning Talks, Posters and Tutorials. Attendees will experience an open forum, where Intel and industry experts will share best practices and techniques used for maximizing software efficiency using Intel architecture with fellow application programmers, software developers, scientist, researchers, academic, students, data analyst, etc. The challenges surrounding application performance and scalability will be covered across all levels, including application tuning on large HPC systems. Learn more.

The LDAV 2018 conference on Large Data Analysis and Visualization has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2018, the event takes place October 21 in Berlin.

The 8th IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) symposium is specifically targeting methodological innovation, algorithmic foundations, and possible end-to-end solutions. The LDAV symposium will bring together domain experts, data analysts, visualization researchers, and users to foster common ground for solving both near- and long-term problems. We are looking for both original research contributions and position papers on a broad-range of topics related to collection, analysis, manipulation, and visualization of large-scale data. We are particularly interested in innovative approaches that combine information visualization, visual analytics, and scientific visualization. Learn more.

Current hardware trends lead to ever more complex compute node architectures offering multiple, heterogeneous levels of massive parallelism. As a result the ‘X’ in MPI +X demands more focus. A node in a future exascale system is expected to consist of GPU-like accelerators combined with processor architectures of other types. In order to exploit the maximum available parallelism out of such systems, we are in dire need of sophisticated programming approaches that can provide scalable as well as portable solutions without compromising on performance. The expectation from the scientific community is that such solutions should allow programmers to maintain a single code base whenever possible and to avoid requiring maintaining and debug multiple versions of the same code. The focus of this workshop is to explore this ‘X’ component in a hybrid MPI +X programming approach. Learn more.

The SC18 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis returns to Dallas this year.

The SC Conference Series brings together HPC professionals and students of all nationalities, ethnicities, genders, and technical experience. Together we spark new conversations, new connections, and new ideas. With well over 10,000 people in attendance and a vast array of options to learn and engage, navigating the SC Conference can be daunting. Learn more.

The annual Beowulf Bash returns to Dallas for SC18 this year with a WestWorld theme.

"Bring your SC badge so you can enter our totally real western town of Street Water, Texas. As per years past there will be plenty of refreshments and supercool goodie bags, thanks to our generous sponsors. And as usual, there will be tons of fun, surprises, and oh — aerialists. Did I forget to mention aerialists? Yup. On the ceiling. All night long." Learn more.

Hyperion Research will host their annual Breakfast Briefing at SC18 in Dallas. The event takes place at the Adolphus Hotel at 7:15 am - 9:00 am on Tuesday, Nov. 13. Breakfast will be served at 6:45 am.

We will be presenting an update on HPC market results, key technology issues & trends, results of new research studies in AI & Big data, new ROI results, and the mapping of HPC centers across the US.

Date: Nov. 13
Time: 7:15 am - 9:00 am
Place: Adolphus Hotel, 1321 Commerce St., Dallas, Texas

Univa will host a Lunch & Learn session from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm on Nov. 14 at the Westin in Dallas.

Earlier this year, Univa released survey results that revealed that moving HPC workloads to the cloud is poised for an expansive growth phase, with nearly 6 out 10 companies anticipating, planning or using HPC cloud. Univa has helped dozens of our customers successfully utilize hybrid cloud. In this invitation-only, lunch and learn session hosted by Univa and sponsored by Red Hat, we’ll talk about how to plan a hybrid cloud project to help you avoid pitfalls and challenges. By focusing on demos and real-world deployments, not PowerPoints, you’ll soon appreciate how easily Univa can seamlessly bridge your HPC infrastructure. Learn more.

AI World Conference & Expo, December 3-5, 2018 in Boston, MA brings together the entire applied AI ecosystem, including innovative enterprises, thought leaders, startups, investors, developers, researchers, and leading solution providers. Join 200+ speakers, 100+ sessions, 3,000+ attendees, and 85+ sponsors and exhibitors. For more information or to register, visit https://bit.ly/2EW0oNW

Join the Stanford HPC Conference for two days of invited and contributed talks, hands-on tutorials and workshops on HPC, AI, Data Sciences, Machine Learning and much more. Held by the HPC-Ai Advisory Council, the event explores the domains and disciplines fueling huge advances in new and ongoing research, innovation, and breakthrough discoveries. Learn more.

HiPC 2018 will be the 25th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the area high performance computing. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. In 2016, to keep pace with new computing trends, the conference added two new areas of interest to its name: Data and Analytics. 2018 marks HiPC’s Silver Anniversary as we broaden the technical program spanning from high performance computing to data science. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. In the last couple years, HiPC has added workshops to its technical program and along with a Student Research Symposium and academic Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, the conference makes room for a broad list of topics to be addressed by conference events. For more information click here.