Agenda
Monday 17th March 2014
Independent arrival and check-in
18:00 - 19:30 Ice Breaker Aperitif in the Hotel Laudinella
Tuesday 18th March 2014
07:50 - 08:00 Welcome by Thomas Schulthess, CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Session I: Science Drivers (Session chair: Thomas Schulthess)
08:00 - 08:30 "Supercomputers as Scientific Instruments: Drivers for Integrated Compute and Data Infrastructure", Jack Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
08:30 - 09:00 "Clouds, circulation and climate simulations", Marco Giorgetta, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
09:00 - 09:30 "An industrial age for materials' simulations", Nicola Marzari, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
09:30 - 10:00 "Supercomputing applications for hydrocarbon exploration,development and production", Steve Derenthal, Exxon Mobile
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Session II: Application Software (Session chair: Buddy Bland)
10:30 - 11:00 "High-resolution coupled atmosphere / ocean simulations on today's petascale systems", Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories
11:00 - 11:30 "NEST, simulation technology for brain-scale networks at cellular and synaptic resolution", Moritz Helias, Forschungszentrum Jülich
11:30 - 12:00 "Maximising the scientific impact of large scale facilities: software development and scientific computing", Jon Taylor, Science and Technology Facilities Council
12:00 - 12:30 "ExMatEx: Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments", Tim Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
12:30 - 17:00 Lunch and afternoon free
Session III: Application Software Panel (Session chair: John Turner)
17:00 - 17:30 "Towards a domain specific library for stencil methods on grids: An example from numerical weather prediction and regional climate modelling", Oliver Fuhrer, ETH Zurich
17:30 - 18:00 "Simulation Codes in the Human Brain Project (HBP)", Felix Schürmann, EPF Lausanne
18:00 - 18:30 "Everything You Know Is Wrong", Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories
18:30 - 19:00 “What do we need for HPC to make a revolution in Life Science? Needs, Possiblities & Challenges in Molecular Dynamics”, Erik Lindahl, Stockholm University & KTH
Independent evening program
Wednesday 19th March 2014
Session IV: Computer Science - Tools and Compilers (Session chair: Al Geist)
08:00 - 08:30 "Brain-Inspired Computing at Sandia", Frances Chance, Sandia National Laboratories
08:30 - 09:00 "Remote Memory Access Programming Models, Runtime Systems and Compilers", Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich
09:00 - 09:30 "The Mantid Project - The challenges of delivering flexible HPC for novice end users", Nick Draper, Science and Technology Facilities Council
09:30 - 10:00 "ExMatEx: Non-Traditional Approaches to HPC Software Development", Allen McPherson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Session V: Architectures (Session chair: Jim Ang)
10:30 - 11:00 "The Evolution of HPC: Market Trends and Associated Technical Implications", Dave Turek, IBM
11:00 - 11:30 "The IBM-ASTRON 64-bit MicroServer demonstrator for SKA", Ronald Luijten, IBM Research
11:30 - 12:00 "Sandia Advanced Architecture R&D: Simulation & Testbeds", Arun Rodgrigues, Sandia National Laboratories
12:00 - 12:30 "Build an Energy Efficient Supercomputer from Items You can Find in Your Home (Sort of)", Marty Deneroff, GreenWave Systems
12:30 - 17:00 Lunch and afternoon free
Session VI: Vendor Session (Session chair: Sudip Dosanjh)
17:00 - 17:30 "Programming an extended memory hierarchy", Duncan Roweth, Cray
17:30 - 18:00 "In-situ computing: Supercomputing at the source", Peter Messmer, NVIDIA
18:00 - 18:30 "HPC Software Vision for Exascale Computing and Beyond", Bob Wisniewski, Intel
18:30 - 19:00 "Experiences with CoDesign in Accademic & Industrial Projects", David Müller, Supercomputing Systems AG
19:00 - Conference Dinner
Thursday 20th March 2014
Session VII: Co-Design Panel (Session chair: Barney Maccabe)
08:30 - 09:00 "Algorithm- Architecture Co-design", Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
09:00 - 09:30 Panel: "Abstract Models for Exascale Architectures", Simon Hammond, Sandia National Laboratories
09:30 - 10:00 Panel: "Portals as a Case Study for Holistic Comprehensive Integrated Software/Hardware Co-Design", Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Session VIII: Crystal Ball Panel (Session chair: Jeff Nichols)
10:30 - 11:00 Crystal Ball Panel: Thomas Schulthess
11:00 - 11:30 Crystal Ball Panel: John Turner
11:30 - 12:00 Crystal Ball Panel: Jim Ang
12:00 - 12:30 Invitation to SOS 19, Jim Ang, SNL
12:30 - Lunch and end of conference