Name: IXPUG 2019 Annual Conference at CERN
Start: 2019-09-24T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2019-09-27T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

IXPUG 2019 Annual Conference at CERN

from Tuesday, September 24, 2019 (8:30 AM) to Friday, September 27, 2019 (6:00 PM)

Monday, September 23, 2019
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

8:30 AM Registration Coffee
Registration Coffee
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
9:00 AM Welcome by Host - Thomas Steinke (Zuse Institute Berlin) Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)
Welcome by Host
- Thomas Steinke (Zuse Institute Berlin)
- Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
9:15 AM Keynote
Keynote
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

9:15 AM Deep Learning workflows: examples from High Energy Physics - Federico Carminati (CERN) Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)
10:00 AM Technical and Lightning Talks
Technical and Lightning Talks
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

10:00 AM Deploying AI Frameworks on Secure HPC Systems with Containers - Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

10:30 AM Distributed Training of Generative Adversarial Networks for Fast Simulation - Gul Rukh Khattak (University of Peshawar (PK)) Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

11:15 AM Performance and Scalability Analysis of CNN-based Deep Learning Inference in the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit - Iosif Meyerov (Lobachevsky State University)
11:30 AM Keynote
Keynote
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

11:30 AM Progress and challenges on HPC and AI convergence - Victor Lee (Intel)
12:15 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
1:15 PM Technical and Lightning Talks
Technical and Lightning Talks
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

1:15 PM “Big Data In HEP” - Physics Data Analysis, Machine learning and Data Reduction at Scale with Apache Spark - Luca Canali (CERN)

1:45 PM I/O for Deep Learning at Scale - Quincey Koziol (NERSC / LBNL)

2:15 PM Deep Learning for satellite imagery - Yoann Boget (University of Geneva)
2:30 PM Technical and Lightning Talks
Technical and Lightning Talks
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

2:30 PM Exploiting Emerging Multi-core Processors for HPC and Deep Learning using MVAPICH2 MPI Library - Dhabalaeswar Panda (The Ohio University)

3:00 PM OpenCL in Scientific High Performance Computing - Matthias Noack (Zuse Institute Berlin)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
3:45 PM Technical and Lightning Talks
Technical and Lightning Talks
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

3:45 PM OpenMP to FPGA offloading prototype using the Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL – An IXPUG success story - Marius Knaust (Zuse Institute Berlin)
4:15 PM Keynote
Keynote
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

4:15 PM Next generation Intel MPI product for next generation systems. The latest Intel MPI features and optimization techniques - Klaus-Dieter Oertel (Intel corporation)
5:00 PM IXPUG Day 1 Closing Remarks (Day 1 Recap and Day 2 Agenda)) - Estela Suarez (Juelich Research Centre) Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)
IXPUG Day 1 Closing Remarks (Day 1 Recap and Day 2 Agenda))
- Estela Suarez (Juelich Research Centre)
- Alberto Di Meglio (CERN)
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
5:15 PM Welcome to CERN - short introduction to what we do
Welcome to CERN - short introduction to what we do
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor

5:30 PM Networking Reception
Networking Reception
5:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

8:30 AM Registration Coffee
Registration Coffee
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor

9:00 AM Day 2 Agenda Review
Day 2 Agenda Review
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
9:15 AM Technical and Lightning Talks
Technical and Lightning Talks
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

9:15 AM Cost-efficiency of Large-scale Electronic Structure Simulations with Intel Xeon Phi Processors - Hoon Ryu (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)

9:45 AM Optimizing Beyond Vectorization and Parallelization: a Case Study on QMCPACK - Cédric Valensi (UVSQ / ECR) William Jalby (UVSQ / ECR)
10:15 AM Technical and Lightning Talks
Technical and Lightning Talks
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

10:15 AM Hybrid-BLonD: Efficient Scale-Out of Beam Longitudinal Dynamics Simulations - Konstantinos Iliakis (CERN)

10:30 AM Optimizing Astrophysical Simulation and Data Analysis codes on Intel Architectures - Salvatore Cielo (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)

11:00 AM High-Fidelity Rendering for Large-Scale Tiled Displays - Joao Barbosa (The University of Texas at Austin - TACC)

11:15 AM Applying Vectorization to Lattice QCD Calculations - Shun Xu (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Zhong Jin (Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
11:30 AM Keynote
Keynote
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

11:30 AM A journey over the memory managment stack for HPC large applications on moderne architectures - Sébastien Valat (ATOS/Bull)
12:15 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
1:15 PM Part 2
Part 2
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

1:15 PM Site update: Texas Advanced Computing Center - Joao Barbosa

1:30 PM Site update: Juelich Computing Centre - Estela Suarez (Juelich Supercomputing Centre)

1:45 PM Site update: Leibniz Supercomputing Centre - Salvatore Cielo (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)

2:00 PM Site update: Zuse Institute Berlin - Thomas Steinke (Zuse Institute Berlin)
2:15 PM Technical and Lightning Talks
Technical and Lightning Talks
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

2:15 PM Disrupting High Performance Storage with Intel DC Persistent Memory & DAOS - John Carrier (Intel Corporation)

2:45 PM Modernizing Legacy Codes for Next-Generation Storage Infrastructures: A Case Study of PALM on Intel DAOS - Steffen Christgau (Zuse Institute Bern)

3:15 PM Toward Easing the use of Optane DIMMs as Part of Heterogeneous Memory Systems - Marc Jorda (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
3:45 PM Technical and Lightning Talks
Technical and Lightning Talks
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

3:45 PM Persistent Memory based Key-Value Store for Data Acquisition Systems - Maciej Maciejewski (Intel Corporation)

4:15 PM Partitioned Interleaved Bloom filters using Optane DC Persistent Memory - Enrico Seiler (Freie Universität Berlin)
4:45 PM Keynote
Keynote
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

4:45 PM Exploiting persistent memory for workflows and computational simulation - Adrian Jackson (The University of Edinburgh)
5:30 PM IXPUG Day 2 Closing Remarks (Day 2 Recap and Day 3 Agenda))
IXPUG Day 2 Closing Remarks (Day 2 Recap and Day 3 Agenda))
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Thursday, September 26, 2019

8:30 AM Registration Coffee
Registration Coffee
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor

9:00 AM Day 3 Agenda Review
Day 3 Agenda Review
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

9:15 AM An Integrated FPGA orchestrator for seamless scalability and resource management - Elias Koromilas (Inaccel)

9:45 AM Characterizing Performance Benefits of HBM2 on Intel Stratix 10 FPGAs - Richard Chamberlain (BittWare) Tiziano De Matteis (ETH Zurich)

10:15 AM Acceleration of Scientific Deep Learning Models on Heterogeneous Computing Platform with Intel FPGA - Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)
10:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

11:00 AM Natural Language Processing with Intel Quantum Simulator - Myles Doyle (Irish Centre for High End Computing)

11:30 AM Simple Implementation of Quantum Bits in Silicon by Decoupling them in Space and Time - Nagi Mekhiel (Ryerson University)
11:45 AM Keynote
Keynote
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

11:45 AM How AI and DA combined with HPC shape innovation in Exascale architectures - Marie-Christine Sawley (Intel Corporation)
12:30 PM Keynote
Keynote
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

12:30 PM General Purpose Heterogenous Next-Generation Systems - Richard Gerber (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
1:15 PM IXPUG Day 3 Closing Remarks (Day 3 Recap and Conference Closing Remarks)
IXPUG Day 3 Closing Remarks (Day 3 Recap and Conference Closing Remarks)
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor

1:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
2:30 PM Part 1
Part 1
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

2:30 PM TUTORIAL 2: Verificarlo: Floating-point Computing Verification and Optimization - David Defour (Universty of Versailles, ECR Lab, and University of Perpignan) Eric Petit (Intel Corporation) Pablo de Oliveira Castro (Universty of Versailles, Li-Parad, ECR Lab) Yohan Chatelain (Universty of Versailles, Li-Parad, ECR Lab)

2:30 PM TUTORIAL 1: Numba/HPAT And Daal4py: The Painless Route In Python To Fast And Scalable Data-Analytics/Machine-Learning - Frank Schlimbach (Intel Corporation)
Friday, September 27, 2019
9:00 AM Part 2
Part 2
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

9:00 AM TUTORIAL 3: Compute offload acceleration with FPGA - Francisco Perez (Intel)
12:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
1:30 PM Part 3
Part 3
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor
Contributions

1:30 PM TUTORIAL: Intel Solution for AI - Walter Riviera (Intel)