Argonne@SC13

Sunday, November 17

Tutorial: Advanced MPI Programming
PRESENTERS: Pavan Balaji, James Dinan, Torsten Hoefler, Rajeev Thakur
TIME: 8:30AM – 5PM • ROOM: 406

Tutorial: Globus Online and the Science DMZ as Scalable Research Data Management Infrastructure for HPC Facilities
PRESENTERS: Steve Tuecke, Raj Kettimuthu, Eli Dart, Vas Vasiliadis
TIME: 8:30AM – 5PM • ROOM: 403

Workshop: The 8th Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization
CHAIRS: Kwan-Liu Ma, Venkatram Vishwanath, Hongfeng Yu
SPEAKER: Rob Jacob
TIME: 9AM – 5:30PM • ROOM: 505

Workshop: 6th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2013
CHAIRS: Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Justin Wozniak
TIME: 9AM – 5:30PM • ROOM: 502

Workshop: WORKS 2013: 8th Workshop On Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
PRESENTER: Ravi Madduri
TIME: 9AM – 5:30PM • ROOM: 506

Workshop: 1st Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE)
PRESENTER: Daniel S. Katz, Gabrielle Allen, Neil Chue Hong, Manish Parashar, David Proctor
TIME: 9AM – 5:30PM • ROOM: 503

  • PAPER: Run-time extensibility: anything less is unsustainable
    AUTHORS: Jed Brown, Matthew Knepley, Barry Smith
  • PAPER: Software Abstractions and Methodologies for HPC Simulation Codes on Future Architectures
    AUTHORS: Anshu Dubey, S. Brandt, R. Brower, M. Giles, P. Hovland, D. Q. Lamb, F. Löffler, B. Norris, B. O’Shea, C. Rebbi, M. Snir, R. Thakur

Monday, November 18­

Tutorial: Parallel I/O in Practice
PRESENTERS: Robert Latham, Robert Ross, Brent Welch, Katie Antypas
TIME: 8:30AM – 5PM • ROOM: 205/207

Workshop: Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing (PyHPC 2013)
CHAIRS: Andreas Schreiber, William Scullin
TIME: 9AM – 5:30PM • ROOM: 505

Workshop: The 8th Parallel Data Storage Workshop
CHAIRS: Robert B. Ross, Garth Gibson, John Bent
TIME: 9AM – 5:30PM • ROOM: 503

Workshop: 4th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of HPC Systems (PMBS13)

Paper: Multi Objective Optimization of HPC Kernels for Performance, Power, and Energy
AUTHORS: Prasanna Balaprakash, Ananta Tiwari, Stefan Wild
TIME: 1:30-2:00PM • ROOM: 502

Scientific Visualization Showcase: Secrets of the Dark Universe: Simulating the Sky on the Blue Gene/Q, The Outer Rim Simulation
PRESENTERS: Joseph A. Insley, Salman Habib (INCITE PI), Katrin Heitmann
TIME: 6PM – 9PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

INCITE: Scientific Visualization Showcase: Visualization Of Deterministic High-Frequency Ground Motions From Simulations Of Dynamic Rupture Along Rough Faults With And Without Medium Heterogeneity Using Petascale Heterogeneous Supercomputers
PRESENTERS: Amit Chourasia, Yifeng Cui, Efecan Poyraj, Kim B. Olsen, Jun Zhou, Kyle Withers, Scott Callaghan, Jeff Larkin, Clark C. Guest, Dong J. Choi, Philip J. Maechling, Thomas H. Jordan (INCITE PI)
TIME: 6PM – 9PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

Emerging Technologies: CLARISSE: Cross-Layer Abstractions and Run-time for I/O Software Stack of Extreme-Scale Systems
PRESENTER: Florin Isaila
TIME: 6PM – 9PM • ROOM: Booth 3547

HPC Impact Showcases: Introduction to the HPC Impact Showcase
CHAIRS: Raymond Bair, David Halstead
TIME: 7PM – 7:30PM • BOOTH: 3947

Broader Engagement: HPC Interconnections, Broader Engagement V
Geri Lamble, Natasha Floersch, Richard Coffey, Tony Drummond
TIME: 1:30PM – 3:00PM

Tuesday, November 19

IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award Lecture
SPEAKER: Marc Snir
TIME: 1:30 – 3:00PM • ROOM: Mile High

Paper: SDQuery DSI: Integrating Data Management Support with a Wide Area Data Transfer Protocol
AUTHORS: Yu Su, Yi Wang, Gagan Agrawal, Rajkumar Kettimuthu
TIME: 11 – 11:30AM • ROOM: 205/207

Paper: Integrating Dynamic Pricing of Electricity into Energy Aware Scheduling for HPC Systems
AUTHORS: Xu Yang, Zhou Zhou, Sean Wallace, Zhiling Lan, Wei Tang, Susan Coghlan, Michael E. Papka
TIME: 2:30 – 3:00PM • ROOM: 401/402/403

Paper: Characterization and Modeling of PIDX Parallel I/O for Performance Optimization
AUTHORS: Sidharth Kumar, Avishek Saha, Venkatram Vishwanath, Philip Carns, John A. Schmidt, Robert Latham, Giorgio Scorzelli, Hemanth Kolla, Robert Ross, Jackie Chen, Michael E. Papka, Ray Grout, Valerio Pascucci
TIME: 3:30 – 4:00PM • ROOM: 405/406/407

Paper: Optimization of Cloud Task Processing with Checkpoint-Restart Mechanism
AUTHORS: Sheng Di, Yves Robert, Frederic Vivien, Derrick Kondo, Cho-Li Wang, Franck Cappello
TIME: 3:30 – 4:00PM • ROOM: 205/207

Paper: Taming Parallel I/O Complexity with Auto-Tuning
AUTHORS: Babak Behzad, Huong Vu Thanh Luu, Joseph Huchette, Surendra Byna, Prabhat Mr., Ruth Aydt, Quincey Koziol, Marc Snir
TIME: 4:00 – 4:30PM • ROOM: 405/406/407

INCITE: Paper: A Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Dynamic Range-Limited N-Tuple Computation in Many-Body Molecular Dynamics Simulation
AUTHORS Manaschai Kunaseth, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Ken-ichi Nomura, Priya Vashishta (INCITE PI)
TIME: 4:00 – 4:30PM • ROOM: 201/203

INCITE: Paper: There Goes the Neighborhood: Performance Degradation due to Nearby Jobs
AUTHORS Abhinav Bhatele, Kathryn Mohror, Steven H. Langer (INCITE PI), Katherine E. Isaacs
TIME: 4:00 – 4:30PM • ROOM: 401/402/403

Panel: Exascale Runtime Systems
PANELISTS: Pavan Balaji (chair), Laxmikant Kale, Kathy Yelick, Bronis de Supinski, Vivek Sarkar, Thomas Sterling
TIME: 3:30 – 5PM • ROOM: 301/302/303

BOF: Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing
AUTHORS: William Scullin, Andreas Schreiber, Andrew Terrel
TIME: 12:15 – 1:15PM • ROOM: 401/402/403

BOF: Campus Bridging with XSEDE and Globus Online
ORGANIZERS: Steve Tuecke, Rachana Ananthakrishnan
TIME: 5:30 – 7PM • ROOM: 601/603

INCITE: BOF: G8 Extreme Scale and Big Data Program: Progress on Current Exascale Projects and Future Funding Opportunities
ORGANIZERS: William Tang (INCITE PI), Franck Cappello
TIME: 5:30 – 7PM • ROOM: 501/502

BOF: MPICH: A High-Performance Open-Source MPI Implementation
ORGANIZERS: Rajeev Thakur, Pavan Balaji, Rusty Lusk
TIME: 5:30 – 7PM • ROOM: 201/203

POSTER: Framework for Optimizing Power, Energy, and Performance
PRESENTERS: Prasanna Balaprakash, Ananta Tiwari, Stefan Wild
TIME: 5:15-7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

POSTER: The Heuristic Static Load-Balancing Algorithm Applied to CESM
PRESENTERS: Yuri Alexeev, Sheri Mickelson, Sven Leyffer, Robert Jacob, Anthony Craig
TIME: 5:15 – 7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

ESP POSTER: Scalable Ensemble Ab Initio Calculations Using the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method in GAMESS
PRESENTERS: Yuri Alexeev, Maricris Mayes, Spencer Pruitt, Graham Fletcher, Dmitri Fedorov, Mark Gordon (ESP PI)
TIME: 5:15 – 7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

INCITE POSTER: High Performance Computations Enable Scientific Discoveries: Adapting Computational Physics Codes to New Hardware
PRESENTERS: James F. Amundson (INCITE PI), Philippe G. Canal, Donald J. Holmgren, Jim B. Kowalkowski, Qiming Lu, Marc Paterno, Saba Sehrish
TIME: 5:15 – 7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

POSTER: Real-Time Stochastic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems on High Performance Computers
PRESENTERS: Cosmin Petra, Olaf Schenk, Mihai Anitescu
TIME: 5:15 – 7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

POSTER: Building Scalable Data Management and Analysis Infrastructure for Metagenomics
PRESENTERS: Wei Tang, Jared Wilkening, Jared Bischof, Wolfgang Gerlach, Andreas Wilke, Narayan Desai, Folker Meyer
TIME: 5:15 – 7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

POSTER: A Portable Approach for Repeatability Testing
PRESENTERS: Quan Pham, Tanu Malik, Ian Foster
TIME: 5:15 – 7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

POSTER: Optimizing the Barnes-Hut Algorithm for Multicore Clusters
PRESENTERS: Junchao Zhang, Babak Behzad, Marc Snir
TIME: 5:15 – 7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

POSTER: Generating Customized Eigenvalue Solutions Using Lighthouse
PRESENTERS: Luke Groeninger, Ramya Nair, Sa-Lin Cheng Bernstein, Javed Hossain, Elizabeth R. Jessup, Boyana Norris
TIME: 5:15 – 7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

INCITE POSTER: Running A Seismic Workflow Application on Distributed Resources
PRESENTERS: Scott Callaghan, Philip Maechling, Karan Vahi, Gideon Juve, Ewa Deelman, Yifeng Cui, Efecan Poyraz, Thomas H. Jordan (INCITE PI)
TIME: 5:15 – 7:00PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

INCITE Scientific Visualization Showcase: Secrets of the Dark Universe: Simulating the Sky on the Blue Gene/Q, The Outer Rim Simulation
PRESENTERS: Joseph A. Insley, Salman Habib (INCITE PI), Katrin Heitmann
TIME: 8:30AM – 5PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

INCITE Scientific Visualization Showcase: Visualization Of Deterministic High-Frequency Ground Motions From Simulations Of Dynamic Rupture Along Rough Faults With And Without Medium Heterogeneity Using Petascale Heterogeneous Supercomputers
PRESENTERS: Amit Chourasia, Yifeng Cui, Efecan Poyraj, Kim B. Olsen, Jun Zhou, Kyle Withers, Scott Callaghan, Jeff Larkin, Clark C. Guest, Dong J. Choi, Philip J. Maechling, Thomas H. Jordan (INCITE PI)
TIME: 8:30AM – 5PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

Emerging Technologies: CLARISSE: Cross-Layer Abstractions and Run-time for I/O Software Stack of Extreme-Scale Systems
PRESENTER: Florin Isaila
TIME: 9:00AM – 5:30PM • ROOM: Booth 3547

Wednesday, November 20

Keynote: Climate Earth System Modeling for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6): Higher Resolution and Complexity
SPEAKER: Warren Washington (INCITE PI)
TIME: 8:30 – 9:15AM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

Paper: Parallelizing the Execution of Sequential Scripts
AUTHORS: Zhao Zhang, Daniel S. Katz, Timothy G. Armstrong, Justin M. Wozniak, Ian Foster
TIME: 10:30 – 11:00AM • ROOM: 405/406/407

Gordon Bell Prize Finalist: HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures
AUTHORS: Salman Habib (INCITE PI), Vitali A. Morozov, Nicholas Frontiere, Hal Finkel, Adrian Pope, Katrin Heitmann, Kalyan Kumaran, Venkat Vishwanath, Tom Peterka, Joseph A. Insley, David Daniel, Patricia Fasel, Zarija Lukic
TIME: 11:30AM – 12:00PM • ROOM: 201/203

INCITE Paper: Assessing the Effects of Data Compression in Simulations Using Physically Motivated Metrics
AUTHORS: Daniel E. Laney, Steven H. Langer (INCITE PI), Christopher R. Weber, Peter G. Lindstrom, Al Wegener
TIME: 1:30 – 2:00PM • ROOM: 205/207

Paper: SPBC: Leveraging the Characteristics of MPI HPC Applications for Scalable Checkpointing
AUTHORS: Pavan Balaji (chair) Thomas Ropars, Tatiana Martsinkevich, Amina Guermouche, André Schiper, Franck Cappello
TIME: 2:00 – 2:30PM • ROOM: 201/203

INCITE Paper: Kinetic Turbulence Simulations at Extreme Scale on Leadership-Class Systems
AUTHORS: Bei Wang, Stephane Ethier, William Tang (INCITE PI), Timothy Williams, Khaled Ibrahim, Kamesh Madduri, Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker
TIME: 3:30 – 4:00PM • ROOM: 401/402/403

Paper: Insights for Exascale IO APIs from Building a Petascale IO API
AUTHORS: Jay Lofstead, Robert Ross
TIME: 4:30 – 5:00PM • ROOM: 205/207

Panel: Fault Tolerance/Resilience at Petascale/Exascale: Is it Really Critical? Are Solutions Necessarily Disruptive?
PANELISTS: Franck Cappello (chair), Marc Snir, Bronis De Supinski, Al Geist, John Daly, Ana Gainaru, Satoshi Matsuoka
TIME: 3:30 – 5:00PM • ROOM: 301/302/303

BOF: High-Performance Communications for High-Performance Computing
ORGANIZERS: Jack Wells, Richard Coffey, Michele De Lorenzi
TIME: 12:15 – 1:15PM • ROOM: 404

BOF: HPC Systems Engineering and Administration
SESSION LEADER(S):Adam Yates, William Scullin, Adam Hough
TIME: 12:15 – 1:15PM • ROOM: 501/502

BOF: INCITE and Leadership-Class Systems
ORGANIZERS: Julia White
TIME: 12:15 – 1:15PM • ROOM: 703

BOF: Critically Missing Pieces in Heterogeneous Accelerator Computing
ORGANIZERS: Pavan Balaji
TIME: 5:30 – 7PM • ROOM: 401/402/403

Scientific Visualization Showcase: Secrets of the Dark Universe: Simulating the Sky on the Blue Gene/Q, The Outer Rim Simulation
PRESENTERS: Joseph A. Insley, Salman Habib (INCITE PI), Katrin Heitmann
TIME: 8:30AM – 5PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

INCITE Scientific Visualization Showcase: Visualization Of Deterministic High-Frequency Ground Motions From Simulations Of Dynamic Rupture Along Rough Faults With And Without Medium Heterogeneity Using Petascale Heterogeneous Supercomputers
PRESENTERS: Amit Chourasia, Yifeng Cui, Efecan Poyraj, Kim B. Olsen, Jun Zhou, Kyle Withers, Scott Callaghan, Jeff Larkin, Clark C. Guest, Dong J. Choi, Philip J. Maechling, Thomas H. Jordan (INCITE PI)
TIME: 8:30AM – 5PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

Emerging Technologies: CLARISSE: Cross-Layer Abstractions and Run-time for I/O Software Stack of Extreme-Scale Systems
PRESENTER: Florin Isaila
TIME: 9.00AM – 5:30PM • ROOM: Booth 3547

Thursday, November 21

Paper: Application Grand Challenges in the Heterogeneous Accelerator Era
SESSION CHAIR: Yao Zhang
TIME: 4:00 – 4:30PM • ROOM: 405/406/407

BOF: Application Grand Challenges in the Heterogeneous Accelerator Era
ORGANIZERS: Pavan Balaji
TIME: 12:15 – 1:15PM • ROOM: 401/402/403

Network Research Exhibition: Enhancement of Globus GridFTP over SmartNIC User-Programmable 10GigE NIC
ORGANIZERS: Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Gerald Sabin
TIME: 1:45 – 2PM • ROOM: 404

INCITE: Scientific Visualization Showcase: Secrets of the Dark Universe: Simulating the Sky on the Blue Gene/Q, The Outer Rim Simulation
PRESENTERS: Joseph A. Insley, Salman Habib (INCITE PI), Katrin Heitmann
TIME: 8:30AM – 12PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

INCITE Scientific Visualization Showcase: Visualization Of Deterministic High-Frequency Ground Motions From Simulations Of Dynamic Rupture Along Rough Faults With And Without Medium Heterogeneity Using Petascale Heterogeneous Supercomputers
PRESENTERS: Amit Chourasia, Yifeng Cui, Efecan Poyraj, Kim B. Olsen, Jun Zhou, Kyle Withers, Scott Callaghan, Jeff Larkin, Clark C. Guest, Dong J. Choi, Philip J. Maechling, Thomas H. Jordan (INCITE PI)
TIME: 8:30AM – 12PM • ROOM: Mile High Pre-Function

Test of Time Award Lecture
Chair: Franck Cappello
TIME: 1.30PM – 3.00PM • ROOM: Mile High

Emerging Technologies: CLARISSE: Cross-Layer Abstractions and Run-time for I/O Software Stack of Extreme-Scale Systems
PRESENTER: Florin Isaila
TIME: 9.00AM – 2:00PM • ROOM: Booth 3547

Friday, November 22

Workshop: Exascale MPI
SPEAKER: Pavan Balaji
TIME: 8:30AM – 12:00PM • ROOM: 201/203