EPCC's activities at SC'19

Look out for EPCC's brand-new exhibition stand at Booth 1701 of SC19. Our colleagues will also be taking part in the events listed below. Full details of all our activities are available on the SC19 website. You can also follow us on Twitter @EPCCed.

Sunday, 17 November

Workshop

Workshop on Exascale MPI (ExaMPI) (9am–5:30pm)

Organisers include Dan Holmes

Workshop

HPC for Urgent Decision Making (UrgentHPC) (2pm–5:30pm)

Organisers include Nick Brown

Workshop Paper

It's all about data movement: Optimising FPGA data access to boost performance (11:20am–11:45am)

Authors include Nick Brown

Workshop Paper

The Technologies Required for Fusing HPC and Real-Time Data to Support Urgent Computing (3:50pm–4:10pm)

Authors include Gordon Gibb, Rupert Nash, Nick Brown, Bianca Prodan 

Workshop Paper

Using Machine Learning to Reduce Ensembles of Geological Models for Oil and Gas Exploration (4:50pm–5:10pm)

Authors include Anna Roubickova, Nick Brown, Oliver Brown

Talk - Intel HPC Dev Conference

Exploiting Persistent Memory for Workflows and Computational Simulation (10:30am-11:00am)

Presenter Adrian Jackson

Monday, 18 November

Arm User Group Session at SC19

EPCC/Catalyst activities and results

Speakers include Michèle Weiland

Workshop Paper

iPregel: Strategies to Deal with an Extreme Form of Irregularity in Vertex-Centric Graph Processing

Session IA^3 2019: 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms (2:50pm–3pm)

Authors include Ludovic Capelli, Nick Brown and Mark Bull 

Tutorial

Practical Persistent Memory Programming

Presenters include Adrian Jackson

Tuesday, 19 November 

Birds of a Feather

The IO-500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O (12:15pm - 1:15pm)

Presenters include Adrian Jackson

Birds of a Feather

Leading Inclusively - Redefining Effective Leadership in HPC (12:15pm - 1:15pm)

Session leaders include Neelofer Banglawala

Birds of a Feather

Community Building for Sustainable and Scalable HPC Outreach (5:15pm–6:45pm)

Session leader: Weronika Filinger

Wednesday, 20 November

Birds of a Feather

Training and Education for HPC System Administrators: How Can We Do Better? (12:15pm–1:15pm)

Session leader: Neelofer Banglawala

Birds of a Feather

Multi-Level Memory and Storage for HPC, Data Analytics, and AI (5:15pm–6:45pm)

Session leaders include Michèle Weiland

Thursday, 21 November

Research Poster

Eithne: A Framework for Benchmarking Micro-Core Accelerators (Poster 99, 8:30am–5pm)

Authors include Maurice Jamieson and Nick Brown

Birds of a Feather

Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing (12:15pm–1:15pm)

Session leaders include Neelofer Banglawala

Paper

An Early Evaluation of Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory Module and Its Impact on High-Performance Scientific Applications (2pm–2:30pm)

Authors include Michèle Weiland, Nick Johnson, Adrian Jackson, and Mark Parsons

Friday, 22 November

Panel

Enabling Machine Learning-Based HPC Performance Diagnostics in Production Environments (8:30am–10am)

Panelists include Nick Brown

Workshop

Monitoring HPC Services with CheckMK (10:44am–10:59am)

Authors: Kieran Leach, Philip Cass, Craig Manzi