Berkeley Lab Dives into HPC’s Future at ISC 2024

May 7, 2024

From keynote sessions to tutorials, birds-of-a-feather sessions (BOFs), and workshops, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is bringing its HPC expertise to the ISC High Performance 2024 Conference in Hamburg, Germany, May 12-16.

To kick things off, on Monday, May 13, Kathy Yelick – former Associate Laboratory Director for Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences Area and now Vice Chancellor for Research and the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley – will deliver the opening keynote.

Her presentation, "Beyond Exascale Computing," will address the challenges and opportunities of post-exascale computing for the scientific community. As part of her talk, Yelick will present the findings of the 2023 U.S. National Academies report, which reviewed the hardware and software technologies that are likely to be relevant in this new era of HPC. She will also share her thoughts about how the research community will have to adapt to this new environment.

On the evening of Wednesday, May 15, Berkeley Lab’s John Shalf – Department Head for Computer Science in the Applied Mathematics and Computing Research Division – will be part of a keynote session on “Reinventing HPC with Specialized Architectures and New Applications Workflows.” Moderated by former Berkeley Lab Deputy Director Horst Simon, this event will outline the utility of architectural specialization and the new mathematical models and algorithmic approaches needed to support it. As a result of these changes, application workflows will become increasingly complex, incorporating data analytics, AI, and traditional modeling and simulation. Particular attention will be given to the role of AI and how it can be leveraged to provide new capabilities for post-exascale HPC.

Meanwhile, a group of Berkeley Lab researchers has been awarded the ISC 2024 Hans Meuer Award for their evaluation of the classical hardware requirements for large-scale quantum computations. The winning paper was authored by Daan Camps, Ermal Rrapaj, Katherine Klymko, Brian Austin, and Nicholas J. Wright of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. The award will be presented at the conference on Monday, May 13.

Below is a list of events involving Berkeley Lab staff during ISC 2024; for details on each event, go to the ISC 2024 program.

Sunday

Time	Location	Speakers	Event Description
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Hall Y9 - 2nd floor	Panel includes Shane Canon	Tutorial: “Using Containers to Accelerate HPC”

Monday

Time	Location	Speakers	Event Description
9:15 - 10:15 a.m.	Hall Z - 3rd floor	Kathy Yelick	Keynote: “Beyond Exascale Computing”
11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Hall Z - 3rd floor	Speakers include Erich Strohmaier	"Highlights of the 63rd TOP500 List including Awarding"
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Hall F - 2nd floor	Speakers include Stephen Farrell and Thorsten Kurth	Birds of a Feather: "MLPerf: A Benchmark for Machine Learning"
5:40 - 6:40 p.m.	Hall E - 2nd floor	Speakers include George Michelogiannakis	Birds of a Feather: “Disaggregated Heterogeneous Architectures.”
4:15 - 5:00 p.m.	Hall 4	Speaker: Daan Camps	Research Paper Award: “Evaluation of the classical hardware requirements for large-scale quantum computations.”

Tuesday

Time	Location	Speakers	Event Description
2:15 - 2:30 p.m.	Hall G1 - 2nd floor	Speakers include Meriam Gay Bautista-Jurney	“Women in HPC Poster Pitch”
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.	Hall G1 - 2nd floor	Speakers include Patricia Gonzalez-Guerrero	“Research Poster Pitch & Awarding”
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Hall E - 2nd floor	Speakers include Melissa Romanus	Birds of a Feather: “Operational Data Analytics: HPC Efficiency Improvements with Interoperable Monitoring and Analysis”

Wednesday

Time	Location	Speakers	Event Description
11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.	Hall G1 - 2nd floor	Speakers include Erich Strohmaier	Birds of a Feather: “The Green 500: Trends in Energy-Efficient Supercomputing”
1:-00 - 2:00 p.m.	Hall G1 - 2nd floor	Speakers include Richard Gerber, Mah Kadidia Konate, Thorsten Kurth	Birds of a Feather: “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for HPC Workload Analysis”
5:45 - 6:30 p.m.	Congress Center Hall Z - 3rd floor	Speakers include John Shalf	Keynote: “Reinventing HPC with Specialized Architectures and New Applications Workflows”

Thursday

Time	Location	Speakers	Event Description
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Hall Y11 - 2nd floor	Speakers include Shane Canon	Workshop: 10th Annual High Performance Containers Workshop
2:00 - 6:00 p.m.	Hall Y3 - 2nd floor	Speakers include Melissa Romanus	Workshop: 5th ISC HPC International Workshop on Monitoring & Operational Data Analytics
2:00 - 6:00 p.m.	Hall Y5 - 2nd floor	Speakers include Damian Rouson	Workshop: The Fifth Workshop on LLVM Compiler and Tools for HPC
2:00 - 6:00 p.m.	Hall Y8 - 2nd floor	Speakers include Sam Welborn, William Arndt, Bjoern Enders	Workshop: Third Combined Workshop on Interactive and Urgent Supercomputing
2:00 - 6:00 p.m.	Hall Y4 - 2nd floor	Speakers include Steve Farrell	Workshop: AI for Realistic and Reproducible Science and Engineering
2:00 - 6:00 p.m.	Hall Y2 - 2nd floor	Speakers include John Shalf, Paul Lin	Workshop: H3 2024: HPC on Heterogeneous Hardware

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