Berkeley Lab CS Area to Share Computing Expertise at SC23

Berkeley Lab CS Area to Share Computing Expertise at SC23

We’re just a week away from the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis 2023 (SC23), and Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Area (CSA) staff are making their way to Denver to meet with colleagues, peers, and industry to connect, collaborate, and exchange expertise. The event begins Sunday, November 12, and runs through Friday, November 17.

CSA researchers, scientists, and engineers participate in tutorials, workshops, panels, technical papers, and posters as part of the conference’s technical program. In addition, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) booth – which showcases the 17 DOE national laboratories – will feature high-level talks and technical demonstrations from the labs throughout the three-day exhibit hall component of the event (November 14-16).

Connecting all the demos and booths to the outside world is the network known as SCinet, which at 6.71 Tbps, will temporarily be the most powerful and advanced network on Earth. Multiple network engineers from CSA’s ESnet and NERSC teams are part of the volunteer workforce that designs, builds, tests, and operates SCInet over the course of the year leading up to and through the conference.

Notable events include:

Below is a continually updated day-by-day guide to SC23 programming featuring CSA staff and resources.

All times are in Mountain Standard.

Sunday, November 12

Time Location Title Author(s)/Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 407 Tutorial: Introduction to High-Performance Parallel Distributed Computing Using Chapel, UPC++, and Coarray Fortran Damian Rouson, Dan Bonachea
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. 301 Tutorial: The OpenMP Common Core: A “Hands-On” Introduction Helen He
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. 302 Tutorial: Performance Tuning with the Roofline Model on GPUs and CPUs Neil Mehta, Samuel Williams
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. 205 Using Containers to Accelerate HPC Shane Canon
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 607 1st Workshop on Enabling Predictive Science with Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification in HPC (EPSOUQ) Jean Sexton (program committee)
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 702 10th Annual International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) Final Mariam Kiran
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 501-502 Workshop: High Performance Python for Science at Scale Daniel Margala, Laurie Stephey, Brandon Cook, Bjoern Enders
9:30 -9:50 a.m. 605 NPAT – A Power Analysis Tool at NERSC (part of HUST-23 workshop) Andy Zhang, Sridutt Bhalachandra, SiQi Deng, Zhengju Zhao
9:31 -9:46 a.m. 603 Comparing Power Signatures of HPC Workloads: Machine Learning vs Simulation Brian Austin, Sruidutt Bhalachandra, Zhengji Zhao, Hai Ah Nam, Ermal Rrapaj
9:35 -10:00 a.m. 710 Enabling Agile Analysis of I/O Performance Data with PyDarshan (part of ProTools 2023 workshop) Jean Luca Bez
10:30 -10:40 a.m. 708 DLSIA: Deep Learning for Scientific Image Analysis (part of the XLOOP 2023 workshop) Eric Roberts
11:19 -11:35 a.m. 505 Accelerator Integration in a Tile-Based SoC: Lessons Learned with a Hardware Floating Point Compression Engine (part of the RSDHA workshop) Patricia Gonzalez-Guerrero
2:00 -5:30 p.m. 702 TANGO: A GPU Optimized Traceback Approach for Sequence Alignment Algorithms (part of the IA^3 workshop) Muazz Awan
2:00 -5:30 p.m. 710 Fourth International Symposium on Checkpointing for Supercomputing (SuperCheck-SC23) Rebecca Hartman-Baker
2:00 -5:30 p.m. 503-504 2nd International Workshop on Cyber Security in High Performance Computing (S-HPC 2023) Sean Peisert
2:30 -5:30 p.m. 506 Environmental Factors and Lung Cancer: A Predictive Spatial Approach Wenhuan Tan
4:16 -4:26 p.m. 501-502 Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Migrating from Legacy Workflows to Workflow Management Systems (part of the WORKS23 workshop) Daniela Cassol, Jeff Froula, Edward Kirton, Seung-Jin Sul, Mario Melara, Ramani Kothadia, Elais Player, Setareh Sarrafan, Stephen Chan, Kjiersten Fagnan
4:40 -5:20 p.m. 601 S4PST: Stewardship of Programming Systems and Tools (part of D-HPC, The First Workshop on Democratizing High-Performance Computing) Damian Rouson, Johannes Blaschke

Monday, November 13

Time Location Title Author(s)/Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. 207 Tutorial: Deep Learning at Scale Wahid Bhimji, Peter Harrington, Steven Farrell, Shashank Subramanian
11:30-11:40 a.m. 506 Unraveling Diffusion in Fusion Plasma: A Case Study of In Situ Processing and Particle Sorting (part of the ISAV23 workshop) Junmin Gu, John Wu, Paul Lin
9:05 -10:00 a.m. 505 WHPC@23 Keynote: When to Jump: Managing your Career and Maximizing Your Impact  Kathy Yelick
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 506 Workshop: ISAV23: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization E. Wes Bethel
9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 607 CANOPIE-HPC Workshop Shane Canon, Laurie Stephey
12:03-12:12 p.m. 605 High-level GPU code: a case study examining JAX and OpenMP (part of the P3HPC workshop) Nestor Demeure, Theodore Kisner, Reijo Keskitalo, Rollin Thomas, Julian Borrill, Wahid Bhimji
10:57-11:16 a.m. 605 Evaluating the Performance of One-sided Communication on CPUs and GPUs (part of the P3HPC workshop) Nan Ding, Muhammad Haseeb, Taylor Groves, Samuel Williams
9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 603 Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software Bert de Jong
9:22 -9:32 a.m. 702 Survey of Technologies for Developers of Parallel Applications: Julia (part of the PAW-ATM workshop) Johannes Blaschke
9:32 -9:50 a.m. 702 Survey of Technologies for Developers of Parallel Applications: Q&A (part of the PAW-ATM workshop) Johannes Blaschke
9:41 -10:00 a.m. 605 Performance Portability Evaluation of Blocked Stencil Computations on GPUs (part of the P3HPC workshop) Oscar Antepara, Samuel Williams, Hans Johansen
10:30 -10:50 a.m. 506 Extensions to the SENSEI In situ Framework for Heterogeneous Architectures (part of the ISAV23 workshop) Burlen Loring, E. Wes Bethel, Gunther Weber, Michael Mahoney
11:00 -11:20 a.m. 507 Performance-Portable GPU Acceleration of the EFIT Tokamak Plasma Equilibrium Reconstruction Code (part of the WACCPD 2023 workshop) Oscar Antepara, Samuel Williams
11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 506 State of In Situ Visualization in Simulations: We are fast. But are we inspiring? (part of the ISAV23 workshop) Axel Huebl, Marco Garten, Arianna Formenti, Jean-Luc Vay
11:50 a.m.-12:10 p.m. 503-504 A Performance Model for Estimating the Cost of Scaling to Practical Quantum Advantage (part of the PMBS23 workshop) Daan Camps, Katie Klymko, Brian Austin, Nick Wright
12:05 -12:10 p.m. 607 The Story of Spin: Five Years Supporting Science with Container-Based Services at NERSC (part of the Canopie-HPC workshop) Stefan Lasiewski, Cory Snavely
1:30 -2:00 p.m. 503-504 Power Analysis of NERSC Production Workloads (part of the PMBS23 workshop) Zhengji Zhao, Ermal Rrapaj, Sridutt Bhalachandra, Brian Austin, Hai Ah Nam, Nicholas Wright
1:35 -2:15 p.m. 506 EduHPC23 Workshop Invited Talk: Educating Post Exascale HPC Leaders Kathy Yelick
2:00 -5:00 p.m. 704-706 Practical Machine Learning on Biological Knowledge Graphs (part of the Machine Learning with Graphs in HPC Environments workshop) Justin Reese
2:03 -2:06 p.m. 505 Potentials of Cryogenic Electronics for Future Computing Systems (part of the WHPC workshop) Meriam Gay Bautista, Anatassia Butko, Patricia Gonzalez-Guerrero, George Michelogiannakis
2:21 -2:24 p.m. 505 Exploring the Potential of GPU-initiated Communications in HPC Applications (part of the WHPC workshop) Nan Ding
3:30 -3:54 p.m. 702 symPACK: A GPU-Capable Fan-Out Sparse Cholesky Solver (part of the PAW-ATM workshop) Julian Bellavita, Esmond G. Ng, Dan Bonachea, Johnny Corbino, Paul H. Hargrove, Mathias Jacquelin
3:45 -4:00 p.m. 607 Intro to HPC Bootcamp: Engaging New Communities Through Energy Justice Projects (part of the BPHTE23 workshop) Helen He, Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Daniel Fulton, Charles Lively, Rollin Thomas, Lipi Gupta
4:00 -4:15 p.m. 607 Data Analytics in Community Colleges in Preparation for STEM and HPC Careers (part of Tenth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education) Elizabeth Bautista

Tuesday, November 14

Time Location Title Author(s)/Presenter(s)
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. DEF Concourse Research poster: That’s Right – The Same C++ STL Asynchronous Parallel Code Runs on CPUs and GPUs Brandon Cook, Jack Deslippe, Weile Wei, Muhammad Haseeb
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. DEF Concourse Research poster: Utilizing Large Language Models for Disease Phenotyping in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Ifrah Khurram
10:00 -11:00 a.m. DOE Booth #243 Technical demo: Transparent Checkpointing on Perlmutter for Long-Running Jobs Yao Xu, Gene Cooperman, Rebecca Hartman-Baker
10:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. DEF Concourse Research poster: Comparative Study of the Cache Utilization Trends for Regional Scientific Data Caches Ronak Monga
12:15 -1:15 p.m. 503-504 BOF: Workflows Community: Modern Workflows for Continuum and Cross-Facility Computing Deborah Bard
1:00-2:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Roundtable: Using NERSC capabilities to support operations of the DIII-D National User Facility Deborah Bard, Laurie Stephey (LBNL); David Schissel (General Atomics)
2:00-3:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Technical demo: Drishti: Where is the I/O Bottleneck? Jean Luca Bez, Hammad Ather, Suren Byna, John Wu
2:00-3:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Technical demo: Fortran Generics for 202y Brad Richardson, Magne Haveraaen
4:30-5:00 p.m. 405, 406, 407 Space Efficient Sequence Alignment for SRAM-Based Computing: X-Drop on the Graphcore IPU Aydın Buluç
5:00-7:00 p.m. Location TBA Research poster: Comparative Study of the Cache Utilization Trends for Regional Scientific Data Caches Alex Sim, John Wu
5:15-6:45 p.m. 704-706 BOF: Less Worrying, More Learning, More Sharing – Ways to Embrace IPv6 Kate Robinson
5:15-6:45 p.m. 607 BOF: Continuum Computing: A Multi-Paradigm Approach Inder Monga, Benjamin Brown
5:15 -6:45 p.m. 605 BOF: IEEE Quantum-HPC Working Group Bert de Jong

Wednesday, November 15

Time Location Title Author(s)/Presenter(s)
10:30 -11:00 a.m. 501-502 The Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model Running on the Frontier Exascale System (Gordon Bell Climate Modeling Prize Finalist) Noel Keen
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 201-203 Panel: Superconducting Digital Computing in HPC George Michelogiannakis (moderator), Dilip Vasudevan
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 505 Research Poster: High-Performance PMEM-Aware Collective I/Os John Wu
11:00 -11:30 a.m. 401-402 Research Poster: Unified Communication Optimization Strategies for Sparse Triangular Solver on CPU and GPU Clusters Yang Liu, Nan Ding, Samuel Williams, Xiaoye Sherry Li
11:00 -11:30 a.m. 405-407 AMRIC: A Novel In Situ Lossy Compression Framework for Efficient I/O in Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applications Zarija Lukić, Jean Sexton, Houjun Tang
12:00 -1:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Roundtable: Aligning API Capabilities Across Multiple ASCR Sites Deborah Bard, Bjoern Enders, Gabor Torok; Ryan Adamson (ORNL)
12:15 -1:15 p.m. 607 BOF: Interactive and Urgent HPC William Arndt
12:15 -1:15 p.m. 205-207 BOF: Integrating Cloud Infrastructure with Large Scale HPC Environments Shane Canon
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. 704-706 BOF: Providing a Unified User Interface and Experience for Geographically Dispersed Computing Resources Stephen Chan
1:30 -3:00 p.m. Mile High Ballroom Biomedical Applications Damian Rouson (session chair)
1:30 -2:00 p.m. 403-404 Frontier: Exploring Exascale (Best Paper Finalist) Axel Heubl, Jean-Luc Vay, Andrew Myers
2:00 -2:20 p.m. Booth #1255 Network Research Exhibition demo: SENSE Rucio/FTS/XRootD Interoperation System Tom Lehman, Xi Yang
2:00 -3:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Roundtable: Superconducting for Supercomputing George Michelogiannakis, Dilip Vasudevan
2:00 -3:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Technical demo: Open Source ESnet P4 FPGA smartNIC Yatish Kumar
3:00 -4:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Technical Demo: SciStream: Architecture and Toolkit for Data Streaming Between Federated Science Instruments Seyoung Yu; collaborators from ANL, Univ. of Chicago
3:00 -4:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Technical demo: Live Streaming of Large Electron Microscope Data to NERSC Sam Wellborn, Bjoern Enders, Peter Ercius, Chris Harris, Deborah Bard
3:30 -5:00 p.m. 201-203 Panel: Chiplet Ecosystem in High Performance Computing, AI/ML, and Data Acceleration Bapi Vinnakota (moderator), John Shalf
3:30 -5:00 p.m. 403-404 Quantum Computing Anastasiia Butko (session chair)
4:00 -5:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Technical demo: Long-Distance High-Speed Data Transfer with EScp Charles Shiflett, Seyoung Yu
4:00 -5:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Roundtable: A Discussion of Photonics Disaggregation George Michelogiannakis
5:15 -6:45 p.m. 401-402 BOF: HDF5: Building on 25 Years of Success Urjoshi Sinha, Johannes Blaschke

Thursday, November 16

Time Location Title Author(s)/Presenter(s)
11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. DOE Booth #243 Technical Demo: SciStream: Architecture and Toolkit for Data Streaming Between Federated Science Instruments Seyoung Yu; collaborators from ANL, Univ. of Chicago
12:15 -1:15 p.m. 708 BOF: Applications, Libraries, and Tools in Modern Fortran (alt.fortran) Katherine Rasmussen, Damian Rouson, Brad Richardson
12:15 -1:15 p.m. 501-502 BOF: Julia for HPC Johannes Blaschke
12:15 -1:15 p.m. 607 BOF: Operational Data Analytics Norm Bourassa, Melissa Romanus
1:30 -3:00 p.m. 201-203 Panel: Scalable and Adaptable Architectures for AI/HPC Advancement John Shalf

Friday, November 17

Time Location Title Author(s)/Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 401-402 Workshop: Future Is Sparse: Methods and Tools for Sparse Computations John Owens
8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 501-502 3rd International Workshop on RESource DISaggregation in High Performance Computing (RESDIS) John Shalf
8:40 a.m.-9:10 a.m. 503-504 Keynote: First International Workshop on HPC Testing and Evaluation of Systems, Tools, and Software (HPCTESTS 2023) Hai Ah Nam

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