[hpc-announce] Call for Participation: ScalA at SC'15 - November 16, 2015

[Christian Engelmann]

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          ScalA15: Workshop on Latest Advances in
        Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems

              held in conjunction with the
   SC15: The International Conference on High Performance
      Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

             in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC 

                       November 16, 2015
Salon K, Hilton Austin, 500 E 4th St, Austin, TX 78701

 <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2015>

Workshop Program

	• 09:00-09:05 Opening
	• 09:05-10:00 Keynote 1:
		"With Extreme Scale Computing the Rules Have Changed,”
		Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)

	• 10:00-10:30 Coffee break (coffee provided)

	• 10:30-11:30 Keynote 2:
		"Next Generation Applications: What will be Hard and Easy, and How to Improve Our Approach,”
		Michael A. Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
	• 11:30-11:50 Paper 1:
		"Tuning Stationary Iterative Solvers for Fault Resilience,”
		Hartwig Anzt (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
		Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA), and
		Enrique S. Quintana-Orti (Universidad Jaume I, Spain)
	• 11:50-12:10 Paper 2:
		"A Scalable Randomized Least squares solver for Dense overdetermined systems,”
		Chander Iyer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA),
		Haim Avron (IBM Research - T. J. Watson Research Center, USA),
		Georgios Kollias (IBM Research - T. J. Watson Research Center, USA),
		Yves Ineichen (IBM Research - Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland),
		Chris Carothers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), and
		Petros Drineas (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
	• 12:10-12:30 Paper 3:
		"Mixed-precision Block Gram Schmidt Orthogonalization,”
		Ichitaro Yamazaki (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
		Stanimire Tomov (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
		Jakub Kurzak (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
		Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA), and
		Jesse Barlow (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

	• 12:30-14:00 Lunch break (lunch on your own)

	• 14:00-15:00 Keynote 3:
		"Facing the Four Frontiers,”
		David Keyes (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

	• 15:00-15:30 Coffee break (coffee provided)

	• 15:30-16:30 Keynote 4:
		"Optimization of Communications towards Scalable Algorithms on Post Petascale Supercomputers,”
		Kengo Nakajima (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
	• 16:30-16:50 Paper 4:
		"A Parallel Ensemble Kalman Filter Implementation Based On Modified Cholesky Decomposition,”
		Elias D. Nino Ruiz (Universidad del Norte, Colombia and Virginia Tech, USA),
		Adrian Sandu (Virginia Tech, USA), and
		Xinwei Deng (Virginia Tech, USA)
	• 16:50-17:10 Paper 5:
		"Weighted Dynamic Scheduling with Many Parallelism Grains for Offloading of Numerical Workloads to Multiple Varied Accelerators,”
		Azzam Haidar (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
		Yulu Jia (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
		Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
		Stanimire Tomov (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA),
		Asim Yarkhan (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA), and
		Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
	• 17:10-17:30 Paper 6:
		"On Efficient Monte Carlo Preconditioners and Hybrid Monte Carlo Methods for Linear Algebra,”
		Vassil Alexandrov (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) and
		Oscar Esquivel (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico)

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Christian Engelmann, Ph.D.

System Software Team Task Lead / R&D Staff Scientist
Computer Science Research Group
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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