[hpc-announce] Call For Participation [Advance Program]: Fourth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2018)

[Hari Subramoni]

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                       Call For Participation

    Fourth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for
        HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale
                            (ExaComm 2018)

                to be held in conjunction with ISC 2018
                    Thursday, June 28th, 9am - 6pm
                Room: Basalt, 2nd Floor, Marriott Hotel
                         Frankfurt, Germany

              http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/
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ExaComm 2018 will be held in conjunction with the International
Supercomputing (ISC 2018), on June 28th in Frankfurt, Germany.

Program
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 8:50 - 9:00        Opening Remarks

 9:00 - 10:00       Keynote Talk
                    Title   : Network challenges and directions for the exascale
era
                    Speaker : Craig Stunkel, Principal Research Staff Member,
                              IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
                              Yorktown Heights, NY

10:00 - 10:30       Title   : Vanguard: Maturing the Arm Ecosystem for U.S.
                              DOE/ASC Supercomputing
                    Speaker : Kevin Pedretti,
                              Principal Member of Technical Staff,
                              Sandia National Laboratories

10:30 - 11:00       Title   : InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and
                              Roadmap
                    Speaker : Dror Goldeberg,
                              Vice President of Software Architecture,
                              Mellanox Technologies

11:00 - 11:30       Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00       Title   : Advanced Network Semantics for Converged HPC,
                              Analytics and AI Workloads
                    Speaker : Sayantan Sur,
                              Software Engineer,
                              Intel Corporation

12:00 - 12:30       Title   : ABCI: AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure for
                              Scalable AI/Big Data
                    Speaker : Hitoshi Sato,
                              Senior Research Scientist,
                              AIST, Japan

12:30 -  1:00       Title   : DataFlow SuperComputing for BigData Analytics
                    Speaker : Veljko Milutinovic,
                              Chairman of the Board,
                              Maxeler Technologies

 1:00 -  2:00       Lunch Break

 2:00 -  2:30       Title   : Interconnects and topologies options open up
                              thanks to co-packaged optics
                    Speaker : Nicolas Dubé,
                              Chief Strategist for HPC,
                              Hewlett Packard Enterprise

 2:30 -  3:00       Title   : Delivering Scalable Communication Solutions for
                              Diverse Workloads: The Cray Approach
                    Speaker : Luiz DeRose,
                              Senior Principal Engineer and
Programming Environments Director,
                              Cray

 3:00 -  4:00       Research Paper Session
                    Session Chair: Hari Subramoni
                                   The Ohio State University

                    Supercomputer in a laptop: Distributed application and
                    runtime development via architecture simulation,
                    Samuel Knight, Joseph  Kenny and, Jeremiah J. Wilke
                    Sandia National Laboratories.

                    Comparing Controlow and Dataow for Tensor Calculus: Speed,
                    Power, Complexity, and MTBF, Milos Kotlar and Veljko
                    Milutinovic, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and
                    Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Arts and
                    Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia

 4:00 -  4:30       Coffee Break


 4:30 -  6:00       Panel: Performance Analysis and Instrumentation for Current
                           and Future Extreme-Scale Networks

                    Moderator : Ron Brightwell, R&D Manager, Scalable System
Software,
                                Sandia National Laboratories

                    Panel Members: (Confirmed so far)
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                    Pavan Balaji        Computer Scientist and Group Lead,
                                        Argonne National Laboratory
                    Sameer Shende       Director of the Performance Research
Lab,
                                        University of Oregon

  6:00 -  6:10      Closing Remarks


The full program is available at the following website

http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm_prog/

Further information about travel, stay and registration are available
at the following website

http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/

Thanks,
The ExaComm Organizing Committee.