[hpc-announce] [Call For Participation]: Fifth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2019)

[Hari Subramoni]

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                        Call For Participation

    Fifth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for
        HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale
                            (ExaComm 2019)

                to be held in conjunction with ISC 2019
                    Thursday, June 20th, 9am - 6pm
                Room: Ampere, 5th Floor, Marriott Hotel
                         Frankfurt, Germany

              http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/
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ExaComm 2019 will be held in conjunction with the International
Supercomputing (ISC 2019), on June 20th in Frankfurt, Germany.

Program
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 8:50 - 9:00        Opening Remarks

 9:00 - 10:00       Keynote Talk
                    Title   : Building an Interconnect for the Exascale Era
                    Speaker : Steven L. Scott, Senior Vice President and
CTO,
                              Cray Inc.

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

10:30 - 11:00       Title   : Tofu Interconnect D for the Post-K System
                    Speaker : Yuichirou Ajima,
                              Senior Architect,
                              Fujitsu, Japan

11:00 - 11:30       Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00       Title   : The Blue Brain Project: A Computing and
Network
                              Perspective
                    Speaker : Felix Schürmann,
                              Adjunct Professor and Co-director of the EPFL
                              Blue Brain Project,
                              EPFL, Switzerland

12:00 - 12:30       Title   : Introduction of KISTI-5 computer, NURION
                    Speaker : Tae Young Hong,
                              Director of Supercomputing Infrastructure
Center,
                              KISTI, South Korea

12:30 -  1:00       Title   : AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) and
its
                              I/O architecture
                    Speaker : Hirotaka Ogawa,
                              Director, AIST-Tokyo Tech,
                              Real-World Bigdata Computation Open Innovation
                              Laboratory (RWBC-OIL), Japan

 1:00 -  2:00       Lunch Break

 2:00 -  2:30       Title   : HPC in the Cloud: Embracing the Software
Defined
                              Network
                    Speaker : Brian Barrett,
                              Principal Engineer, High Performance
Computing Group,
                              Amazon Web Services

 2:30 -  3:00       Title   : Exascale in the era of Hyperscale – The many
                              flavors of Microsoft Azure’s unique journey
to 10^18
                    Speaker : Evan Burness,
                              Principal Engineer, Specialized Computing
Division,
                              Microsoft Azure

 3:00 -  3:30       Title   : Meeting the Future Needs of HPC with MPI
                    Speaker : Ron Brightwell,
                              R&D Manager, Scalable System Software,
                              Sandia National Laboratories

 3:30 -  4:00       Research Paper Session
                    Session Chair: Hari Subramoni
                                   The Ohio State University

                    Title   : Software and Hardware co-design for low-power
                              HPC platforms
                    Authors : M. Ploumidis, N. Kallimanis, M. Asiminakis,
                              N. Chrysos, V. Papaustathiou, P. Xirouchakis,
                              M. Gianioudis, N. Dimou, A. Psistakis,
                              P. Peristerakis, M. Katevenis
                              Foundation For Research & Technology,
                              Hellas (FORTH), Greece

 4:00 -  4:30       Coffee Break


 4:30 -  6:00       Panel: Are the FPGAs a silver bullet for Exascale?

                    Moderator : Nectarios Koziris,
                                National Technical University of Athens,
                                Greece

                    Panel Members:
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                    Holger Fröning          Heidelberg University,
                                            Germany
                    Tobias Kenter           Paderborn University,
                                            Germany
                    Iakovos Mavroidis       Foundation for Research and
Technology
                                            -- Hellas (FORTH), Greece
                    Javier Navaridas Palma  University of Manchester,
                                            United Kingdom
                    Piero Vicini            National Institute for Nuclear
Physics
                                            (INFN), Italy

 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.