Abstract Description: In 2016, the U.S. Department of Energy established the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) – a joint project of the DOE Office of Science (DOE-SC) and the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) – that will result in a broadly usable exascale ecosystem and prepare mission critical applications to take advantage of that ecosystem. […]
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SC17 Invited Talk Preview: Dr. Pradeep Dubey Presents “Artificial Intelligence and The Virtuous Cycle of Compute”
Abstract Description: Traditionally, there has been a division of labor between computers and humans where all forms of number crunching and bit manipulation are left to computers, whereas intelligent decision-making is left to us humans. We are now at the cusp of a major transformation that can disrupt this balance. This disruption is triggered by […]
SC17 Invited Talk Preview – Dr. Catherine Graves Presents “Computing with Physics: Analog Computation and Neural Network Classification with a Dot Product Engine”
Abstract Description: General-purpose digital systems for computing have benefited from favorable scaling for decades, but are now hitting a wall in energy efficiency. There is consequently a growing interest in more efficient computing systems that may be specialized in function but worth the tradeoffs of lower energy consumption and higher performance in certain demanding applications […]
Unveiling Your Link to the #SC16 Invited Talks
Invited Talks are a premier component in the SC Conference Program and complement nicely the presentations of the regular Technical Papers Program Speakers include global, bleeding-edge leaders in the areas of high performance computing, networking, analysis and storage. Invited Talks typically describe innovative technical contributions and their application to address the critical challenges of the […]
Invited Talk Spotlight: Argonne’s Charlie Catlett Presents “Computationally Empowered Urban Sciences: Making Cities Work Better for People”
Abstract: Urbanization is one of the great challenges and opportunities of this century, inextricably tied to global challenges ranging from climate change to sustainable use of energy and natural resources, and from personal health and safety to accelerating innovation and education. There is a growing science community—spanning nearly every discipline—pursuing research related to these challenges. […]
SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: Dr. John D. McCalpin Presents “Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems”
Short Introduction: This talk reviews the history of the changing “balances” between computation, memory latency, and memory bandwidth in deployed HPC systems, then discusses how the underlying technology changes led to these market shifts. Key metrics are the increasing relative “cost” of memory accesses and the massive increases in concurrency that are required to obtain […]
SC16 Invited Talk Spotlight: Dr. Tamara G. Kolda Presents “Parallel Multiway Methods for Compression of Massive Data and Other Applications”
Short Introduction: Scientists are drowning in data. The scientific data produced by high-fidelity simulations and high-precision experiments are far too massive to store long term. The unwieldy nature of the data makes it difficult to analyze or to retain for future analysis or comparison. Data compression is a necessity, but there are surprisingly few options […]
SC15 Invited Talk Focus: Dr. Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos Explains the European Supercomputing Research Programme
Over the last couple of years, through a number of policy and research initiatives, the European Union has worked in putting together an ambitious supercomputing research programme. As part of this effort, in autumn 2015, the European Commission has launched several new supercomputing projects covering supercomputing hardware, software and applications. This launch marks an important […]
SC15 Invited Talk Spotlight: Superscalar Programming Models – Making Applications Platform Agnostic
StarSs is a task-based programming model by Barcelona Supercomputing Center that has the potential to change the way applications are developed (click on image to enlarge). Programming models play a key role providing abstractions of the underlying architecture and systems to the application developer and enabling the exploitation of the computing resources possibilities from a […]
