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Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Goes Virtual at SC20
October 30, 2020
As they have for nearly three decades, Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Area (CSA) staff from the Computational Research Division, ESnet, and NERSC will share their expertise with the global HPC community at SC20 through tutorials, workshops, panels, technical papers, and posters as part of the conference technical program. There’s one big difference this year, though: the entire event will be virtual.
SC20 takes place November 9-19. For more information and to see the full program, visit the SC20 website.
Here’s a day-by-day guide to SC20 sessions featuring CSA staff and resources:
Monday, Nov. 9
Tutorials
Performance Tuning with the Roofline Model on GPUs and CPUs: Part 1, 10 am – 2 pm EST, 7-11 am PST; presenters include Sam Williams (CRD), Khaled Ibrahim (CRD), and Charlene Yang (NERSC)
In Situ Analysis and Visualization with SENSEI and Ascent, 2:30-6:30 pm EST, 11:30 am - 3:30 pm PST; authors include Burlen Loring and Wes Bethel of CRD
Parallel I/O In Practice, 2:30-6:30 pm EST, 11:30 am-3:30 pm PST; organizers Glenn Lockwood of NERSC
The OpenMP Common Core: A Hands-On Introduction: Part 1, 2:30-6:30 EST, 11:30 am-3:30 pm PST; presenters include Helen He of NERSC
Tuesday, Nov. 10
Tutorials
Performance Tuning with the Roofline Model on GPUs and CPUs: Part 2, 10 am – 2 pm EST, 7-11 am PST; presenters include Sam Williams (CRD), Khaled Ibrahim (CRD), and Charlene Yang (NERSC)
Deep Learning at Scale, 2:30-6:30 pm EST, 11:30 am-3:30 pm PST; presenters include Wahid Bhimji, Steven Farrell, and Mustafa Mustafa, NERSC
The OpenMP Common Core: A “hands-on” Introduction - Part 2, 2:30-6:30 pm EST, 11:30 am-3:30 pm PST; presenters include Helen He of NERSC
Parallel I/O In Practice: Part 2, 2:30-6:30 pm EST, 11:30 am-3:30 pm PST; presenters include Glenn Lockwood of NERSC
UPC++: An Asynchronous RMA/RPC Library for Distributed C++ Applications, 2:30-6:30 pm EST, 11:30 am-3:30 pm PST; presenters include Amir Kamil, Dan Bonachea, and Paul Hargrove of CRD and Kathy Yelick, former ALD of Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences Area who now holds a joint research appointment at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley
Using Containers to Accelerate HPC, 2:30-6:30 EST, 11:30 am-3:30 pm PST; presenters include Shane Canon of NERSC
Wednesday, Nov. 11
Workshops
Women in HPC, 9 am - 5:30 pm EST, 6 am - 2:30 pm PST; presenters include Deborah Bard of NERSC
HiPar20: Workshop on Hierarchical Parallelism for Exascale Computing, 10 am-6 pm EST, 7 am - 3 pm PST; organizers include Sherry Li of CRD
First International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software, 10 am – 6:30 pm EST, 7 am - 3:30 pm PST; organizers include Bert de Jong of CRD
Presentations/Papers
LEAP: Scaling Numerical Optimization Based Synthesis Using an Incremental Approach, 11-11:20 am EST, 8-8:20 am PST; part of the First International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software; presenters include Costin Iancu of CRD
A Case Study and Characterization of a Many-socket, Multi-tier NUMA HPC Platform, 11:15-11:40 am EST, 8:15-8:40 am PST; part of the HiPar20 Workshop; authors include Steven Hofmeyr, CRD
Navigating your way to the job or promotion you want, 11:50 am to 12:10 pm EST, 8:50-9:10 am PST; part of the Women in HPC: Diversifying the HPC Community and Engaging Male Allies workshop; author: Deborah Bard of NERSC
QubiC - qubits control systems at LBNL, 1-1:20 pm EST, 10-10:20 am PST; part of the First International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software; authors include Jan Balewski of NERSC
ArQTiC: A full-stack software package for dynamic simulations of materials on quantum computers, 2:40-3 pm EST, 11:40 am - 12:00 pm PST; part of the First International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software; authors include Bert de Jong and Lindsay Bassman of CRD
How the ECP Training Project is helping the entire HPC Community prepare for Exascale Computing, 3-3:15 pm EST, 12-12:15 pm PST; part of the Seventh SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education; authors include Osni Marques of CRD
Time-Based Roofline for Deep Learning Performance Analysis, 2:30-3 pm EST, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm PST; part of the 5th Deep Learning on Supercomputers Workshop; authors include Yunsong Wang, Charlene Yang, and Steven Farrell of NERSC and Sam Williams of CRD
Automation of NERSC Application Usage Report, 2:45-3:15 pm EST, 11:45 am - 12:15 pm PST; part of HUST-20: 7th International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools; authors include Zhengji Zhao of NERSC
Employing Directed Internship and Apprenticeship for Fostering HPC Training and Education, 3:15-3:30 pm EST, 12:15-12:30 pm PST; part of the Seventh SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education; authors include Elizabeth Bautista, NERSC
Characterizing Scientific Workflows on HPC Systems using Logs, 4:30-5 pm EST, 1:30-2 pm PST; part of WORKS20: 15th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science; authors include Devarshi Ghoshal and Lavanya Ramakrishnan of CRD and Brian Austin, Deborah Bard, Christopher Daley, Nicholas Wright, and Glenn Lockwood of NERSC
Thursday, Nov. 12
Workshops
CANOPIE-HPC: Containers and New Orchestration Paradigms for Isolated Environments in HPC, 10 am – 6:30 pm EST, 7 am - 3:30 pm PST; organizers include Shane Canon of NERSC
INDIS 2020: The 7th International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science, 10 am – 6:30 pm EST, 7 am - 3:30 pm PST; organizers include Mariam Kiran of ESnet
ISAV 2020: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization, 10 am – 6:30 pm EST, 7 am - 3:30 pm PST; organizers include Wes Bethel of CRD
Keynote
ISAV 2020: Uses of in situ/in transit methods in large-scale modeling of plasma-based particle accelerators, 2:30-3:30 pm EST, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm PST; presenters are Jean-Luc Vay and Alex Huebel, computational physicists at Berkeley Lab
Panels
Panel Discussion: Experimental Networks (XNET), 11:30-11:55 am EST, 8:30-8:55 am PST; part of the INDIS 2020 workshop; panelists include Ezra Kissel, Inder Monga, and Andrew Wiedlea of ESnet
ISAV Panel: Experiences from the Trenches, 4:35-5:57 pm EST, 1:35-2:57 pm PST; panelists include Oliver Ruebel of CRD
Papers/Presentations
Introduction: CANOPIE-HPC: Containers and New Orchestration Paradigms for Isolated Environments in HPC, 10-10:45 am EST, 7-7:45 am PST; presenters include Shane Canon of NERSC
The Performance and Energy Efficiency Potential of FPGAs in Scientific Computing, 10:30-11 am EST, 7:30-8 am PST; authors/presenters include Sam Williams, Colin MacLean, Douglas Doerfler, and Nicholas Wright of NERSC
Cross-Facility Science with the Superfacility Project at LBNL, 10:45-11:10 am EST, 7:45-8:10 am PST; part of the XLOOP 2020 workshop; authors include Bjoern Enders, Deborah Bar, Cory Snavely Lisa Gerhardt, Jason Lee, Becci Totzke, Katie Antypas, Suren Byna, Ravi Cheema, Shreyas Cholia, Mark Day, Aditi Gaur, Annette Greiner, Taylor Groves, Miriam Kiran, Quincey Koziol, Kelly Rowland, Chris Samuel, Ashwin Selvarajan, Alex Sim, David Skinner, Rollin Thomas, and Gabor Torok of NERSC
XNET Lightning Talk: Quantum Networking, 11:22-11:26 am EST, 8:22-8:26 am PST; part of INDIS 2020 workshop; presenter: Inder Monga of ESnet
XNET Lightning Talk: Extending the Research Engineering Network to the Wireless Edge, 11:26-11:30 am EST, 8:26-8:30 am PST; part of INDIS 2020; author/presenter: Andrew Wiedlea, ESnet
Interactive Parallel Workflows for Synchrotron Tomography, 12:40-1:05 pm EST, 9:40-10:05 am PST; part of the XLOOP 2020 workshop; author is Dula Parkinson of the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley Lab
The Role of Containers in Reproducibility, 1:05-1:30 pm EST, 10:05-10:30 am PST; part of the CANOPIE-HPC workshop; author: Shane Canon of NERSC
GPU Direct I/O with HDF5, 1:46-2:15 pm EST, 10:46-11:15 am PST; part of the Fifth International Parallel Data Systems Workshop; authors include Suren Byna of CRD and Quincey Koziol of NERSC
The NetSage Measurement Framework: Design, Development, and Discoveries, 4:05-4:30 pm EST, 1:05-1:30 pm PST; authors/presenters include Andrew Lake, Samir Faci, Brian Tierney, and Edward Balas of ESnet
AI for Networking: the Engineering Perspective, 4:45-5:15 pm EST, 1:45-2:15 pm PST; part of the INDIS 2020 workshop; author/presenter: Mariam Kiran of ESnet
Performance Trade-offs in GPU Communication: A Study of Host and Device-initiated Approaches, 4:45-5:15 pm EST, 1:45-2:15 pm PST; part of the PMBS20 Workshop; authors include Taylor Groves and Nicholas Wright of NERSC, and Khaled Ibrahim, Lenny Oliker, and Sam Williams of CRD
Evaluation of the Communication Motif for a Distributed Eigensolver using the SST Network Simulation Tool, 5:15-5:45 pm EST, 2:15-2:45 pm PST; part of PMBS20 workshop; authors include Taylor Groves, Dossay Oryspayev, Brandon Cook, and Chao Yang of NERSC
Posters
Accelerating GMRES with Deep Learning in Real Time, Johannes Blaschke, NERSC
Friday, Nov. 13
Workshops
WACCPD 2020: Seventh Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives, 10 am – 2 pm EST, 7-11 am PST; organizers include Sridutt Bhalachandra of NERSC
2nd Workshop on Machine Learning for Computing Systems, 2:30-6:30 pm EST, 11:30 am - 3:30 pm PST; organizers include Kadidia Konate of NERSC
Fourth Workshop on Interactive High-Performance Computing, 2:30-6:30 pm EST, 11:30 am - 3:30 pm PST; organizers include Rollin Thomas of NERSC
Presentations/Papers
Evaluating Performance Portability of OpenMP for SNAP on NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD GPUs using the Roofline Methodology, 12:40-1:20 pm EST, 9:40-10:20 am PST; authors include Neil Mehta, Rahulkumar Gayatri, and Jack Deslippe of NERSC
Modernizing the HPC System Software Stack, 12:50-1:10 pm EST, 9:50-10:10 am PST; part of the HPCSYSPRO20 workshop; presenters include Doug Jacobsen and Eric Roman of NERSC
Performance Assessment of OpenMP Compilers Targeting NVIDIA V100 GPUs, 1:20-2 pm EST, 10:20-11 am PST; part of the WACCPD 2020 workshop; authors include Christopher Daley and Nicholas Wright of NERSC
Accelerating Microstructural Analytics with Dask for Volumetric X-ray Imaging, 3:16-3:34 pm EST, 12:16-12:34 pm PST; part of the PyHPC 2020: 9th Workshop on Python for High-Performance and Scientific Computing; author: Daniela Ushizima of CRD
Towards Interactive, Reproducible Analytics at Scale on HPC Systems, 4:15-4:40 pm EST, 1:15-1:40 pm PST; part of the Fourth Workshop on Interactive High Performance Computing; authors include Shreyas Cholia, Matthew Henderson, Drew Paine, Ludovico Bianchi, Devarshi Ghoshal, and Lavanya Ramakrishnan of CRD
Studies of leveraging HPC for workloads with real-time time constraints, 5:20-5:25 pm EST, 2:20-2:25 pm PST; part of the Urgent HPC: HPC for Urgent Decision Making workshop; author: David Skinner of NERSC
Computer-aided diagnostic tools for COVID-19 detection via X-RAY imaging, 5:55-6 pm EST, 2:55- 3 pm PST; part of the Urgent HPC: HPC for Urgent Decision Making workshop; author: Robbie Sadre of CRD
Monday, Nov. 16
Birds of a Feather
TOP500 Supercomputers, 4-5:30 pm EST, 1-2:30 pm PST; session leaders include Erich Strohmaier, formerly with CRD, now retired; and Horst Simon, deputy director of research for Berkeley Lab
Tuesday, Nov. 17
Panels
Exotic Computation and System Technology: 2006, 2020 and 2035, 11:45 am – 1:15 pm EST, 8:45-9:15 am PST; moderated by Brent Draney of NERSC; panelists include Kathy Yelick, former ALD of Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences Area who now holds a joint research appointment at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley
The Diverse Approaches to Tiering HPC Storage, 1:30-3 pm EST, 10:30 am - 12 pm PST; panelists include Glenn Lockwood of NERSC
State of the Practice
Visual Data Management at NERSC, 10-10:30 am EST, 7-7:30 am PST; authors include Lisa Gerhardt and Annette Greiner of NERSC
The Superfacility project: automated pipelines for experiments and HPC, 10:30-11 am EST, 7:30-8 am PST; author: Deborah Bard of NERSC
Deploying Checkpoint/Restart for Production Workloads at NERSC, 10:30-11 am EST, 7:30-8 am PST; authors include Zhengji Zhao and Rebecca Hartman-Baker of NERSC
Presentations/Papers
MeshfreeFlowNet: A Physics-Constrained Deep Continuous Space-Time Super-Resolution Framework, 11-11:30 am EST, 8-8:30 am PST; Best Student Paper Award Finalist; authors include Karthik Kashinath and Mustafa Mustafa of NERSC
TAGO: Rethinking Routing Design in High Performance Reconfigurable Networks, 1-1:30 pm EST, 10-10:30 am PST; authors include George Michelogiannakis and John Shalf of CRD
Iris: Allocation Banking and Identity and Access Management for the Exascale Era, 4-4:30 pm EST, 1-1:30 pm PST; authors include Gabor Torok, Mark Day, Rebecca Hartman-Baker, and Cory Snavely of NERSC
Wednesday, Nov. 18
Birds of a Feather
Spack Community BOF, 11:30 am – 12:45 pm EST, 8:30-9:45 am PST; session leaders include Shahzeb Siddiqui of NERSC
Exhibitor Forum
SOLAR Consortium: Accelerated Ray Tracing for Scientific Simulations, 10-10:30 am EST, 7-7:30 am PST; presenters include Hannah Ross of CRD
Presentations/Papers
Accelerating GMRES with Deep Learning in Real Time, 10 - 11.30am EST, Best Research Poster presentation by Kevin Luna (NERSC intern) and Johannes Blascke (Mentor, NERSC)
Tuning Floating-Point Precision Using Dynamic Program Information and Temporal Locality, 10:30-11 am EST, 7:30-8 am PST; authors include Hugo Brunie of NERSC and Costin Ianc and Khaled Ibrahim of CRD
C-SAW: A Framework for Graph Sampling and Random Walk on GPUs, 1:30-2 pm EST, 10:30-11 am PST; authors include Sherry Li of CRD
Reducing Communication in Graph Neural Network Training, 3-3:30 pm EST, 12:00-12:30 pm PST; authors include Aydin Buluc of CRD and Kathy Yelick, former ALD of Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences Area who now holds a joint research appointment at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley
Distributed Many-to-Many Protein Sequence Alignment using Sparse Matrices, 4:07-4:30 pm EST, 1:07-1:30 pm PST; authors include Oguz Selvitopi and Aydin Buluc of CRD
Thursday, Nov. 19
Panels
The Inner Workings of SCinet as Told by Four Alumni of the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) Program, 1-2:30 pm EST, 10-11:30 am PST; panelists include Soledad Toledano of NERSC
Exotic Storage and Data Technology: 2006 to 2020 and Beyond, 3-4:30 pm EST, 12:00-1:30 pm PST; moderated by Brent Draney of NERSC
Presentations/Papers
Preparing Nuclear Astrophysics for Exascale, 1-1:30 pm EST, 10-10:30 am PST; authors include Ann Almgren, Jean Sexton, Don Willcox, and Weiqun Zhang of CRD and Kevin Gott of NERSC
Posters
Evaluation of Power Controls and Counters on General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units; authors include Sridutt Bhalachandra and Nicholas Wright of NERSC
Semantic Search for Self-Describing Scientific Data Formats; authors include Suren Byna of CRD
TaskWorks: A Task Engine for Empowering Asynchronous Operations in HPC Applications; authors include Quincey Koziol of NERSC and Suren Byna of CRD
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