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We’re just a week away from the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis 2023 (SC23), and Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Area (CSA) staff are making their way to Denver to meet with colleagues, peers, and industry to connect, collaborate, and exchange expertise. The event begins Sunday, November 12, and runs through Friday, November 17.
CSA researchers, scientists, and engineers participate in tutorials, workshops, panels, technical papers, and posters as part of the conference’s technical program. In addition, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) booth – which showcases the 17 DOE national laboratories – will feature high-level talks and technical demonstrations from the labs throughout the three-day exhibit hall component of the event (November 14-16).
Connecting all the demos and booths to the outside world is the network known as SCinet, which at 6.71 Tbps, will temporarily be the most powerful and advanced network on Earth. Multiple network engineers from CSA’s ESnet and NERSC teams are part of the volunteer workforce that designs, builds, tests, and operates SCInet over the course of the year leading up to and through the conference.
Notable events include:
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- “I Am HPC” Plenary Session - Panel discussion includes Kathy Yelick, Monday, Nov. 13, 5:30 - 6:45 p.m., Mile High Ballroom
- Featured Presentation, NERSC Director Sudip Dosanjh: “The Next 50 Years: How NERSC is Evolving to Support the Changing Mission Space and Technology Landscape,” Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2:30 p.m., DOE booth #243
- SC23 Network Research Exhibition. Using SciNet, numerous technical demonstrations will take place in booths around the exhibit hall during SC23
- Student Cluster Competition, Monday-Wednesday, Nov. 13-15
- Top500 presentation, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.
- Gordon Bell Prize Awards, Thursday, Nov. 16, 12:45 - 1:30 p.m., Mile High Ballroom
Below is a continually updated day-by-day guide to SC23 programming featuring CSA staff and resources.
All times are in Mountain Standard.
| Time | Location | Title | Author(s)/Presenter(s) |
| 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | 407 | Tutorial: Introduction to High-Performance Parallel Distributed Computing Using Chapel, UPC++, and Coarray Fortran | Damian Rouson, Dan Bonachea |
| 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | 301 | Tutorial: The OpenMP Common Core: A “Hands-On” Introduction | Helen He |
| 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | 302 | Tutorial: Performance Tuning with the Roofline Model on GPUs and CPUs | Neil Mehta, Samuel Williams |
| 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | 205 | Using Containers to Accelerate HPC | Shane Canon |
| 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 607 | 1st Workshop on Enabling Predictive Science with Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification in HPC (EPSOUQ) | Jean Sexton (program committee) |
| 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 702 | 10th Annual International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science (INDIS) Final | Mariam Kiran |
| 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 501-502 | Workshop: High Performance Python for Science at Scale | Daniel Margala, Laurie Stephey, Brandon Cook, Bjoern Enders |
| 9:30 -9:50 a.m. | 605 | NPAT - A Power Analysis Tool at NERSC (part of HUST-23 workshop) | Andy Zhang, Sridutt Bhalachandra, SiQi Deng, Zhengju Zhao |
| 9:31 -9:46 a.m. | 603 | Comparing Power Signatures of HPC Workloads: Machine Learning vs Simulation | Brian Austin, Sruidutt Bhalachandra, Zhengji Zhao, Hai Ah Nam, Ermal Rrapaj |
| 9:35 -10:00 a.m. | 710 | Enabling Agile Analysis of I/O Performance Data with PyDarshan (part of ProTools 2023 workshop) | Jean Luca Bez |
| 10:30 -10:40 a.m. | 708 | DLSIA: Deep Learning for Scientific Image Analysis (part of the XLOOP 2023 workshop) | Eric Roberts |
| 11:19 -11:35 a.m. | 505 | Accelerator Integration in a Tile-Based SoC: Lessons Learned with a Hardware Floating Point Compression Engine (part of the RSDHA workshop) | Patricia Gonzalez-Guerrero |
| 2:00 -5:30 p.m. | 702 | TANGO: A GPU Optimized Traceback Approach for Sequence Alignment Algorithms (part of the IA^3 workshop) | Muazz Awan |
| 2:00 -5:30 p.m. | 710 | Fourth International Symposium on Checkpointing for Supercomputing (SuperCheck-SC23) | Rebecca Hartman-Baker |
| 2:00 -5:30 p.m. | 503-504 | 2nd International Workshop on Cyber Security in High Performance Computing (S-HPC 2023) | Sean Peisert |
| 2:30 -5:30 p.m. | 506 | Environmental Factors and Lung Cancer: A Predictive Spatial Approach | Wenhuan Tan |
| 4:16 -4:26 p.m. | 501-502 | Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Migrating from Legacy Workflows to Workflow Management Systems (part of the WORKS23 workshop) | Daniela Cassol, Jeff Froula, Edward Kirton, Seung-Jin Sul, Mario Melara, Ramani Kothadia, Elais Player, Setareh Sarrafan, Stephen Chan, Kjiersten Fagnan |
| 4:40 -5:20 p.m. | 601 | S4PST: Stewardship of Programming Systems and Tools (part of D-HPC, The First Workshop on Democratizing High-Performance Computing) | Damian Rouson, Johannes Blaschke |
| Time | Location | Title | Author(s)/Presenter(s) |
| 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | 207 | Tutorial: Deep Learning at Scale | Wahid Bhimji, Peter Harrington, Steven Farrell, Shashank Subramanian |
| 11:30-11:40 a.m. | 506 | Unraveling Diffusion in Fusion Plasma: A Case Study of In Situ Processing and Particle Sorting (part of the ISAV23 workshop) | Junmin Gu, John Wu, Paul Lin |
| 9:05 -10:00 a.m. | 505 | WHPC@23 Keynote: When to Jump: Managing your Career and Maximizing Your Impact | Kathy Yelick |
| 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 506 | Workshop: ISAV23: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization | E. Wes Bethel |
| 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 607 | CANOPIE-HPC Workshop | Shane Canon, Laurie Stephey |
| 12:03-12:12 p.m. | 605 | High-level GPU code: a case study examining JAX and OpenMP (part of the P3HPC workshop) | Nestor Demeure, Theodore Kisner, Reijo Keskitalo, Rollin Thomas, Julian Borrill, Wahid Bhimji |
| 10:57-11:16 a.m. | 605 | Evaluating the Performance of One-sided Communication on CPUs and GPUs (part of the P3HPC workshop) | Nan Ding, Muhammad Haseeb, Taylor Groves, Samuel Williams |
| 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | 603 | Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software | Bert de Jong |
| 9:22 -9:32 a.m. | 702 | Survey of Technologies for Developers of Parallel Applications: Julia (part of the PAW-ATM workshop) | Johannes Blaschke |
| 9:32 -9:50 a.m. | 702 | Survey of Technologies for Developers of Parallel Applications: Q&A (part of the PAW-ATM workshop) | Johannes Blaschke |
| 9:41 -10:00 a.m. | 605 | Performance Portability Evaluation of Blocked Stencil Computations on GPUs (part of the P3HPC workshop) | Oscar Antepara, Samuel Williams, Hans Johansen |
| 10:30 -10:50 a.m. | 506 | Extensions to the SENSEI In situ Framework for Heterogeneous Architectures (part of the ISAV23 workshop) | Burlen Loring, E. Wes Bethel, Gunther Weber, Michael Mahoney |
| 11:00 -11:20 a.m. | 507 | Performance-Portable GPU Acceleration of the EFIT Tokamak Plasma Equilibrium Reconstruction Code (part of the WACCPD 2023 workshop) | Oscar Antepara, Samuel Williams |
| 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | 506 | State of In Situ Visualization in Simulations: We are fast. But are we inspiring? (part of the ISAV23 workshop) | Axel Huebl, Marco Garten, Arianna Formenti, Jean-Luc Vay |
| 11:50 a.m.-12:10 p.m. | 503-504 | A Performance Model for Estimating the Cost of Scaling to Practical Quantum Advantage (part of the PMBS23 workshop) | Daan Camps, Katie Klymko, Brian Austin, Nick Wright |
| 12:05 -12:10 p.m. | 607 | The Story of Spin: Five Years Supporting Science with Container-Based Services at NERSC (part of the Canopie-HPC workshop) | Stefan Lasiewski, Cory Snavely |
| 1:30 -2:00 p.m. | 503-504 | Power Analysis of NERSC Production Workloads (part of the PMBS23 workshop) | Zhengji Zhao, Ermal Rrapaj, Sridutt Bhalachandra, Brian Austin, Hai Ah Nam, Nicholas Wright |
| 1:35 -2:15 p.m. | 506 | EduHPC23 Workshop Invited Talk: Educating Post Exascale HPC Leaders | Kathy Yelick |
| 2:00 -5:00 p.m. | 704-706 | Practical Machine Learning on Biological Knowledge Graphs (part of the Machine Learning with Graphs in HPC Environments workshop) | Justin Reese |
| 2:03 -2:06 p.m. | 505 | Potentials of Cryogenic Electronics for Future Computing Systems (part of the WHPC workshop) | Meriam Gay Bautista, Anatassia Butko, Patricia Gonzalez-Guerrero, George Michelogiannakis |
| 2:21 -2:24 p.m. | 505 |
Exploring the Potential of GPU-initiated Communications in HPC Applications (part of the WHPC workshop) |
Nan Ding |
| 3:30 -3:54 p.m. | 702 | symPACK: A GPU-Capable Fan-Out Sparse Cholesky Solver (part of the PAW-ATM workshop) | Julian Bellavita, Esmond G. Ng, Dan Bonachea, Johnny Corbino, Paul H. Hargrove, Mathias Jacquelin |
| 3:45 -4:00 p.m. | 607 | Intro to HPC Bootcamp: Engaging New Communities Through Energy Justice Projects (part of the BPHTE23 workshop) | Helen He, Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Daniel Fulton, Charles Lively, Rollin Thomas, Lipi Gupta |
| 4:00 -4:15 p.m. | 607 | Data Analytics in Community Colleges in Preparation for STEM and HPC Careers (part of Tenth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education) | Elizabeth Bautista |
| Time | Location | Title | Author(s)/Presenter(s) |
| 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | DEF Concourse | Research poster: That's Right – The Same C++ STL Asynchronous Parallel Code Runs on CPUs and GPUs | Brandon Cook, Jack Deslippe, Weile Wei, Muhammad Haseeb |
| 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | DEF Concourse | Research poster: Utilizing Large Language Models for Disease Phenotyping in Obstructive Sleep Apnea | Ifrah Khurram |
| 10:00 -11:00 a.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Technical demo: Transparent Checkpointing on Perlmutter for Long-Running Jobs | Yao Xu, Gene Cooperman, Rebecca Hartman-Baker |
| 10:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. | DEF Concourse | Research poster: Comparative Study of the Cache Utilization Trends for Regional Scientific Data Caches | Ronak Monga |
| 12:15 -1:15 p.m. | 503-504 | BOF: Workflows Community: Modern Workflows for Continuum and Cross-Facility Computing | Deborah Bard |
| 1:00-2:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Roundtable: Using NERSC capabilities to support operations of the DIII-D National User Facility | Deborah Bard, Laurie Stephey (LBNL); David Schissel (General Atomics) |
| 2:00-3:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Technical demo: Drishti: Where is the I/O Bottleneck? | Jean Luca Bez, Hammad Ather, Suren Byna, John Wu |
| 2:00-3:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Technical demo: Fortran Generics for 202y | Brad Richardson, Magne Haveraaen |
| 4:30-5:00 p.m. | 405, 406, 407 | Space Efficient Sequence Alignment for SRAM-Based Computing: X-Drop on the Graphcore IPU | Aydın Buluç |
| 5:00-7:00 p.m. | Location TBA | Research poster: Comparative Study of the Cache Utilization Trends for Regional Scientific Data Caches | Alex Sim, John Wu |
| 5:15-6:45 p.m. | 704-706 | BOF: Less Worrying, More Learning, More Sharing - Ways to Embrace IPv6 | Kate Robinson |
| 5:15-6:45 p.m. | 607 | BOF: Continuum Computing: A Multi-Paradigm Approach | Inder Monga, Benjamin Brown |
| 5:15 -6:45 p.m. | 605 | BOF: IEEE Quantum-HPC Working Group | Bert de Jong |
| Time | Location | Title | Author(s)/Presenter(s) |
| 10:30 -11:00 a.m. | 501-502 | The Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model Running on the Frontier Exascale System (Gordon Bell Climate Modeling Prize Finalist) | Noel Keen |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | 201-203 | Panel: Superconducting Digital Computing in HPC | George Michelogiannakis (moderator), Dilip Vasudevan |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | 505 | Research Poster: High-Performance PMEM-Aware Collective I/Os | John Wu |
| 11:00 -11:30 a.m. | 401-402 | Research Poster: Unified Communication Optimization Strategies for Sparse Triangular Solver on CPU and GPU Clusters | Yang Liu, Nan Ding, Samuel Williams, Xiaoye Sherry Li |
| 11:00 -11:30 a.m. | 405-407 | AMRIC: A Novel In Situ Lossy Compression Framework for Efficient I/O in Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applications | Zarija Lukić, Jean Sexton, Houjun Tang |
| 12:00 -1:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Roundtable: Aligning API Capabilities Across Multiple ASCR Sites | Deborah Bard, Bjoern Enders, Gabor Torok; Ryan Adamson (ORNL) |
| 12:15 -1:15 p.m. | 607 | BOF: Interactive and Urgent HPC | William Arndt |
| 12:15 -1:15 p.m. | 205-207 | BOF: Integrating Cloud Infrastructure with Large Scale HPC Environments | Shane Canon |
| 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. | 704-706 | BOF: Providing a Unified User Interface and Experience for Geographically Dispersed Computing Resources | Stephen Chan |
| 1:30 -3:00 p.m. | Mile High Ballroom | Biomedical Applications | Damian Rouson (session chair) |
| 1:30 -2:00 p.m. | 403-404 | Frontier: Exploring Exascale (Best Paper Finalist) | Axel Heubl, Jean-Luc Vay, Andrew Myers |
| 2:00 -2:20 p.m. | Booth #1255 | Network Research Exhibition demo: SENSE Rucio/FTS/XRootD Interoperation System | Tom Lehman, Xi Yang |
| 2:00 -3:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Roundtable: Superconducting for Supercomputing | George Michelogiannakis, Dilip Vasudevan |
| 2:00 -3:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Technical demo: Open Source ESnet P4 FPGA smartNIC | Yatish Kumar |
| 3:00 -4:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Technical Demo: SciStream: Architecture and Toolkit for Data Streaming Between Federated Science Instruments | Seyoung Yu; collaborators from ANL, Univ. of Chicago |
| 3:00 -4:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Technical demo: Live Streaming of Large Electron Microscope Data to NERSC | Sam Wellborn, Bjoern Enders, Peter Ercius, Chris Harris, Deborah Bard |
| 3:30 -5:00 p.m. | 201-203 | Panel: Chiplet Ecosystem in High Performance Computing, AI/ML, and Data Acceleration | Bapi Vinnakota (moderator), John Shalf |
| 3:30 -5:00 p.m. | 403-404 | Quantum Computing | Anastasiia Butko (session chair) |
| 4:00 -5:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Technical demo: Long-Distance High-Speed Data Transfer with EScp | Charles Shiflett, Seyoung Yu |
| 4:00 -5:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Roundtable: A Discussion of Photonics Disaggregation | George Michelogiannakis |
| 5:15 -6:45 p.m. | 401-402 | BOF: HDF5: Building on 25 Years of Success | Urjoshi Sinha, Johannes Blaschke |
| Time | Location | Title | Author(s)/Presenter(s) |
| 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. | DOE Booth #243 | Technical Demo: SciStream: Architecture and Toolkit for Data Streaming Between Federated Science Instruments | Seyoung Yu; collaborators from ANL, Univ. of Chicago |
| 12:15 -1:15 p.m. | 708 | BOF: Applications, Libraries, and Tools in Modern Fortran (alt.fortran) | Katherine Rasmussen, Damian Rouson, Brad Richardson |
| 12:15 -1:15 p.m. | 501-502 | BOF: Julia for HPC | Johannes Blaschke |
| 12:15 -1:15 p.m. | 607 | BOF: Operational Data Analytics | Norm Bourassa, Melissa Romanus |
| 1:30 -3:00 p.m. | 201-203 | Panel: Scalable and Adaptable Architectures for AI/HPC Advancement | John Shalf |
| Time | Location | Title | Author(s)/Presenter(s) |
| 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | 401-402 | Workshop: Future Is Sparse: Methods and Tools for Sparse Computations | John Owens |
| 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | 501-502 | 3rd International Workshop on RESource DISaggregation in High Performance Computing (RESDIS) | John Shalf |
| 8:40 a.m.-9:10 a.m. | 503-504 | Keynote: First International Workshop on HPC Testing and Evaluation of Systems, Tools, and Software (HPCTESTS 2023) | Hai Ah Nam |
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