BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181221T160909Z LOCATION:D220 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181111T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181111T173000 UID:submissions.supercomputing.org_SC18_sess160@linklings.com SUMMARY:Women in HPC: Diversifying the HPC Community DESCRIPTION:Workshop\nDiversity, Education, Hot Topics, Workshop Reg Pass\ n\nHigh Performance Computing in Dynamic Traffic Simulation\n\nUgirumurera , Gomes, Li, Bayen\n\nDynamic traffic simulation enables to emulate the tr affic congestion, which is a necessary aspect of traffic evolution. Howev er, dynamic traffic simulations must compute in seconds if they are to be used in real-time traffic management systems. High performance computing ( HPC) resources provide the...\n\n---------------------\nBest Practices fro m Organizations on Improving Workplace Diversity\n\nHillery, Stirm, Ellis, Theademan\n\nPurdue Research Computing has been a proven leader in cultiv ating future STEM professionals for over a decade and creating a diverse w orkforce. We have built a pro-diversity and inclusive workplace culture th at embraces a variety of academic degrees, generations, demographics, expe rtise, and experie...\n\n---------------------\nEfficient Application of L ow Mach Number Hydrodynamics Code to Stellar Flows\n\nFan\n\nAstrophysical phenomena that occur in the low Mach number regime are often computationa lly expensive because the time step is constrained by both the characteris tic fluid velocity and, by comparison, the much larger speed of sound. In addition, astrophysical flows are generally highly turbulent, and...\n\n-- -------------------\nThe Movement toward HPC Inclusivity: Achieving On-Dem and Accessibility of High Performance Computing (HPC) through Ephemeral Pr ojects Utilizing the Alces Gridware Project\n\nMerritt, Mayers\n\nThis pre sentation covers off the adoption of public cloud over the past two years. Using five public case studies, we will discuss how moving into cloud is not an 'all or nothing' option and demonstrate how adding cloud to an HPC solution invites in more opportunities for HPC to grow. But jumping ...\ n\n---------------------\nOptimizing Python Data Processing for the DESI E xperiment on the NERSC Cori Supercomputer\n\nStephey, Thomas, Bailey\n\nTh e goal of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) experiment is to better understand dark energy by making the most detailed 3D map of the u niverse to date. The images obtained each night over a period of 5 years s tarting in 2019 will be sent to the NERSC Cori supercomputer for processin g ...\n\n---------------------\nStudy of Performance Variability on Dragon fly Systems\n\nWang\n\nDragonfly networks are being widely adopted in high -performance computing systems. On these networks, however, interference c aused by resource sharing can lead to significant network congestion and p erformance variability. On a shared network, different job placement polic ies lead to different traff...\n\n---------------------\nCharacterization of the Impact of Soft Errors on Iterative Methods\n\nMutlu, Kestor, Unsal, Krishnamoorthy\n\nSoft errors caused by transient bit flips can lead to s ilent data corruption which can significantly impact an application’s beha vior. When a transient bit flip affects a hardware component, the applicat ion is said to be impacted by a soft error. When a soft error escapes hard ware detection and impa...\n\n---------------------\nA Deferred Correctio n Coupling Strategy for Cosmological Simulations\n\nSexton\n\nWe present a strategy for coupling the equations of baryonic gas dynamics to those for radiative heating and cooling in the context of Nyx, an N-body + gas dyna mics code for large-scale cosmological simulations. The radiative and adve ctive processes have differing time scales. To avoid Strang splitt...\n\n- --------------------\nDeep Learning: Extrapolation Tool for Computational Nuclear Physics\n\nNegoita\n\nThe goal of nuclear theory is to understand how nuclei arise from interacting nucleons based on the underlying theory of the strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The interaction s among the nucleons inside a nucleus are dominated by the strong interact ion, which is non-perturbative in t...\n\n---------------------\nKinetic S imulations of Plasma Turbulence Using the Discontinuous Galerkin Finite El ement Method\n\nBernard, Hakim, Hammett, Shi, Francisquez...\n\nWe use an advanced computational framework called Gkeyll to simulate plasma turbulen ce in the edge of magnetic confinement fusion experiments. In these experi ments, charged particles gyrate quickly around magnetic field lines. When time scales of interest are much greater than the gyration period an...\n\ n---------------------\nDeveloping Workplace Resilience and Managing Stres s\n\nCollis\n\nThe first part of this session "strategies to build resilie nce" (1 hour) will provide a hands on discussion session working through t he resilience toolkit. The second half will be a "Panel Discussion and Int eractive session"— identifying your personal triggers, how to manage trigg ers and resilience.\n\n---------------------\nPanel Discussion – Best Prac tices from Organizations on Improving Workplace Diversity.\n\nCuicchi\n\nT he panel discussion will address strategies to improve diversity and inclu sion at workplaces.\n\n---------------------\nWorkshop Afternoon Break\n\n \n\n---------------------\nWorkshop Lunch (on your own)\n\n\n\n----------- ----------\nWorkshop Morning Break\n\n\n\n---------------------\nFLAME GPU : Complex System Simulation Framework\n\nKabiri Chimeh\n\nAgent based mode ling can be used to represent complex systems at differing biological scal es\n\nFLAME GPU (Flexible Large Scale Agent Based Modelling Environment) : \n• Aim: High performance agent based simulation without writing lots of G PU code\n• Technique: Agents are state machines with memory (commu...\n\n- --------------------\nIntroduction - Women in HPC: Diversifying the HPC Co mmunity\n\nMubarak, Gonsiorowski, Collis\n\nThe ninth international Women in HPC workshop will be held at SC18, Dallas, USA. Following the overwhelm ing success of the WHPC workshop at SC17, we will focus on the following t opics this year:\n- Building workplace resilience and maintaining well-bei ng, while managing work stress.\n- Being part of t...\n\n----------------- ----\nPower Aware Heterogeneous Node Assembly\n\nAcun\n\nTo meet ever incr easing computational requirements, supercomputers and data centers are beg inning to utilize fat compute nodes with multiple hardware components such as manycore CPUs and accelerators. These components have intrinsic power variations even among same model components from same manufac...\n\n------ ---------------\nError Analysis in HPC Applications Using Algorithmic Diff erentiation\n\nMenon\n\nComputer applications running on supercomputers ar e used to solve critical problems. These systems are expected to perform t asks not just quickly, but also correctly. Various factors that can affec t correctness of programs include faults, reduced precision, lossy data re duction, iteration and trunc...\n\n---------------------\nFrom Message Pas sing to PGAS\n\nAhmed, Baden\n\nThe continuous increase in the number of n odes across the whole system in supercomputers makes Remote-memory-access (RMA) a good alternative for improving applications' performance on these machines. However, in order for existing applications to benefit from it, they have to change their code to in...\n\n---------------------\nIn Situ Performance Analysis of Event-driven Simulations to Support the Codesign o f Extreme-Scale Systems\n\nRoss\n\nParallel discrete event simulation (PDE S) is a productive and cost-effective tool in exploring the design space o f high performance computing (HPC) system architectures. In discrete even t simulation, the modeled entities (e.g., network router) interact through the exchange of timestamped messages. ...\n\n---------------------\nUsing a Robust Metadata Management System to Accelerate Scientific Discovery at Extreme Scales\n\nLawson\n\nLarge-scale scientific simulations are an imp ortant tool for scientific discovery. In recent years, there has been a ra pid growth in the amount of data output by these simulations. Extended run s of simulations such as XGC edge plasma fusion can easily generate datase ts in the terabyte to petabyte ra...\n\n---------------------\nUse Cases o f Neuromorphic Co-Processors in Future HPC Environments\n\nSchuman\n\nWith the looming end of Moore’s law and the end of Dennard scaling, the HPC co mmunity is exploring the use of specialized hardware as accelerators for c ertain tasks. Neuromorphic computing is a field in which neural networks a re implemented in hardware to achieve intelligent computation with lower p ...\n\n---------------------\nOptimization of a Lattice Boltzmann Program\ n\nZhou\n\nIn this project, I optimized a Lattice Boltzmann (LB) program d eveloped internally by the digital rock team at BP to simulate single-phas e flow and predict permeability of porous rocks. LB algorithm is simple to formulate and implement, and it is easily parallelizable on computer clus ters. My work i...\n\n---------------------\nPlasma Meets Portability: A J ourney to Performance Portability in a Particle-in-Cell Code\n\nKitson, Ha rrell\n\nIn our journey to exascale, it is imperative that applications no t only run efficiently, but do so on a wide variety of platforms at a reas onable cost. Codes must thus deal with a explosion of diversity among emer ging architectures while avoiding a corresponding explosion in code size. This requires...\n\n---------------------\nTitle: Distributed Memory Fast Fourier Transforms in the Exascale Era\n\nAseeri\n\nIn this project, we pl an to improve the implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on em erging high-performance computing architectures and galvanize the internat ional community of experts to benchmark our and their efforts, leading the faster and more efficient adoption of the best FFT soft...\n\n----------- ----------\nChallenges of Performance Portability for Fortran Unstructured Mesh Codes\n\nHsu, Neill Asanza\n\nWhat pathways exist for Fortran perfor mance portability to exascale? Fortran-based codes present different chall enges for performance portability and productivity. Ideally, we want to de velop one codebase that can run on many different HPC architectures. In re ality, each architecture has its own idi...\n\n---------------------\nLarg e-Scale PDE-Constrained Optimization\n\nMarin\n\nOptimization of time-depe ndent PDE-constrained optimization problems is extremely challenging from a computational perspective. Presume one forward simulation of a different ial equation with N degrees of freedom, advancing in time for M timesteps requires a time to solution T. In this case optimizin...\n\n-------------- -------\nHot Topics Discussion II: Thriving at Work\n\nRivera, Nowell, Hol ohan\n\nThe session will resume hot topic presentations on the following t opics:\n- Effectively responding to discrimination -- Lorna Rivera, Georg ia Tech \n- Effective workplace communication -- Lucy Nowell, DoE Office of Science\n- Coming out as a transgender woman at a major HPC center -- Carissa Holoha...\n\n---------------------\nHot Topics Discussion I: Thri ving at Work\n\nAkli, Dahan, Schulz\n\nThe session will be focused on hot topic presentations including the following topics:\n- Being a diversity ally—what it means and how you can help by Linda Akli, Southeastern Univer sities Research Association\n- Telecommuting boss - being a successful re mote employee by Maytal Dahan, TACC\n- Leader...\n\n--------------------- \nA Black Woman’s Sojourn in High Performance Computing: Recovering Lost H istory\n\nMendenhall\n\nIn 1797, Isabella Bomfree was born a slave. She es caped to freedom in 1827 and changed her name to Sojourner Truth in 1843 t o indicate that she would travel far and wide to tell people what was righ t. She gave her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech in 1851 to highlight the strengths and vulnerabilitie...\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR