Birds of a Feather

Overview

Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide a dynamic, noncommercial venue for conference attendees to openly discuss current topics of interest to our HPC community – from programming models to big data to accelerators to education. BoF sessions connect you with other attendees with similar interests. Come and help drive the conversation.

BoF sessions will be held Tuesday–Thursday, November 13–15, 2018.

Birds of a Feather Schedule

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All Days

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Tuesday, November 13th

Type

Plan

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

17th Graph500 List

D175

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Best Practices for Scaling-Up and Sustaining HPC Education, Outreach and Training

D220

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Energy Efficiency Considerations for HPC Procurements

C145

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

High Level Programming Languages for Quantum Computation

D173

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

HPCG Benchmark Update

D167

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Impacting Cancer with HPC: Opportunities and Challenges

D165

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

LLVM in HPC: What's New?

D171

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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LUSTRE Community BOF: Lustre in HPC and Emerging Data Markets: Roadmap, Features and Challenges

C140/142

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Meeting HPC Container Challenges as a Community

C147/148/154

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Open MPI State of the Union 2018

C146

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Pros and Cons of HPCx benchmarks

D174

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

SAGE2 10th Annual International SC BOF: Scalable Amplified Group Environment for Global Collaboration

D163

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

SIGHPC Annual Member Meeting

C155/156

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Spack Community BoF

D227

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Unified Communication X (UCX) Community

D166

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

What the Heck Is HEC?

D168

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Advanced Architecture Testbeds: A Catalyst for Co-design Collaborations

D220

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Analyzing Parallel I/O

C155/156

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Ceph Applications in HPC Environments

D174

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Containers in HPC

C140/142

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Designing and Building Next-Generation Computer Systems for Deep Learning

D227

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Distributed and Heterogeneous Programming in C++ for HPC 2018

D168

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Enabling Data Services for HPC

C141/143/149

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

HPC Graph Toolkits and the GraphBLAS Forum

D166

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

HPC in the DoD

C145

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Interactivity in HPC

D173

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Multi-Level Memory and Storage for HPC and Data Analytics

C147/148/154

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

OpenACC API User Experience, Vendor Reaction, Relevance, and Roadmap

D171

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Purpose-Built HPC: Last Hope for Earth System Prediction?

C146

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Strategies for Inclusive and Scalable HPC Outreach and Education

D163

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

The Facility Perspective on Liquid Cooling: Experiences and Proposed Open Specification

C144

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

The New NSF-Funded Resource: Frontera - Towards a Leadership Class Computing Facility

D175

5:15pm - 7:00pm CST

Birds of a Feather

TOP500 Supercomputers

Exhibit Hall B

Wednesday, November 14th

Type

Plan

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

A Look Ahead: Energy and Power Aware Job Scheduling and Resource Management

C144

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Batched, Reproducible, and Reduced Precision BLAS

C155/156

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Benchmarking Scientific Reconfigurable / FPGA Computing

D173

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Big Data Challenge - How to Engage with Large Scale Facilities?

C147/148/154

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Charm++ and AMPI: Adaptive and Asynchronous Parallel Programming

D220

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Exascale Archiving - Challenges and Opportunities

D221

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Getting Scientific Software Installed

D175

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

HDF5: I/O Middleware and Ecosystem for HPC and Experimental and Observational Sciences

C146

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

HPC in Space: An Update on Spaceborne Computer after 1+ Year on the ISS

D174

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

IEEE CS TCHPC Meeting

D222

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and Roadmap

D166

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

OpenHPC Community BoF

C140/142

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

PBS Pro Open Source Project Community BoF

D167

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Power API and Redfish: Standardizing Power Measurement and Control for HPC

D227

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Software Engineers: Careers in Research

D171

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Special Interest Group on HPC in Resource Constrained Environments (SIGHPC-RCE)

D168

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

The Message Passing Interface (MPI): Version 4.0 and Beyond

C141/143/149

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Third Annual Meeting of the SIGHPC - Big Data Chapter

D169

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Women in HPC: the Importance of Male Allies

C145

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Applications of Deep Learning in Industry and Research

C147/148/154

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Big Data and Exascale Computing (BDEC2) Application Roundtable

D174

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Cloud Infrastructure Solutions To Run HPC Workloads

C141/143/149

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Consolidating the European Exascale Effort

D166

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Deep500: An HPC Deep Learning Benchmark and Competition

D221

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Exascale Machine Learning

C155/156

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Monitoring Large-Scale HPC Systems: Extracting and Presenting Meaningful System and Application Insights

D175

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

MPICH: A High Performance Open-Source MPI Implementation

C146

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

OpenMP® 5.0 Is Here: Find Out All the Things You Need to Know About It!

C140/142

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

OpenSHMEM in the Era of Exascale

C145

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Personalized Medicine and HPC

D220

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

PMIx: Enabling Workflow Orchestration

C144

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Revisiting the 2008 ExaScale Computing Study and Venturing Predictions for 2028

D171

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Software Engineering and Reuse in Computational Science and Engineering

D168

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

The ARM HPC Experience: From Testbeds to Exascale

D169

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

The Green 500: Trends in Energy Efficient Supercomputing

D167

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

The IO-500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O

D173

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Workloads and Benchmarks for System Acquisition

D227

Thursday, November 15th

Type

Plan

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Achieving Performance on Large-Scale Intel Xeon-Based Systems

D220

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Collaboration Toward a Software Stack for System Power Optimization: The HPC PowerStack

D167

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Data Analytics for System and Facility Energy Management

D171

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Data Science and HPC Education and Outreach

D221

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

HPC Meets Real-Time Data: Interactive Supercomputing for Urgent Decision Making

C146

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

International HPC Certification Program

D175

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

National Research Infrastructure: Collaborative Session

D173

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Navigating the SC Conference Technical Program Submission Process

D168

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

On Launching Ask.CI, a Q&A Platform for Research Computing, Using StackExchange and Discourse

D174

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

SLURM User Group Meeting

C155/156

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Spectral Analysis: Building an LGBTQIA+ Community in Scientific Computing

C145

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

TCHPC Career Panel

D161

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

The Future of NSF Supported Advanced Cyberinfrastructure

D227

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

The Power of Storytelling: Exposing User Experiences and Lessons Learned to Inspire and Instruct Technology Adoption

D166

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Volunteer Opportunities for SC Conference Planning

C144

Program November 11–16, 2018

Exhibits November 12–15, 2018

KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON CONVENTION CENTER DALLAS

The International Conference for High Performance
Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis

Birds of a Feather

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