10th Anniversary Workshop Virtual Institute – High Productivity Supercomputing
Date
Friday, June 23rd, 2017Location
Lufthansa Conference Hotel Seeheim
With initial funding from the Helmholtz Association, the Virtual Institute – High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS) was founded in 2007 on the initiative of Forschungszentrum Jülich together with RWTH Aachen University, TU Dresden, and the University of Tennessee as founding members. The institute was established to increase the productivity of application programmers in high-performance computing (HPC), helping them to focus on the science to accomplish instead of having to spend major portions of their time solving problems related to their software.
To achieve this, the members of the institute developed powerful programming tools, in particular for the purpose of analyzing HPC application correctness and performance, which are today used across the globe. Major emphasis was given to the definition of common interfaces and exchange formats between these tools to improve the interoperability between them and lower their development cost. A series of international tuning workshops taught hundreds of application developers how to use them. Finally, the institute organized numerous academic workshops to foster the HPC tools community and offer especially young researchers a forum to present novel program analysis methods. Today, the institute encompasses twelve member organizations from five countries.
This year, the institute celebrates its 10th anniversary. In two invited keynotes and several talks contributed by its members, the anniversary workshop will both look back on the milestones that have been accomplished and outline a vision for the future.
Agenda
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome Felix Wolf, TU Darmstadt Christian Beilmann, Helmholtz Association |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Keynote Improving scientific software productivity and sustainability - The IDEAS approach [PDF] Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | A brief history of VI-HPS [PDF] Felix Wolf, TU Darmstadt |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Keynote True convergence of HPC and Big Data/AI towards AI-exaflops [PDF] Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Research talks Productivity with current HPC programming models [PDF] Matthias S. Müller, RWTH Aachen University Invading instead of wasting HPC resources [PDF] Michael Gerndt, TU Munich Parallel performance existentialism [PDF] Allen Malony, University of Oregon Always on? - Envisioning fully-integrated permanent monitoring of parallel applications [PDF] Andreas Knüpfer, TU Dresden How performance tools are essential for designing next- generation architectures [PDF] William Jalby, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Performance analytics - From visualization to insight [PDF] Jesus Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Research talks Modernization is not just about the code, it's for coders too - How tools are vital to the change in HPC David Lecomber, ARM CUBE: A success story - But does it have a future? [PDF] Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Centre Performance analysis is easy ... but obtaining the traces is not [PDF] José Gracia, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart Gaining performance insights through interactive visualisation [PDF] Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory EXA-PAPI: The exascale performance application programming interface Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee Follow the blind seer — Create better performance models using less information [PDF] Alexandru Calotoiu, TU Darmstadt |
| 17:30 | Closing remarks |
| 18:30 – 21:30 | Dinner at Schloss Heiligenberg in Jugenheim |
Accommodation
A block of hotel rooms at the conference hotel is available to our attendees until April 30, 2017 or until all rooms are reserved. Reservation can be requested together with the registration. Rooms have to be paid in advance together with the registration fee.
Registration
The registration is now closed.
Directions and Transportation
Directions and information on local transportation, including shuttle service between Frankfurt airport and the conference hotel, can be found here. To take the shuttle from the hotel to the airport, please make a reservation upon check-in. No prior reservation is required to take the shuttle from the airport to the hotel.
Contact
Felix Wolf <wolf@cs.tu-darmstadt.de>
