Distributed Virtual Supercomputers
Santa Barbara, California, March 12-15, 2012
SOS is an invitation-only series of highly interactive workshops on Distributed Supercomputing organized by Sandia National Laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center.
Quantifying the Cost of Exascale
The theme of the 2012 workshop is "Quantifying the Cost of Exascale." We expect to discuss the following topics and issues:
- Energy to solution
- Time to solution
- Bytes vs FLOPS
- R&D Investments
- Technology development costs
- Programming models
- Application development costs
Agenda
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| Monday, March 12, 2012 | |
|---|---|
| 17:00 – 20:00 | Welcome reception and registration |
| Tuesday, March 13, 2012 | |
| 7:00 – 8:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 8:15 | Welcome and Introduction – Jim Ang, SNL |
| 8:15 – 9:15 | Keynote: Critical Technologies for Exascale – Bob Lucas, USC/ISI |
| 9:15 – 9:45 | Design Space Exploration – Sudip Dosanjh, SNL |
| 9:45 – 10:15 | Need for Domain Specific Approaches – David Bernholdt, ORNL |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Blackcomb Hardware software Co-design for Non-Volatile Memory in Exascale Systems – Jeff Vetter, ORNL |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Panel: The Different Dimensions of Exascale Cost Steve Poole, ORNL; Jim Laros, SNL; Thomas Schulthess, CSCS; TBD, LANL; Alessandro Curioni, IBM-Zurich |
| 12:30 – 18:00 | Open for Informal discussions |
| 18:00 – 19:30 | SOS16 Banquet Dinner |
| 19:30 – 21:30 | Vendor Session: What do you see as the challenges to Exascale? Industry perspectives on opportunities for co-design 20 minute presentations by our hardware-oriented industry sponsors Mike Schulte, AMD; Giri Chukkapali Appro; John Levesque, Cray; Wilf Pinfold, Intel; Steve Scott, Nvidia; Lim Goh, SGI |
| 21:00 – 23:30 | Hosted reception |
| Wednesday, March 14, 2012 | |
| 7:00 – 8:00 | Breakfast |
| Hardware Perspectives on Co-design | |
| 8:15 – 8:45 | Future High Performance CPU and System Architectures – Dave Resnick, SNL |
| 8:45 – 9:15 | Co-design perspectives from a Data Motion Architect – Ronald Luitjen, IBM Zurich |
| 9:15 – 9:45 | Co-design of SoC capabilities for the Cloud – Karl Freund, Calxeda |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Break |
| Runtime Systems and System SW challenges | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Virtualization for runtime software R&D – Patrick Bridges, U-NM |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Resilience for permanent, transient, and undetected errors – Christian Engelmann, ORNL |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Scalable heterogeneous computing – Sadaf Alam, CSCS |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | X-caliber and XGC System Software R&D – Kyle Wheeler, SNL |
| 12:00 – 19:30 | Open for Informal discussions |
| 19:30 – 21:30 | Panel: Exascale technology overlaps and synergies Non-determinism and uncertainty quantification In situ data analysis and on-node support for debugging? David Rogers, SNL; Clayton Webster, ORNL; Scott Klasky, ORNL; Dave Norton, PGI; Dennis Andrews, Roguewave |
| 21:00 – 23:30 | Hosted reception |
| Thursday, March 15, 2012 | |
| 7:00 – 8:00 | Breakfast |
| Modeling and Simulation Efforts | |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | CASL Accomplishments – John Turner, ORNL |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | ASCR Combustion Co-design Center, ExaCT – Jackie Chen, SNL |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Blue Brain Project – Felix Schürmann, EPFL |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Multiphysics Simulation at Exascale – Rob Neely, LLNL |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | Panel: Future Visions What was heard at SOS16 and where we are headed Thomas Schulthess, CSCS; Jeff Nichols, ORNL; Sudip Dosanjh, SNL; Andrew Jones, NAG |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Invitation to SOS17 – Al Geist, ORNL |
Attendees
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Marc Adams | Nvidia |
| Sadaf Alam | CSCS |
| Dennis Andrews | RogueWave |
| Jim Ang | SNL |
| Dorian Arnold | UNM |
| Ray Bair | ANL |
| Bill Barth | Univ. Texas |
| David Bernholdt | ORNL |
| Bill Brantley | AMD |
| Patrick Bridges | UNM |
| Ron Brightwell | SNL |
| Dee Cadena | SNL |
| Bill Camp | Consultant |
| Jackie Chen | SNL |
| Giri Chukkapalli | Appro |
| Robert Clay | SNL |
| Paul Cook | Cray |
| Jim Costa | SNL |
| Alessandro Curioni | IBM |
| John Daly | DoD/CEC |
| Steve Derenthal | Exxonmobil |
| Sudip Dosanjh | SNL |
| Christian Engelmann | ORNL |
| Kurt Ferreira | SNL |
| Karl Freund | Calxeda |
| Al Geist | ORNL |
| Eng-Lim Goh | SGI |
| Simon Hammond | SNL |
| Gilbert Hendry | SNL |
| Mike Heroux | SNL |
| James Jeffers | Intel |
| Andrew Jones | NAG |
| Larry Kaplan | Cray |
| Moe Khaleel | PNNL |
| Scott Klasky | ORNL |
| John Labr | Appro |
| Jim Laros | SNL |
| Matt Leininger | LLNL |
| John Levesque | Cray |
| Bob Lucas | USC/ISI |
| Ronald Luijten | IBM |
| Barney Maccabe | ORNL |
| Bronson Messer | ORNL |
| Rob Neely | LLNL |
| Jeff Nichols | ORNL |
| Dave Norton | PGI |
| Ron Oldfield | SNL |
| Wilfred Pinfold | Intel |
| Steve Poole | ORNL |
| Ram Rajagopalan | Exxon/Mobil |
| David Resnick | SNL |
| Arun Rodrigues | SNL |
| David Rogers | SNL |
| Ali Saidi | ARM |
| Mike Schulte | AMD |
| Thomas Schulthess | CSCS |
| Felix Schürmann | EPFL |
| Steve Scott | Nvidia |
| Mark Seager | Intel |
| Doug Spragg | Exxon/Mobil |
| Thomas Sterling | Univ. of Indiana |
| Deborah Tavenner | IBM |
| Jim Tomkins | Consultant |
| Matthias Troyer | ETH Zurich |
| John Turner | ORNL |
| Jeff Vetter | ORNL |
| Mike Vildibill | Appro |
| David Wang | Inphi |
| Clayton Webster | ORNL |
| Jack Wells | ORNL |
| Kyle Wheeler | SNL |
Lodging
The SOS16 workshop will be held at:
Fess Parker’s Doubletree by Hilton Resort in Santa Barbara, California
Hotel lodging can be arranged by calling (805) 884-8511 or (800) 879-2929.
Room block name is: SOS16.
Room block closes February 22, 2012.
A 72-hour cancellation policy applies for individual rooms.
Organizers
General Chair
Sudip Dosanjh, Sandia National Laboratories
Program Chair
Jim Ang, Sandia National Laboratories
Local Arrangements
Dee Cadena, Sandia National Laboratories
Organizing Committee
- Jim Ang, Sandia National Laboratories
- Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories
- Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Thomas Schulthess, Swiss Supercomputing Center
Registration Instructions
We are required to cover the cost of food and essential expenses from the registration fee, which is as follows:
- $300.00 for attendee
- $85.00 for additional guest
Register here.
Sponsors
We would like to acknowledge the following sponsors for their generous support of the SOS16 Workshop:
Transportation
Santa Barbara, California can be reached by the following airports:
- Santa Barbara Municipal Airport has several regional jet flights on Alaska/SkyWest, American, Frontier, United, and US Airways.
- Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport and drive 1 hour 40 minutes.
- Los Angeles’ LAX airport and drive 1 hour 50 minutes.
Map and driving directions to Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort are here.