IXPUGFALL2017: IXPUG 2017 Annual Fall Conference |
Website | http://ixpug.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ixpugfall2017 |
Abstract registration deadline | August 6, 2017 |
Submission deadline | August 6, 2017 |
ABSTRACT deadline extended to August 13th.
The IXPUG Fall Meeting will investigate manycore concepts, explore ideas and implementations, and share experiences that will help users take advantage of new technologies such as AVX512 operations, high-bandwidth memory (MCDRAM), KNL tiles, and the latest high-speed messaging (MPI) hardware and software.
At this meeting you will experience an open forum with a community enthused about manycore computing: application programmers, system admins, Intel Phi architecture designers, and compiler and tool experts.
The program will contain sessions with technical presentations and lightning talks on the topics listed below, after beginning with a keynote on KNL processing. The sessions will conclude with a roadmap and panel discussion, and be followed by a half-day of tutorials with hands-on experience on the TACC KNL system
Submission Guidelines
IXPUG welcomes submissions on innovative work from KNL users in academia, industry and government labs, describing original discoveries and experiences that will promote and prescribe efficient use of manycore and multicore systems. The authors of the best scored abstracts and draft presentations will be selected for a full 30 minute presentation; others may be offered an opportunity to present shorter Lightning Talks.
- Presentations:
A short Extended Abstract and Draft Presentation should be submitted by Sunday, August 6th 13th. The suggested organization of the extended abstract is: short abstract summarizing the work, benefits and accomplishments; an introduction with an objective; accomplishments (analysis, optimization, algorithm/software design, tool design, experience, new concepts, etc.) with results; and a summary. An abstract submission must be a PDF file, in a convenient text format; two or three pages should be sufficient. The Draft Presentation does not need to be complete by this date. It should reflect the overall intent of the presentation and contain placeholders for the remaining content to be completed by the Final Presentation. Presentations describing application results and work on KNL-specific features (e.g. use of MCDRAM, multi-node messaging (MPI) performance and configurations, and new performance tools exploitation) will be prioritized.
For presentation format, please use the IXPUG presentation template. See submission details at the IXPUG site.
List of Topics
- Vectorization: SIMD operations and directives, data layout
- Memory: DDR/MCDRAM partitioning, memory affinity, prefetching, latency, streams, etc.
- Communication: MPI inter-/intra-node performance, scaling and tuning for Omni-Path/IB
- IO: Local disk vs global (Lustre, etc.)
- Thread and Process Management: Affinity, resource sharing in SMTs (simultaneous multi-threading) and Tiles
- System Management: Memory/Cluster Modes, Large Pages, Node Stats, XPPSL, OpenHPC
- Hybrid Computing: MPI Process/Thread Partitioning, On-node/Off-node Scaling
- Programming Models: OpenMP, TBB, Cilk, hStreams, MPI, --others
- Algorithms and Methods: Application Scaling and Vectorizable Algorithms
- Tools: Benchmarking, Profiling, Performance Analysis, Affinity
- Visualization: Software Performance, Algorithms, Methods
- Deep Learning: Application to speech, image, bioinformatics, natural language, ...
Committees
Program Committee
- Richard Gerber, NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Gilles Civario, Dell Inc. (DELL)
- Douglas Doerfler, NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Helen He, NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Clayton Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories
- Juha Jaykka, University of Cambridge
- Michael Klemm, Intel Corporation
- Lars Koesterke, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
- David Martin, Argonne National Laboratory
- Hai Ah Nam, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- John Pennycook, Intel Corporation
- Thomas Steinke, Zuse Institute Berlin
- Estela Suarez, Forschungszentrum Juelich
- Sameer Shende, ParaTools, Inc./University of Oregon
- Jerome Vienne, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
Organizing committee
- Kent Milfeld (Chair) Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
- Melyssa Fratkin (IXPUG Secretary), Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
- Lisa M. Smith (E&G Ecosystem Program Office, Manager), Intel, Inc.
Invited Speakers
- James Reinders (Parallel Programming and HPC Enthusiast)
- Sameer Shende (ParaTools, Inc., University of Oregon)
- Nishanth Dandapanthu (Dell EMC)
Venue
The conference will be held at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in north Austin.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Kent Milfeld milfeld [at] tacc.utexas.edu. Use IXPUG in the subject.