{"id":1806,"date":"2016-11-22T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2016-11-22T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T10:25:04","slug":"spcl-activities-at-sc16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/22\/spcl-activities-at-sc16\/","title":{"rendered":"SPCL Activities at SC16"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the stress of SC16 is finally over, let me summarize SPCL\u2019s activities at the conference.<\/p>\n

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In a nutshell, we participated in two tutorials, two panels, the organization of the H2RC workshop, I gave three invited talks and my students and collaborators presented our four papers at the SC papers program. Not to mention the dozens of meetings :-). Some chronological impressions are below:<\/p>\n

1) Tutorial “Insightful Automatic Performance Modeling<\/a>” with A. Calotoiu, F. Wolf, M. Schulz<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n2) Panel at Sixth Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms (IA^3)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I was part of a panel discussion on irregular vs. regular structures for graph computations. <\/p>\n


\nThe opening<\/p>\n


\nDiscussions \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n



\nAudience<\/p>\n

3) Tutorial “Advanced MPI<\/a>” with B. Gropp, R. Thakur, P. Balaji<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was co-presenting the long running successful tutorial on advanced MPI.<\/p>\n


\nThe section on collectives and topologies<\/p>\n

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4) Second International Workshop on Heterogeneous Computing with Reconfigurable Logic<\/a> (H2RC) with Michaela Blott, Jason Bakos, Michael Lysaght<\/strong><\/p>\n

We organized the FPGA workshop for the second time, was a big success, people were standing in the back of the room. We even convinced database folks (here, my colleague Gustavo Alonso) to attend SC for the first time!<\/p>\n


\nGustavo’s opening<\/p>\n


\nFull house<\/p>\n

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5) Invited talk at LLVM-HPC workshop<\/a> organized by Hal Finkel<\/strong><\/p>\n

I gave a talk about Polly-ACC<\/a> (Tobias Grosser’s work) at the workshop, quite interesting feedback!<\/p>\n


\nNice audience<\/p>\n


\nGreat feedback<\/p>\n

6) Panel at LLVM-HPC workshop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Later, we had a nice panel about what to improve in LLVM to deal with new languages and\/or accelerators. <\/p>\n

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7) SIGHPC annual member’s meeting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As elected member at large, I attended the annual members meeting at SC16.<\/p>\n

8) Collaborator Jens Domke from Dresden presented our first paper “Scheduling-Aware Routing for Supercomputers<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nHuge room, nicely filled.<\/p>\n

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9) Booth Talk at Tokio Institute of Technology booth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Was an interesting experience :-). First, you talk to two people, towards the end, there was a crowd. Even though most people missed the beginning, I got very nice questions.<\/p>\n

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10) Collaborator Bill Tang presented our paper “Extreme Scale Plasma Turbulence Simulations on Top Supercomputers Worldwide<\/a>” <\/strong><\/p>\n

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11) SPCL student Tobias Gysi presented our paper “dCUDA: Hardware Supported Overlap of Computation and Communication<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n

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12) Collaborator Maxime Martinasso presents our paper “A PCIe Congestion-Aware Performance Model for Densely Populated Accelerator Servers<\/a>”
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But as usual, it’s always the informal, sometimes even secret, meetings that make out SC’s experience. The two SPCL students Greg and Tobias did a great job learning and representing SPCL while I was running around between meetings. I am so glad I didn’t have to present any papers this year (i.e., that I could rely on my collaborators and students \ud83d\ude42 ). Yet, it’s a bit worrying that my level of business (measured by the number of parallel meetings and overbooked calendar slots) is getting worse each year. Oh well :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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