Programme

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A list of delegates is available here.

Day 1, 9 April 2024

08:30 - 09:30

Registration/Coffee

09:30 - 09:50

Welcome and Exascale Overview - Dr Mark Parsons (EPCC)

09:50 - 10:50

 
 
 

10:50 - 11:20

Coffee

11:20 - 13:00

Parallel Session 1

11:20 - 11:45

John Leidel (Convey Computer Corp.)

Toward a General Purpose Partitioned Global Virtual Address Specification for Heterogeneous Exascale Architectures

Alan Gray (EPCC), Alistair Hart (Cray Exascale Research Initiative Europe) and Kevin Stratford (EPCC)

Scaling Soft Matter Physics to Thousands of GPUs in Parallel

11:45 - 12:10

Anton Efremov and Pavel Bogdanov (Institute of System Research Russian Academy of Sciences)

Programming infrastructure for heterogeneous computing based on OpenCL and its applications

Nikolay I. Khokhlov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), Iakovos Panourgias (EPCC), Michele Weiland (EPCC) and Igor B. Petrov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

Modelling large-scale seismic problems using high-performance computing

12:10 - 12:35

Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich)

Application-Centric Benchmarking and Modeling for Co-Design

Jing Gong (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Alistair Hart (Cray Exascale Research Initiative Europe), David Henty (EPCC), Stefano Markidis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Michael Schliephake (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Paul Fischer (MCS, Argonne National Laboratory) and Katherine Heisey (MCS, Argonne National Laboratory)

OpenACC Acceleration of Nek5000, a Spectral Element Code

12:35 - 13:00

Marek Nowicki (Torun Nicolaus Copernicus University) and Piotr Bala (UMK)

PCJ - a Partioned Global Address Space Approach for Parallel Computations in Java

Xiaohu Guo (STFC Daresbury Laboratory), Gerard Gorman (Imperial College London), Michael Lange (Imperial College London), Lawrence Mitchell (EPCC) and Michele Weiland (EPCC).

Developing the multi-level parallelisms for Fluidity-ICOM -- Paving the way to exascale for the next generation geophysical fluid modelling technology

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

 
 
 

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee

15:30 - 17:10

Parallel Session 2

15:30 - 15:55

Nick Brown, Mark Bull and Iain Bethune (EPCC)

A hybrid approach for extreme scalability when solving linear systems

Andrey Knizhnik, Alexander Minkin and Boris Potapkin  (National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute")

GPU implementation of some many-body potentials for molecular dynamics simulations

15:55 - 16:20

Frederic Magoules (Ecole Centrale Paris)

Domain Decomposition Methods for Exascale Computing

Toni Collis and Adrian Jackson (EPCC)

Investigation in to the optimal 3D FFT strategy for Quantum Mechanical Codes

16:20 - 16:45

Lee Margetts (University of Manchester), Bernd Mohr (Juelich Supercomputing Center), Andrew Jones (Numerical Algorithms Group, UK)  and Francois Bodin (CAPS Entreprise)

Level of Maturity Assessment for Exascale Software Components

Jean-Michel Alimi , Vincent Bouillot, Yann Rasera, Vincent Reverdy, Pier-Stéfano Corasaniti, Irène Balmes ((DEUS Consortium - LUTH- CNRS - Observatoire de Paris), Stéphane Requena(GENCI), Xavier Delaruelle and Jean-Noël Richet (TGCC, CEA). DEUS Full Observable Universe Simulation: the numerical challenge

16:45 - 17:10

Iain Duff (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Disruptive Technologies

Fabien Delalondre (EPFL BBP), Michael Lee Hines (Yale university), Michael Knobloch (Julich Supercomputing Center), Judit Gimenez, Jesus Labarta (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Damian Alvarez Mallon (Julich Supercomputing Center) and Felix Schürmann (EPFL BBP).

Benchmark and Profiling of NEURON in Strong Scaling Configuration

17:10 - 19:00

Poster and Drinks reception

 

Day 2, 10 April 2024

09:00 - 09:30

Coffee

09:30 - 10:30

 
 
 

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee

11:00 - 12:40

Parallel Session 3

11:00 - 11:25

Gregor Matura, Achim Basermann, Fang Chen, Markus Flatken, Andreas Gerndt (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), James Hetherington, Timm Krueger and Rupert Nash (University College London (UCL)

A Pre-Processing Interface for Steering Exascale Simulations by Intermediate Result Analysis through In-Situ Post-Processing

Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba)

Nu-FuSE Exascale Simulations and the XMP programming language

11:25 - 11:50

Mark O'Connor and Jonathan Byrd (Allinea)

Attacking Visual and System Scalability in Performance Profilers

C. M. Maynard, M. J. Glover, N. Wood (The Met Office) R. Ford, S. Pickles (CSE, STFC Daresbury Laboratory), D. Ham (Imperial College) E .Mueller (University of Bath), G. Riley (University of Manchester)

Weather prediction and climate modeling at Exascale: Introducing the Gung Ho project

11:50 - 12:15

Bernd Mohr (Juelich Supercomputing Center) and Felix Wolf (German Research School for Simulation Sciences)

From Particle to Continuum Physics - Performance Analysis Tools in the Exascale Age

Andrew Porter, Stephen Pickles, Mike Ashworth (STFC Daresbury Laboratory), Giovanni Aloisio, Italo Epicoco and Silvia Movavero (CMCC).

Hybrid Strategies for the NEMO Ocean Model on Multi-core Processors

12:15 - 12:40

Martin Aumüller (HLRS)

Remote Hybrid Rendering of Exascale Data for Immersive Virtual Environments

Giovanni Lapenta (KU Leuven), Stefano Markidis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Alec Johnson, Alex Vapirev, Jan Deca, Maria Elena Innocenti, Jorge Amaya and Slavik Olshevskyi (KU Leuven)

Space Weather Applications for Exascale Computing 

12:40 - 13:40

Lunch

13:40 - 14:40

 
 
 

14:40 - 15:30

Parallel Session 4

14:40 - 15:05

Manish Modani (IBM) and Andrew Porter (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

Strategies for I/O-Bound Applications at Scale

Damian Alvarez Mallon, Norbert Eicker, Estela Suarez and Wolfgang Guerich (Forschungszentrum Juelich).

Programming model and application porting to the Dynamical Exascale Entry Platform (DEEP)

15:05 - 15:30

Florin Isaila, Javier García, Jesús Carretero (University Carlos III of Madrid), Rob Ross and Dries Kimpe (Argonne National Laboratory).

Making the case for reforming the I/O software stack of extreme-scale systems

Stefano Markidis, Michael Schliephake, Xavier Aguilar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), David Henty (EPCC), Harvey Richardson, Alistair Hart (Cray Exascale Research Initiative Europe) , Alan Gray (EPCC), David Lecomber (Allinea Software Ltd), Tobias Hilbrich, Jens Doleschal (Dresden University of Technology) and Erwin Laure (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). Paving the path to exascale computing with CRESTA development environment

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee

16:00 - 17:30 

Panel Session

Boris Chetverushkin, Satoshi Matsuoka, Jack Dongarra,
Barbara Chapman, Sudip Dosanjh, Per Oster

19:30

MEAL at the HUB

 

Day 3, 11 April 2024

 

09:00 - 09:30

Coffee

09:30 - 10:30

A PGAS implementation of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System (IFS)

 
 

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee

11:00 - 12:40

Parallel Session 5

11:00 - 11:25

Nick Johnson and Adrian Jackson (EPCC).

The EPCC OpenACC Benchmark Suite

Stephen Sachs (Cray)

Fault Tolerance in MPI

11:25 - 11:50

Eike Mueller  and Robert Scheichl (University of Bath)

Fast and scalable Elliptic Solvers in Numerical Weather and Climate-Prediction on CPUs and GPUs

Adrian Jackson (EPCC) and Par Strand (Chalmers University of Technology)

MDMP: Managed Data Message Passing

11:50 - 12:15

Boris Chetverushkin (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

Resolution Limits of Continuous Media Models and their Mathematical Formulations

Michael Schliephake, Erwin Laure (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Katherine Heisey and Paul Fischer (Argonne National Laboratory). Design, implementation and use of mampicl, the multi-algorithm MPI collective library

12:15 - 12:40

Michael Lange, Gerard Gorman (Imperial College London), Michele Weiland, Lawrence Mitchell (EPCC), Xiaohu Guo (STFC Daresbury Laboratory) and James Southern (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd.)

Benchmarking mixed-mode PETSc performance on high-performance architectures

Michel Masella (CEA/DSV), Othman Bouizi (Intel, Exascale Lab Paris)

POLARIS(MD): an innovative and scalable method for high throughput molecule targeting

12:40 - 13:40

Lunch

13:40 - 14:40

Russia's Approach to Exascale Challenges in Education

 Vladimir Voevodin

Research Computing Center, Moscow State University

14:40 - 16:00

Parallel Session 6

14:40 - 15:05

Nick Brown (EPCC)

Type oriented parallel programming for exascale

Adrian Jackson (EPCC), Joachim Hein (Lunds Universitet) and Colin Roach (EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association)

Optimising Performance Through Unbalanced Decompositions

15:05 - 15:30

Patrick Maier, Rob Stewart and Phil Trinder (School of Maths. and Comp. Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

Reliable Scalable Symbolic Computation: The Design of SymGridPar2

Boris Chetverushkin, Vladimir Gasilov, Vladimir Novikov, Olga Olkhovskaya, Gennady Bagdasarov, Alexey Boldarev, Elizaveta Dorofeeva, Irina Gasilova and Ilya Vichev. (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

Exaflop computations and the fusion energy devices simulation prospects

15:30 - 15:55

Lawrence Mitchell (EPCC), Florian Rathgeber, Graham Markall, Nicolas Loriant, Carlo Bertolli (Imperial College London), Gihan R. Mudalige, Mike B. Giles (Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford), David A. Ham and Paul H. J. Kelly (Imperial College London)

PyOP2: a framework for fast, unstructured mesh computations

Mikhail Markov, Andrey Berezin, Sergey Parotkin and Alexander Vorontsov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

.Plasma Generation Modelling – A Challenge for Exascale

15:55 - 16:00

Final remarks and close

16:00

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