======================================================================== Call For Participation Second International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2016) June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany to be held in conjunction with ISC 2016, June 19 - 23, 2016 Frankfurt, Germany http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~subramon/ExaComm16/exacomm16.html ======================================================================== ExaComm 2016 aims to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures, to share their experiences and to learn the opportunities and challenges in designing next-generation HPC systems and applications. ExaComm 2016 will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing (ISC 2016), Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, June 23, 2016. Program ------- 8:50 - 9:00 Opening Remarks 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Talk Title : Optimizing Network Usage on Sequoia and Sierra Speaker : Bronis R de Supinski, CTO, Livermore Computing (LC), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) 10:00 - 10:30 Invited Talk 1 Title : Toward Extreme Scale: Requirements for Next-Generation Fabrics Speaker : William (Bill) Magro, Intel Fellow & Chief Technologist, HPC Software, Intel 10:30 - 11:00 Invited Talk 2 Title : Topology-Awareness in the Tofu Interconnect Series Speaker : Yuichiro Ajima, Senior Architect, Fujitsu, Japan 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 - 12:00 Invited Talk 3 Title : Technologies for Improved Scaling on GPU Clusters Speaker : Jiri Kraus, Senior Developer, NVIDIA 12:00 - 12:30 Invited Talk 4 Title : BXI - The New Scalable Interconnect for HPC Speaker : Jean-Pierre Panziera, Chief Technology Director for Extreme Computing, Bull Atos Technologies 12:30 - 1:00 Invited Talk 5 Title : About Management of Exascale Systems Speaker : Tor Skeie, Professor, Adjunct Research Scientist, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break 2:00 - 2:30 Invited Talk 6 Title : Exascale by Co-Design Architecture Speaker : Michael Kagan, CTO, Mellanox Technologies 2:30 - 2:00 Invited Talk 7 Title : Next Generation Interconnection for Accelerated Computing Speaker : Taisuke Boku, Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan 3:00 - 4:00 Research Paper Session Session Chair: Dr. Khaled Hamidouche, The Ohio State University Paper #1: SONAR: Automated Communication Characterization for HPC Applications, Steffen Lammel, Felix Zahn, and Holger Froning, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Paper #2: Reducing the Overhead of Manipulating Data-structure on PGAS by Ordering Memory Access at the Remote-side, Yuichiro Ajima, Takafumi Nose, Kazushige Saga, Naoyuki Shida and, Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Limited, Japan. 4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break 4:30 - 6:00 Panel: Beyond Speeds and Feeds - What New Capabilities Are Needed for Exascale Interconnects? Panel Moderator : Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories Panel Members: (Confirmed so far) -------------- Jeff Hammond Research Scientist, Intel Corporation Daniel Holmes Applications Consultant in HPC Research, EPCC, United Kingdom Laxmikant V. Kale Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jay Lofstead Senior Member of Technical Staff Sandia National Laboratories Tor Skeie Professor and Adjunct Research Scientist Simula Research Laboratory, Norway 6:00 - 6:10 Closing Remarks The full program is available at the following website http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~subramon/ExaComm16/exacomm16-program.html Further information about travel, stay and registration are available at the following website http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~subramon/ExaComm16/exacomm16.html Thanks, The ExaComm Organizing Committee.