Postponed until 2021: WHPC Summit

Papers, tutorials and posters are solicited on a diverse range of technical topics including but not limited to:

• Programming models and applications for High Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Architectures and accelerators on high performance platforms
• Computational Models and Algorithms for HPC, Big Data and AI
• Addressing cyber security issues in HPC, Big Data and AI
• Large-scale data analytics and machine learning trends
• Using machine learning to analyze large-scale system
• Performance modeling, analysis and benchmarking of HPC, AI and Big Data applications/architectures
• Intersection of cloud and HPC
• System software to accelerate the performance of data-intensive applications

In addition to technical topics, we also solicit submissions on topics related to diversity, inclusion and leadership:

• Methods and techniques to create a diverse workforce
• Inclusive leadership and retention strategies
• Building diversity advocates and allies
• Dealing with unconscious bias and sexism in the workplace
• Achieving the right work/life balance
• Fostering creativity through diversity
• Statistics about women’s representation in HPC community

Authors are invited to submit their work with a maximum of 4 pages (excluding references) in IEEE conference format.

Deadline: January 10th, 2020 AOE

Submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/WHPCSummit2020

  A poster submission should have a two-page extended abstract in the ACM format.

Deadline: CLOSED

Please note that there is still an opportunity to present a poster for authors who have not already submitted, by participating in the student program.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/WHPCSummit2020

Tutorials may be proposed for either a full day (six hours) or a half day (three hours). Tutorials must last for the full three or six hours. If your topic can be covered in less than three hours you can combine multiple related subjects into a  single “themed” submission.

     Your information will be submitted via a web form and file upload. Submitting samples of visual aids is strongly encouraged, either via a file upload or via a URL.

    The file you upload should contain the following sections, each beginning on a separate page:

• Abstract in text format (200-word maximum).
• A detailed description of the proposed tutorial (two pages maximum) with the following sections:

  1. Tutorial goals – specifically how attendees will benefit

  2. Why the topic is relevant to conference attendees

  3. Clearly describe the target audience (researchers, students, developers, practitioners, etc.) and what they will learn

  4. Content level (% beginner, % intermediate, % advanced)

  5. Audience prerequisites

  6. Description of tutorial content – discuss in detail the tutorial content, schedule, and organization

  7. If your presenters are from different institutions, how you will ensure cohesive tutorial content (not just a disparate set of talks).

• Résumé or Curriculum Vitae for each presenter (six presenters maximum, two pages maximum each). Make sure this includes a list of short courses each presenter has taught.

Talk: The International Race for a Quantum Computer

Abstract: Silicon transistors, the essential building block of most modern electronic devices, cannot shrink much further without being rendered inoperable by quantum mechanics. This classical-quantum threshold in fact presents a tremendous opportunity: if we harness quantum mechanics, rather than attempt to avoid it, we could build a quantum computer. Quantum computers will open up a world of opportunities — they could accomplish certain computational tasks exponentially faster which would otherwise be forever impractical. During this lecture, Dr. Simmons will discuss quantum computing approaches (including her own, based upon CMOS-compatible silicon photonics), how quantum technologies will change our lives in a very fundamental way, and provide a snapshot of the accelerating worldwide race to build a prototype.

Bio: As a Simon Fraser University professor and Canada Research Chair in Quantum Nanoelectronics, Stephanie Simmons works on silicon-based spin quibits with the particular aim to develop CMOS-compatible scalable quantum technologies. Her work on silicon quibits was awarded a Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough of the Year of 2013, and again in 2015. Simmons’ work has been covered by the New York Times, CBC, BBC, Scientific American, the New Scientist, and others. She earned her PhD in Materials Science at Oxford University in 2011.

Simmons is a Principal Investigator for the Silicon Quantum Technology Lab. They work to build quantum technologies using silicon, which hosts arguably the best quantum bits (‘qubits’) in the industry. They are linking the excellent spin qubits associated with a number of luminescent defects in silicon with photon qubits. Much of their current work concerns the development and proof of principle of this ‘photonic link’ in silicon. Photonic qubits enable links between various spin qubits and can be used to link multiple quantum chips — towards what some call a ‘quantum internet’. This approach will also have concrete scale-up advantages including higher-temperature operation, ease of manufacturing, and robust and atomically identical qubits. If successful, this platform will be used not only to make a quantum computer but also to make provably secure quantum communication, quantum sensors, and more.

Dr Toni Collis is the Chair and co-founder of (WHPC) and Director of Collis-Holmes Innovations. With a background in business, physics and parallel computing Toni specialises in assisting women make the most of their career, from providing strategy for start-ups to coaching women in leadership and management. Toni provides technical and business insight on a range of projects and is passionate about enabling everyone to effectively and efficiently use the HPC resources that will help their work. Her role in WHPC is a natural extension of this as her vision for WHPC is to bring HPC to those who may not be able to access or participate in the community for reasons beyond access. She has been on the organising committee for a variety of workshops and conferences including leading the team for the previous WHPC workshops and is a member of a variety of international HPC advisory bodies.

Kelly Nolan is the founder of TalentStrategy.org and is a seasoned expert in strategic affairs. Kelly works with executives and boards on diversity and governance approaches. Her clients include research and government institutions, corporations and global initiatives. Kelly develops targeted programs to improve gender equity and engage and retain diverse talent pools for a variety of industrial sectors. Kelly specializes in organizational diversity frameworks, training, assessment, and strategic affairs for external and internal relations for complex evidence-based, multi-stakeholder STEM organizations. A regular conference presenter, Kelly has chaired diversity and workforce development streams for several conferences.

Tutorial 1

Title of the tutorial: More Science, Less Programming: Parallel Programming with OpenACC

Event Type: Lecture-style, hands on tutorial

Prerequisite: Please bring a laptop and make sure to have ScaleFT Client installed on it.

List of authors and their affiliations:

• Dr Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh (NVIDIA)
• Dr Neelofar Banglawala (EPCC)

Description:

Accelerated computing is fueling some of the most exciting scientific discoveries today. For scientists and researchers seeking faster application performance, OpenACC is a directive-based programming model designed to provide a simple yet powerful approach to accelerators without significant programming effort. With OpenACC, a single version of the source code will deliver performance portability across platforms.

OpenACC is designed to deliver powerful performance that is portable across platforms such as GPUs and multi-core CPUs. Performance portability allows researchers to optimize their code just the once with expected accelerated results on different processors and platforms.

With OpenACC, programmers can keep existing code as is whilst delivering faster performance when an accelerator is available on a system. This tutorial is designed to help attendees start accelerating their code with OpenACC. The tutorial is comprised of three instructor-led sessions that include interactive lectures and hands-on exercises.

Throughout this tutorial, we present examples to show how OpenACC extends existing serial CPU code or parallel code using approaches like OpenMP. The course covers analyzing performance, parallelizing and optimizing your code. By the end of the tutorial session, attendees will learn everything they need to start accelerating their code with OpenACC on GPUs and x86 CPUs.

Tutorial 2

Title of the tutorial: Better Scientific Software

Event Type: Lecture-style tutorial

List of authors and their affiliations:

• David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory
• Patricia A. Grubel, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Rinku Gupta, Argonne National Laboratory

Description:

The computational science and engineering (CSE) community is in the midst of an extremely challenging period created by the confluence of disruptive changes in computing architectures, demand for greater scientific reproducibility, and new opportunities for greatly improved simulation capabilities, especially through coupling physics and scales. Computer architecture changes require new software design and implementation strategies, including significant refactoring of existing code. Reproducibility demands require more rigor across the entire software endeavor. Code coupling requires aggregate team interactions including integration of software processes and practices. These challenges demand large investments in scientific software development and improved practices. Focusing on improved developer productivity and software sustainability is both urgent and essential.

This tutorial will provide information and hands-on experience with software practices, processes, and tools explicitly tailored for CSE. Goals are improving the productivity of those who develop CSE software and increasing the sustainability of software artifacts. We discuss practices that are relevant for projects of all sizes, with emphasis on small teams, and on aggregate teams composed of small teams. Topics include effective tools and processes for small teams (including agile approaches), reproducibility, key principles for the design and testing of scientific software, git workflows, code coverage, and continuous integration testing.

Tutorial 3

Title of the tutorial: HPC in the Cloud with AWS

Event Type: Hands on Tutorial

List of authors and their affiliations:

Tara Madhyastha, AWS

Jo Adegbola, AWS

Nina Vogl, AWS

Dipti Kothari, AWS

Anh Tran, AWS

Pierre-Yves Aquilanti, AWS

Linda Hedges, AWS

Description:

Cloud computing technologies have matured to the point that nearly all HPC production workloads can be efficiently accommodated in a cloud environment. Cloud computing presents a nearly unrivaled completeness of services and the ability to accommodate the most demanding computational workloads at a scale. However, the complexity and scale that comes with such an environment can make the first experience a daunting proposition. This tutorial offers “solution through training”, explanations and hands-on experience in a safe environment.

We will provide an overview of computational, storage and network technologies offered by AWS and demonstrate how to best utilize them to run HPC workflows. We also cover specific use cases, techniques and optimizations to run applications at extreme scale.

This tutorial will be composed of presentations and hands-on sessions where attendees will have the opportunity to put into practice their learnings on the AWS cloud. A laptop/tablet and a shell with Bash are required for the hands-on portions of this tutorial.

Tutorial 4

Title:

HPC Leadership Skills – strategy, cost models, technology evaluation, procurement, metrics, and more.

Event Type: Lecture-style tutorial

List of authors and their affiliations:

Andrew Jones, Microsoft

Christine Harvey, MITRE

Fouzhan Hosseini, Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd

Description:

This tutorial aims to provide an overview of the business and technology planning aspects of HPC. These aspects of HPC usually get much less attention than programming and sysadmin but are equally critical to the success of HPC. This includes topics such as: understanding and presenting the value of HPC, funding and cost recovery models, total cost of ownership, technology evaluations, procurement, metrics and reporting, delivery models, stakeholders, service elements and team structures, etc.

The tutorial will be useful for anyone who is looking to make (or has recently made) the career step towards managing or leading an HPC center or service. It will also be useful for anyone doing parts of that job, such as helping with HPC procurements, building cost models, managing a team within the group, or researchers seeking to better understand how HPC services are planned and delivered. It applies equally to industry and university/government spaces.

Versions of this tutorial have been presented at SC since 2013, and in other venues, with consistently high feedback scores.