Thirty Years of Parallel Computing at Argonne: A Symposium
Argonne National Laboratory/Building 240, Rm. 1416
May 14-15, 2013
AGENDA
May 14 |
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8:00 am |
Continental breakfast and poster session |
8:30 |
The History of the Argonne Advanced Computing Research Facility – Jack Dongarra, Ewing Lusk, Paul Messina |
9:00 |
NWChem, An ANL Legacy Transition to Paralled Computing in Chemistry – Thom Dunning (Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
9:30 |
A Few Provocative Trends in Parallel Computing – Justin R. Rattner (Intel Senior Fellow, Corporate VP and Director of Intel Labs, CTO) |
10:00 |
Break and poster session |
10:30 |
The Global Importance of HPC Historical Progress, Accomplishments and Future Directions – Tilak Agerwala (VP, Systems, IBM Research) |
11:00 |
Grid, cloud, and beyond What we have learned about computing on demand – Ian Foster (Director, Computation Institute at Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago)
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11:30 |
A Bridge in Time – William Harrod (Director, ASCR Research Division/U.S. DOE Office of Science) |
12:00 pm |
lunch – The Remarkable Career of Margaret Butler: From “Computer” to Senior Computer Scientist– Lois Curfman McInnes (Senior Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory) |
1:00 |
Exascale Memory: Requirements and Options – Rob Schreiber (Assistant Director, Exascale Computing Lab, Hewlett Packard Laboratories) |
1:30 |
Parallel Computing and Fluid Mechanics: A Quest for Scales– Paul Fischer (Senior Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory) |
2:00 |
Reading the Tea-Leaves: How Architecture Will Evolve – Peter Kogge (Associate Dean of Engineering for Research, McCourtney Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame) |
2:30 |
Break and poster session |
3:00 |
Resource Management for Computer Operating Systems – Burton Smith (Technical Fellow, Microsoft) |
3:30 |
Parallel MATLAB: From “Hell No” to “You Bet” – Cleve Moler (Chief Mathematician, MathWorks) |
4:00 |
The Impact of Parallel Computing on the World – Panel chaired by Irving Wladawsky-Berger (Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of Technology); panelists: Jack Dongarra, Paul Messina, Justin R. Rattner, Rick Stevens |
5:00 |
Shuttle to Guest House |
5:30 |
Reception and Poster Session |
6:30 |
Dinner and open mic – Computing at High End: Fastest, Cheapest, Soonest? – Andy White (Retired as Deputy Associate Laboratory Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
May 15 |
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8:00 am |
Continental breakfast |
8:30 |
ACRF to ALCF: Threads in Computational Chemistry – Robert Harrison (Director, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University) |
9:00 |
From Performance to Power: Leadership Computing Experiences with Argonne National Labs– Lennart Johnsson (Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of Houston) |
9:30 |
A Tale of Two Timelines – William Gropp (Director, Parallel Computing Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
10:00 |
Break |
10:30 |
Do You Trust Your Algorithms? – Jorge More’ (Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory) |
11:00 |
Application Challenges Resulting From Technologies of the Future – Al Gara (Exascale Chief Architect, Intel) |
11:30 |
Filling Gaps in the Argonne History and Can We converge? Big Data, Big Compute, Big Interaction– Rick Stevens (Associate Laboratory Director, Computing Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory) |
12:00 |
Conclude |