The Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the SOS Workshop
March 22 - 25, 2016
Asheville, North Carolina

Agenda

- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 -

7:00 - 7:50 am                      Breakfast              
7:50 - 8:00 am                      John Turner (ORNL) - Welcome and Overview

Session II: Application (code) Longevity - Blessing, curse, or both? [Session Chair: John Turner (ORNL)]
                  8:00 - 8:30 am    Peter Bauer (ECMWF, UK) - The ECMWF weather model and its preparation for the future
                  8:30 - 9:00 am    Steve Plimpton (SNL) - LAMMPS as a Legacy Code
                  9:00 - 9:30 am    Edoardo Apra (PNNL) - NWChem approaching its Twenty-Third Birthday
                  9:30 - 10:00 am Panel Discussion               

10:00 - 10:30 am                Break

Session IV: Workflows for Dummies/Rocket Scientists [Session Chair: Robert Clay (SNL)]
10:30 - 12:30 pm               
Robert Clay, SNL (moderator) - Engineering Sciences Workflow in the Sandia Analysis Workbench
Dan Laney, LLNL - Workflow Project Overview
Jay Jay Billings, ORNL - Workflows for Dummies/Rocket Scientists
Dave Montoya, LANL - Workflow Analysis – A Starting Point
Giovanni Pizzi, EPFL - The ADES model and the AiiDA infrastructure for Computational Materials Science

Lunch and Session III: Sponsor Presentations (Group 1) [Session Chair: Barney Maccabe (ORNL)]
                  12:30 - 12:50 pm                ARM - Paver - Building a Diverse Ecosystem
                  12:50 - 1:10 pm                  Cray - Scott - A Perspective on The Path Forward
                  1:10 - 1:30 pm                    D-Wave - Copeland - D-Wave Update
                  1:30 - 1:50 pm                    HPE - Sundstrom - The End of the Post WWII Order
                  1:50 - 2:10 pm                    IBM

2:10 - 5:30 pm    Informal Discussions, Side Meetings, and Dinner on your own

- THURSDAY, MARCH 24 -

7:00 - 8:00 am                      Breakfast              

Session V: Is Co-design Having an Impact on System Design? [Session Chair: Sadaf Alam (CSCS)]
                  8:00 - 8:30 am    Jim Belak (LLNL) - The Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments (ExMatEx): Lessons Learned
                  8:30 - 9:00 am    Simon Hammond (SNL) - Towards a Performant and Productive Path to Exascale
                  9:00 - 9:30 am    Thomas Sohmers (Rex) - A New Processor Architecture for Exascale and Beyond
                  9:30 - 10:00 am Panel Discussion               

10:00 - 10:30 am                Coffee Break

Session VI: OS/Runtime Abstractions and Interfaces for Managing the Memory Hierarchy [Session Chair: Ron Brightwell (SNL)]
                  10:30 - 10:40 am                Ron Brightwell - Introduction
                  10:40 - 11:00 am                Pavan Balaji (ANL) – TBD
                  11:00 - 11:20 am                Jeffrey Vetter (ORNL) - NVL-C: Static Analysis Techniques for Efficient, Correct Programming of Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems
                  11:20 - 11:40 am                Rolf Riesen (Intel) - This is your operating system; Let me help you
                  11:40 - 12:00 pm                Larry Kaplan (Cray) - Managing the Memory Hierarchy
                  12:00 - 12:30 pm                Discussion

Lunch and Session VII: Sponsor Presentations (Group 2) [Session Chair: Jack Wells (ORNL)]
                  12:30 - 12:50 pm                Intel - Wisniewski - OpenHPC and SSF
                  12:50 - 1:10 pm                  Mellanox
                  1:10 - 1:30 pm                    NVIDIA
                  1:30 - 1:50 pm                    Penguin Computing - Pokorny - Five Best Kept Secrets of Penguin's Product Line & Lessons Learned on the Road to Tundra ES Hardware

1:50 - 5:30 pm    Informal Discussions and Side Meetings

5:30 pm              Shuttles to the Bilmore House

6:00 - 8:00 pm    Dinner at the Stable Loft, Biltmore House

8:00 - 9:30 pm    Guided Tour of Biltmore House

 

- FRIDAY, MARCH 25 -

7:00 - 8:00 am                      Breakfast              

Session VIII: Are we entering a new age of software development for HPC? [Session Chair: David Bernholdt (ORNL)]
                  8:00 - 8:30 am    Pat McCormick (LANL) - Imperative, Declarative, Functional and Domain-Specific Programming — Oh my!
                  8:30 - 9:00 am    Vivek Sarkar (Rice Univ.) - Opportunities for Software Mining and Analytics in Future HPC Software Development
                  9:00 - 9:30 am    Michael Garland (NVIDIA) - Parallel Programming Beyond Parallel Loops
                  9:30 - 10:00 am Panel Discussion               

10:00 - 10:30 am                Break

Session I: SOS Retrospective [Session Chair: Jeff Nichols (ORNL)]
                  10:30 - 11:00 am                Jim Tomkins (SNL) - SOS: Terascale Clusters to Exascale Computing
                  11:00 - 11:30 am                Marie-Christine Sawley (IPAG-EU Intel, Switzerland) - SOS20: value, innovation, vision and friendship
                  11:30 - 12:00 pm                Buddy Bland (ORNL) - Musings about SOS            

Session IX: Lunch, Crystal Ball, and Invitation to SOS21 [Session Chair: John Turner (ORNL)]
                  12:00 - 12:15 pm                Ken Alvin (SNL)
                  12:15 - 12:30 pm                Thomas Schulthess (CSCS)
                  12:30 - 12:45 pm                Jeff Nichols (ORNL)

12:00 - 12:30 pm                Sadaf Alam (CSCS) - Invitation to SOS21

Adjourn