IXPUG Annual Spring Conference 2018
Date: March 5-7, 2018
Location: CINECA head office in Bologna, Italy (via Magnanelli, 6/3 - 40033 Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna))
Registration: Registration is now closed.
Event Description: The Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG) is an active community led forum for sharing industry best practices, techniques, tools, etc. for maximizing efficiency on Intel platforms and products. This meeting will focus on all aspects of employing and adopting manycore processing technologies and techniques for optimal application execution.
Travel Details:
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Watch remotely: the IXPUG meeting will be live streamed at this URL: https://streaming.cineca.it/DefaultPlayer/div.php?evento=IXPUG2018
Event Agenda:
Day 1: Monday, March 5, 2018
| Start | End | Title | Author(s) | Presentation |
| 09:00 | 09:30am | Registration & Coffee/Tea | ||
| 09:30 | 09:45 | Welcome by Host | Fabio Affinito | |
| 09:45 | 10:00am | Welcome by IXPUG Board | Lisa M. Smith | |
| 10:00am | 10:45am |
Keynote Presentation: Electronic Structure Codes on KNL: Structural, electronic and optical properties of graphene Nanoribbons |
Andrea Ferretti - CNR S3 Center |
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| 10:45 | 11:15am |
Site Updates: TACC, Argonne and Juelich |
John Cazes | |
| 11:15 | 11:30am |
Break |
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| 11:30 | 12:00pm |
Impact of Meltdown/Spectre Patches on HPC Application Performance |
John Cazes, Lei Huang and Kevin Chen | |
| 12:00 | 12:30pm |
Electronic structure codes on KNL, profiling and benchmarking results |
Pietro Bonfa, Fabio Affinito and Carlo Cavazzoni | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 |
Lunch |
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| 13:30 | 14:00 |
GPAW Performance Optimisation and Energy Consumption on KNLs |
Martti Louhivuori | |
| 14:00 | 14:30 |
Large-Scale Implementation of the Density Matrix Renormalization Group Algorithm: Performance Analysis on the Intel Broadwell and Knights Landing Architectures |
James Vance, Ivan Girotto and Marcello Dalmonte | |
| 14:30 | 14:45 |
Porting of the DBCSR Library for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplications to Intel Xeon Phi Systems |
Alfio Lazzaro and Juerg Hutter |
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| 14:45 | 15:15 |
Break |
Tour the CINECA facility (Andrew/Fabio) *Sign up at registration desk |
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| 15:15 | 15:45 |
LIBXSMM: Look Inside at Top-Notch Low-Level Software Primitives |
Hans Pabst | |
| 15:45 | 16:15 |
A Performance Comparison of Deep Learning Frameworks on KNL |
Riccardo Zanella, Giuseppe Flameni and Marco Rorro | |
| 16:15 | 16:45 |
Machine Learning for Fast Detector Simulation
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Sofia Vallecorsa, Federico Carminati, Gulrukh Khattak and Andrea Zanetti |
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| 16:45 | 17:00 |
IXPUG Day 1 Closing Remarks (Recap of Day 1, Agenda for Day 2) |
Fabio Affinito | |
| 17:30 |
Networking Reception |
Cafe Zanarini (Bus from CINECA to be provided) |
Day 2: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
| Start | End | Title | Author(s) | Presentation |
| 09:00am | 09:30 | Registration & Coffee/Tea | ||
| 09:30 | 09:45am | Day 2 Agenda review | Fabio Affinito | |
| 09:45 | 10:15 |
Porting, Optimization and Bottlenecks of OpenFOAM in KNL Environment |
Ivan Spisso, Giorgio Amati, Vittorio Ruggiero and Carlo Fiorina |
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| 10:15 | 10:45 | Devito - Automated High-Performance Finite-Difference for Geophysical Exploration | Fabio Luporini, Charles Yount, Michael Lange, Navjot Kukreja, Mathias Louboutin, Philipp Witte, Gerard Gorman and Felix Herrmann | |
| 10:45 | 11:15 | OpenMP Threading and Vectorization of MPI Finite Element Code Elmer | Mikko Byckling and Juhani Kataja | |
| 11:15 | 11:30am | Break |
CINECA Facility tour #2 (Andrew/Fabio) *sign up at registration |
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| 11:30am | 12:00pm | Optimization of D3Q19 Lattice Boltzmann Kernels for Recent Multi- and Many-cores Intel Based Systems | Ivan Girotto, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano and Federico Toschi | |
| 12:00 | 12:30pm | Lunch | ||
| 12:30 | 13:00 | Updates on Software-Defined Visualization | Johannes Günther | |
| 13:00 | 13:30 | Software-Defined Visualization in MegaMol | Tobias Rau, Patrick Grakla and Guido Reina | |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Rendering in Blender Cycles using AVX512 Vectorization | Milan Jaroš, Petr Strakoš and Lubomir Říha | |
| 14:00 | 14:15 | Break | Group photo! |
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| 14:15 | 14:45 | Optimization of the Gadget Code and Energy Measurements on Second-Generation Intel Xeon Phi | Luigi Iapichino | |
| 14:45 | 14:45 |
Panel Discussion: Putting It All Together: Scientific Workflows at Scale |
Panelists: Heinrich Bockhorst, Klaus-Dieter Oertel, Johannes Günther and Hans Pabst | |
| 14:45 | 15:00 |
IXPUG Closing Remarks (Day 2 Recap and Day 3 Agenda) |
Fabio Affinito |
Day 3: Wednesday, March 7, 2018
| Start | End | Title | Author(s) | Presentation |
| 08:30am | 09:00 | Registration and Coffee/Tea | ||
| 09:00 | 09:15 | Day 3 Agenda Review | Fabio Affinito | |
| 09:15am | 10:45 | Tutorial 1: Intel Application Snapshot and Intel VTune Amplifier Tutorial | Heinrich Bockhorst and Klaus-Dieter Oertel | |
| 10:45 | 11:00am | Break | ||
| 11:00am | 12:30pm | Tutorial 2: Intel Vector Advisor | Heinrich Bockhorst and Klaus-Dieter Oertel | |
| 12:30 | 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 | 15:00 | Open Labs | Heinrich Bockhorst, Klaus-Dieter Oertel and Hans Pabst |
Submissions are now closed. The agenda will be updated following the notification of presenters.
Important dates:
Abstract submissions open: January 3, 2018
Abstracts due: January 31, 2018 February 2, 2018 (AoE)
Presenters notified: February 7, 2018 February 14, 2018 (AoE)
Final presentations: March 2, 2018
Call for Presentations: IXPUG welcomes submissions on innovative work from KNL users in academia, industry and government labs, describing original discoveries and experiences that will promote and prescribe efficient use of many-core and multicore systems. The authors of the best scored abstracts and draft presentations will be selected for a full 30 minute technical lecture; others may be offered an opportunity to present shorter 10-15 minute Lightning Talks.
Submission Guidelines: Submissions are now closed. The abstract submission process opened on January 3, 2018 and will close on January 31, 2018. All submitters must upload presentations to the IXPUG EasyChair site. The final presentations are due on March 2, 2018 and the content should reflect the overall intent outlined in the abstract submission. Please be sure to focus your content on the approach that was taken, obstacles encountered, solutions developed and ultimate results. Feel free to include application results on multi-node configurations addressing KNL-specific features (e.g. use of MCDRAM)/performance tools exploitation will be prioritized. You may wish to refer to presentations from previous events for appropriate elements.
Topics of interest are (but not limited to): sharing techniques in vectorization, memory, communications, thread and process management, multi-node application experiences, programming models, algorithms and methods, software environment and tools, benchmarking and profiling tools, visualization development, etc.