IXPUG "Birds of a Feather" (BOF) at ISC: Achieving Performance on Large-Scale Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing Systems

Monday, June 19, 13:00 - 14:00 

Kontrast Room 

This BOF, conducted by leaders of the 500+ member Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG), seeks to build and strengthen a community among those developing HPC applications for large-scale systems incorporating Intel Xeon Phi processors and co-processors. 

Agenda

		Topic	Presentation
13:00	13:05	Opening	Welcome: David Martin, Vice-President of IXPUG
13:05	13:10	Pre-exascale architectures:	Manycore Intel KNL performance and usability assessment: Eric Boyer & Gabriel Hautreux, GENCI
13:10	13:30	Early Science Results on KNL	Argonne National Laboratory: David Martin, Manager, Industrial Partnerships & Outreach
			Texas Advanced Computing Center: Dan Stanzione, Executive Director
			National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC): Richard Gerber, Senior Science Advisor and HPC Department Head
			CINECA: Fabio Affinito, HPC community consultant & material science
13:30	13:45	Panel Discussion	Panelists: David Martin (ANL), Dan Stanzione (TACC), Richard Gerber, (NERSC), Fabio Affinito (CINECA) (Moderator: Thomas Steinke, ZIB)
13:45	13:55	Intel Xeon Phi Update	Thor Sewell and Rajesh Agny (Intel Corp.)
13:55	14:00	Closing Remarks	David Martin, Vice-President of IXPUG