IXPUG Annual Fall Conference 2018
Conference Dates: September 25-28, 2018
Location: Intel Corporation (Jones Farm Conference Center, JFCC Building, 2111 NE 25th Avenue Hillsboro, Oregon 97124). Please reference the the Travel Document for transportation details (campus map, parking, etc.) and other fun facts about Oregon and Intel Corporation's campus.
Event Agenda: Presentations and video archive links will be posted as soon as possible.
Day 1: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Start | End | Title | Author(s) | Presentation | Video |
08:30 | 09:00am | Registration & Coffee/Tea | |||
09:00 | 09:15am | Welcome by Host | Clay Hughes and David Martin | Presentation | Video |
09:15 | 09:45am |
Site Update |
Dan Stanzione (TACC) | Presentation | Video |
Lightning Talks 1: Optimization |
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9:45 | 10:45am |
- Intel® Omni-Path Architecture Multiple Endpoints -Intel(R) Omni-Path Architecture Performance Optimization -Exploring a nontrivial upper bound for pipelined double-precision FMA instructions on Knight’s Landing -Understanding System Performance using Intel® VTune™ Amplifier’s Platform Profiler |
-Edward Mascarenhas, James Erwin -Edward Mascarenhas, James Erwin & Kevin Pine -Damon McDougall & John McCalpin -Munara Tolubaeva & Bhanu Shankar |
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10:45 | 11:00am |
Break |
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11:00 | 12:00pm |
Keynote: "Scaling Artificial Intelligence from HPC to Cloud" |
Pradeep Dubey, Intel | Presentation | Video |
12:00 | 13:00pm |
Lunch |
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Technical Session 1: Tools (Session Chaired by Thomas Steinke) |
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13:00 | 13:30pm |
Flipping Tables: Favoring computation over memoization for performance |
Jason Sewall | TS 1:1 Presentation | TS 1:1 Video |
13:30 | 14:00pm |
Analyzing OpenMP and TBB task graphs using Intel® Advisor – Flow Graph Analyzer (FGA) |
Vishakha Agrawal, Mark Lubin, Pablo Reble, Vasanth Tovinkere & Mike Voss | TS 1:2 Presentation | TS 1:2 Video |
14:00 | 14:30pm |
Optimizing Iso3DFD with Intel® Advisor and Intel® VTune™ Amplifier |
Carlos Rosales-Fernandez & Kevin Oleary | TS 1:3 Presentation | TS 1:3 Video |
14:30 | 15:00pm |
Configuration-Free Profiling at Scale |
Carlos Rosales-Fernandez, Bei Wang, & Dmitry Prohorov |
TS 1:4 Presentation | TS 1:4 Video |
15:00 | 15:15pm |
Break |
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Technical Session 2: Optimization (Session Chaired by John Pennycook) |
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15:15 | 15:45pm |
Designing High Performance MPI Libraries for the Multi-/Many-core Era |
Dhabaleswar Panda, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Sourav Chakraborty, Mohammadreza Bayatpour & Hari Subramoni | TS 2:1 Presentation | TS 2:1 Video |
15:45 | 16:15pm |
Address Hashing in Intel KNL and SKX Processors |
John McCalpin | TS 2:2 Presentation | TS 2:2 Video |
16:15 | 16:45pm |
Optimization of TensorFlow Serving Application on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors |
Vamsi Sripathi and Vikram Saletore |
TS 2:3 Presentation | TS 2:3 Video |
16:45 | 17:00pm |
IXPUG Day 1 Closing Remarks (Day 1 Recap & Day 2 Agenda) |
David Gunter and Clay Hughes |
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17:00 | 18:30pm |
Networking Reception & Refreshments |
Day 2: Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Start | End | Title | Author(s) | Presentation | Video |
08:30 | 09:00am | Registration & Coffee/Tea | |||
09:00 | 09:15am | Day 2 Agenda Review | David Gunter and Clay Hughes | ||
09:15 | 10:15am | Keynote: "SPARTA Heterogeneous Full Trinity Runs: Successes and Challenges" | Stan Moore, Sandia National Laboratories | Presentation | Video |
10:15 | 10:30am | Break | |||
Technical Session 3: Application Experience (Session Chaired by Jeff Hammond) | |||||
10:30 | 11:00am |
Using MPI+Kokkos to Portably Extend Uintah to Many Core Systems |
John Holmen | TS 3:1 Presentation | TS 3:1 Video |
11:00 | 11:30am |
DM-HEOM: A Case Study in Performance Portability |
Matthias Noack | TS 3:2 Presentation | TS 3:2 Video |
11:30 | 12:00pm |
Optimization of the Model for Prediction Across Scales: Ocean Core targeting Production Scale Use of Knights Landing Processor Architecture |
William Arndt | TS 3:3 Presentation | TS 3:3 Video |
12:00 | 13:00pm |
Lunch |
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Lightning Talks 2: Applications |
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13:00 | 14:00pm |
-Enabling ocean modeling code MPAS-Ocean on Intel® Xeon® -Improved threading performance of Quantum ESPRESSO -Performance Optimization Techniques for Accelerating WRF Physics Codes on Intel Micro-Architectures -Application Study of Gyrokinetic PIC codes on Intel KNL architecture |
-Nitya Hariharan, Jason Do, Mark Roger Petersen, and Phil Jones -Ye Luo -Timbwaoga Ouermi, Robert M. Kirby, and Martin Berzins -Brian Mackie-Mason, Paulius Velesko, Robert Hager, C-S Chang, and Timothy J. Williams |
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Technical Session 4: Machine Learning (Session Chaired by Richard Gerber and Melyssa Fratkin) |
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14:00 | 14:30pm |
Distributed Training of 3D Generative Adversarial Networks for Fast Detector Simulation on Intel® Xeon® HPC Cluster |
Vikram Saletore, Sofia Vallecorsa, Damian Podareanu, Federico Carminati, Valeriu Codreanu, Gulrukh Khattak, and Hans Pabst | TS 4:1 Presentation | TS 4:1 Video |
14:30 | 15:00pm |
Performance Optimization of Multi-scale CNN Training with High Content Cellular Imaging on Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors |
Kushal Datta, Sun Choi, Vikram Saletore, and Kyle Ambert |
TS 4:2 Presentation | TS 4:2 Video |
15:00 | 15:15pm |
Break |
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15:15 | 15:45pm |
A Machine Learning Framework for Large-Scale Weather and Climate Prediction using Exact and Approximate Linear Algebra Computation |
Sameh Abdulah, Hatem Ltaief, Ying Sun, Marc Genton, and David Keyes | TS 4:3 Presentation | TS 4:3 Video |
15:45 | 16:15pm |
David Fast & Accurate Training of an AI Radiologist with Deep Learning on Intel Xeon-based DellEMC Supercomputers |
Vikram Saletore, Valeriu Codreanu & Damian Podareanu |
TS 4:4 Presentation | TS 4:4 Video |
16:15 | 16:45pm |
Site Updates |
Richard Gerber (NERSC/LBNL), Thomas Steinke (Zuse Institute Berlin) & David Martin (Argonne National Laboratory) |
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16:45 | 17:00pm |
IXPUG Day 2 Closing Remarks (Day 2 Recap & Day 3 Agenda) |
David Gunter and Clay Hughes |
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Day 3: Thursday, September 27, 2018
Start | End | Title | Author(s) | Presentation | Video |
08:30 | 09:00am | Registration & Coffee/Tea | |||
09:00 | 09:15am | Day 3 Agenda Review | David Gunter and Clay Hughes | ||
Lightning Talks 3: | |||||
09:15 | 10:15am |
-Improving Oil and Gas Extraction Simulation Performance using Intel® Xeon® and Xeon Phi™ Architectures -Project DisCo: Physics-based discovery of coherent structures in spatiotemporal systems -Optimization strategy for MASNUM surface wave model -OpenMP for Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Architectures |
-Matheus Serpa, Eduardo Cruz, and Philippe Navaux -Adam Rupe, Nalini Kumar, Karthik Kashinath, James P. Crutchfield, Ryan G. James, Mr. Prabhat, and Victor Lee -Zhenya Song -Marius Knaust and Florian Mayer |
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10:15 | 10:30am | Break | |||
Technical Session 5: Vectorization (Session Chaired by David Martin) | |||||
10:30 | 11:00am | Intel Vector Math Libraries – Features, Usage, and Performance Improvements | Marius Cornea, Cristina Anderson, Robin Gilbert, Ahmet Akkas, and Andrey Kolesov | TS 5:1 Presentation | TS 5:1 Video |
11:00 | 11:30am | SIMD-vectorization in VASP | Florian Wende | TS 5:2 Presentation | TS 5:2 Video |
11:30 | 12:00pm | OpenMP SIMD support for both Inclusive and Exclusive Scans | Anoop Madhusoodhanan Prabha and Nikolay Panchenko | TS 5:3 Presentation | TS 5:3 Video |
12:00 | 12:15pm | IXPUG Day 3 Closing Remarks | |||
12:15 | 13:00pm | Lunch | |||
Tutorials (2 Tracks) | |||||
13:00 | 15:00pm | Tutorial Track 1: Performance Profiling in the Cloud | Jennifer DiMatteo | TT 1:1 Presentation | No Video |
13:00 | 15:00pm | Tutorial Track 2: Forwarding Mindset | Csaba Keszei | TT 2:1 Presentation | No Video |
15:00 | 15:15pm | Break | |||
Tutorials (2 Tracks) | |||||
15:15 | 17:15pm | Tutorial Track 1: How to rapidly develop high-performance stencil code via the YASK framework (a tutorial) | Charles Yount and Joonmoo Huh | TT 1:2 Presentation | No Video |
15:15 | 17:15pm | Tutorial Track 2: Verificarlo: Floating point computing validation on new architecture and large scale systems | Eric Petit, Pablo de Oliveira Castro, and Yohan Chatelain | TT 2:2 Presentation | No Video |
17:15 | 17:20pm | IXPUG Day 3 Closing Remarks (Day 3 Recap & Day 4 Agenda) | Lisa Smith |
Day 4: Friday, September 28, 2018
Start | End | Title | Author(s) | Presentation | Video |
08:30 | 09:00am | Registration & Coffee/Tea | |||
Tutorials (2 Tracks) | |||||
09:00 | 11:00am | Tutorial Track 1: Intel Omni-Path Architecture Fabric Introduction | Michael Savasta and Lester Dimit | TT 1:3 Presentation | No Video |
09:00 | 11:00am | Tutorial Track 2: Optimizing for Multi/Manycore (SKX/KNL): Multithreading with OpenMP | W Cyrus Proctor and Antia Lamas-Linares | TT 2:3 Presentation | No Video |
11:00 | 11:05 | IXPUG Day 4 Closing Remarks (Day 4 Recap & Upcoming Activities) | Lisa Smith |
Travel Information:
- Visa Requirements: Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for visa inquiries.
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Transportation and Parking: Check out the Travel Document for transportation details (nearby airport, etc.), fun facts about Oregon and Intel Corporation's campus.
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Lodging: Nearby hotel suggestions are listed below.
Hotel | Address |
Larkspur Landing Hillsboro | 3133 NE Shute Rd, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 681-2121 |
Residence Inn by Marriott Portland Hillsboro/Brookwood | 3160 NE Brookwood Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 844-7777 |
Holiday Inn Express Portland West/Hillsboro | 5900 NE Ray Cir, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 844-9696 |
Comfort Inn | 3500 NE Cornell Rd, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 648-3500 |
TownePlace Suites by Marriott Portland Hillsboro | 6550 NE Brighton St, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 268-6000 |
The Orenco, Boutique Hotel | 1457 NE Orenco Station Pkwy, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (888) 503-7094 |
Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland Hillsboro, Oregon | 20001 NW Tanasbourne Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 718-0007 |
Courtyard by Marriott Portland Hillsboro | 3050 NW Stucki Pl, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 690-1800 |
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Portland Hillsboro | 7351 NE Butler St, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 547-0202 |
Holiday Inn Hillsboro | 2575 NW Aloclek Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 640-1745 |
Residence Inn by Marriott Portland Hillsboro | 18855 NW Tanasbourne Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 531-3200 |
Extended Stay America - Portland - Hillsboro | 19311 NW Cornell Rd, Hillsboro, OR 97124; (503) 439-0706 |
Extended Stay America - Portland - Beaverton/Hillsboro - Eider Ct | 18665 NW Eider Ct, Beaverton, OR 97006; (503) 439-1515 |
Aloft Hillsboro-Beaverton | 1705 NW Amberglen Ct, Hillsboro, OR 97006; (503) 277-1900 |
- Techniques: Algorithms & Methods, Compiler Flags, Software Environment & Tools, Libraries, Parallel- Programming (Communications, Thread & Process Management Experience, All), Multi- node, Memory, Vectorization
- Products: Intel® Xeon Phi™ Co/Processor, Intel® Xeon Processor Family, Intel® Omni Path Fabric, Intel® FPGA, Intel® SSDs/NVMe Solutions, Intel® Lustre Software, Visualization Technology, Intel® SW Tools
- Domains: Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning/Deep Learning), Astrophysics, Bioinformatics, Chemistry, Climate & Weather, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Data Analytics, Energy/Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Geophysics, Libraries & Tools, Life Sciences, Material Science, Medical imaging, Molecular Dynamics, Nanotechnology, Physics, Visualization, etc.
- Implication of workload behavior on system design at extreme scale (Power, Reliability, Scalability, Performance, Processor Design, Memory System, I/O)
- Software environments and tools for computing at extreme scale (Instrumentation, Debugging/Correctness, Thread and Process Management, Libraries and Languagle Development)
- Experience using extreme scale systems (Usability, In-situ Visualization, Programming Challenges, Algorithms and Methods)
- Application characterization on emergining technologies (Novel Memories (HBM and NVM)), processors (Xeon, Xeon Phi, Xeon+FPGA, Cloud Computing, etc.)
Abstract Submission Timelines | March 14, 2018 - July 13, 2018 |
Final Date to Submit | July 13, 2018 |
Acceptance Notification | July 27, 2018 |
Agenda Posted | August 6, 2018 |
Registration Deadline | September 14, 2018 |
Speaker's Final Presentations Uploaded to EasyChair | September 24, 2018 |
Event Planning Team:
Name | Institute |
Clay Hughes | Sandia National Laboratory |
Hai Ah Nam | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
John Pennycook | Intel Corporation |
Lisa M. Smith | Intel Corporation |
Melyssa Fratkin | Texas Advanced Computing Center |
Abstract Review Committee:
Name | Institute |
Clay Hughes | Sandia National Laboratory |
David Keyes | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology |
David Martin | Argonne National Laboratory |
Estela Suarez | Forschungszentrum Juelich / Juelich Supercomputing Centre |
Fabio Affinito | CINECA |
Hai Ah Nam | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
James Lin | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
John Pennycook | Intel Corporation |
Kent Milfeld | Texas Advanced Computing Center |
Melyssa Fratkin | Texas Advanced Computing Center |
Richard Gerber | National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
Taisuke Boku | University of Tsukuba, Japan |
Thomas Steinke | Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany |
Vit Vondrak | VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic |