IXPUG Birds-of-a-Feather
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Date: TBD
Registration: The workshop is held in conjunction with SC26 in Chicago. To attend IXPUG BoF, you must register for SC. More information is on the SC26 Website.
SC Page link: https://sc26.supercomputing.org/program/birds-of-a-feather/
Event Description:
As AI techniques are increasingly integrated into traditional HPC codes, the community anticipates even greater system diversity in the years ahead. This trend underscores the urgent need for programming models and abstractions that support efficient development across a variety of distributed architectures and application domains. Application developers and computational scientists face growing challenges due to differences in hardware designs, parallelization strategies, interconnect schemes, hardware primitives, and architectural features, all of which complicate the task of creating portable and efficient software capable of running across diverse machines and HPC sites.
This BoF will delve into current approaches, state-of-the-art techniques, and emerging best practices for programming heterogeneous and novel architectures. The objective is to identify common principles and methodologies that enable sustainable and portable development across systems, sites, and scientific applications. The session will highlight real-world experiences from developers using modern programming frameworks such as Kokkos, RAJA, SYCL, and oneAPI, as well as from application developers who have benchmarked performance across a wide variety of systems.
Through invited talks by researchers from HPC centers and developers of widely-used programming abstractions, this BoF aims to provide a rich forum for exchanging practical insights and technical expertise. Participants— including researchers, application developers, HPC facility staff, and industry stakeholders—will be encouraged to engage with the speakers and each other to explore effective strategies for dealing with heterogeneous computing environments and the increasingly varied nature of today’s workloads.
BoF Agenda:
Session Leader:
- David Martin, Northwestern University
- xx:00 p.m. Introductions - Dr. Amit Ruhela, Texas Advanced Computing Center
- xx:05 p.m. Panelist Presentations
. xx:05-xx:15 p.m. Panelist 1
. xx:15-xx:25 p.m. Panelist 2
. xx:25-xx:35 p.m. Panelist 3
- xx:35-xx:59 p.m Open Discussion and Q&A
Panelists:
Panelist 1 : Bio
Panelist 2 : Bio
Panelist 3 : Bio
Session Organizers:
Amit Ruhela, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
David Martin, Northwestern University
Hatem Ltaief, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories
Toshihiro Hanawa, University of Tokyo
Steffen Christgau. ZIB
Nalini Kumar, Intel Corporation
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