July 2022 Newsletter

IXPUG ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2022 AT ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY

Announcing the IXPUG Annual Conference 2022 call for abstracts is open!

Conference Dates: Wednesday-Friday, September 28-30, 2022

Venue: Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, Illinois) in-person and live online

Call for Abstracts: submissions are due Friday, August 12, 2022 (AoE) via EasyChair

The 2022 IXPUG Annual Conference will be hosted by Argonne National Laboratory. HPC users and enthusiasts across the globe are invited to attend and participate. Join us to share experiences with all aspects of adopting and employing state-of-the-art technologies and practices for optimal application execution on Intel XPU platforms. Through our interactive, open forum IXPUG brings together speakers across supercomputing, including renowned industry leaders, and experts from Intel. Together we share real-world experiences, best practices, and techniques for maximizing software productivity and efficiency.

If you are interested in presenting a talk, or tutorial, please submit a short abstract by Friday, August 12, 2022 (AoE) via EasyChair. While in-person presentations are preferred, pre-recorded videos will be allowed as presentation in exceptional cases. Published or work-in-progress research in respective areas are encouraged.

Topics of Interest:

• Implications 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 Language Development)
• Experience with incorporating machine learning and deep learning in HPC applications and workflows including performance analysis, optimization, and best practices
• Experience using extreme scale systems: Usability, In-situ Visualization, Programming Challenges, Algorithms and Methods, etc.
• Application characterization on emerging technologies: Non-volatile memory (NVMe), processors (Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® GPUs, Intel® FPGAs, etc.)

ABOUT IXPUG

IXPUG is an independent users group whose mission is to provide a forum for the free exchange of information that enhances the usability and efficiency of scientific and technical applications running on HPC, AI, and data analytics systems using advanced Intel technologies. IXPUG is administered by representatives of member sites that operate large Intel-based HPC systems.