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Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide a dynamic, noncommercial venue for conference attendees to openly discuss current topics of interest to our HPC community – from programming models to big data to accelerators to education. BoF sessions connect you with other attendees with similar interests. Help drive the conversation.

BoF sessions were held Tuesday–Thursday, November 19–21, 2019.

 



Birds of a Feather Schedule

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Tuesday, 19 November 2019 expand all · collapse all
TimeTypeSession / PresentationContributorsLocationTagPlan
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather 19th Graph500 List
301-302-303
Performance
Tools
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Ask.CI, the Q&A Platform for Research Computing - Recent Developments
503-504
Collaborative Environments
Education
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Breaking the Old Rule that HPL Goes with the Pace of the Slowest Node
702
Heterogeneous Systems
Performance
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Energy Efficiency Considerations for HPC Procurements
601-603
Energy
Power
State of the Practice
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Exchanging Best Practices in Supporting Computational and Data-Intensive Research
704-706
Computational and Data-Intensive (CDI) Methods
Tools
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S)
405-406-407
Exascale
Package Management
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Leading Inclusively - Redefining Effective Leadership in HPC
710
Career Development
Diversity & Inclusion
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Machine Learning and HPC in Pharma Research and Development
210-212
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Pharmaceutical
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather MPI 4.0 Is Coming - What Is in It and What Is Next?
201-203
MPI
Programming Systems
Runtime Systems
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Power API
607
Energy
Power
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Quantum Computing at the DOE Laboratories: Status and Future Directions
505
Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding
Quantum Computing
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather SAGE2 11th Annual International SC BOF: Scalable Amplified Group Environment for Global Collaboration
708
Collaborative Environments
Emerging Tools enabling HPC Training and Education
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather SIGHPC Annual Member Meeting
401-402-403-404
HPC
SIGHPC Workshop
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather The IO-500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O
205-207
Data Analytics
Storage
Visualization
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Unified Communication X (UCX) Community
605
Architectures
Networks
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather User-Level Threads for Performant and Portable HPC
501-502
Collaborative Environments
Programming Systems
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather AIBench: Toward a Comprehensive AI Benchmark Suite for HPC, Datacenter, Edge, and IoT
503-504
AI
Benchmarks
Big Data
HPC
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Americas HPC Collaboration
607
Collaborative Environments
HPC
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Can Arm Take the Lead in HPC?
301-302-303
Architectures
HPC
State of the Practice
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Ceph in HPC Environments
601-603
Data Analytics
Storage
Visualization
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Cloud Federation for Large-Scale Collaborations
210-212
Cloud Federation
Clouds and Distributed Computing
Collaborative Environments
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Community Building for Sustainable and Scalable HPC Outreach
705-707-709
Community Engagement
Education
HPC
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Designing and Building Next-Generation Computer Systems for Deep Learning
505
Machine Learning
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Enabling Data Services for HPC
501-502
Data Analytics
Storage
Visualization
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Global Research Platform (GRP): Creating Worldwide Advanced Services and Infrastructure for Science
710
Collaborative Environments
Distributed Services
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather HDF5 and Its role in Exascale, Cloud, and Object Stores
405-406-407
Data Analytics
Storage
Visualization
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Heterogeneous and Distributed ISO C++ for HPC Status and Directions
401-402-403-404
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Looking Ahead to Tape Technology’s Role in HPC – Future Advancements, Challenges, and Roadmap
605
Algorithms
Storage
Visualization
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Lustre Community BoF: Lustre in HPC, AI, and the Cloud
205-207
Data Analytics
Storage
Visualization
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Machine-Learning Hardware: Architecture, System Interfaces, and Programming Models
704-706
Architectures
Hardware
Machine Learning
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather OpenACC API User Experience, Vendor Reaction, Relevance, and Roadmap
702
Programming Systems
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather OpenSHMEM: State of the Union 2019
708
State of the Practice
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather The Future of NSF Supported Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
201-203
Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding
State of the Practice
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather TOP500 Supercomputers
Mile High Ballroom
Benchmarks
Energy
Power
top500
TP
EX
EXH
Wednesday, 20 November 2019 expand all · collapse all
TimeTypeSession / PresentationContributorsLocationTagPlan
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather BeeGFS – Architecture, Innovative Implementations, and Development Plans
301-302-303
BeeGFS
File Systems
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Charting the PMIx Roadmap
210-212
Exascale
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Emerging Technologies and HPC Education, Outreach, and Training: Challenges and Opportunities
503-504
Education
SigHPC Chapter
Training
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Getting Scientific Software Installed
405-406-407
State of the Practice
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather HPC PowerStack: Community-Driven Collaboration on Power-Aware System Stack
710
Energy
Power
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Impacting Cancer with HPC: Challenges and Opportunities
205-207
Applications
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and Roadmap
704-706
Architectures
Networks
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Open MPI State of the Union 2019
201-203
MPI
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Open OnDemand User Group Meeting
607
Collaborative Environments
Interactive HPC
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather OpenHPC Community BoF
401-402-403-404
Package Management
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather PBS Pro Open Source Project Community BoF
705-707-709
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Sisyphus’ Work: Adapting Applications to New HPC Architectures - a European Perspective.
501-502
Applications
Architectures
euroHPC
Extreme Scale Computing
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather SOLAR Consortium: Accelerated Ray Tracing for Scientific Simulations
505
Accelerators
Ray Tracing
Scientific Computing
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather The National Academies’ Report on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science: Inspirations for the SC Reproducibility Initiative
601-603
Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding
Reproducibility
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Training and Education for HPC System Administrators: How Can We Do Better?
708
Education
System Administration
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather U.S. Strategic Computing – An Update
702
Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Ethics in HPC
605
Education
Ethics
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Achieving Performance on Current and Future Large-Scale Intel-Based Systems
201-203
Algorithms
Applications
Intel-Based Systems
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Analyzing Parallel I/O
210-212
Performance
Tools
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Big Data and Exascale Computing (BDEC2) Community Roundtable
704-706
Big Data
Community Engagement
Emerging Technologies
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Challenges and Opportunities in Academic HPC Systems Research in 2030
708
Emerging Technologies
Exascale
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Cloud and Open Infrastructure Solutions To Run HPC Workloads
601-603
Clouds and Distributed Computing
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Containers in HPC
405-406-407
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Engaging the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP)
401-402-403-404
Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding
HPC
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather HPC Graph Toolkits and the GraphBLAS Forum
605
Data Analytics
Storage
Visualization
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather LLVM in HPC: Exciting Developments Again This Year!
501-502
Programming Systems
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather MPICH: A High­ Performance Open­-Source MPI Implementation
702
MPI
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Multi-Level Memory and Storage for HPC, Data Analytics, and AI
607
Architectures
Networks
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather OpenMP API Version 5.0 - State of the Union
205-207
Programming Systems
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Reconfigurable/FPGA Clusters for High Performance Computing
505
FPGA
Reconfigurable Computing
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Software Engineering and Reuse in Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics for Science and Engineering
710
Scientific Computing
Software Engineering
TP
EX
EXH
5:15pm - 6:45pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather The Green 500: Trends in Energy Efficient Supercomputing
503-504
Benchmarks
Energy
graph500
HPC
Power
TP
EX
EXH
Thursday, 21 November 2019 expand all · collapse all
TimeTypeSession / PresentationContributorsLocationTagPlan
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Advanced Architecture Testbeds: Community Resources for Enhanced HPC Research
710
Architectures
Networks
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Benchmarking Machine Learning Ecosystem on HPC Systems
708
Benchmarks
HPC
Machine Learning
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Charm++ and AMPI: Adaptive and Asynchronous Parallel Programming
605
MPI
Programming Systems
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather European HPC Ecosystem Summit
601-603
Collaborative Environments
euroHPC
Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather HPC System Testing: Procedures, Acceptance, Regression Testing, and Automation
607
Best Practices
State of the Practice
System Testing
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather HPCG Benchmark Update
704-706
Performance
Tools
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Khronos SYCL Heterogeneous C++ Status and Directions
501-502
Heterogeneous Systems
Parallel Programming Languages, Libraries, and Models
Programming Systems
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Knowledge Is Power: Unleashing the Potential of Your Archives Through Metadata
301-302-303
Data Analytics
Data Management
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather MLPerf: A Benchmark for Machine Learning
201-203
AI
Benchmarks
Machine Learning
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Operational Data Analytics
205-207
Data Analytics
Energy
HPC Center Planning and Operations
Power
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing
705-707-709
Applications
Programming Systems
Python
Scientific Computing
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Quality Assurance and Coding Standards for Parallel Software
505
Coding Standards
Parallel Application Frameworks
Software Engineering
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Science and Technology Requirements for Leadership Computing in Open Science
702
HPC Center Planning and Operations
Requirements
Scientific Computing
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Slurm Community BoF
401-402-403-404
System Software
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Spack Community BoF
503-504
Scientific Computing
Software Engineering
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather TCHPC Career Panel
210-212
Education
TP
EX
EXH
12:15pm - 1:15pmBirds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather Whither Advanced Scientific Computing After Exascale Is Achieved?
405-406-407
Exascale
Scientific Computing
TP
EX
EXH
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