CUG2019 Proceedings


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Monday, May 6th


8:30am-10:00am

Technical Workshop 1A
Salle Margaret
Wade Doll
Shasta Hardware Technical Workshop
Technical Workshop

Tutorial 1B
Salle Edward A&B
Michael Ringenburg
Analytics and AI on Cray Systems
Tutorial

Tutorial 1C
Salle Edward C
John Levesque
Preparing an application for Hybrid Supercomputing using Cray's Tool Suite
Tutorial

10:30am-12:00pm

Technical Workshop 1A Continued
Salle Margaret
Wade Doll
Shasta Hardware Technical Workshop
Technical Workshop

Tutorial 1B Continued
Salle Edward A&B
Michael Ringenburg
Analytics and AI on Cray Systems
Tutorial

Tutorial 1C Continued
Salle Edward C
John Levesque
Preparing an application for Hybrid Supercomputing using Cray's Tool Suite
Tutorial

1:00pm-2:30pm

Technical Workshop 2A
Salle Margaret
Larry Kaplan
Shasta Software Technical Workshop
Technical Workshop

Tutorial 2B
Salle Edward A&B
Michael Ringenburg
Analytics and AI on Cray Systems
Tutorial

Tutorial 2C
Salle Edward C
Andrey Ovsyannikov
Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9200 Processor Performance Evaluation for weather. AI Benchmarking and Preparing for Intel® OPTANE™ DC Persistent Memory.
Tutorial

3:00pm-4:30pm

Technical Workshop 2A Continued
Salle Margaret
Larry Kaplan
Shasta Software Technical Workshop
Technical Workshop

Tutorial 2B Continued
Salle Edward A&B
Michael Ringenburg
Analytics and AI on Cray Systems
Tutorial

Tutorial 2C Continued
Salle Edward C
Andrey Ovsyannikov
Intel® Xeon® Platinum 9200 Processor Performance Evaluation for weather. AI Benchmarking and Preparing for Intel® OPTANE™ DC Persistent Memory.
Tutorial

4:40pm-6:00pm

BoF 3A
Salle Margaret
Matt Allen
Systems Support SIG Meeting
Birds of a Feather

BoF 3B
Salle Edward A&B
Bilel Hadri
Programming Environments, Applications, and Documentation (PEAD) Special Interest Group meeting
Birds of a Feather

BoF 3C
Salle Edward C
Sadaf R. Alam
Tools and Utilities for Data Science Workloads and Workflows
Birds of a Feather

Tuesday, May 7th


8:30am-9:40am

General Session 4
Salle Margaret
Colin McMurtrie
CUG Welcome
Keynote: Robust Deep Learning Inference with Limited Resources
Plenary

10:30am-11:40am

General Session 7
Salle Margaret
Brian Skjerven
Scaling Results From the First Generation of Arm-based Supercomputers
Driving Innovation in HPC
Plenary

11:40am-11:50am

New Site 8
Salle Margaret
Brian Skjerven
New Site - Indian Institute of Science
New Site

1:00pm-2:30pm

Technical Session 10A
Salle Margaret
Jim Rogers
Shasta System Management Overview
Shasta System Monitoring Framework
Significant Advances in Cray System Architecture for Diagnostics, Availability, Resiliency, and Health
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 10B
Salle Edward A&B
Scott Michael
Cray Performance Tools: New Functionality and Future Directions
Porting Quantum ESPRESSO Hybrid Functional DFT to GPUs Using CUDA Fortran
Accelerating modern scientific simulations with FPGAs
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 10C
Salle Edward C
Bilel Hadri
Dynamically Provisioning Cray DataWarp Storage
Exploring Lustre Overstriping For Shared File Performance on Disk and Flash
Designing an All-Flash Lustre File System for the 2020 NERSC Perlmutter System
Paper/Presentation

3:00pm-4:30pm

Technical Session 11A
Salle Margaret
Veronica G. Vergara Larrea
Exploring New Monitoring and Analysis Capabilities on Cray’s Software Preview System
Reimagining image management in the new Shasta environment
Exploring the Mysterious Universe of Shasta Software for Perlmutter
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 11B
Salle Edward A&B
Abhinav S. Thota
Challenges in Providing an Interactive Service with Jupyter on Large-Scale HPC Systems
Resource Management in a Heterogeneous Environment
Cray Programming Environments within Containers on Cray XC Systems
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 11C
Salle Edward C
David Hancock
Scheduling Data Streams for Low Latency and High Throughput on a Cray XC40 Using Libfabric
Characterizing Full-system Network Performance and Congestion Management Capabilities with Improved Network Benchmarks
New Lustre Features to Improve Lustre Metadata and Small-File Performance
Paper/Presentation

4:40pm-6:00pm

BoF 12A
Salle Margaret
Sadaf R. Alam
Third Annual Meeting on Opportunities for containers in HPC ecosystems
Birds of a Feather

BoF 12B
Salle Edward A&B
Bilel Hadri
Managing Effectively the User Software Ecosystem
Birds of a Feather

BoF 12C
Salle Edward C
Veronica G. Vergara Larrea
Large-scale System Acceptance Testing: Procedures, Tests, and Automation
Birds of a Feather

Wednesday, May 8th


8:30am-9:40am

General Session 13
Salle Margaret
Colin McMurtrie
CUG Business
Fifty Years and Counting: The past and future of Numerical Weather Prediction at Environment & Climate Change Canada (ECCC
Plenary

10:30am-11:40am

General Session 16
Salle Margaret
Brian Skjerven
Cray Corporate Update
Plenary

11:40am-11:50am

New Site 17
Salle Margaret
Brian Skjerven
New Site - IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP)
New Site

1:00pm-3:00pm

Technical Session 19A
Salle Margaret
Brian Skjerven
I/O Performance Analysis of Science Applications Using HDF5 File-level Provenance
Roofline-based Performance Efficiency of HPC Benchmarks and Applications on Current Generation of Processor Architectures
Experiences porting mini-applications to OpenACC and OpenMP on heterogeneous systems
Hierarchical Roofline Analysis for GPUs: Accelerating Performance Optimization for the NERSC-9 Perlmutter System
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 19B
Salle Edward A&B
David Hancock
Uncovering Lustre Performance Issues in Operational Weather Forecasting at DMI with View for ClusterStor
Analysis of parallel I/O use on the UK national supercomputing service, ARCHER using Cray LASSi and EPCC SAFE
Interfacing HDF5 with A Scalable Object-centric Storage System on Hierarchical Storage
Hybrid Flash/Disk Storage Systems with Lustre
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 19C
Salle Edward C
Abhinav S. Thota
Running Alchemist on Cray XC and CS Series Supercomputers: Dask and PySpark Interfaces, Deployment Options, and Data Transfer Times
Machine learning on Crays to optimise petrophysical workflows in oil and gas exploration
Scalable Reinforcement Learning on Cray Systems
Urika-GX Platform's Multi-Tenancy Support: Lessons Learned
Paper/Presentation

3:30pm-4:30pm

General Session 20
Salle Margaret
Brian Skjerven
1 on 100 or More
Plenary

4:30pm-4:40pm

Site Talk 21
Salle Margaret
Trey Breckenridge
ORNL’s Frontier - Direction of Discovery
New Site

5:10pm-5:40pm

BoF 24C
Salle Edward C
Colin McMurtrie
Open Discussion with CUG Board
Birds of a Feather

Thursday, May 9th


8:30am-9:40am

General Session 25
Salle Margaret
Jim Rogers
The HPC Processor Landscape: A Panel Discussion of Shasta Architecture Options
Plenary

9:50am-10:00am

New Site 27
Salle Margaret
Brian Skjerven
New Site - Paderborn University
New Site

10:30am-12:00pm

Technical Session 28A
Salle Margaret
Tina Declerck
Hardware Discovery and Maintenance Workflows in Shasta Systems
The Beat Goes On... Cascade XC Release Schedule and Patching Stragegy
The Art of Conversation with CrayPort (Bidirectional Record Management)
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 28B
Salle Edward A&B
Ann Gentile
Continuous Deployment Automation in Supercomputer Operations: Techniques, Experiences and Challenges
The role of emerging orchestration and execution models in HPC Environments
PBS Professional on Shasta
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 28C
Salle Edward C
Bilel Hadri
FirecREST: RESTful API on Cray XC systems
User-Friendly Data Management for Scientific Computing Users
Implementation of a multi-purpose DataHub: Making the XC-40 more attractive to Data Scientists at KAUST
Paper/Presentation

1:00pm-3:00pm

Technical Session 29A
Salle Margaret
Kevin Buckley
Using Slurm to Balance the XC Equation
Optimisation of PBS Hooks on the Cray XC40
Impact of Large Jobs and Reservations on Cray Systems Using Slurm
PBS 18 Multiplatform Scheduling
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 29B
Salle Edward A&B
Jim Rogers
Statistical Analysis of Titan Reliability as it reaches End of Life
Perlmutter: A 2020 pre-exascale system optimized for Science
Measuring and Mitigating Processor Performance Inconsistencies
Evaluating Compiler Vectorization Capabilities on Blue Waters
Paper/Presentation

Technical Session 29C
Salle Edward C
Brian Skjerven
Modelling the earth’s geomagnetic environment on Cray machines using PETSc and SLEPc
Sustained Petascale Direct Numerical Simulation on Cray XC40 Systems (Trinity, Shaheen2 and Cori)
Unravelling the Origin of Magnetic fields in Accretion Discs Through Numerical Simulations
Massively Parallel SVD Solver on Cray Supercomputers
Paper/Presentation

3:10pm-3:40pm

General Session 30
Salle Margaret
Colin McMurtrie
CUG 2019 Conference Close
CUG2020 Site Presentation
Plenary

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