SC23 – The International Conference for HPC, Networking, Storage, and Analysis in the US
11:00pm - 8:00am
Each year, SC provides the leading technical program for the HPC community. The Program is designed to share best practices in all areas of high-performance computing. This year the conference is taking place in DENVER, CO between November 12–17.
You will find Pawsey at the Australia HPC booth together with NCI, come to booth #1824 and say hello when the exhibition opens its door on Monday 13 Nov, you will find the team there when they are not presenting.
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre staff will be part of the following workshops and presentations as a part of this conference:
Using Containers to Accelerate HPC
- Sunday, 12 November 2023
- 8:30am – 5pm MST
- Pawsey Staff: Pascal Elahi
Within just the past few years, the use of containers has revolutionized the way in which industries and enterprises have developed and deployed computational software and distributed systems. The containerization model has gained traction within the HPC community as well with the promise of improved reliability, reproducibility, portability, and levels of customization that were not previously possible on supercomputers. This adoption has been enabled by a number of HPC Container runtimes that have emerged including Singularity, Shifter, Enroot, Charliecloud, and others.
This hands-on tutorial looks to train users on the usability of containers on HPC resources. We will provide a detailed background on Linux containers, along with introductory hands-on experience building a container image, sharing the container and running it on a HPC cluster. Furthermore, the tutorial will provide more advanced information on how to run MPI-based and GPU-enabled HPC applications, how to optimize I/O intensive workflows, and how to setup GUI enabled interactive sessions. Cutting-edge examples will include machine learning and bioinformatics. Users will leave the tutorial with a solid foundational understanding of how to utilize containers on HPC resources using Podman, Shifter, and Singularity, and in-depth knowledge to deploy custom containers on their own resources.
Presentation Link: https://sc23.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=tut108&sess=sess220
Tenth Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using Directives (WACCPD 2023)
- Monday, 13 November 2023
- 9am – 12:30pm MST
- Pawsey Staff: Maciej Cytowski
Heterogeneous node architectures are becoming omnipresent in today’s HPC systems. Exploiting the maximum compute capability out of such systems, while also maintaining code portability and maintainability, necessitates accelerator programming approaches such as OpenMP offloading, OpenACC, standard C++/Fortran parallelism, SYCL, DPC++, Kokkos, RAJA. However, the use of these programming approaches remains a research activity and there are many possible trade-offs between performance, portability, maintainability, and ease of use that must be considered for optimal use of accelerator-based HPC systems.
Toward this end, the workshop will highlight the improvements over state-of-the-art through the accepted papers and talks. In addition, the event will foster discussion with a keynote/panel to draw the community’s attention to key areas that will facilitate the transition to accelerator-based HPC. The workshop aims to showcase all aspects of innovative high-level language features, lessons learned while using directives/abstractions to migrate scientific legacy code, and experiences using novel accelerator architectures, among others.
Workshop Link: https://sc23.supercomputing.org/session/?sess=sess444
Designing HPC Outreach Activities
- Tuesday, 14 November 2023
- 12:15pm – 1:15pm MST
- Pawsey Staff: Ann Backhaus
HPC Outreach is essential to enthusing young minds about computational science, informing the public and growing the HPC community, and yet many institutions do not have sufficient funding or staff effort to support the outreach activities. Effective outreach requires well designed activities that are suitable to the target audience and event type. Different activities are needed for different age groups, scientific backgrounds or venues. Each activity also has its own lifecycle and cannot be reused indefinitely. The goal of this session is to design several new activities that the community would be able to develop over the coming year.
Workshop Link: https://sc23.supercomputing.org/session/?sess=sess406
A Component-Based Approach for Integrating Quantum Computing Test Beds into HPC Environments: Challenges and Opportunities
- Tuesday, 14 November 2023
- 5:15pm – 6:45pm MST
- Pawsey Staff: Ugo Varetto
Workshop Link: https://sc23.conference-program.com/presentation/?id=bof214&sess=sess353
Updates from the HPC Certification Forum
- Wednesday, 15 November 2023
- 12:15pm – 1:15pm MST
- Pawsey Staff: Ann Backhaus
Creating and providing HPC training for practitioners with diverse backgrounds is challenging, and requires a multitude of educational resources covering different skills. However, the sheer volume does not guarantee discoverability or quality of the content. The main goal of the International HPC Certification program is to ease the provision and uptake of training by clearly categorizing, defining and eventually assessing the skills required to efficiently use HPC resources. The session aims to present the current status, discuss the developed processes, tools, and skills, and ensure community involvement. Anyone interested in HPC education is invited to participate in the discussion.
Workshop Link: https://sc23.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof143&sess=sess401
New Competences: Are We Ready for the Uptake of Exascale and Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing?
- Wednesday, 15 November 2023
- 12:15pm – 1:15pm MST
- Pawsey Staff: Ann Backhaus
Exascale computing (EC) can process larger quantities of data faster than ever before and the technologies being developed can help accelerate innovation across the economy. Quantum-classical hybrid solutions have already gone beyond research environments into the business spheres. The first-generation EC projects in the USA and UK are soon ending.
Which tools and environments are emerging as most sought-after? How ready are we to answer the skills needs of computational researchers and business users? Do we have a clear competence framework? What are the needed skills to harness the promise and potential of emerging technologies?
Workshop Link: https://sc23.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof209&sess=sess336
Pathfinding in HPC Education and Training
- Thursday, 16 November 2023
- 12:15pm – 1:15pm MST
- Pawsey Staff: Ann Backhaus
Despite the quantity of existing training materials, acquisition and development of HPC skills is not straightforward enough to address the needs of the growing and diversifying HPC community. To address this, the HPC teaching and training ecosystem must mirror the growth and diversification of the HPC community and technologies. This BoF creates an opportunity to gather the user/learner community perspectives and explore new requirements in order to identify new entry points and build well-defined learning pathways that more accurately represent the aims of the user/learner community and changing technology landscape. We encourage those interested in HPC training to attend.
Workshop Link: https://sc23.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof140&sess=sess410