In this deck, Gilad Shainer from the HPC Advisory Council kicks off the 2015 Stanford HPC Conference. Watch the Video Presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-dPa

1. Welcome!
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Username: HPCC
Password: Stanford

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Welcome!
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Day 1 Agenda
9:00-9:30 Opening/welcome Session
(Steve Jones - Stanford, Gilad Shainer – HPC Advisory Council)
9:30-10:30
Keynote: Preparing OpenSHMEM for Exascale (Pavel Shamis, Oak Ridge National Lab)
10:30-11:30
Keynote: High-Performance and Scalable Designs of Programming Models for Exascale
Systems (Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University)
11:30-12:00 IBM Describes Top Considerations for Deploying a High Performance Cloud (Charlie
Gonzales, IBM)
12:00-13:00 Lunch and vendor exhibits
13:00-13:30 Scientific computing with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors (Andrey Vladimirov, Colfax and Intel)
13:30-14:15 High Performance Computing Trends (Addison Snell, Intersect 360)
14:15-15:00 The Road to Exascale Panel (DK Panda, Addison Snell, Richard Graham)
15:00-15:30 Break and vendor exhibits
15:30-16:00 Power, Cooling and Hardware Considerations for Next Generation Data Center & HPC
Solutions (Kanti Bhabuthmal, Supermicro)
16:00-16:45 The Breadth of the GPU Accelerated Computing Platform and Its Impact on Deep Learning
(Sumit Gupta, NVIDIA)
16:45-17:45 HPC in an Hour: Tips and tricks to build your own HPC Cluster (Steve Jones, Stanford)

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Day 2 Agenda
9:00-10:00 Keynotes: Interconnecting Future DoE leadership systems (Rich Graham, MPI Forum and
Mellanox)
10:00-11:00 Keynote: The Evolution of HPC Usage at PayPal (Arno Kolster, eBay)
11:00-11:30 Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark and Memcached (Dhabaleswar K.
Panda, Ohio State University)
11:30-12:00
Recent Developments in Cooling, Power Management and Usability (Mark Fernandez, SGI)
12:00-13:00 Lunch and vendor exhibits
13:00-13:30 Planning for Liquid Cooling (Pat McGinn, CoollIT Systems)
13:30-14:00 Lustre Metadata Performance and Solutions from Seagate (Bill Loewe, Seagate)
14:00-14:30 A merit based priority scheme to optimize the use of computing infrastructure (Gowtham S.,
Michigan Technological University)
14:30-15:00 HPC|Music update – An advanced research project for enabling HPC in music creation and
reproduction e (Antonis Karalis, HPC|Music)
15:00-15:30 Break and vendor exhibits
15:30-16:15 Performance and Power Characterization of GPU enabled HPC Applications (Saeed Iqbal,
Dell)
16:15-16:45 Utilizing Cloud HPC Resources for CAE Simulations (Joris Poort, Rescale)
16:45-17:15 UberCloud Community and Marketplace for Technical Computing (Burak Yenier, UberCloud)
17:15 Farewell and Raffle

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Administration
• The workshop goals
– Education, training, solutions, futures
• 2 days workshop and a tight schedule
– We encourage live discussions
– We want to have all sessions start in time
– There are breaks for offline discussions
• Speakers – make sure we have your slides!
• Raffle
– Tuesday afternoon!
• Please visit our sponsors tables

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HPC Advisory Council Members

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HPC Advisory Council HPC Center
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R730
32-node cluster
HP Cluster Platform 3000SL
16-node cluster
HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8
4-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815
11-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6145
6-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610
38-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6100
4-node cluster
White-box InfiniBand-based Storage (Lustre)
Dell™ PowerEdge™
R720xd/R720 32-node cluster
Dell PowerVault MD3420
Dell PowerVault MD3460
InfiniBand
Storage
(Lustre)

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Exploring All Platforms
X86, Power, GPU, FPGA and ARM based Platforms
x86 Power FPGA ARMGPU

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• LS-DYNA
• miniFE
• MILC
• MSC Nastran
• MR Bayes
• MM5
• MPQC
• NAMD
• Nekbone
• NEMO
• NWChem
• Octopus
• OpenAtom
• OpenFOAM
• MILC
• OpenMX
• PARATEC
• PFA
• PFLOTRAN
• Quantum ESPRESSO
• RADIOSS
• SPECFEM3D
• WRF
140+ Applications Best Practices Published
• Abaqus
• AcuSolve
• Amber
• AMG
• AMR
• ABySS
• ANSYS CFX
• ANSYS FLUENT
• ANSYS Mechanics
• BQCD
• CCSM
• CESM
• COSMO
• CP2K
• CPMD
• Dacapo
• Desmond
• DL-POLY
• Eclipse
• FLOW-3D
• GADGET-2
• GROMACS
• Himeno
• HOOMD-blue
• HYCOM
• ICON
• Lattice QCD
• LAMMPS

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University Award Program
• University award program
– Universities are encouraged to submit proposals for advanced research
– Once / twice a year, the HPC Advisory Council will select a few proposals
• Selected proposal will be provided with:
– Exclusive computation time on the HPC Advisory Council’s Compute Center
– Invitation to present in one of the HPC Advisory Council’s worldwide workshops
– Publication of the research results on the HPC Advisory Council website
• 2010 award winner is Dr. Xiangqian Hu, Duke University
– Topic: “Massively Parallel Quantum Mechanical Simulations for Liquid Water”
• 2011 award winner is Dr. Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino
– Topic: “Effective Streaming on Multi-core by Way of the FastFlow Framework’
• 2012 award winner is Jacob Nelson, University of Washington
– “Runtime Support for Sparse Graph Applications”
• 2013 award winner is Antonis Karalis
– Topic: “Music Production using HPC”
• 2014 award winner is Antonis Karalis
– Topic: “Music Production using HPC”
• To submit a proposal – please check the HPC Advisory Council web site

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ISC’14 – Student Cluster Challenge Teams

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ISC’14 – Student Cluster Challenge Teams

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Getting Ready to 2015 Student Cluster Competition

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2015 HPC Advisory Council Conferences
• USA (Stanford University) – February 2015
• Switzerland – March 2015
• Brazil – May 2015
• Germany (ISC’13) – July 2015
• Spain – Sep 2015
• Singapore – Oct 2015
• China (HPC China) – Oct 2015
• South Africa – Dec 2015
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