Speakers and Schedule

Talks will take place the Center for Computational Sciences, Boston University, 3 Cummington Mall, PRB (Physics Research Building) Room 595. The plan is to have short presentations to raise questions and provide ample time for discussion by all participants.

Remote Access

Audio: Call into +1-866-740-1260, access code 3640117.
Slides: Go to www.readytalk.com, access code 3640117.

Tentative Schedule of Speakers & Panelists

Nov. 4 , 2013

8:30 AM Coffee et al

9:00 AM Start of Morning Session

Anshu Dubey (LBL) Summary of first two SIMAC workshops
Mike Clark (NVIDIA) Lattice QCD algorithms at the Exascale
Joe Eaton (NVIDIA) NVIDIA MPI-enabled Iterative Solvers for Large Scale Problems
Frank Winter (Jefferson Laboratory): Accelerating Lattice QCD Calculations on GPU-Enabled Systems

Open Discussion:

How do we accelerate the transition to Heterogeneous Architectures with Accelerators?

12:30 PM Lunch PRB365

1:30 PM Start of Afternoon Session

Andrew Pochinsky (MIT) Qlua: Scripting a DSL
James Brannick (Penn State) AMG at the Exascale?
J. (Ram) Ramanujam (LSU) Software for High Level Optimizing of PDE.

Open Discusion:

What can languages do to help? (lead by Shoaib Kamil)
Array Construction in various Languages: Matrices Vs Meshes (summary Anshu)
AMR implementations in different packages (summary Petros)

5:00 PM Panel Discussion: Professional Development and maximizing the impact of a SIMAC Institute.

Hans Johansen (LBL) Chair
Lori Diachin (LNLL),
Bruce Boghosian (Tufts)
Roscoe Giles(BU),
Claudio Rebbi(BU)

6:30 PM Reception and Buffet Dinner at Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
111 Cummington Mall, Room 180. See Travel & Hotel page for an updated map including the Hariri Institute, or click here for an alternative map for the dinner specifically.

Nov 5 , 2013

9:00 AM Start of Morning Session