The Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions are among the most interactive, popular, and well-attended sessions of the SC Conference Series. The BOF sessions provide a non-commercial, dynamic venue for conference attendees to openly discuss current topics of focused mutual interest within the HPC community with a strong emphasis on audience-driven discussion, professional networking and grassroots participation.
SC16 will continue this tradition with a full schedule of exciting, informal, interactive sessions focused around a variety of special topics of mutual interest.
BOF sessions are an excellent opportunity to connect and interact with other attendees with whom you share a mutual interest. SC16 will feature BOF sessions about many HPC-related topics such as algorithms, applications, architectures and networks, clouds and distributed computing, data analytics, visualization and storage, education, outreach, performance measurement, modeling and tools, programming models and software systems, as well as the “state-of-the-practice”.
For information on how to submit, visit the Birds-of-a-Feather Submitters page.
SC16 Birds of a Feather Schedule
For more detailed information, please see the full SC16 Online schedule.
| Tuesday, November 15th | |||
| Time | Session | Contributors | Room |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Meeting of the SIGHPC - Big Data Chapter | Stratos Efstathiadis (New York University), Suzanne McIntosh (New York University) | 155-A |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | 13th Graph500 List | Richard Murphy (Micron Technology Inc), David Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology), Peter Kogge (University of Notre Dame) | 155-A |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | The 2016 HPC Challenge Awards | Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee), Jeremy Kepner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee) | 155-C |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | On-Demand Infrastructure for Data Analytics and Storage | Franck Cappello (Argonne National Laboratory), Gabrielle Allen (University of Illinois) | 250-C |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | New Technologies, Platforms and Services for Sharing Research Data: Data Commons, Distributed Clouds, and Distributed Data Services | Robert Grossman (University of Chicago), Allison Heath (University of Chicago) | 250-D |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | SAGE2: Scalable Amplified Group Environment for Global Collaboration | Jason Leigh (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Maxine Brown (University of Illinois at Chicago), Luc Renambot (University of Illinois at Chicago) | 250-E |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Lustre Community BOF: Lustre Deployments for the Next 5 Years | Stephen Simms (Indiana University), Frank Baetke (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | 255-BC |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Burst Buffers: Early Experiences and Outlook | Deborah Bard (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), David Paul (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Wahid Bhimji (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Bilel Hadri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Robert Ross (Argonne National Laboratory), Cornell Wright (Los Alamos National Laboratory) | 255-D |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Next Generation of Co-Processors Emerges: In-Network Computing | Gilad Shainer (HPC Advisory Council), Richard Graham (Mellanox Technologies), Scott Atchley (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | 255-EF |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | HPC Education: Meeting of the SIGHPC Education Chapter | Richard Coffey (Argonne National Laboratory), Steven Gordon (Ohio State University), Scott Callaghan (University of Southern California), David Halstead (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) | 355-D |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | SIGHPC Annual Member Meeting | 355-F | |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | OpenStack for HPC: Best Practices for Optimizing Software-Defined Infrastructure | Jonathan Mills (NASA), Mike Lowe (Indiana University) | 155-A |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | The Future of NSF Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | William Miller (National Science Foundation), Rudi Eigenmann (National Science Foundation) | 155-A |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | The 2016 Ethernet Roadmap | John D'Ambrosia (Ethernet Alliance), Greg McSorley (Amphenol Corporation), David Chalupsky (Intel Corporation), David Rodgers (Teledyne LeCroy) | 155-C |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Distributed Machine Intelligence Using Tensorflow | Karan Bhatia (Google), Kevin Kissel (Google) | 155-E |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | How to Build Diverse Teams for More Effective Research | Toni Collis (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh), Lorna Rivera (University of Illinois) | 250-C |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Experimental Infrastructure and Methodology for HPC Cloud Research | Kate Keahey (Argonne National Laboratory) | 250-D |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | MPICH: A High-Performance Open-Source MPI Implementation | Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory), Ken Raffenetti (Argonne National Laboratory) | 250-E |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Reconfigurable Supercomputing | Martin Herbordt (Boston University), Alan George (University of Florida), Herman Lam (University of Florida) | 250-F |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Energy Efficiency Considerations and HPC Procurement | Natalie Bates (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Ladina Gilly (Swiss National Supercomputing Center), James Laros (Sandia National Laboratories), James Rogers (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Anna Maria Bailey (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Daniel Hackenberg (Technical University Dresden), Marek Michalewicz (A*STAR Computational Resource Centre), Bilel Hadri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Thomas Ilsche (Technical University Dresden) | 255-BC |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Emerging Trends in HPC Systems and Application Modernization | Hans-Christian Hoppe (Intel Corporation), Marie-Christine Sawley (Intel Corporation) | 255-D |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | TOP500 Supercomputers | Erich Strohmaier (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee), Horst Simon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Martin Meuer (ISC Group) | 255-EF |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Today’s Hot Technology: The Growing Necessity of Liquid Cooled HPC | Geoff Lyon (CoolIT Systems Inc), Wade Doll (Cray Inc.), Michael Patterson (Intel Corporation), Steve Hammond (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Sammy Lee Zimmerman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | 355-D |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | OpenMP: Where Is It Now and Where Is It Going? | Jim Cownie (Intel Corporation), Michael Klemm (Intel Corporation) | 355-E |
| Wednesday, November 16th | |||
| Time | Session | Contributors | Room |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | European Exascale Projects and Their International Collaboration Potential | Jean-François Lavignon (European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing), Marcin Ostasz (European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing), Jean-Philippe Nominé (European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing), Jesus Carretero (Charles III University of Madrid) | 155-A |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Women in HPC: Intersectionality | Rebecca Hartman-Baker (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center), Fernanda Foertter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Toni Collis (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh) | 155-C |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | HDF5: State of the Union | Quincey Koziol (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), David Pearah (HDF Group) | 250-C |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Special Interest Group on HPC in Resource Constrained Environments (SIGHPC-RCE) | Hensley Omorodion (University of Benin), Elizabeth Leake (STEM-Trek) | 250-D |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Charm++ and AMPI: Adaptive and Asynchronous Parallel Programming | Phil Miller (CharmWorks Inc), Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale (University of Illinois), Sam White (University of Illinois) | 250-E |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Charting the PMIx Roadmap | Ralph Castain (Intel Corporation), David Solt (IBM), Artem Polyakov (Mellanox Technologies) | 250-F |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | The Green500: Trends for Energy-Efficient Supercomputing | Wu Feng (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Erich Strohmaier (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Natalie Bates (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Thomas Scogland (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) | 255-D |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | The Message Passing Interface: On the Road to MPI 4.0 and Beyond | Martin Schulz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) | 255-EF |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | IEEE TCHPC Community Meeting | 355-BC | |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | PGAS: The Partitioned Global Address Space | Tarek El-Ghazawi (George Washington University), Lauren Smith (National Security Agency) | 355-E |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Optimizing Performance on Many-Core Processors: Unleashing the Power of the Intel® Xeon Phi and Beyond | Richard Gerber (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center), Thomas Steinke (Zuse Institute Berlin), Kent Milfeld (University of Texas at Austin), Michael Lysaght (Irish Centre for High‑End Computing) | 355-F |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | OpenHPC Community BOF | Karl Schulz (Intel Corporation), David Brayford (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) | 155-A |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Big Data and Exascale Computing (BDEC) Community Report | Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee), Mark Asch (European Extreme Data & Computing Initiative), Peter Beckman (Argonne National Laboratory) | 155-A |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | OpenACC API User Experience, Vendor Reaction, Relevance, and Roadmap | Duncan Poole (NVIDIA Corporation), Sunita Chandrasekaran (University of Delaware), Fernanda Foertter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | 155-C |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Analyzing Parallel I/O | Philip Carns (Argonne National Laboratory), Julian Kunkel (German Climate Computing Center) | 155-E |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Monitoring Large Scale HPC Systems: Understanding, Diagnosis, and Attribution of Performance Variation and Issues | Ann Gentile (Sandia National Laboratories), Jim Brandt (Sandia National Laboratories), Hans-Christian Hoppe (Intel Corporation), Mike Mason (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Mark Parsons (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh), Marie-Christine Sawley (Intel Corporation), Mike Showerman (University of Illinois) | 155-F |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Report to the Facilitator/Cyberpractitioner Community of an NSF-Supported Workshop on the Profession: Community-Building and Next Steps | James Bottum (Internet2), Stephen Wolff (Internet2), Dustin Atkins (Clemson University) | 250-C |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | HPC Outreach: Promoting Supercomputing to the Next Generation | Nick Brown (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh), Scott Callaghan (University of Southern California), Lorna Rivera (University of Illinois) | 250-E |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | High Performance Geometric Multigrid (HPGMG): an HPC Performance Benchmark | Mark Adams (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Samuel Williams (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jed Brown (University of Colorado, Boulder), Erich Strohmaier (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Brian Van Straalen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) | 250-F |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Open MPI State of the Union X | Jeffrey Squyres (Cisco Systems), George Bosilca (University of Tennessee) | 255-BC |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | The U.S. Exascale Computing Project | Paul Messina (Argonne National Laboratory), Stephen Lee (Los Alamos National Laboratory) | 255-EF |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Impacting Cancer with HPC: Opportunities and Challenges | Eric Stahlberg (Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research), Patricia Kovatch (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Sean Hanlon (National Cancer Institute) | 355-BC |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Best Practices in Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Supercomputing | Nancy Amato (Texas A&M University), Max Grossman (Rice University) | 355-D |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | HPCG Benchmark Update | Michael Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories), Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee), Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee) | 355-E |
| 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm | Ceph in HPC Environments | Douglas Fuller (Red Hat Inc), James Wilgenbusch (University of Minnesota) | 355-F |
| Thursday, November 17th | |||
| Time | Session | Contributors | Room |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering on Supercomputers | David Bernholdt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jeffrey Carver (University of Alabama), Mike Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories), Neil Chue Hong (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh), Daniel Katz (University of Illinois), James Lin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Kengo Nakajima (University of Tokyo) | 155-A |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Use Cases of Reconfigurable Computing Architectures for HPC | Marie-Christine Sawley (Intel Corporation), Hans-Christian Hoppe (Intel Corporation), John Shalf (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) | 250-C |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | The Virtual Institute for I/O and the IO-500 List | Julian Kunkel (German Climate Computing Center), Gerald Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories), John Bent (Seagate Technology LLC) | 250-D |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Multi-Kernel OSes for Extreme-Scale HPC | Rolf Riesen (Intel Corporation), Balazs Gerofi (RIKEN) | 250-F |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | Intel QuickAssist User Gathering | Sven Karlsson (Technical University of Denmark), Pascal Schleuniger (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz) | 355-D |
| 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm | SLURM User Group Meeting | Morris Jette (SchedMD LLC) | 355-E |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Omni-Path User Group (OPUG) Meeting | Nick Nystrom (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center), Philip Murphy (Intel Corporation) | 155-A |
