Important Dates:
February 16, 2016: Submissions open
July 31, 2016 Deadline extended to August 15, 2016: Submissions deadline
September 1, 2016: Notifications sent
In the Emerging Technologies track of the Technical Program, SC16 will examine innovative solutions that may significantly improve and extend the world of HPC in the next five to fifteen years. Consisting of carefully selected exhibits and presentations, Emerging Technologies will showcase technologies that are innovative from industry, government labs or initiatives, and academia but not yet available from industry as products. Technologies such as reconfigurable computing, new SoC designs, 3D memory technologies, non-volatile memory, alternative programming languages, and novel cooling techniques may offer medium-term benefits, while new device technologies such as carbon nanotubes, photonic interconnects, and chip-level optical interconnects as well as quantum computing and next-generation optical computers offer potentially paradigm-changing benefits over the longer term.
The SC16 Emerging Technologies Committee will select these technologies from submissions, based on a peer-review process with a single round of reviews. Successful projects will advocate future technologies with the potential to influence computing and society as a whole. Accepted submissions will receive free exhibit floor space in a high visibility location; this location will allow attendees the opportunity to witness technology demonstrations, see presentations, and hold in-depth technical discussions. This emerging Technologies Showcase is slated to run daily between Tuesday, November 15 and Thursday, November 17, inclusive, from 10AM to 6PM.
Submission Format to the Emerging Technologies Track:
We invite submissions from industry, academia, and government researchers for this Emerging Technologies Showcase. Submissions will be evaluated on several criteria including their novelty and their potential impact on performance, productivity, power, reliability, and cost of HPC systems. Submissions with unique merit may be offered the opportunity to present at an Emerging Technology panel session. Each submission should describe the project scope in detail and provide references to external resources (newspaper articles, existing installations, web pages etc.). Additional materials, such as prototype photos are very welcome. Each project also needs to describe how much space it would require and how it would use the space provided (include any additional requirements such as A/V equipment or network connectivity).
Submissions are accepted at the submission website as a single 2-page maximum PDF that follows the following structure:
- Title and submitting author(s)
- Description of the project (including references and importance to SC community).
- Space requirements (I.e., how much space, what kind of displays, posters, video walls, standing displays, size, photos, additional security requirements, and additional equipment requirement, e.g., network connections or displays)
- Staffing (Would the project be able to have somebody in the booth, perhaps part time?)
- Presentation (Would you be willing to give a talk in a theater or participate in a panel describing your project?)
- Miscellaneous (Everything that is important to add and does not fit in the categories above.)
A list of references may be provided as additional pages to the single 2-page PDF write-up. That is, this list of references will not count towards the single 2-page count limit.
Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/
Questions or Email Contact: emerging-technologies@info.supercomputing.org
SC16 Emerging Technologies Chair:
Wu Feng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
SC16 Emerging Technologies Vice Chair:
Simon McIntosh-Smith (University of Bristol)
SC16 Emerging Technologies Schedule
For more detailed information, please see the full SC16 Online schedule.
| Tuesday, November 15th | |||
| Time | Session | Contributors | Room |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | A Flexible Fabric for the Future of Supercomputing | John Peers (Lightfleet Corp.), Bill Dress (Lightfleet Corp.), Harold Cook (Lightfleet Corp.) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Global Energy Optimization: A Breakthrough in Overcoming the Exascale Power Wall | Jonathan Eastep (Intel Corporation) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | HPC Power/Thermal/Performance Research with OpenPOWER | Todd Rosedahl (IBM), Bradley Bishop (IBM) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | An Open Toolkit for Building High Performance SoC’s | David Donofrio (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Farzad Fatollahi-Fard (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John Leidel (Texas Tech University), Xi Wang (Texas Tech University), Yong Chen (Texas Tech University) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Parallware: Novel LLVM-Based Software Technology for Classification of Scientific Codes to Assist in Parallelization with OpenMP and OpenACC | Manuel Arenaz (Appentra Solutions) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Programming High-Performance Heterogeneous Computing Systems with the Radeon Open Compute Platform | Mayank Daga (Advanced Micro Devices Inc), Gregory Stoner (Advanced Micro Devices Inc) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Reconfigurable Compile-Time Superscalar Computer | Earle Jennings (QSigma, Inc.) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Revolutionizing High Performance and Standard Computing Through Optical Processing Technology | Nick New (Optalysys Inc), Emma Blaylock (Optalysys Inc), Ananta Palani (Optalysys Inc) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | The Path to Embedded Exascale | Kurt Keville (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anthony Skjellum (Auburn University), Mitch Williams (Sandia National Laboratories) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | The Nano Simbox: using virtual reality to interactively steer scientific simulations on high-performance computational architectures | Michael O'Connor (Interactive Scientific Ltd), Rebecca Sage (Interactive Scientific Ltd), Philip Tew (Interactive Scientific Ltd), Simon McIntosh-Smith (University of Bristol), David R. Glowacki (University of Bristol) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Toward Next-Generation HPC with HPE Moonshot | Aalap Tripathy (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Sorin Cristian Cheran (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Gerald Kleyn (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Bill Whiteman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Mitch Wright (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Towards a 100% mechanical chiller free data center | Torsten Wilde (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), Michael Ott (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), Herbert Huber (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), Walter Mittelbach (SorTech AG), Gregor Feig (SorTech AG) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Towards “Write Once, Run Anywhere” HPC via Automated Translation | Paul Sathre (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Mark K. Gardner (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Wu Feng (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) | 155-B |
| Wednesday, November 16th | |||
| Time | Session | Contributors | Room |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | A Flexible Fabric for the Future of Supercomputing | John Peers (Lightfleet Corp.), Bill Dress (Lightfleet Corp.), Harold Cook (Lightfleet Corp.) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Towards “Write Once, Run Anywhere” HPC via Automated Translation | Paul Sathre (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Mark K. Gardner (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Wu Feng (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Global Energy Optimization: A Breakthrough in Overcoming the Exascale Power Wall | Jonathan Eastep (Intel Corporation) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Programming High-Performance Heterogeneous Computing Systems with the Radeon Open Compute Platform | Mayank Daga (Advanced Micro Devices Inc), Gregory Stoner (Advanced Micro Devices Inc) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Reconfigurable Compile-Time Superscalar Computer | Earle Jennings (QSigma, Inc.) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Toward Next-Generation HPC with HPE Moonshot | Aalap Tripathy (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Sorin Cristian Cheran (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Gerald Kleyn (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Bill Whiteman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Mitch Wright (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | The Path to Embedded Exascale | Kurt Keville (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anthony Skjellum (Auburn University), Mitch Williams (Sandia National Laboratories) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Parallware: Novel LLVM-Based Software Technology for Classification of Scientific Codes to Assist in Parallelization with OpenMP and OpenACC | Manuel Arenaz (Appentra Solutions) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | HPC Power/Thermal/Performance Research with OpenPOWER | Todd Rosedahl (IBM), Bradley Bishop (IBM) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Revolutionizing High Performance and Standard Computing Through Optical Processing Technology | Nick New (Optalysys Inc), Emma Blaylock (Optalysys Inc), Ananta Palani (Optalysys Inc) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | An Open Toolkit for Building High Performance SoC’s | David Donofrio (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Farzad Fatollahi-Fard (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John Leidel (Texas Tech University), Xi Wang (Texas Tech University), Yong Chen (Texas Tech University) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | The Nano Simbox: using virtual reality to interactively steer scientific simulations on high-performance computational architectures | Michael O'Connor (Interactive Scientific Ltd), Rebecca Sage (Interactive Scientific Ltd), Philip Tew (Interactive Scientific Ltd), Simon McIntosh-Smith (University of Bristol), David R. Glowacki (University of Bristol) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 6:00 pm | Towards a 100% mechanical chiller free data center | Torsten Wilde (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), Michael Ott (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), Herbert Huber (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), Walter Mittelbach (SorTech AG), Gregor Feig (SorTech AG) | 155-B |
| Thursday, November 17th | |||
| Time | Session | Contributors | Room |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | A Flexible Fabric for the Future of Supercomputing | John Peers (Lightfleet Corp.), Bill Dress (Lightfleet Corp.), Harold Cook (Lightfleet Corp.) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Towards “Write Once, Run Anywhere” HPC via Automated Translation | Paul Sathre (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Mark K. Gardner (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Wu Feng (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Global Energy Optimization: A Breakthrough in Overcoming the Exascale Power Wall | Jonathan Eastep (Intel Corporation) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Programming High-Performance Heterogeneous Computing Systems with the Radeon Open Compute Platform | Mayank Daga (Advanced Micro Devices Inc), Gregory Stoner (Advanced Micro Devices Inc) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Reconfigurable Compile-Time Superscalar Computer | Earle Jennings (QSigma, Inc.) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Toward Next-Generation HPC with HPE Moonshot | Aalap Tripathy (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Sorin Cristian Cheran (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Gerald Kleyn (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Bill Whiteman (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Mitch Wright (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | The Path to Embedded Exascale | Kurt Keville (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anthony Skjellum (Auburn University), Mitch Williams (Sandia National Laboratories) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Parallware: Novel LLVM-Based Software Technology for Classification of Scientific Codes to Assist in Parallelization with OpenMP and OpenACC | Manuel Arenaz (Appentra Solutions) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | HPC Power/Thermal/Performance Research with OpenPOWER | Todd Rosedahl (IBM), Bradley Bishop (IBM) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Revolutionizing High Performance and Standard Computing Through Optical Processing Technology | Nick New (Optalysys Inc), Emma Blaylock (Optalysys Inc), Ananta Palani (Optalysys Inc) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | An Open Toolkit for Building High Performance SoC’s | David Donofrio (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Farzad Fatollahi-Fard (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), John Leidel (Texas Tech University), Xi Wang (Texas Tech University), Yong Chen (Texas Tech University) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | The Nano Simbox: using virtual reality to interactively steer scientific simulations on high-performance computational architectures | Michael O'Connor (Interactive Scientific Ltd), Rebecca Sage (Interactive Scientific Ltd), Philip Tew (Interactive Scientific Ltd), Simon McIntosh-Smith (University of Bristol), David R. Glowacki (University of Bristol) | 155-B |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Towards a 100% mechanical chiller free data center | Torsten Wilde (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), Michael Ott (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), Herbert Huber (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), Walter Mittelbach (SorTech AG), Gregor Feig (SorTech AG) | 155-B |
