Panels at SC16 will be, as in past years, among the most important and heavily attended events of the Conference. Panels will bring together the key thinkers and producers in the field to consider in a lively and rapid-fire context some of the key questions challenging high performance computing, networking, storage and associated analysis technologies for the foreseeable future.
Panels bring a rare opportunity for mutual engagement of community leaders and broad mainstream contributors in a face-to-face exchange through audience participation and questioning. Surprises are the norm at panels, which make for exciting and lively hour-and-a-half sessions. Panels can explore topics in depth by capturing the opinions of a wide range of people active in the relevant fields. Panels represent state of the art opinions, and can be augmented with social media technologies including Twitter, LinkedIn, and video feeds, and even real-time audience polling. Please plan on actively participating in one or more of the panel offerings at SC16. We look forward to your help, through your participation, in making panels at SC16 a major success and lots of fun.
For information on how to submit a panel, visit the Panel Submitters page.
SC16 Panels 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 | Different Architectures, Different Times: Reproducibility and Repeatability in High Performance Computing | Miriam Leeser (Northeastern University), Allison Baker (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Lorena Barba (George Washington University), James Demmel (University of California, Berkeley), Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (University of Utah), Michael Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories), Walid Keyrouz (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Jos Martin (Mathworks Inc.) | 255-BC |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | National Strategic Computing Initiative Update | Keith Marzullo (University of Maryland), Steve Binkley (US Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research), Gil Herrera (US Department of Defense), Irene Qualters (National Science Foundation), Erin Szulman (Office of Science and Technology Policy), Susan Gregurick (National Institutes of Health) | 255-BC |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | HPC Workforce Development: How Do We Find Them, Recruit Them, and Teach Them to Be Today's Practitioners and Tomorrow's Leaders? | Henry Neeman (University of Oklahoma), Amy Apon (Clemson University), Toni Collis (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh), Sharon Broude Geva (University of Michigan), Thomas J. Lange (Technology Optimization and Management, LLC), Thomas Sterling (Indiana University), Valerie Taylor (Texas A&M University) | 255-BC |
| Wednesday, November 16th | |||
| Time | Session | Contributors | Room |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Bringing About HPC Open-Standards World Peace | Andrew Richards (Codeplay Software), Tim Mattson (Intel Corporation), Bronis de Supinski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Martin Schulz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Greg Stoner (Advanced Micro Devices Inc), Michael Wolfe (NVIDIA Corporation), Michael Wong (Codeplay Software), Kelvin Li (IBM) | 255-BC |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Post Moore’s Era Supercomputing in 20 Years | Jeffrey S. Vetter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Keren Bergman (Columbia University), Tom Conte (Georgia Institute of Technology), Erik DeBenedictis (Sandia National Laboratories), Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology), John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), George Michelogiannakis (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Jun Sawada (IBM), Matthias Troyer (ETH Zurich) | 255-BC |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | The End of Von Neumann? What the Future Looks Like for HPC Application Developers | David Donofrio (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Gagan Gupta (Microsoft Corporation), Amir Khosrowshahi (Nervana Systems), Andrew Chien (University of Chicago), John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Samuel Williams (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) | 255-BC |
| Thursday, November 17th | |||
| Time | Session | Contributors | Room |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Emerging Realities and New Protocols for Power Distribution: High Voltage and DC | Anna Maria Bailey (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Jack Pouchet (Emerson Network Power), Dan Stanzione (University of Texas at Austin), David Martinez (Sandia National Laboratories), Michael K. Patterson (Intel Corporation), Keiichi Hirose (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) | 255-BC |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Virtualization, Partitioning, Cohabitation, Containers, Something Else? Approaches to Integrating HPC and Big Data Applications | Ronald G. Minnich (Google), Ron Brightwell (Sandia National Laboratories), Rolf Riesen (Intel Corporation), Joefon Jann (IBM), Barret Rhoden (Google), Kamil Iskra (Argonne National Laboratory), Balazs Gerofi (RIKEN), Hermann Haertig (Technical University Dresden), Shane Canon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) | 255-BC |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | HPC/Research Computing: Leveraging the Architectures, Flexibilities, and Tools Emerging from the Members of the OpenStack Scientific Community | Bill Boas (System Fabric Works Inc), Robert Budden (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center), Mike Lowe (Indiana University), Kate Keahey (Argonne National Laboratory), Jonathan Mills (NASA), Blair Bethwaite (Monash University), Stig Teller (Cambridge University), Paul Calleja (Cambridge University), Steve Quenette (Monash University) | 255-BC |
| Friday, November 18th | |||
| Time | Session | Contributors | Room |
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | Future of Memory Technology for Exascale and Beyond IV | Richard Murphy (Micron Technology Inc), Bill Dally (NVIDIA Corporation), Wendy Elasser (ARM), Mike Ignatowski (Advanced Micro Devices Inc), Doug Joseph (IBM), Peter Kogge (University of Notre Dame), Steve Pawlowski (Micron Technology Inc) | 255-BC |
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | HPC File Systems, Challenges, and Use Cases | Simon J. Thompson (University of Birmingham), James Coomer (Data Direct Networks), Sven Oehme (IBM), Sage Weil (Red Hat Inc), Martin Gasthuber (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron), Pamela Gilman (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Colin Morey (Hartree Centre) | 255-EF |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Data Analytics Support for HPC System Management | Abani Patra (University at Buffalo), Matthew Ezell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William Scullin (Argonne National Laboratory), Michael Showerman (University of Illinois), Thomas Furlani (University at Buffalo), William Barth (University of Texas at Austin), James Brandt (Sandia National Laboratories) | 255-BC |
