UoBristol HPC group has its most successful SuperComputing conference ever!

The University of Bristol HPC group has been very successful with submissions being accepted for IEEE/ACM SuperComputing in 2016.

This year we have research papers in the main track as well as at the PMBS workshop. We’re teaching what’s turning out to be one of the most popular tutorials at SC16, all about how to use the new features of OpenMP 4.5 to program GPUs. We have two poster presentations on some of our exciting work on performance portability and application-based fault tolerance. We’re giving a talk about how to write performance portable OpenMP 4.5 on the OpenMP booth. We have an exhibit in the SC16 Emerging Technologies Showcase. And we’re participating in the OpenMP Birds of a Feather session, as well as speaking at Intel’s HPC Developer Conference on the Sunday. For the details on each of these SC’16 contributions, read on.

Details of UoB’s contributions to SC’16

• Main track paper, Unprotected Computing : A Large-Scale Study of DRAM Raw Error Rate on a Supercomputer, Wednesday Nov 16th, 4pm - 4:30pm, Room 355-BC.

• PMBS workshop paper, Performance Analysis and Optimization of Clang’s OpenMP 4.5 GPU Support, Sunday Nov 13th, 2pm - 2.30pm,

• Tutorial, Programming Your GPU with OpenMP: A Hands-On Introduction, Monday Nov 14th, 8:30am - 12pm, Room 255-B.

• Poster no. 47, GPU-STREAM: Now in 2D!, Tuesday Nov 15th, 5:15pm - 7pm, Lower Lobby Concourse, Exhibit Hall E - Booth 104.

• Poster no. 56, Software-Level Fault Tolerant Framework for Task-Based Applications, Tuesday Nov 15th, 5:15pm - 7pm, Lower Lobby Concourse, Exhibit Hall E - Booth 104.

• OpenMP booth presentation, Writing Performance-portable OpenMP 4.5, Wednesday Nov 16th, 3.15pm - 3.45pm, OpenMP booth no. 611.

• Emerging Technologies Showcase exhibit, The Nano Simbox: using virtual reality to interactively steer scientific simulations on high-performance computational architectures, Tuesday-Thursday, 10am - 6pm, Room 155-B.

• OpenMP Birds of a Feather session, OpenMP: Where Is It Now and Where Is It Going?, Tuesday Nov 15th, 5:15pm - 7pm, Room 355-E.

• Intel HPC Developer Conference panel session, Sunday Nov 13th, 12pm - 1pm, Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel, 150 W 500 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101.

We hope to meet many of you at SC’16, come and say hello at one of the activities listed above! The whole of Bristol’s HPC team will be there - 7 of us in total - as well as other computational scientists from the University of Bristol and an SC’16 undergraduate student volunteer.

Simon McIntosh-Smith, Professor of High Performance Computing, Head of the HPC Group, University of Bristol

(The University of Bristol’s HPC group is Simon McIntosh-Smith, James Price, Tom Deakin, Matt Martineau, Mike O’Connor, Patrick Atkinson and George Pawelczak)