Birds of a Feather • SC21

Days Held

Tuesday–Thursday, November 16–18, 2021

Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide a dynamic, noncommercial venue for conference attendees to openly discuss current topics of interest to our HPC community – from programming models to big data to accelerators to education. BoF sessions connect you with other attendees with similar interests. Help drive the conversation.

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Birds of a Feather Schedule

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Tuesday, 16 November 2021 expand all · collapse all

Type

Plan

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Accelerating Storage IO to GPUs

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Adopting a Common Ecosystem for DSL Development

222

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Charm++ and AMPI: Adaptive and Asynchronous Parallel Programming

Abhinav Bhatele

Esteban Meneses

Kavitha Chandrasekar

227-228

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Data Commons and Data Ecosystems for Biomedical Data and the ML/AI Applications Over Them

Robert Grossman

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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How GPT-3 is Spearheading the Fourth Industrial Revolution

229

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Jerrell Ballard

Ralph McEldowney

240-241-242

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Impacting Cancer with HPC: Big Data, Bias and Digital Twins

Patricia Kovatch

230-231-232

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology and Roadmap

Dhabaleswar Panda

223-224

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Object Stores for HPC: a Devonian Explosion or an Extinction Event?

Philippe Deniel

Johann Lombardi

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Open MPI State of the Union 2021

Jeffrey Squyres

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Operational Data Analytics

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather SIGHPC Roundtable

Christine Harvey

261-262

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Solving the Fabric Management Gordian Knot

Michael Aguilar

Russell Herrell

Richelle Ahlvers

220-221

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

StreamWare: A Scalable Framework for Accelerating Streaming Data Science

Viktor Prasanna

Senjuti Basu Roy

Sanmukh Kuppannagari

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Two Worlds Collide: Traditional HPC Simulation and the Modern AI/Machine Learning Stack

Venkatram Vishwanath

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Analyzing Parallel I/O

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Building Bridges toward RCD Professionalization and Careers

Patrick Schmitz

Shafaq Chaudhry

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Ceph in HPC Environments

230-231-232

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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HPC Graph Toolkits and the GraphBLAS Forum

Mahantesh Halappanar

227-228

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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HPC System Test: Towards Improving Availability and Portability of HPC Test Suites

Verónica Melesse Vergara

Vasileios Karakasis

229

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Khronos SYCL 2020 status and future directions

Simon Mcintosh-Smith

240-241-242

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Liquid Cooling Challenges and Facility Experiences: What's Next?

Fumiyoshi Shoji

Norman Bourassa

Sammy Zimmerman

…

220-221

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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OpenACC User Experience, Hackathons, Vendor Reaction, Relevance, and Roadmap

Sunita Chandrasekaran

Guido Juckeland

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Software Engineering and Reuse in Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics for Science and Engineering

David Bernholdt

Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh

Marion Weinzierl

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Strengthening Reproducibility for SC21 and Beyond

Carlos Maltzahn

Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner

Stephen Lien Harrell

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Successful FPGA Programming Methods and Tools for HPC

Martin Herbordt

Christian Plessl

Kazutomo Yoshii

Torsten Hoeffler

Venkata Krishnan

225-226

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

The Future of NSF Supported Advanced Cyberinfrastructure

Manish Parashar

Alejandro Suarez

222

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

TOP500 Supercomputers

Erich Strohmaier

Ferrara Theatre

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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UCX: Unified Communication X Community

Dhabaleswar Panda

223-224

Wednesday, 17 November 2021 expand all · collapse all

Type

Plan

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Accelerating HPC with BeeGFS: the BeeGFS Community BoF

Rui Màrio Silva Machado

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Addressing Cybersecurity Standards/Policies in HPC Environments

Catherine Hinton

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Advanced Architecture Testbeds: Community Resources for Enhanced HPC Research

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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AI4CI4AI and CI4AI: Community Input for ICICLE, the National Cyberinfrastructure for AI

Vipin Chaudhary

Dhabaleshwar Panda

230-231-232

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Best Practices for Benchmarking Diverse Architectures with Varied Workloads

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Can Fast Be Green? Opportunities and Challenges for Europe When Making HPC Sustainable

Franz-Josef Pfreundt

Daniele Cesarini

Pascale Rossé-Laurent

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Composable Heterogeneous Computing Environments: DIY or Full Automation?

Martijn de Vries

Frank Würthwein

222

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

CXL™ Consortium, Gen-Z Consortium™, SNIA and End-Users – Is Disaggregation of Systems the Future?

Bharath Muthiah

Richelle Alvers

225-226

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Emerging Challenges for HPC System and Facility Electrical Distribution Systems

Fumiyoshi Shoji

220-221

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

From Exascale to Quantum and Beyond: The Future of Federal HPC R&D

Talitha Washington

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Open OnDemand User Group Meeting

Robert Settlage

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

OpenHPC Community BoF

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

SmartNICs : Exploring the Future of In-Network Computation with the HPC Community

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

Spack Community BoF

Massimiliano Culpo

229

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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The Message Passing Interface: Version 4.0 and Beyond

227-228

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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The Open Storage Network

Christine Kirkpatrick

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Words Matter! Promoting Inclusion through Language in Advanced Research Computing

Susan Mehringer

223-224

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Americas HPC Collaboration

Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandez

Verónica Melesse Vergara

Esteban Meneses

Benjamin Hernandez

Phillippe Navaux

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Community-Driven Efforts for Energy Efficiency in HPC Software Stack

Siddhartha Jana

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

High Performance Computing in the Energy Transition

Elizabeth L'Heureux

225-226

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

HPC Carpentry: Introducing New Users to HPC

Annajiat Alim Rasel

220-221

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Integrating HPC with Quantum Computing: How, When, and for What?

227-228

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

Introducing Cloud-Native Supercomputing: Bare-Metal, Secured Supercomputing Architecture

Dhabaleswar Panda

223-224

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

ISO C++ 20, 23, and 26 for HPC

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

MLPerf: A Benchmark for Machine Learning

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

MPICH: A High Performance Open-Source MPI Implementation

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

OpenMP Offloading and the 5.2 API

Johannes Doerfert

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

Pioneering the Future Advanced Computing Ecosystem: Strategy and Execution

Manish Parashar

Manish Parashar

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Software APIs for Programming Exascale HPC

Maxime Martinasso

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

Strategies for Managing Storage in Advanced Computing Environments

Rachana Ananthakrishnan

229

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

The Arm HPC Users Group: Experiences and Predictions for Extreme-Scale Arm Systems

Roxana Rusitoru

Simon McIntosh-Smith

Valerio Schiavoni

Christelle Piechurski

…

Online

5:15pm - 6:45pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

The Green 500: Trends in Energy-Efficient Supercomputing

Erich Strohmaier

Thomas Scogland

240-241-242

Thursday, 18 November 2021 expand all · collapse all

Type

Plan

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Ask the Experts: An Interactive Discussion about the PCI Express® 6.0 Specification

Richard Solomon

Debendra Das Sharma

222

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Margaret Lawson

223-224

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Lustre in HPC, AI and the Cloud

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

Modular, Flexible and Composable HPC Module, HPCM, from the Open Compute Project

Christopher Chapman

225-226

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Northeast and CAREERS Cyberteams: Supporting Research at Small and Mid-Sized Institutions with Student Research Computing Facilitators

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Slurm Community BoF

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

TCHPC Career Panel

Sanjukta Bhowmick

Manish Parashar

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

The IO-500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O

Dean Hildebrand

George Markomanolis

Online

12:15pm - 1:15pm CST

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Birds of a Feather

Towards FAIR for Machine Learning Models

Chunhua "Leo" Liao

Online