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12-14 March 2018King Fahd Medical Research Center, KAU

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The Eighth High Performance Computing Conference in Saudi ArabiaHigh PerformanceComputingSaudi Arabia

2 0 1 8DAY 1: MON 12 MARCH 2018

Registration08:00 – 09:30 am

General Co-Chair’s Welcome [Rashid Mehmood, KAU]10:30 – 10:35 am

Opening Ceremony

09:30 – 10:10 am

Quran Recitation

Opening Speech [Prof. Amin Noaman, Vice President of Development, KAU]

Promo Video

HPC Center @ KAU [Dr. Iyad Katib, Director, HPC Center, KAU]

KAU Vision for HPCSaudi [Prof. Abdulrahman Obaid AI-Youbi, President, KAU]

Honouring the Speakers and Sponsors [Prof. Abdulrahman Obaid AI-Youbi,

President, KAU]

COFFEE/TEA BREAK10:10 – 10:30 am

COFFEE/TEA BREAK03:30 – 03:45 pm

First Day Closing (Lottery Draw Prizes for physical attendance)05:20 pm

LUNCH BREAK12:20 – 01:15 pm

Session: AI and Infrastructure (Chair: Ahmad Alabduljabbar, Intel)03:45 – 04:20 pm Fujitsu Deep Learning Unit [Pierre Lagier, Fujitsu]

04:20 – 04:40 pm Deploying ORNL’s Pre-Exascale System “SUMMIT” and Preparing for ORNL’s Exascale System “FRONTIER” [Jeffrey Nichols, ORNL]

04:40 – 05:20 pm Panel: Saudi Top 100 HPC List: HPC Acceleration and Innovation in Saudi Arabia - Benchmarking and Ranking

Session: HPC Future Evolution/Revolution (Chair: David Keyes, KAUST)

10:35 – 11:15 am Co-design 3.0: A Computing Paradigm to Address Humanity’s Grand Challenges [Sadasivan Shankar, Harvard University]

11:15 – 11:50 am The Machine: The Future of it: Status and First Results [Patrick Demichel, HP]

11:50 – 12:20 pm The Evolution of HPC in a Post Moore’s Law World [David Turek, IBM]

Session: Future Applications and HPC/Big Data Convergence (Chair: Pierre Lagier, Fujitsu)01:15 – 01:55 pm Computational Radiotherapy: or How Physicists and Data Scientists

can Help Treat Cancer [Mark Hayes, University of Cambridge]

01:55 – 02:25 pm Algorithmic Adaptations to Extreme Scale Computing [David Keyes, KAUST]

02:25 – 03:00 pm Toward Exascale: Challenges and Opportunities in A Data-Centric HPC World [William Magro, Intel]

03:00 – 03:30 pm The Changing Face of Supercomputing [Jeffrey Brooks, Cray]

DAY 2: TUE 13 MARCH 2018

Session: Data, AI, and HPC Applications (Chair: Mark Hayes, University of Cambridge)09:00 – 09:40 am Strategies of Developing New Drugs Based on the Results of Human

Genomic Big Data Analysis [Naoyuki Kamatani, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, StaGen Co.]

09:40 – 10:05 am Simulations Of Weather And Climate Models In The Center Of Excellence For Climate Change Research Of King Abdulaziz University Using Aziz Supercomputer [Mansour Almazroui, KAU]

Poster Session10:30 – 11:20 am

COFFEE/TEA BREAK02:30– 03:00 pm

Second Day Closing (Lottery Draw Prizes for physical attendance and Twitter activity)05:00 pm

Session (contd.): Infrastructure (Compute, …)(Chair: Jysoo Lee, KAUST)

03:00 – 03:15 pm Offloading vs Onloading: That’s the Question [Altay Tan Gencay, Mellanox]

03:15 – 03:30 pm Energy Efficiency and Water Cooling Technology Innovation [Zeeshan Kamal, Lenovo]

03:30 – 04:30 pm Panel: HPC and Big Data Convergence: Future Applications04:30 – 04:40 pm Best Poster Awards Ceremony [Prof. Yusuf Al-Turki & Prof. Amin Noaman, KAU]04:40 – 04:50 pm General Co-Chairs’ Closing Speech [Iyad Katib & Rashid Mehmood, KAU]

Session: HPC in Academia and Practice (Chair: Raed Shaikh, Aramco)11:20 – 11:45 am Scientific Computing Activities in KAUST: An Overview [Jysoo Lee, KAUST]

11:45 – 12:00 pm HPC Use Cases Across Verticals [Ahmad Alabduljabbar, Intel]

Session: Infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Interconnect, Resource Management)(Chair: Robert Eades, IBM)

01:00 – 01:25 pm HPC Platform Efficiency and the Challenges for a System Builder [Martin Hilgeman, Dell EMC]

01:25 – 01:45 pm Access, Control, and Optimize HPC with PBS Works [William Nitzberg, PBS Works, Altair]

01:45 – 02:10 pm Serving Varying Workloads with Lustre And Mixed Storage Technologies[Jeff Johnson, Aeon Computing]

02:10 – 02:30 pm HPC Application I/O Acceleration – A First Glance at I/O Profiling, I/O Wait & Speed-up [Laurent Yannick Thiers, DataDirect Networks]

DAY 3: WED 14 MARCH 2018

09:00 – 12:00 pm

(Workshop Part A) Containers: Portable, repeatable user-oriented application delivery. Build, deploy, run any app anywhere [Docker Inc. & Saudi Aramco]

How to run applications on the Aziz supercomputer [Fujitsu]

Accelerating Machine Learning and Deep Learning with IBM PowerAI [IBM]

Balanced HPC Solution Building Blocks [Intel]

Big Data Analytics using Apache Spark [KAU]

How to Deal with Large Scale Complex Scientific Workflows [KAUST]

01:00 – 04:00 pm

(Workshop Part B) Containers: Portable, repeatable user-oriented applicationdelivery. Build, deploy, run any app anywhere [Docker Inc. & Saudi Aramco]

Application porting and optimization for the IBM OpenPOWER and POWER9 HPC Systems [IBM]

Data Analytics for Internet of Things [KAU]

Parallel Computing with MPI [KAU]

Introduction to Deep Learning [Nvidia]

Conference Closing04:00 pm

10:05 – 10:30 am Accelerating Deep Learning With HPC Techniques For Dense Linear Algebra [Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology]

2 0 1 8DAY 1: MON 12 MARCH 2018

Opening Ceremony

09:30 – 10:10 am

Quran Recitation

Promo Video

President, KAU]

09:00 – 12:00 pm

01:00 – 04:00 pm

2 0 1 8DAY 1: MON 12 MARCH 2018

Opening Ceremony

09:30 – 10:10 am

Quran Recitation

Promo Video

President, KAU]

09:00 – 12:00 pm

01:00 – 04:00 pm

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