HPC is helping to solve our hardest problems in the world. Innovations from our community have far reaching impact in every corner of science, all the way to investment banking, in the discovery of new drugs, to the precise prediction of the next superstorm. For more than two decades, the SC Conference has been the place to build and share the innovations that are making these life-changing discoveries possible.

In November of 2014, SC is going back to New Orleans with new ideas and a fresh take on HPC.  Spotlighting the most original and fascinating scientific and technical applications from around the world, SC14 will once again bring together the HPC community – an unprecedented array of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, students, programmers, system administrators, and developers – for an exceptional program of technical papers, tutorials, timely research posters, and Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions.

The SC14 Exhibition Hall will feature exhibits of the latest and greatest technologies from industry, academia and government research organizations; many of these technologies will be seen for the first time in New Orleans. Mark your calendar and make your way to New Orleans. No city offers the same extraordinary mix of food, music, culture, and history; and no conference offers a better opportunity to view the why HPC matters.

Join the community in November to share our collective accomplishments and to engage in important conversations of how we make HPC Matter to our lives, our future, our communities and our world.

ALCF SC14 Activities

Papers

• Metascalable Quantum Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hydrogen-on-Demand – Ken-ichi Nomura, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta, Kohei Shimamura, Fuyuki Shimojo, Manaschai Kunaseth, Paul C. Messina, Nichols A. Romero
• Efficient I/O and Storage of Adaptive Resolution Data, – Sidharth Kumar, John Edwards, Peer-Timo Bremer, Aaron Knoll, Cameron Christensen, Venkatram Vishwanath, Philip Carns, John A. Schmidt, Valerio Pascucci

Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase

• Investigating Flow-Structure Interactions in Cerebral Aneurysms – Joseph A. Insley, Paris Perdikaris, Leopold Grinberg, Yue Yu, Michael E. Papka, George Em Karniadakis

Posters

• RHF SCF Parallelization in GAMESS by Using MPI and OpenMP – Yuri Alexeev, Graham Fletcher, Vitali Morozov
• Raexplore: Enabling Rapid, Automated Architecture Exploration for Full Applications – Yao Zhang, Prasanna Balaprakash, Jiayuan Meng, Vitali Morozov, Scott Parker, Kalyan Kumaran
• Large-Scale Parallel Visualization of Particle Datasets Using Point Sprites – Silvio Rizzi, Mark Hereld, Joseph Insley, Michael E. Papka, Thomas Uram, Venkatram Vishwanath
• bgclang: Creating an Alternative, Customizable, Toolchain for the Blue Gene/Q – Hal Finkel
• Bandwidth-Aware Resource Management for Extreme Scale Systems – Zhou Zhou, Xu Yang, Zhiling Lan, Paul Rich, Wei Tang, Vitali Morozov, Narayan Desai

Challenges

• Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge – Linear Scalers: Vitali Morozov, Kumar Kumaran, Kevin Harms, Tim Williams, Hal Finkel
• SC14 Student Cluster Competition – Illinois Institute of Technology: Kevin Brandstatter, Jason DiBabbo, Daniel Gordon, Ben Walters, Alex Ballmer, Lauren Ribordy, Ioan Raicu (support provided by Ben Allen and William Scullin)

Panel

• Multi-System Supercomputer Procurements – Is It a Good Idea? – Arthur S. Bland, Bronis R. de Supinski, Manuel Vigil, Katie Antypas, Susan Coghlan, James H. Rogers

Workshops

• 5th Annual Energy Efficient HPC Working Group Workshop –  Natalie Bates, Stephen Poole, John Shalf, Herbert Huber, Anna Maria Bailey, Susan Coghlan, James Laros, Josip Loncaric, James Rogers, Wu Feng, Daniel Hackenberg, Ladina Gilly, Dave Martinez, William Tschudi, Marriann Silveira, Thomas Durbin, Kevin Regimbal, Francis Belot
• LLVM-HPC: LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC – Hal Finkel, Jeff Hammond
• Ultravis '14: The 9th Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization – Kwan-Liu Ma, Venkatram Vishwanath, Hongfeng Yu
  • Ultravis Session: Large Scale Particle and Volume Visualization with VL3 on Leadership Systems – Silvio Rizzi
• 4th Workshop on Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing (PyHPC) – Andreas Schreiber, William Scullin, Andy R. Terrel
• 5th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS14)
  • SPEC ACCEL - A Standard Application Suite for Measuring Hardware Accelerator Performance – Guido Juckeland, William Brantley, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Barbara Chapman, Shuai Che, Mathew Colgrove, Huiyu Feng, Alexander Grund, Robert Henschel, Wen-Mei Hwu, Huian Li, Matthias S. Müller, Maxim Perminov, Pavel Shelepugin, Kevin Skadron, John Stratton, Alexey Titov, Ke Wang, Matthijs van Waveren, Brian Whitney, Sandra Wienke, Rengan Xu, Kalyan Kumaran

Tutorials

• Large Scale Visualization with ParaView – Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, Sebastien Jourdain, David DeMarle, Robert Maynard, La-Ta Lo, Joseph Insley

Birds of a Feather Sessions

• LLVM in HPC: Uses and Desires – Hal Finkel, Jim Cownie
• HPC Systems Engineering, Suffering, and Administration – William Scullin, Jenett Tillotson, Adam Hough
• Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing – Andreas Schreiber, William Scullin, Andy Terrel
• Application Readiness and Portability for Leadership Computing – Tjerk Straatsma, Timothy Williams
• Monitoring Large-Scale HPC Systems: Issues and Approaches – Jim Brandt, Michael Showerman, Michael Mason, Bill Allcock
• HPC Debugging Techniques – Chris Gottbrath, Dong Ahn, Mike Ashworth, Ray Loy

HPC Interconnections

• BE Session: Submitting Posters: Making Your Research Known – Richard Coffey, Raquell Holmes, Michela Taufer, Mary Ann Leung, Tony Drummond (organizers)
• BE Session: Interviewing & Mock Interviews – Christine Harvey, Jose Castillo, Heidi Lee Alvarez, Tony Baylis, Richard Coffey (panelists)

Additional Committee Activities

• HPC Impact Showcase  – David Halstead, David Martin
• Broader Engagement Committee  – Richard Coffey