The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, will be well represented at SC15 with several researchers contributing to the HPC community’s premier annual conference. This year's event will take place Nov. 15-20 in Austin, Texas.

SC is the leading venue for spotlighting original and innovative scientific and technical applications in HPC, networking, storage, and analysis.

Here is a roundup of the activities ALCF is participating in at this year’s conference (staff in bold). Argonne's full schedule can be found here: scdoe.info/doe-labs/anlsc15

Papers

• Large-Scale Compute-Intensive Analysis via a Combined In-Situ and Co-Scheduling Workflow Approach – Christopher Sewell, Katrin Heitmann, Hal Finkel, George Zagaris, Suzanne T. Parete-Koon, Patricia K. Fasel, Adrian Pope, Nicholas Frontiere, Li-ta Lo, Bronson Messer, Salman Habib, James Ahrens
• Optimal Scheduling of In-Situ Analysis for Large-Scale Scientific Simulations – Preeti Malakar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Todd Munson, Christopher Knight, Mark Hereld, Sven Leyffer, Michael E. Papka

Scientific Visualization Showcase

• Gasoline Compression Ignition: Optimizing Start of Injection Time – Joseph A. Insley, Janardhan Kodavasal, Xiaochuan Chai, Kevin Harms, Marta Garcia, Sibendu Som

Posters

• Accelerating the B-spline Evaluation in Quantum Monte Carlo – Ye Luo, Anouar Benali, Vitali Morozov
• Consistent Hashing Distance Metrics for Large-Scale Object Storage – Philip Carns, Kevin Harms, John Jenkins, Misbah Mubarak, Robert B. Ross, Christopher Carothers
• Heuristic Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm Applied to the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method – Yuri Alexeev, Prasanna Balaprakash
• Improving Throughput by Dynamically Adapting Concurrency of Data Transfer – Prasanna Balaprakash, Vitali Morozov, Rajkumar Kettimuthu
• Molecular Electrostatic Potential Evaluation with the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method – Yuri Alexeev, Dmitri Fedorov
• User Environment Tracking and Problem Detection with XALT – Kapil Agrawal, Greg Peterson, Mark R. Fahey, Robert McLay, Reuben Budiardja

Panels

• In Situ Methods: Hype or Necessity? – Wes Bethel, Patrick O'Leary, John Clyne, Venkat Vishwanath, Jacqueline Chen

Session Chairs

• ScaAnalyzer: A Tool to Identify Memory Scalability Bottlenecks in Parallel Programs – Kalyan Kumaran

Workshops

• ISAV2015: First Workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization – E. Wes Bethel, Venkatram Vishwanath, Gunther H. Weber, Matthew Wolf
• Portability Among HPC Architectures for Scientific Applications – Timothy J. Williams, Katie B. Antypas, Tjerk P. Straatsma
• Second SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training – David Martin (moderator)
• Sixth Annual Workshop for the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG) – Natalie Bates, Anna Maria Bailey, Stephen Poole, Herbert Huber, James H. Rogers, Susan Coghlan, James Laros, Daniel Hackenberg, Francis Belot, Josip Loncaric, David Martinez, Thomas Durbin, Steve Martin, Ramkumar Nagappan, Nicolas Dube, Ingmar Meijer, Marriann Silveira, Andres Marquez
• Ultravis '15: The Tenth Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization – Kwan-Liu Ma, Venkatram Vishwanath, Hongfeng Yu

Workshop Papers

• Community Use of XALT in its First Year in Production – Reuben Budiardja, Mark R. Fahey, Robert McLay, Prasad Maddumage Don, Bilel Hadri, Doug James
• Perspectives on 10 Years of Ultrascale Visualization Collaborations – Joseph A. Insley
• Route-Aware Independent MPI I/O on the Blue Gene/Q – Preeti Malakar, Venkatram Vishwanath
• Streaming Ultra High Resolution Images to Large Tiled Display at Nearly Interactive Frame Rates with vl3 – Jie Jiang, Mark Hereld, Joseph A. Insley, Michael E. Papka, Silvio Rizzi, Thomas Uram, Venkatram Vishwanath

Invited Speakers

• Extreme-Scale Programming Tools – Scott Parker

Tutorials

• Large-Scale Visualization with ParaView – Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, David E. DeMarle, Ollie Lo, Joseph A. Insley, Rich Cook
• Towards Comprehensive System Comparison: Using the SPEC HPG Benchmarks for Better Analysis, Evaluation, and Procurement of Next-Generation HPC Systems – Guido Juckeland, Ke Wang, Sandra Wienke, Oscar Hernandez, Robert Henschel, Kalyan Kumaran, Wen-Mei Hwu, Mat Colgrove, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Kevin Skadron

Birds of a Feather Sessions

• A Cohesive, Comprehensive Open Community HPC Software Stack – Karl Schulz, Susan Coghlan
• HPC Systems Engineering, Administration, and Organization – William R. Scullin, Timothy Wickberg
• Paving the Way for Performance on Intel Knights Landing Processors and Beyond: Unleashing the Power of Next-Generation Many-Core Processors – Richard A. Gerber, Thomas Steinke, Kent Milfeld, David Martin
• Understanding User-Level Activity on Today’s Supercomputers with XALT – Mark R. Fahey, Robert McLay, Reuben Budiardja

Committee Activities

• HPC Impact Showcase – David Martin

Additional Events Held in Conjunction with SC15

• Second Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC – Hal Finkel (organizer)
• StartupHPC: Successful Entrepreneurship – Richard Coffey