The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, will be well represented at SC16 with several staff members contributing to the HPC community’s premier annual conference. This year's event will take place Nov. 13-18 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Here is a roundup of the activities ALCF is participating in at this year’s conference (staff in bold).

Papers

• “A Data-Driven Scheduling Approach for Power Management on HPC Systems” – Sean Wallace, Xu Yang, Venkatram Vishwanath, William E. Allcock, Susan Coghlan, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan
• “Extreme-Scale Plasma Turbulence Simulations on Top Supercomputers Worldwide” – William Tang, Bei Wang, Stephane Ethier, Grzegorz Kwasniewski, Torsten Hoefler, Khaled Ibrahim, Kamesh Madduri, Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker, Carlos Rosales Fernandez, Timothy Williams
• “Optimal Execution of Co-Analysis for Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations” – Preeti Malakar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Christopher Knight, Todd Munson, Michael E. Papka
• “Performance Analysis, Design Considerations, and Applications of Extreme-Scale In Situ Infrastructures” – Utkarsh Ayachit, Andy Bauer, Earl P. N. Duque, Greg Eisenhauer, Nicola Ferrier, Junmin Gu, Kenneth Jansen, Burlen Loring, Zarija Lukic, Suresh Menon, Dmitriy Morozov, Patrick O'Leary, Reetesh Ranjan, Michel Rasquin, Christopher P. Stone, Venkat Vishwanath, Gunther Weber, Brad J. Whitlock, Matthew Wolf, Kesheng Wu, E. Wes Bethel

Birds of a Feather Sessions

• HPC Education: Meeting of the SIGHPC Education Chapter – Richard Coffey

Panels

• Data Analytics Support for HPC System Management – Matthew Ezell, William Scullin, Michael Showerman, Thomas Furlani, William Barth, James Brandt

Showcase Events

• HPC Impact Showcase – David Martin and David Halstead
• Scientific Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase: Nanocarbon Synthesis by High-Temperature Oxidation of Nanoparticles – Joseph A. Insley, Ying Li, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Pankaj Rajak, Ken-ichi Nomura, Priya Vashishta

Tutorials

• Large-Scale Visualization with ParaView - Kenneth Moreland, W. Alan Scott, David E. DeMarle, Joseph A. Insley, Jonathan Woodring, John Patchett
• High-Performance Python for Scientific Computing – Stan Seibert, Michael Klemm, WIlliam Scullin, Kevin O'Leary
• Vectorization Strategies for Intel’s 2nd Generation Intel Xeon® Phi™ Architecture Named Knights Landing – Ashish Jha, Vitali Morozov, Jack Deslippe

Workshops

• HPC Systems Professional Workshop – Isaac Traxler, Jenett Tillotson, Randy Herban, Henry Neeman, Stephen Lien Harrell, Prentice Bisbal, William Scullin, Robert Ping
• LLVM-HPC2016: Third Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC – Hal Finkel
• PyHPC 2016: 6th Workshop on Python for High-Performance and Scientific Computing – Andreas Schreiber, William Scullin, Bill Spotz, Andy R. Terrel
• Seventh Annual Workshop for the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG) – Michael Patterson, Torsten Wilde, Natalie Bates, Stephen Poole, Daniel Hackenberg, Thomas Durbin, Steve Martin, Dale Sartor, Anna Maria Bailey, Ramkumar Nagappan, Nicolas Dube, Andres Marquez, David Grant, Josip Loncaric, James H. Laros, David J. Martinez, Susan Coghlan, James H. Rogers, Toshio Endo, Fumiyoshi Shoji, Francois Robin, Caleb Phillips

Workshop Papers

• “Early Investigations Into Using a Remote RAM Pool with the vl3 Visualization Framework” – Dawid Zawislak, Brian Toonen, William Allcock, Silvio Rizzi, Joseph A. Insley, Venkatram Vishwanath, Michael E. Papka (Workshop: ISAV 2016: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization)
• “High-Fidelity and High-Throughput Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Small Molecule Cancer Drug Discovery with Department of Energy Leadership Computing” – Wei Jiang, Sichun Yang (Workshop: Computational Approaches for Cancer)
• “Re-form: FPGA-Powered True Codesign Flow for High-Performance Computing in the Post-Moore Era” – Franck Cappello, Kazutomo Yoshii, Hal Finkel, Jason Cong (Workshop: 2016 Post-Moore's Era Supercomputing (PMES) Workshop)
• “Topology-Aware Data Aggregation for Intensive I/O on Large-Scale Supercomputers” – François Tessier, Preeti Malakar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Emmanuel Jeannot, Florin Isaila (Workshop: COM-HPC16: First Workshop on Optimization of Communication in HPC Runtime Systems)