CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 1st International Workshop on Strategic Development of High Performance Computers

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

1st International Workshop on Strategic Development of High
Performance Computers
March 18-19, 2013
Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba Japan


The purpose of this workshop is to report Japan's research activities
for post petaflops, or exascale, machines, and also to discuss
international system software development collaborations. In 2012,
Japan started a two-year program to investigate feasibility on
development of post K computer. Four research teams have been involved
with this program. A team headed by AICS is responsible for studying
scientific and social issues to be solved by 2020 and making a science
road map until 2020. Three teams, headed by Tohoku U., U. of Tsukuba,
and U. of Tokyo, have been working with NEC, Hitachi, and Fujitsu to
study on three types of next supercomputers.

The US DOE (Department of Energy) and Japan MEXT (Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) have agreed to
pursue cooperation between the U.S. and Japan on system software for
post-petascale computing, including collaborative R&D and
international standardization of system software. They organized an
SC12 BOF session to discuss this matter and concluded that draft plans
for collaboration, coordination, and management are discussed in this
workshop.

Date: March 18-19, 2013

Venue: Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba Japan
       http://www.epochal.or.jp/eng/index.html

Registration: http://goo.gl/STIgj (by March 7, 2013)

Co-sponsored by:
   Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University
   Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba
   Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo
   Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute
of Technology
   Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
   Information Technology Research Institute, AIST
   RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science
   Development of System Software Technologies for post-Peta Scale
High Performance Computing, CREST, JST

Supported by:
   High Performance Computing Infrastructure Consortium

Workshop Chairs:
   Masaaki Kondo (UEC), Naoya Maruyama (RIKEN AICS), Yutaka Ishikawa
(Univ of Tokyo)

Tentative Program:
Monday, March 18
09:30-12:00 International Collaboration Planning
            (This session is invited only)
12:00-13:00 Registration
13:00-13:05 Opening Remarks
            Yutaka Ishikawa (University of Tokyo)
13:05-13:45 Welcome Address
            William Harrod (DOE), Takahiro Hayashi (MEXT)
13:45-14:30 [Invited Talk] Resilience and Reliability for Future Systems
            Bronis Supinski (LLNL)
14:30-15:15 [Invited Talk] Performance Analysis and Optimization of
Scientific Applications on Extreme-Scale Computer Systems
            Bernd Mohr (JSC)
15:15-15:30 BREAK
15:30-16:30 Report on Feasibility Study on Future HPC Infrastructure I
            Hirofumi Tomita (RIKEN)
16:30-17:30 Report on Feasibility Study on Future HPC Infrastructure II
            Mitsuhisa Sato (University of Tsukuba)
18:00-20:00 Banquet

Tuesday, March 19
09:00-10:00 Report on Feasibility Study on Future HPC Infrastructure III
            Hiroaki Kobayashi (Tohoku University)
10:00-10:15 BREAK
10:15-11:00 [Invited Talk] Automated Exploration of the HPC Co-Design Space
            Jeffrey Vetter (ORNL)
11:00-11:45 [Invited Talk] The DEEP Project
            Norbert Eicker (JSC)
11:45-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:15 [Invited Talk] Big Data and Exascale Systems -- Challenges
and Opportunities
            Alok Choudhary (Northwester University)
14:15-15:15 Report on Feasibility Study on Future HPC Infrastructure IV
            Yutaka Ishikawa (University of Tokyo)
15:15-15:30 BREAK
15:30-16:00 Report on draft plan of international collaboration
            TBD
16:00-16:10 Closing