IXPUG Middle East Conference 2018 at KAUST
Location: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
Date: April 22, 2018: Welcome Reception
April 23-24, 2018: Keynote, Technical Talks, Lightning Talks [Open to public]
April 25, 2018: Tutorials, Economic Development Sessions [Open to public]
Registration: Registration Closed !
Event Description: This meeting is hosted by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The IXPUG Conference invites special focus on the areas of energy, climate simulations and analytics based on PDE’s or analytics based on geospatial statistics, in additional to the performance and programming topics traditional at the IXPUG meetings.
KAUST will host the first Middle East meeting of the Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG), 22-25 April 2018. Alan Gara, Intel Fellow, will give the keynote address. Alex Heinecke (Intel), Adrian Tate (Cray), Vincent Etienne (Aramco), and Taisuke Boke (Tsukuba University) will give invited talks. Presentations describing innovative manycore computing work are solicited. Authors of the best scored abstracts will be selected for 30-minute presentations; opportunities will also be offered for lightning talks to lead off the poster session. A panel and tutorials round out the program.
Special themes include: (1) Applications in Energy and Environment, (2) Convergence of Large-scale Simulation and Big Data Analytics, (3) Co-design for Exascale: Architecture, Algorithms & Applications, and (4) From Bulk-synchronous to Dynamic Task-based Algorithm Design.
IXPUG is a community-led forum for sharing industry best practices, techniques, and tools for maximizing efficiency on Intel platforms and products. KAUST is an international, graduate research institution addressing challenges to sustainability in energy, water, food, and the environment through interdisciplinary research and education. Located on the shores of the Red Sea north of Jeddah, KAUST offers world-class research and residential facilities. The first 50 participants to register from abroad are guaranteed accommodation at the on-campus KAUST Inn. Participants may also choose the Bay La Sun Hotel in the shoreline community at the King Abdullah Economic City, with daily bus transport provided. The KAUST campus offers stunning recreational opportunities amidst a live-work-play cosmopolitan community of over 100 nations. Participants from abroad will be invited on a tour of old Jeddah and a Red Sea sunset cruise, along with on-campus scientific and cultural activities.
Keynotes
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Dr. Alan Gara is an Intel Fellow and Chief Architect of Enterprise and Government Advanced Development, within the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation. We are seeing both the emergence of new workloads involving artificial intelligence as well as the maturation of new core technologies. These technologies and the new workloads present us with tremendous opportunities as well as challenges, for we now are architecting systems that can cover a broader range of applications. Namely, future architectures will target artificial intelligence and data analytics at scale, as well as traditional modeling and simulation applications. This talk will cover opportunities and challenges of AI and HPC and how the emerging new technologies will be developed to address the workloads and push computing into exascale in the near future.
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Travel Details:
· Visa Requirements: Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for visa inquiries.
· Public Transportation: more information regarding transportation will be provided at a later date.
· Hotel Recommendations: nearby hotels suggestions are listed below:
| Hotel | Address | Rate |
| Bay La Sun |
183 Juman St, Bay La Sun King Abdullah Economic City 23964, Saudi Arabia |
Rate: ~$250/person/night. 30 Minute Drive to KAUST; shuttle to/from Bay La Sun provided |
| KAUST Inn |
On the KAUST Campus KAUST 4700 Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia |
Rate: ~$250/person/night. Available to the first 50 participants traveling from abroad. |
Main Theme: Energy and Climate Simulations and Analytics
Event Details:
Day 1: Sunday, April 22, 2018 – Welcome Reception
| Start | End | Title | Author(s) |
| 18:30 | 19:00 | RECEPTION |
Day 2: Monday, April 23, 2018 - Keynote, Technical Talks, Lightning Talks [Open to public]
Day 3: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - Keynote, Technical Talks, Lightning Talks[Open to public]
Day 4: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - Tutorials, Economic Development Sessions[Open to public]
| Start | End | Title | Author(s) |
| 7:30 | 8:30 | Buffet Breakfast | |
| 8:30 | 9:00 | Videos: KAUST and Saudi Arabia | |
| 9:00 | 10:30 |
Tutorials & Industrial Outreach [in parallel] Tutorials: The Burst Buffer: a New Frontier in Hierarchical Memories Industrial Outreach: How High Performance Computing Transforms Small Business [Presentation1][Presentation2] [Presentation3] |
Saber Feki David Martin |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee & Networking | |
| 11:00 | 12:00 |
Tutorials & Industrial Outreach [in parallel] Tutorials: The Burst Buffer: a New Frontier in Hierarchical Memories Industrial Outreach: How High Performance Computing Transforms Small Business |
Saber Feki David Martin |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | 18:30 | BUS TOUR of JEDDAH | |
| 18:30 | 21:00 | DINNER & AIRPORT RUN |
Call for Presentations: IXPUG welcomes submissions on innovative work from KNL users in academia, industry and government labs, describing original discoveries and experiences that will promote and prescribe efficient use of many-core and multicore systems. The authors of the best scored abstracts and draft presentations will be selected for a full 30-minute presentations; others may be offered an opportunity to present shorter Lightning Talks.
Submission Guidelines: A short Abstract and Draft Presentation should be submitted by February 16, 2018. The Draft Presentation does not need to be complete by this date. However, along with the Abstract, it should reflect the overall intent of the presentation and contain placeholders for the remaining content to be completed by the Final Presentation Deadline on April 19, 2018. For presentation format, please refer to past IXPUG events. Submit your abstract for this conference in EasyChair.
Local Topics of interest are (but not limited to): techniques in vectorization, memory, communications, thread and process management, multi-node application experiences, programming models, algorithms and methods, software environment and tools, benchmarking and profiling tools, visualization development, convergence of large-scale simulation and big data analytics, co-design for exascale, dynamic runtime and task-based algorithm design.
Deadline Dates:
Abstract submissions open: February 1, 2018
Abstracts due: February 16, 2018 (AoE) DEADLINE EXTENDED: February 23, 2018 (AoE)
Presenters notified: February 23, 2018 (AoE) March 2, 2018
Final presentations due: April 19, 2018
Local Organizer: David Keyes, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., KAUST
Planning Committee:
- Estela Suarez, Forschungszentrum Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
- Thomas Steinke, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
- David Martin, Argonne National Laboratory, US
- John Pennycook, Intel Corporation, United States
- Richard Gerber, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Melyssa Fratkin, Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin
- Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba
- Lisa M. Smith, Intel Corporation, United States