AHUG SC 2020 Virtual Event

While we cannot meet in person at SC 20, AHUG is proud to sponsor a series of virtual talks and live panels on the state-of-the-art in Arm-related high performance computing research, tools, and products.

Presentations from HPC users and vendors are now posted on the new AHUG YouTube channel with talks in three different tracks. Three live panels were hosted on November 9th, 2020 with a subset of the speakers from these virtual talks. Slides and code examples are available at the SVE Hackathon website which was held on November 10th, 2020.

Event Information and Links

AHUG YouTube Playlist for Virtual Talks – check out the playlists for each track

Virtual Talk Agenda/Bios – see the agenda here

Panel Information and Panelist Bios – see the bios here

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November 4th, 2020 – Virtual links go live on AHUG YouTube channel

November 9th, 2020 8:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST) – Live roundtables with Arm HPC users and vendors

Panel 1: Arm silicon and solution provider vendor talks (8:00 – 8:55 PST)

YouTube recording of the panel

Ben Bennet – HPE
Fabrizio Magugliani – E4
Brent Gorda – Arm
Tim Lin – S-Cube
Jean-Marc Denis – EPI
Craig Prunty – Silicon Pearl
Stephen Sachs – Amazon
Toshiyuki Shimizu – Fujitsu
Jeff Wittich – Ampere

Panel 2: On-site experiences of deploying Arm-based hardware and software (9:00 – 9:55 PST)

YouTube recording of the panel

Dan Ernst – HPE
Andrew Davis – UKAEA
Terje Kvernes – University of Oslo
John Linford – Arm
Ross Miller – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gilad Shainer – NVIDIA
Carson Woods – University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (Spack)
Andrew Younge – Sandia National Laboratories

Panel 3: Recent scientific results achieved on Arm (10:00 – 10:55 PST)

YouTube recording of the panel

Si Hammond – Sandia National Laboratories
Stepan Nassyr – Juelich Supercomputing Center
Andrei Poenaru – University of Bristol
Guillaume Quintin – Agenium Scale
Roxana Rusitoru – Arm
John Stone – University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

SVE Hackathon – November 10th, 2020

Arm will be hosting an SVE programming Hack-a-thon on November 10th, beginning at 7am PST.  This event will be the first public SVE Hackathon on the Fujitsu A64FX CPU, which currently powers the #1 rated supercomputer on the Top500.  Remote access to two A64FX systems is generously provided by Fujitsu and the University of Bristol.  The Zoom-hosted hack-a-thon is open to all and will run for approximately four to six hours.  Space is limited so register soon!  

See the event page for the SVE hackathon with links to slides

Board of Directors

Thank you to everyone who was nominated and everyone who participated in the AHUG board of directors election in Summer 2020! We had 94 votes in total, and the vote count breakdown can be found here. The following directors were selected and will serve a term of two years.

Jeffrey Young (Managing Director)

Jeff is a senior research scientist in Georgia Tech’s School of Computer Science. With a background in computer architecture, his main research interests have focused on the intersection of high-performance computing and novel accelerators including GPUs, Xeon Phi, FPGAs, and  Arm SVE processors. He is currently working on a collaborative research program for near-memory computing with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) for processors and GPUs. He is a co-director for Georgia Tech’s Center for High Performance Computing and is also the director of a novel architecture testbed, the CRNCH Rogues Gallery, that aims to simplify and democratize access to novel post-Moore accelerators in the neuromorphic, reversible, and novel networking spaces.

Michèle Weiland (Associate Director)

Dr Michèle Weiland is a Senior Research Fellow at EPCC. She specializes in novel technologies for extreme scale parallel computing, leading EPCC’s technical involvements in the ASiMoV Strategic Prosperity Partnership with Rolls-Royce and the NEXTGenIO project, which focuses on innovations for I/O at the Exascale. She also leads on EPCC’s involvement in the Catalyst UK program, a partnership with HPE and Arm to accelerate to adoption of the Arm ecosystem. She is the EPCC PI on a number of research grants, including the EC Horizon 2020 projects ExaFLOW, HPC-WE and SAGE2, as well as Co-I on the ExCALIBUR project ELEMENT and for the Cirrus2 Tier-2 service. She is a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for e-Infrastructure.

Mitsuhisa Sato (Associate Director)

Mitsuhisa Sato is a deputy Director of RIKEN Center for Computational Science since 2018. Since 2010, he has been appointed as team leader of the programming environment research team in the Advanced Institute of Computational Science (AICS), recently renamed to R-CCS, RIKEN. Since 2014, he has worked as a team leader for the architecture development team of the FLAGSHIP 2020 project to develop the Japanese flagship supercomputer “Fugaku”. He is a Professor (Cooperative Graduate School Program) and Professor Emeritus of University of Tsukuba.

Steve Poole (Associate Director)

Steve is a thought leader in HPC, influencing design, architecture, and budget in the US DOE and beyond.  A multi-decade veteran of high-level accomplishments in HPC, Steve has had his hands in many designs at LANL (Road Runner), ORNL, and various other agencies. His reputation is one focused around strong technical knowledge and includes strong results in the Arm space. Currently, Steve is the Chief Architect for Next Generation Platforms at LANL. 

Christelle Piechurski (Secretary)

Christelle is Chief HPC project officer for GENCI. She is responsible for supporting French national centers’ procurement and acquisition of computing and storage capabilities for researchers. She also leads the technology watch activity group that evaluates promising solutions for early adoption by users and that assesses new technologies at the applications level. She is engaged at the European level through PRACE-6IP. She has a postgraduate degree in Physics and has been active in the HPC world for 20 years. Her career started in the oil and gas industry before moving to x-SGI (HPE) and Atos (2011) as an HPC principal architect.

Valerio Schiavoni (Treasurer)

Valerio is a Maître-Assistant (Lecturer) of the Complex Systems Group at University of Neuchâtel as well as the coordinator for the Competence Centre in Complex Systems and Big Data and the coordinator of the Inter-University Doctoral Program in Computer Science for CUSO. His research interests include distributed systems, software and hardware security systems from large to small and IoT scale, data management and, more recently, systems for deep learning.

Director Descriptions

Note that the responsibilities defined here are subject to the further definition of official AHUG bylaws by the newly formed Board. 

Managing Director

The managing director shall be the primary organizing member of the AHUG organization and will call and coordinate monthly AHUG Board meetings. Additionally, the Managing Director will represent AHUG and its constituents at both the annual AHUG conference and at other ARM events where AHUG representation is required. The Managing Director shall perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Board.

Assistant Director

At the request of the Managing Director, or in the Managing Director’s absence, the Assistant Director shall perform all duties of the Managing Director and in so acting shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the Managing Director. The Assistant Director will also work with other board members to make sure the AHUG website is consistent and up to date. The Assistant Director shall perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Managing Director or by the Board.

Secretary

The Secretary shall act as the primary record-keeper of all meetings of the Board and of official AHUG events and shall keep the minutes thereof in the proper medium to be provided for that purpose. The Secretary shall cause all notices required to be given by the Corporation to be duly given and served; shall have charge of the other books, records and papers of the Corporation; shall cause the report, statements and other documents required by law to be properly kept and filed; shall maintain a current list of Members and Participants, and be responsible for Membership applications; and shall act as editor for correspondence received for publication and distribute this information at intervals not greater than six months.  The Secretary shall perform these and other duties in general, perform all the duties incident to the office of Secretary and such other duties as may be assigned by the Managing Director or the Board.

Treasurer

The Treasurer shall act as the primary financial officer of the Board and of official AHUG events. The Treasurer shall have charge of all accounts of the organization and shall provide disbursements for any fees accrued by the organization and reporting of incurred expenses upon request. The Treasurer shall perform these and other duties in general, perform all the duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as may be assigned by the Managing Director or the Board.

Contact

Engage with AHUG! AHUG maintains a group mailing list for general discussion using groups.io. You can also join the AHUG LinkedIn group here, or you can join the AHUG Slack using this invite link.

For all other questions or comments, please contact the AHUG board at admin@A-HUG.org.