All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) = UTC - 4

09:30AM - 9:40AM – Welcome and opening

09:40AM - 10:20AM – Are supercomputer centers ready for the big data era?, Invited talk by Si Liu, TACC

As of 2021, the big data explosion continues, and the best supercomputers in the world are close to the exascale. Many applications on supercomputers deploy machine learning models and involve a huge amount of data nowadays. This generates enormous opportunities and challenges to supercomputer users, as well as supercomputer administrators and supporters. In this presentation, we will talk about the work and experience of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Particularly, we will demonstrate 1) how we configured and managed TACC’s supercomputer systems to satisfy different scientific requirements and support various software stacks; 2) how we prepared multiple storage systems for diverse data usage and I/O work; 3) how we developed new tools and workflows for maintaining various user environments, bundling jobs, and improving I/O performance; and 4) how we designed new training programs and materials for staff and users.

10:20AM - 11:10AM – Session 1

• Amit Ruhela, Stephen Lien Harrell and Richard Todd Evans. Scaling Containerization on multi-Petaflops CPU and GPU HPC platforms.

• Richard Evans. User-oriented Lustre Filesystem Monitoring.

11:10AM - 11:30AM – Break

11:30AM - 12:45AM – Session 2

• Miguel Ferreira, André Neves, Rodrigo Gorjão, Carlos Cruz and Miguel L. Pardal. Smart meter data processing: a showcase for simple and efficient textual processing.

• João Vilaça, João Paulo and Ricardo Vilaça. Geolocate: A geolocation-aware scheduling system for Edge Computing.

• César Borges and João Paulo. Realistic Assessment of Faults in Storage Systems.

Note:

Each paper has 20 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for questions and answers.