2020
Discover visionary ideas and innovations delivered to you by the outstanding Supercomputing Frontiers Europe speakers.
Here you will find a selection of talks given at SCFE — both from the keynote and invited speakers — as well as video reports and exclusive interviews. Press play and let experts inspire you as if you were sitting in the front row of the conference hall.
SUPERCOMPUTING FRONTIERS EUROPE 2020 (MARCH 23 – 25, VIRTUAL GLOBAL CONFERENCE)
Day 1 – Opening Remarks
MAREK MICHALEWICZ
ICM University of Warsaw
Opening Remarks from the Chairman of the Organising Committee
Day 1 – Physics, Astronomy, Cosmology
ZIOGAS ALEXANDROS NIKOLAOS
ETH Zürich
A Data-Centric Approach to Extreme-Scale Ab initio Dissipative Quantum Transport Simulations
ELIU HUERTA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Accelerated Artificial Intelligence for Big-data Physics Experiments
Day 1 – HPC in Africa
HAPPY SITHOLE
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
The Role of Cyber-Infrastructure in Development of Africa
WILHELMINA NEKOTO
Data Engineer, Research Scientist (Computer Vision)
Automated Wildlife Monitoring and Poacher Detection in Namibian Communal Conservancies
UROS IGNJACEVIC
General Manager of Sun Data World
Ethiopia: The formation of a digital powerhouse of Africa
Day 1 – Sponsors Lecture
© KARTHEE SIVALINGAM
HPE HPC/AI EMEA Research Lab
Optimising AI training deployments using Graph compilers and containers
Day 1 – Muli- & Large Scale Modelling
YUEFAN DENG
Stony Brook University, NY
Fast and Accurate Multiscale Modeling of Platelets Guided by Machine Learning
MICHAŁ DZIKOWSKI, GRZEGORZ GRUSZCZYSKI [contributed talk]
Templated CUDA Lattice Boltzmann Method: generic CFD solver for single and multi-phase problems
Day 1 – Exascale Supercomputing
© MICHAEL BADER
Technical University of Munich
Towards Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engines – Are We Skating to Where the Puck Will Be?
Day 1 – Euro HPC
© TOMASZ MALKIEWICZ
CSC – IT Center for Science and Nordic
e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC)
LUMI: the EuroHPC pre-exascale system of the North
Day 2 – OMICS
ROB KNIGHT
University of California San Diego
The Human Microbiome: Big Challenges, Big Data, Big Compute
Vladimir Brusic
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Single cell transcriptomics – new challenges for Big Data analytics
Trilce Estrada
University of New Mexico
Graphic Encoding of Macromolecules for Quantitative Classification of Protein Structure and Representation of Conformational Changes
Laura Boykin
Cassava Virus Action Project
Utility of Real time portable genome sequencing and HPC for global food security
Joanna Trylska
Centre of New Technologies University of Warsaw
Functional dynamics of biomolecules with supercomputers
Day 2 – Supercomputing Education
Warsaw Team
HPC Adventures: WarsawTeam around the world
Day 2 – Sponsors Lecture
Florian Manaila
Senior Architect and Inventor IBM
HPC Transformation with AI
Rick Koopman
EMEA Technical Lead HPC and AI at Lenovo
Managing the Convergence of HPC and AI
Day 2 – Industry & Start-ups
Łukasz Orłowski
Co-Founder and CTO of Archanan
Tomorrow’s Supercomputers, Yesterday’s Practices: Applications of cloud-backed large system emulation for supercomputer software development
NICOLAS TONELLO
Constelcom Ltd
Constellation® – Supercomputing at your fingertips – Delivering HPC power and expertise to all
© Copyright by Constelcom Ltd
DAY 3 – NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS
JAMES K. GIMZEWSKI
University of California Los Angeles
Emergent Atomic Switch Networks for Neuroarchitectonics
DAY 3 – DATA COMMUNICATION, DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
EDEN FIGUEROA
Stony Brook University
Towards the Quantum Internet: Building an entanglement-sharing quantum network
CHIN FANG
CEO of Zettar Inc.
The historical 1st Poland-Singapore data transfer production trial over CAE-1, a behind the scene look
© Copyright 2020 Zettar Inc.
KAROL NIEDZIELEWSKI
ICM University of Warsaw
Long distance geographically distributed InfiniBand based computing
DAY 3 – ARCHITECTURE
CALISTA REDMOND
CEO, RISC-V Foundation
Open Hardware Revolution
MAKOTO TAIJI
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Osaka
MDGRAPE-4A: A Special-purpose computer system for Molecular Dynamics simulations
ERICH FOCHT
NEC Germany
Vector Evolution. The path to the SX-Aurora TSUBASA
REED DEVANY
Data Vortex
The Data Vortex: From Interbellum Polish Mathematics to a Novel Topology for Connecting Cores
© Copyright by Interactic Holdings, LLC, Data Vortex Technologies, DBA
DELAFROUZ MIRFENDERESKI
Stony Brook University
Checkpoint/Restart Implementation for OpenSHMEM
DAY 3 – DATA-CENTRIC COMPUTING, STORAGE
ANTONINO TUMEO
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Data and Model Convergence: a case for Software Defined Architectures
JAY LOFSTEAD
Sandia National Laboratories
Memory vs. Storage: Is There a Difference and Do We Care Anymore?
JULIAN KUNKEL
University of Reading
Potential of I/O-Aware Workflows in Climate and Weather
ZIOGAS ALEXANDROS NIKOLAOS
ETH Zürich
I/O Challenges in Data-Centric Framework
JAY LOFSTEAD
Sandia National Laboratories
Containers and Data-Centric Computing
DAY 3 – CLOSING WORDS
MAREK MICHALEWICZ
ICM University of Warsaw
Closing words from the Chairman of the Organising Committee