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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 2021 (JULY 19 – 23, VIRTUAL GLOBAL CONFERENCE)

Day 1 – Opening Remarks

MAREK MICHALEWICZ

ICM University of Warsaw

Opening Remarks from the Chairman of the Organising Committee

Day 1 – Keynote Speakers

ANDERS JENSEN

Executive Director of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)

EuroHPC JU at full throttle

Day 1 – Invited Speakers

JEAN-MARC DENIS

Chair of the Board, European Processor Initiative

Future Supercomputers are game changers for processor architecture. Why?

Day 1 – State of practice

VALENTIN PLUGARU

Chief Technical Officer, LuxProvide High Performance Computing Center

MeluXina – a new generation supercomputer

PEKKA MANNINEN

Director of the LUMI Leadership Computing Facility

LUMI: Europe’s flagship supercomputer

TOMI ILIJAS

Arctur’s CEO

FF4EuroHPC: Enabling SMEs to benefit from HPC – Open Call 2

HERBERT HUBER

Head of High Performance Systems Division at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre

Energy efficient supercomputing at LRZ

ATTILA CANGI

Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS)

Data-driven Surrogate Modeling of Matter under Extreme Conditions

GAURAV KAUL

Senior Solutions Architect – AI & HPC at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Memory and Interconnect Interplay in System Architecture

MACIEJ BRZEŹNIAK

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

National Data Storage

Day 1 – Focus on Africa

TSHIAMO MOTSHEGWA

BEng, PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Botswana

Developments in African Cyber-infrastructure to Support Open Science & Open Data

Day 1 – Roundtable Pannel with Addison Snell

ADDISON SNELL

CEO of InterSect360 Research

Round Table pannel on Industry trends for HPC and AI

Day 1 – Warsaw Team

WARSAW TEAM – PATRYCJA KRZYNA, MAREK MASIAK, MAREK SKIBA

University of Warsaw, University College London

Warsaw Team: Student participation in HPC competitions amidst a global pandemic

Day 2 – Invited Speakers

BOGDAN ROSA

Professor in the Centre of Numerical Weather Prediction at Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute (IMWM-NRI)

Computational challenges in modelling cloud microphysical processes

KATE KEAHEY

Senior Scientist, MCS, Argonne National Lab CASE, University of Chicago

Chameleon: Taking Science from Cloud to Edge

Day 2 – State of practice

WOLFGANG GENTZSCH

President and Co-founder of UberCloud

Using distributed HPC technology for building an automated, self-service, truly multi-cloud simulation platform

EDWARD HSU

Chief Product Officer at Rescale

High Performance Computing Built For Cloud Using an Intelligent Control Plane Approach

TARA MADHYASTHA

Principal Research Scientist at RONIN and affiliate faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington

RONIN: Secure Self-service High Performance Research Computing in the Cloud

Day 2 – Focus on Africa

MARY-JANE BOPAPE

Senior manager: Research at the South African Weather Service

Implementation of the SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Framework: focus on weather modelling

PHUTI NGOEPE

Professor at University of Limpopo

Simulated synthesis, characterisation and performance of nanostructured metal oxide electrodes for energy storage

Day 2 – Focus on India

PINAKI CHAUDHURI

Professor at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India

Studying amorphous materials via large-scale computing

Day 2 – Sponsors

ERICH FOCHT

Heading the Research & Development group, NEC

Programming Heterogeneity

DAY 3 – Keynote Speakers

HIROAKI KITANO

President at The Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, a Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, a President & CEO at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, a Representative Director and CEO, Sony AI Inc., Tokyo and an Executive Vice President at Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo

Nobel Turing Challenge – Creating the Engine of Scientific Discovery

ROBERTO CAR

Recipient of the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, Professor at Department of Chemistry, Princeton University

Machine Learning Based Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics

DAY 3 – Invited Speakers

ONUR MUTLU

Professor of Computer Science Information Technology and Electrical Engineering department ETH Zurich

Intelligent Architectures for Intelligent Systems

SUNITA CHANDRASEKARAN

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware

Best practices for a productive (yet performance) software development

DAY 3 – Industry

FOUZHAN HOSSEINI

Project lead and Technical Manager at NAG Ltd

Meet the POP CoE: Getting insight into HPC code behavior

ANDREW KING

Director of Performance Research, D-Wave

What a Computational Performance Advantage Means for the Future of Practical Quantum Computing

KEN O’BRIEN

Senior Research Scientist at Xilinx

Innovative Computing-Architectures with FPGAs

DAY 3 – Focus on India

SANTOSH ANSUMALI

Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

Towards CFD at Exa-scale

DAY 3 – Sponsors

MIGUEL TEROL PALENCIA

HPC Solutions Architect Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group

Lenovo Scalable Architectures for Genomics Analytics

THOMAS BLUM

Pre-Sales Systems Engineer DDN® Storage

Taking a closer look at AI I/O

PHIL MURPHY

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer at Cornelis Networks

Cornelis Networks Omni-Path: Purpose Built High-Performance Fabrics for HPC/HPDA/AI

KARL PODESTA

EMEA HPC Technical Specialist @ Microsoft

Supercomputing on Azure Powered By AMD EPYC

TOMASZ WAZNY AND RAFAL TYMKOW

Huawei

The biggest HPC implementation on the Central and Eastern Europe, PCSS business case

DAY 3 – CLOSING WORDS

MAREK MICHALEWICZ

ICM University of Warsaw

Closing words from the Chairman of the Organising Committee

WORKSHOPS

MIRO HODAK

Global AI Architect, Lenovo United States

How to select the right GPU for the specific AI workloads by Lenovo

Press

What’s After Exascale? The Internet of Workflows Says HPE’s Nicolas Dubé

29 July 2021, HPC wire

With the race to exascale computing in its final leg, it’s natural to wonder what the Post Exascale Era will look like. Nicolas Dubé, VP and chief technologist for HPE’s HPC business unit, agrees and shared his vision at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2021 held last week. The next big thing, he told the virtual audience at SFE21, is something that will connect HPC and (broadly) all of IT – into what Dubé calls The Internet of Workflows.

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Will Approximation Drive Post-Moore’s Law HPC Gains?

26 July 2021, HPC wire

“Hardware-based improvements are going to get more and more difficult,” said Neil Thompson, an innovation scholar at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). “I think that’s something that this crowd will probably, actually, be already familiar with.” Thompson, speaking at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2021, likely wasn’t wrong: the proximate death of Moore’s law has been a hot topic in the HPC community for a long time. But Thompson wasn’t just there to sound the death knell – he was there to discuss the future of computing, which, in his terms, was an approximate one.

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With New Owner and New Roadmap, an Independent Omni-Path Is Staging a Comeback

23 July 2021, HPC wire

Put on a shelf by Intel in 2019, Omni-Path faced an uncertain future, but under new custodian Cornelis Networks, Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) is seeking to make a comeback as an independent high-performance interconnect solution. According to the company, a “significant refresh” – called Omni-Path Express – is coming later this year.

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Chameleon’s HPC Testbed Sharpens Its Edge, Presses ‘Replay’

22 July 2021, HPC wire

“One way of saying what I do for a living is to say that I develop scientific instruments,” said Kate Keahey, a senior fellow at the University of Chicago and a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, as she opened her session at Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2021 this week. Keahey was there to talk about one tool in particular: Chameleon, a testbed for computer science research run by the University of Chicago, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), UNC-Chapel Hill’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and Northwestern University.

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This Week in HPC: Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2021

10 May 2021, HPC wire

Addison Snell is joined by Marek Michalewicz of the University of Warsaw for a discussion of the upcoming Supercomputing Frontiers Europe virtual conference. This Week in HPC is produced by Intersect360 Research and distributed in partnership with HPCwire.

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