| 7:15 AM | Name badge pickup, breakfast & networking |
Welcome and Keynote (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session chair: Jan E. Odegard, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University
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| 8:15 AM | Welcome remarks Jan E. Odegard and Kamran Khan, Rice University |
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| 8:30 AM | Keynote The Next Generation of HPC: A Seismic Shift Peter Ungaro, President and CEO, Cray Inc. |
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Morning Plenary (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session chair: David Judson, HPC Architect, WesternGeco
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| 9:20 AM | IWAVE: a framework for regular grid finite difference modeling William Symes, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University |
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| 10:00 AM | Networking break | ||
| 10:45 AM | Data Center environmental monitoring – efficiencies and future challenges Farhad Banisadr and Richard Rivera, LANL |
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| 11:25 AM | Lunch and networking break |
Parallel Sessions
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| 12:30 PM | Parallel session A: Benchmarking, Optimization & Performance McMurtry Auditorium |
| 12:30 PM | Parallel session B: Programming Models, Languages & Tools Duncan Hall 1070 |
| 12:30 PM | Parallel session C: Facilities & Infrastructure Duncan Hall 1064 |
| 3:00 PM | Networking break |
Afternoon Plenary
McMurtry Auditorium
Session chair: David Judson, HPC Architect, WesternGeco
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| 3:30 PM | Parallel sessions reporting to plenary, panel discussion format | ||
| 4:30 PM | Afternoon Keynote Towards Exascale Computing for Oil and Gas—Directions, Challenges and Strategies Rajeeb Hazra, General Manager, High Performance Computing, Intel |
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Student and Postdoctoral Poster and Networking Session (Martel Hall)
Session chair: Jan E. Odegard, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University
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| 5:15 PM | Student and Postdoctoral Poster and Networking Session | 7:00 PM | Adjourn |
Parallel session A: Benchmarking, optimization & performance
McMurtry Auditorium
Session chairs: Jan E. Odegard, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University and Chap Wong, Chevron Fellow, Chevron
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| 12:30 PM | Performance Model for 3D Stencil Computation Mauricio Araya-Polo1 and Raul de la Cruz2 1Repsol USA and 2Barcelona Supercomputing Center |
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| 12:55 PM | Characterization and modeling of finite difference stencil performance Philippe Thierry, Leo Borges and Jamel Tayeb Intel Corp |
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| 1:20 PM | Advances in HPC for Oil and Gas: The Intel MIC Architecture Lars Koesterke and Yaakoub El-Khamra The University of Texas at Austin |
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| 1:45 PM | Early Experiences In Porting IWAVE to OpenCL on the Fusion APU Ted Barragy1 and William Symes2 1AMD and 2Rice University |
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| 2:10 PM | High Performance Compute Platform based on multi-core DSP for Seismic modeling and imaging Murtaza Ali1, William Symes2, Xiaohui Li1, Eric Stotzer1 and Jan E. Odegard2 2Texas Instruments and 2Rice University |
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| 2:35 PM | Moderated group discussion and Q&A |
Parallel session B: Programming models, languages and tools
Duncan Hall 1070
Session chairs: Scott Morton, Manager, Geophysical Technology, Hess Corporation and Henri Calandra, Technical Advisor in Depth Imaging and High Performance Computing, Total
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| 12:30 PM | Loo.py: A Loop Generation Tool for CPUs and GPUs Andreas Kloeckner1 and Tim Warburton2 1New York University and 2Rice University |
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| 12:55 PM | ASIODS: An Application and I/O Collaboration System Maxime Hugues1, Henri Calandra2, Mike Moretti3, and Serge Petiton4 1INRIA, France, 2Total, 3DataDirect Networks and 4LIFL, France |
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| 1:20 PM | Implementation and Evaluation of Coarray Fortran Deepak Eachempati1, Debjyote Majumder1, Barbara Chapman1, Terrence Liao2 and Henri Calandra2 1University of Houston and 2Total |
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| 1:45 PM | Challenges in application of HPC for reservoir simulation Bret Beckner, Vadim Dyadechko and Serguei Maliassov ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company |
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| 2:10 PM | Analyzing the Performance of IWAVE on a Cluster using HPCToolkit John Mellor-Crummey Rice University |
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| 2:35 PM | Moderated group discussion and Q&A |
Parallel session C: Facilities and infrastructure
Duncan Hall 1064
Session chairs: Keith Gray, Manager, High Performance Computing, BP and Bill Menger, HPC Manager, Weinman Geoscience
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| 12:30 PM | Data Center Efficiency – turning up the heat David Baldwin Petroleum Geo-Services |
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| 12:55 PM | Design and Implementation of Technical Computing facilities in Hess Tower Jeff Davis, Gary Whittle, Jim Breef and Vic Forsyth Hess Corporation |
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| 1:20 PM | Pushing the Envelope with Large Scale HPC Oil and Gas Clusters – Challenges, Risks, and Business Benefits Kent Blancett1 and Darrin Machay2 1BP and 2Arista Networks |
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| 1:45 PM | Large-Scale Visualization in HPC—Issues and Trends Kelly Gaither1 and Erik Engquist2 1The University of Texas at Austin and 2Rice University |
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| 2:10 PM | Designing a Flexible, Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Facility Frank Hersom, Saad Dimachkieh and Gary Kuzma HOK Architects |
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| 2:35 PM | Moderated group discussion and Q&A |
Student and Postdoctoral Poster and Networking Session
Martel Hall
Session chairs: David Judson, HPC Architect, WesternGeco and Jan E. Odegard, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University
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| The Effect of Oil Prices on the Economy Benjamin Tang, Graduate Student, Statistics, Rice University |
| Stochastic Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Single Phase Flow Kun Liu, Graduate Student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University |
| Methane Hydrate Distribution in Heterogeneous Marine Sediments Sayantan Chatterjee, Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University |
| Chracterizing the pore structrue of vuggy carbonates Neeraj Rohilla, Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University |
| 2D Harmonic Coordinate Finite Element Method for Acoustic Waves Xin Wang, Graduate Student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University |
| Hybrid finite volume and discontinuous Galerkin method for convection-diffusion problems Xin Yang, Graduate Student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University |
| Acceleration of the Front Propagation Segmentation Algorithm: Towards Tumor Volumetrics Yunming Zhang, Undergrad student, Computer Science, Rice University |
| 1D Acoustic Transparency Property Yin Huang, Graduate Student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University |
| The formation and evolution of triangle zones in fold-and-thrust-belts: Insights from DEM simulations Sarah Dean , Graduate Student, Earth Science, Rice University |
| Coarray Fortran 2.0: A productive language for scalable scientific computing Chaoran Yang, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Rice University |
| Coarray Fortran 2.0 on petascale architectures Karthik Murthy, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Rice University |
| Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of mineral dissolution at different scales Inna Kurganskaya, Graduate Student, Earth Science, Rice University |
| Gas Hydrate Distribution and Detection Guangsheng Gu, Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University |
| Performance Analysis on Intel’s Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) Xu Liu, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Rice University |
| Next Generation Performance Tools for Heterogeneous Architectures Milind Chabbi, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Rice University |