Workshop on High Performance Computing for Industry
PROVIDING A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE TO INDUSTRY
THROUGH HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Accomplishments and a Path Forward
October 26-28, 2011
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Troy, NY
Program
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Technical Session
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
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Lunch
Russell Sage Dining Hall
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12:45 pm – 1:00 pm
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Registration
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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1:00 pm – 1:10 pm
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Welcome to the Workshop
Introduction to the Technical Sessions
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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1:10 pm – 3:00 pm
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Getting the Early Applications Going
Session Chair: Tom Furlani, University at Buffalo
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Presentation 1: "Bringing Parallel Adaptive Simulation to Industry", Cameron Smith, Computational Scientist
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Presentation 2: "HPC Software-as-a Service", Alisa Neeman, Scientific Programmer, University at Buffalo – HPC2 Portal
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Presentation 3: "New Scales of Innovation", Ray Bair, Chief Computational Scientist for Applications, Argonne National Laboratory
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Presentation 4: "Industry Collaboration in Visualization", Martins Innus, Lead Scientific and Urban Visualization Specialist, and Matt Jones, Associate Director, University at Buffalo
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Presentation 5: "Industrial Engagement in the New Normal", Richard Moore, Deputy Director, USCD, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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Break
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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3:30 pm – 5:10 pm
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Future of Industrial Access to High Performance Computing Systems
Session Chair: Tim Lance, NYSERNet
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Presentation 1: "Delivering Competitiveness with High Performance Computing", Jim Myers, Director, Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Presentation 2: "Driving Discovery and Competitiveness Through Next-Generation High Performance Computing", Thom H. Dunning, Jr., Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Presentation 3: "How to Make HPC More Accessible", Kirk Jordan, Emerging Solutions Executive and Associate Program Director, Computational Science Center, IBM T.J. Watson Research
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Presentation 4: "Opening Frontiers: Extreme Capability Computing at LLNL", Fred Streitz, Director, Institute for Scientific Computing Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Dinner
Introduction:
Speaker:
Russell Sage Dining Hall
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Technical Session
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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7:30 am – 8:00 am
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Breakfast
Russell Sage Dining Hall
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8:00 am – 10:30 am
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Highlight Examples of Industry Use of HPC
Session Chair: Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Presentation 1: "Complex Suspension Rheology Using High Performance Computing", David R. Heine and Athonu Chatterjee, Senior Research Scientists, Corning Inc.
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Presentation 2: "Massively Parallel CFD for Complex Flows Using Anisotropic Adaptive Grids", Ken Jansen, Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder and Onkar Sahni, Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Presentation 3: "Smart Grid Analysis using High Performance Architectures and Algorithms", Michael McGuigan, Acting Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Presentation 4: "Large-Scale Static Timing Analysis in Support of Next Generation Computer Design", Christopher Carothers, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Presentation 5: "Modeling the Effect of Microstructure on the Performance of Metal Alloys", Antoinette Maniatty, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Presentation 6: "HPC Challenges in Next Generation Sequencing", Stratos Efstathiadis, Technical Director, New York University Langone Medical Center
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Presentation 7: "Combustion and Chemical Processing in Turbulent Flows", James Glimm, Department Chair, SUNY at Stony Brook
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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10:30 am – 10:50 am
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Break
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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10:50 am – 12:30 pm
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Industry/University/Laboratory/Government Collaborations
Session Chair: Michael McGuigan, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Presentation 1: "CASL: The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors", Doug Kothe, CASL Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Presentation 2: "Computational Rheology for Cement and Concrete", William L. George, Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Presentation 3: "Leveraging ASCR Investments in Software Tools through SBIR/STTR to Engage the Broader Industrial Computational Community", Benjamin T. Grover, Program Manager, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy
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Presentation 4: "A trend we can’t afford to miss", Michael Gleaves, Project Manager, and Rik Anderson, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
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Lunch
Introduction:
Speaker:
Russell Sage Dining Hall
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1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
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Panel Discussion: Where Does the Software Come From
Panel Moderator: Kirk Jordan, IBM
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Panelist 1: "AcuSolve – A Finite Element Based CFD Solver for HPC Applications", Dave Corson, AcuSolve Program Manager, Altair Engineering, Inc.
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Panelist 2: "Optimizing Engineering Simulation Software for HPC", Barbara Hutchings, Director, Strategic Partnerships, ANSYS
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Panelist 3: "CD-adapco's HPC Multi-Physics Applications for Engineering", Steve Feldman, Vice President Pre/Post Development, CD-Adapco
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Panelist 4: "Software Components for High Performance Computing", Mark Beall, President, Simmetrix, Inc.
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Panelist 5: "Accelerating Commercial Linear Dynamic and Nonlinear Implict FEA Software through High Performance Computing", Vladimir Belsky, Director – Solver Development, Simulia Implicit Analysis
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Panelist 6: "HPC as Key Enabler for PowerFLOW", Jamie Hoch, Vice President of Software Development, Exa Corp.
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
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Break
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
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Making the Business Case for Industrial Use of HPC
Session Chair: Mark Shephard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Presentation 1: "HPC at HeartFlow, Inc. – Patient-specific Computational Fluid Dynamics for Noninvasive Assessment of Heart Disease", Charley Taylor, Founder, Chief Technology Officer, HeartFlow, Inc.
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Presentation 2: "High Performance Computing for Integrated Circuit Design", Saroj Nayak, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rasit Topaloglu, Senior Technology and Integration Engineer, Global Foundries
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Presentation 3: "High Performance Computing for Industrial Scale Advanced Analytics", Bruce Church, Vice President, Analytics, Gene Network Sciences, Inc.
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Presentation 4: "The Role of CFD in the Development of an Air Purification Device", John Lordi, Chief Executive Officer, Buffalo Bio Blower, Inc.
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)
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6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Dinner
Introduction:
Fran Berman, Vice President for Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Speaker:
Screening:
Molecularium clips
Russell Sage Dining Hall
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Executive Session
Friday, October 28, 2011
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7:00 am – 8:00 am
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Continental Breakfast
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Evelyn’s Café
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7:00 am – 8:00 am
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Continental Breakfast for Panelists
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Green Room, Level 6
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8:00 am – 8:20 am
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Welcome and Introduction
Introductory Remarks
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Concert Hall
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8:20 am - 9:15 am
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Panel on Competitiveness
Moderator: Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Concert Hall
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9:15 am – 9:45 am
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Break
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Evelyn’s Café
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9:45 am - 11:00 am
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Future Opportunities Panel
Moderator: Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Concert Hall
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11:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Closing Remarks
Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Concert Hall
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Areas to be addressed include:
Access to Cost Effective Massively Parallel Computing: The level of parallel computing typically being used in industry is either taking advantage of multi-core CPU’s and/or clusters of no more than a few hundred processors. However, the continued advancement in parallel computers is providing systems with orders of magnitude more processors that are cost effective in terms of dollar per gigaflop, power consumption and operation. In addition to discussing the advances in massively parallel systems, consideration will be given to gaining access to these systems.
Available Software: The national labs and universities have been actively developing new generations of software that can effectively operate on massively parallel computers and maintain excellent scaling to hundreds of thousands of processors. Although the open source nature of this software is attractive, the majority of these simulation tools are not industrial grade, not integrated into industrial workflows and lack the support systems needed by industry. Approaches to address the software needs and the status of their development will be discussed. Consideration will also be given to addressing the licensing, support and Intellectual Property (IP) issues associated with combining both open source and proprietary software components from multiple sources.
Business Case: Making the business case requires consideration of the advantages gained by the application of more computational intensive simulations and the cost of doing those simulations. Examples of the advantages gained to be discussed will include being able to simulate processes that could not be simulated before, increasing the fidelity and confidence in the simulation results obtained, and obtaining useful simulations results with a fast enough turn around cycle to lead to better product designs. Consideration must also be given to the cost of running massively parallel simulations. Historically Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) employed pricing policies that are simply not realistic for use by industry on problems requiring massively parallel computation. This situation is changing as a number of ISVs have introduced more effective pricing policies.
Getting Started: The complexity of the computing and application environments still present major hurdles as an enterprise incorporates massively parallel simulation in product and process design. Activities have been initiated in response to the need. An example of such an activity is the High Performance Computing Consortium (HPC2), supported by the New York State’s Division of Science Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR). A central focus of this workshop will be discussing the activities of HPC2 and investigating how to increase its reach into industry.
updated: 2011-06-30