The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.

St. Louis, MO, USA • NOV 16–21

SC is the world’s largest HPC conference, and an unparalleled mix of thousands of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, and developers who intermingle to learn, share, and grow. As usual there will be a strong UK presence across the entire event.

UK-based exhibition booths at SC

There are four booths that you should definately check out at SC this year, the first is EPCC (booth 2832) from the University of Edinburgh who host the UK national supercomputer, ARCHER2, and undertake a range of projects and research on HPC and AI. Secondly, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, booth 4417) who host several HPC systems and fund a wide range of work in this area as well as leading CoSeC which is enables and supports collaborative computational research communities that are funded across UKRI. The UK University’s booth (6403) is new this year and represents multiple UK Universitys, providing them with a space to highlight their successes and activities, and indeed in CAKE we are involved in this booth. Lastly, the University of Bristol (booth 6317) will be showcasing their work on Isambard-AI. There will be a treasure hunt organised between the booths, with the opportunity to win one of four lego sets!

UK activities in the SC conference programme

Sunday 16th November

Time Session type Description  
8:30am - 5:00pm Tutorial Modern High Performance I/O: Leveraging Object Stores link
9:00am - 12:30pm Workshop The 3rd Digital Twins Workshop for High Performance Computing link
2:00pm - 5:30pm Workshop Sustainable Supercomputing link
9:30am - 9:45am Presentation Human Digital Twin Challenges link
10:30am - 10:50am Presentation Bring Your Own Digital Twin for Science link
4:10pm - 5:30pm Workshop panel RSE-HPC Panel: RSEs and Research Culture link

Monday 17th November

Time Session type Description  
8:30am - 5:00pm Tutorial Portable GPU Acceleration of HPC Applications with Standard C++ link
1:00pm - 5:00pm Tutorial Programming Your GPU with OpenMP: A ‘Hands-On’ Introduction link
9:00am - 12:30pm Workshop International Workshop on RISC-V for HPC link
9:00am - 5:30pm Workshop PMBS25: The 16th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation of High-Performance Computer Systems link
10:30am - 10:45am Presentation An AI-driven approach for delivering sustainable supercomputing services link
10:40am - 11:00am Presentation WHPC - Chapter Talk link
11:15am - 11:30am Presentation Collaborative co-design at scale: the DiRAC HPC Facility link
11:50am - 12:10pm Workshop paper Is RISC-V ready for High Performance Computing? An evaluation of the Sophon SG2044 link
12:00pm - 12:30pm Workshop paper An MLIR pipeline for offloading Fortran to FPGAs via OpenMP link
12:15pm - 12:30pm Workshop paper Experiences of Porting Structured and Unstructured Stencil Applications to FPGA using SYCL link
2:35pm - 2:40pm Workshop paper GPU Programming with Python: A Comparative Study link
3:30pm - 3:48pm Workshop paper Overcoming Dynamic I/O Boundaries: a Double-Sided Streaming Methodology with dispel4py and CAPIO link

Tuesday 18th November

Time Session type Description  
12:15pm - 1:15pm BoF SYCL Is 10! New Features for Heterogeneous Programming in Khronos SYCL link

Wednedday 19th November

Time Session type Description  
12:15pm - 1:15pm BoF Applications, Libraries, and Tools in Modern Fortran (alt.fortran) link
12:15pm - 1:15pm BoF Building Resilient and Sustainable HPC Communities Across Continents link
12:15pm - 1:15pm BoF Building Sustainable HPC Outreach: Reinvent, Reuse, Repurpose link
3:00pm - 5:00pm Panel Navigating the Software Storm: Writing Software in the Age of Extreme Heterogeneity link
5:15pm - 6:45pm BoF Advanced Architecture Testbeds: Community Resources for Enhanced HPC Research link
5:15pm - 6:45pm BoF Bridging the Gap: Making Quantum-Classical Hybridization Work in HPC link
5:15pm - 6:45pm BoF Key Features Coming to OpenMP API Version 6.1 link
5:15pm - 6:45pm BoF Scientific Software and the People Who Make It Happen: Building Our Communities and Practices link

Thursday 20th November

Time Session type Description  
12:15pm - 1:15pm BoF CSx4HPC: Computational Storage for High Performance Computing link
12:15pm - 1:15pm BoF Mission Accomplished: Arm-Based Systems Are Here and They Are ‘Boring.’ What Now? What Next? link
1:30pm - 3:00pm Panel A Fully Open, Community-Driven HPC Ecosystem: A Credible Future or Chimera? link

Friday 21st November

Time Session type Description  
9:38am - 10:00am Workshop paper Programmer productivity and performance on AMD’s AI Engines: Offloading Fortran intrinsics via MLIR a case-study link

All week

Check out the Art of HPC session that is running all week, and specifically the Electromagnetic Bounces, Journey through a vortex jungle, and Infinite flow which have all been created by UK teams running on UK supercomputers.

Check out the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) student cluster competition team who will be participating in a range of challenges throughout the week and competing against other teams from across the world.