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08:00 • Tutorial Registration
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10:00 • Networking & Break
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12:00 • Registration & Networking
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13:00 • Opening & Welcome
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13:15 • Plenary: 'Preparing the Broad Department of Energy, Office of Science User Community for Advanced Manycore Architectures,' Katie Antypas, NERSC
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14:00 • Keynote: 'OpenPower Innovation is Redefining High Performance Computing,' Bradley McCredie, IBM
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14:45 • Disruptive Technology (2 minutes): 'HPC Anywhere: Submersion and Directed Flow Cooling Technology for Oil & Gas,” Herb Zien, LiquidCool Solutions; Jay Ford, LiquidCool Solutions
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14:45 • Disruptive Technology (2 minutes): 'Improving the Design of Subsea Riser Systems,” William Calver II, Altair; Geert Wenes, Cray; Bert Beals, Cray
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14:45 • Disruptive Technology (2 minutes): 'RTM Using Hadoop: Is There a Case for Migration?,” Ian Lumb, York University & Bright Computing, Inc.
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14:45 • Disruptive Technology (2 minutes): “REX Neo Architecture: A Path to Exascale,” Paul Sebexen, REX Computing; Thomas Sohmers, REX Computing
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14:45 • Disruptive Technology (2 minutes): 'Keep Agility, Reduce Cost! HPC and Compute-on-Demand with AWS,' Dougal Ballantyne, Amazon Web Services
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14:45 • Disruptive Technology (2 minutes): 'Automata Processing: A Massively Parallel Computing Solution,” Dan Skinner, Micron
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14:45 • Disruptive Technology (2 minutes): “Predictive Analytics at Work: Oil and Gas Exploration Using Watson and Data Streaming,” Currie Boyle, IBM
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15:15 • Networking & Break
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15:45 • Coarse-grained Seismic Algorithms: “RTM - Asynchronous Constraint Execution for Scalability and Heterogeneity on Shot Level,” Daniel Grünewald, Fraunhofer ITWM; Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Fraunhofer ITWM
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15:45 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data I: “Hosting DLC HPC System and Beyond,” Diego Klahr, Total
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16:05 • Coarse-grained Seismic Algorithms: 'Portable Task-based Programming for Elastodynamics,” Lionel Boillot, INRIA Magique3D team; George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee; Emmanuel Agullo, INRIA Hiepacs team; Henri Calandra,
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16:05 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data I: “BP Center for High Performance Computing Facility - Year 1 Review,” Stefan Garrard, BP; Keith Gray, BP; Gary Kuzma, BP; Saadeddine Dimachkieh, HOK
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16:25 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data I: 'Move of the Chevron HPC to a New Facility,' Jay Williamson, Chevron
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16:25 • Coarse-grained Seismic Algorithms: “Using Performance Tools to Analyze the Performance of an
MPI+OpenMP Reverse Time Migration Code,” Sri Raj Paul, Rice University; Mauricio Araya-Polo, Shell; John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University
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16:45 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data I: 'SC ’15 Student Cluster Challenge Team,' Carlos Rosales-Fernandez, Texas Advanced Computing Center
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16:45 • Coarse-grained Seismic Algorithms: 'Using Modeling to Develop Stencil Codes,” Raul de La Cruz, Barcelona Supercomputing Center; Mauricio Araya-Polo, Shell
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17:05 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data I: 'Best Practices in HPC Systems Administration,' Shawn Hall, Numerical Algorithms Group
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17:05 • Coarse-grained Seismic Algorithms: “Democratization of HPC in the Oil & Gas Industry Through Automatic Parallelization with Parallware,” Manuel Arenaz, Appentra Solutions S.L. & University of A Coruña; J.M. Dominguez, EPHYSLAB Environmental Physics Labora
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17:30 • Networking Reception
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07:30 • Registration & Networking
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08:30 • Plenary: Message from Organizers
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08:45 • Keynote: 'Current Trends in Parallel Numerical Computing and Challenges for the Future,' Jack Dongarra, American University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee
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09:30 • Keynote: 'The Green Data Center and Energy Efficient Computing,' Steven Hammond, Computational Science Center Director, NREL
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10:15 • Networking & Break
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10:45 • Fine-grained Seismic Algorithms: “OKL: A Unified Kernel Language for Parallel Architectures,” David Medina, Rice University; Amik St-Cyr, Shell; Tim Warburton, Rice University: Lucas Wilcox, Naval Postgraduate School
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10:45 • Reservoir/Production: 'Vectorization of Equation of State Calculations in Compositional Reservoir Simulation,” Shaji Chempath, Kjetil Haugen and Bret Beckner, ExxonMobil
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10:45 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data II: “Petascale Data Management at ExxonMobil,” Alan Wild, ExxonMobil
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11:05 • Reservoir/Production: “High-performance Parallel Preconditioning for Large-scale Reservoir Simulation Through Multiscale, Architecture-aware Techniques,” Jason Sewall, Intel; Abdulrahman Manea and Hamdi Tchelepi, Stanford
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11:05 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data II: “HDF5 - Where We're At and Where We're Going,” Quincey Koziol, HDF Group
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11:05 • Fine-grained Seismic Algorithms: “Revisiting Kirchhoff Migration on GPUs,” Rajesh Gandham, Rice University; Thomas Cullison, Hess; and Scott Morton, Hess
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11:25 • Fine-grained Seismic Algorithms: “RiDG: A Portable High-Performance Simulation Tool for Seismic Imaging,” Axel Modave and David Medina, Rice University; Amik St-Cyr, Shell; Tim Warburton, Rice University
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11:25 • Reservoir/Production: “Heterogeneous HPC Framework for Agile Formation Evaluation and Well Placement Workflows in High-Angle and Horizontal Wells,” Valery Polyakov, Ray Kocian, Dzevat Omeragic and Tarek Habashy, Schlumberger
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11:25 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data II: 'Performance and TCO of a Submersion Cooled Data Center: Two Case Studies From Medium to Large Scale, Oil and Gas Exploration Data Center Installations,' Christiaan Best, Green Revolution Cooling
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11:45 • Reservoir/Production: “Strongly Scalable High Order Algorithm for Miscible Flooding on Massively Parallel Architecture,” Jizhou Li and Beatrice Riviere, Rice University
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11:45 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data II: “Large-Data Software Defined Visualization on CPUs,” Gregory S. Johnson, Gregory P. Johnson and Ingo Wald, Intel
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11:45 • Fine-grained Seismic Algorithms: “Performance Comparison Between HDG and Nodal DG Methods for Elastic Waves Simulation in Harmonic Domain,” Marie Bonnasse-Gahot, INRIA Bordeaux-Sud-Ouest; Henri Calandra, Total; Julien Diaz, INRIA Bordeaux-Sud-Ouest and St
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12:05 • Reservoir/Production: “Rapid Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing Using a Planar 3D Model,” Bjoern Nordmoen, Aron Anderson, Sergey Nenakhov and Olga Kresse, Schlumberger
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12:05 • Fine-grained Seismic Algorithms: “Towards an Explicit RTM Stencil Computation Framework on KALRAY TURBOCARD2,” Yann Kalemkarian, Kalray Inc.
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12:05 • Facilities, Infrastructure & Data II: 'Pixel Pipelines: An Update on Current Trends in Visualization Infrastructure,' Erik Engquist, Rice University
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12:30 • Networking & Lunch Break
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13:30 • Plenary: 'Future of High Performance Networking,' Anshul Sadana, Senior Vice President, Customer Engineering, Arista
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14:00 • Plenary: 'Future Systems and Seismic Computing,' Kent Winchell, Director, Cray
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14:30 • Keynote: 'Seismic Imaging and HPC partnership – Innovation at BP,' Eric Green, VP, Seismic Imaging, BP
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15:15 • Poster: 'A Spark-based Seismic Data Analytics Cloud,' Yuzhong Yan, Prairie View A&M University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Graphene-like sheets acting as selective sieves or impermeable membranes,' Gustavo Brunetto, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Providing vectors and matrices support to SimSQL, an analytic relational database system,' Shangyu Luo, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Depth-oriented Extended Full Waveform Inversion with an Unknown Source Function,' Lei Fu, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Model-Based Informiaiton Acquisition and Retrieval via Compressive Sensing,' Yun Li, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Extending FWI into the Plane Wave Domain,' Papia Nandi-Dimitrova, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'A Meshless Approach to Modeling Fluid-Filled Fracture Propagation in a Porous Medium,' Javier Villarreal, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Variable Projection Method for Extended Born Waveform Inversion with Shot Coordinate Model Extension,' Yin Huang, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'OCCA Accelerated Lattice Boltzmann Method in Core Sample Analysis,' Zheng Wang, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Graphyne membranes functionalization: A Fully Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Investigation,' Pedro Autreto, State University of Campinas/Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'NIR and MIR Charge Transfer Plasmons in Wire-Bridged Antennas,' Yue Zhang, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Calculation of Solubility Parameters of Crude Oil Systems as a Function of Pressure, Temperature and Composition using Experiments, Thermodynamic Modeling and Molecular Simulations,' Mohan Boggara, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Adding vectors and matrix support to SimSQL, an analytic relational database system,' Shangyu Luo, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Performance Analysis and Configuration Selection for Applications in the Cloud,' Ruiqi Liu, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Estimation of Relative Permeabilities in Porous Media Flow,' Caleb Magruder, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Strongly Scalable High Order Algorithm for Miscible Flooding on Massively Parallel Architecture,' Jizhou Li, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Analysis of Separation Mechanisms in Molecular transport through channels,' Shaghayegh Agah, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Fast Step Transition and State Identification (STaSI) for Discrete Single-Molecule Data Analysis,' Bo Shuang, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Upper Cambrian Microbial Reefs, Mason, Texas: The making of Virtual Outcrops using Photogrammetry,' Pankaj Khanna, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Optimal Control of Miscible Displacement Equations using Discontinuous Galerkin Methods,' Brianna Lynn, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Speeding Up Your Data Center with Optical Circuit Switching,' Xin Huang, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'High Surface Area Activated Asphalt for CO2 Capture,' Almaz Jalilov, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Wall Thickness Measurement System based on Magnetic Flux Leakage for External Robotic Inspection of Oil and Gas Pipelines,' Issam Ben Moallem, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Communication Avoiding Algorithms: Analysis and Code Generation for Parallel Systems,' Karthik Murthy, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Scalable Data Mining Using the STAPL C++ library, Robert Metzger,' Texas A&M University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Speeding up Big Data Jobs through better traffic flow management in file systems,' Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Bottom-up Insight into the Morphology, Spectroscopy, and Photophysics of Thiophene Based Polymers,' Ryan Haws, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Well Rate Optimization of Oil Reservoirs,' Xiaodi Deng, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster Session & Closing Reception
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15:15 • Poster: 'Portable Programming Models for Heterogeneous Platforms,' Deepak Majeti, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Performance Characterization of Applications across different Programming Models Using Similarity Analysis,' Md Abdullah Shahneous Bari, University of Houston
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15:15 • Poster: 'Accelerating Extended Least Squares Migration with an approximate inverse to the extended Born modeling operator,' Jie Hou, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Unraveling the Sinuous Grain Boundaries in Graphene,' Yang Yang, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Software Support for Efficient Use of Modern Parallel Systems,' Milind Chabbi, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'A High Performance JPEG-XR Image Compression Library,' Lai Wei, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Macro-Dataflow Programming for Mapping on Heterogeneous Architectures,' Alina Sbirlea, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Computational Science Undergraduate Research Experiences (CSURE) in National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS),' Kwai Wong, University of Tennessee
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15:15 • Poster: 'Distributive Interoperable Executive Library (DIEL) for Multi-disciplinary System-Wide Scientific Simulations,' Kwai Wong, University of Tennessee
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15:15 • Poster: 'Model Order Reduction in Porous Media Flow Optimizations,' Mohammadreza Ghasemi, Texas A&M University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Efficient implementation of cactus stack in work-stealing runtimes,' Chaoran Yang, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'On Magneto-Optical Magnetic Flux Leakage Sensing,' David Trevino-Garcia, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Hybrid agent-based-simulation framework for understanding self-organization in bacteria,' Rajesh Balagam, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Mixing of passive scalars advected by in compressible enstrophy-constrained flows,' Xiaoqian Xu, Rice University
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15:15 • Poster: 'Adaptive hierarchical sparse-grid integration for uncertainty quantification,' Timur Takhtaganov, Rice University
