FRANKFURT, Germany, June 17 – ISC Events, the organizer of the ISC High Performance conference (ISC 2016), is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, as the next program chairman. This appointment is in line with the organizers’ pledge to promote diversity and underlines the international dimension of this conference.

As the program chair, Dr. Matsuoka will be actively involved in leading the ISC program team to define the ISC 2016 program, especially the focus topics, whilst also working with the steering committee in a multi-year effort to further elevate the value of ISC for the HPC community.

The position of an annually-rotating ISC Program Chair was created last year, thus opening the conference to members of the community who play a pivotal role in advancing the field of high performance computing.  Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode was the first appointee, serving as the chair for 2015.

A highly respected member of the international HPC community, Matsuoka has been a full professor since 2001 at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of Tokyo Institute of Technology, one of the leading national supercomputer centers in Japan. He currently leads the MEXT Green Supercomputing, JSPS Billion-Scale Supercomputer Resilience, and JST-CREST Extreme Big Data projects.

Matsuoka is also the project leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers.

The first TSUBAME machine, deployed in 2006, became the fastest supercomputer in Japan, superseding the Earth Simulator. TSUBAME 2.0 was the first supercomputer in Japan to exceed a petaflop of performance and became the fourth fastest in the world on the TOP500 in November 2010. In November 2013, the TSUBAME-KFC system became the leader in the world for power efficiency on both the Green 500 and Green Graph 500 lists.

Matsuoka has co-authored over 500 articles and book chapters chaired many ACM and IEEE conferences, and is a Fellow of the ACM and the ISC HPC conference. He has won many awards, including the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2006, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2011, the Commendation for Science and Technology in 2012, and the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award in 2014.

“It is a big honor to be named the program chair for ISC 2016, which I had been participating and actively contributing to every year for the last 15 years and observed its evolution to one of the top-tier HPC conferences in the world,” said ISC 2016 Program Chair Satoshi Matsuoka.

“My mission is to further elevate the value and esteem of ISC High Performance to all the participants, academia as well as the industry, through my long-term experience of leading other top-tier conferences such as SC in the US. We are already working to define a set of very attractive, state-of-the-art themes for ISC 2016, as well as assemble an international leadership team consisting of world’s leading experts in HPC. Our expectations are high such that ISC 2016 would be considered the best ISC ever, but of course that would be a challenge given ISC 2015 as well as the past years.”

“As we have started working on the 2016 program, we think the community deserves a sneak preview into the program,” said ISC General Co-chair Martin Meuer. “One of our long-term goals includes involving international HPC experts who acknowledge and support the conference, when deciding on future conference topics and selecting speakers.”

Other New Appointments

The organizers have also taken the opportunity to revamp the conference committees, furtherdiversifying the conference. Their varied research interests will be reflected in the 2016 program,broadening the topic set in next year’s conference.

Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra of University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory will serve as the 2016 ISC Research Papers Chair. Dr. Pavan Balaji of Argonne National Laboratory, who is the currentISC Tutorial chair, will lend his expertise as next year’s Deputy Research Paper Chair. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Voevodin of Moscow State University will act as the Posters Chair, while Prof. Dr. William Gropp of University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and SC13 Chair will lead the Tutorial committee as its new chair.

ISC Workshops will remain under the direction of Dr. Bernd Mohr, of the Juelich Supercomputing Center, while the ISC Events’ in-house HPC expert consultant, Dr. Horst Gietl, will chair the Birds-of Feather committee. Finally, the organizers have, in order to further strengthen the industry program, created a new position – the ISC Industry Program Chair, which will be headed by Prof. Dr. – Ing. Michael Resch of the High Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart.

The 2016 Focus Topics

The 12 focus topics for next year’s technical content have been selected under the direction of the ISC 2016 Program Chair, Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka, along with the ISC program consultants, Dr. Horst Gietl, Dr. Georg Hager from the Erlangen Regional Computing Center and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein of University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

They embrace a range of subject matter on the latest developments and research efforts in the realm of high performance computing. The focus topics for 2016 are:

•        HPC Trajectory Towards 2020 and Beyond
•        Big Data and HPC Convergence
•         Performance Modeling and Prediction
•         Runtime Systems: Concepts for the Future
•         Success Stories of New Programming Languages
•        Advanced Disaster Prediction and Mitigation
•         State of the Art in Life Sciences
•         Computational Approaches in Finance
•        Challenges in Extreme Engineering
•         Exascale Architectures: Revolution versus Evolution
•         Algorithms for Extreme Scale in Practice
•        Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning

We are confident that the 2016 conference will once again emerge as Europe’s most important HPC forum, offering talks that encompass an array of unique topics and speakers. The full program details will be available when the registration opens in March 2016.

The next conference will again be held at Forum Messe Frankfurt and from June 19 to June 23, 2016.

About ISC High Performance

Moving into its 31^st year, ISC High Performance is the world’s oldest and Europe’s most important conference and networking event for the HPC community. It offers a strong five-day technical program focusing on HPC technological development and its application in scientific fields, as well as its adoption in commercial environments.

Over 400 hand-picked expert speakers and 160 exhibitors, consisting of leading research centers and vendors, will greet attendees at ISC High Performance. A number of events complement the technical program including Tutorials, the TOP500 Announcement, Research Paper Sessions, Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Sessions, the Poster Sessions, Exhibitor Forums, and Workshops.

ISC High Performance is open to engineers, IT specialists, system developers, vendors, scientists, researchers, students, journalists, and other members of the HPC global community. The exhibition attracts decision-makers from automotive, finance, defense, aeronautical, gas & oil, banking, pharmaceutical and other industries, as well those providing hardware, software and services for the HPC community. Attendees will learn firsthand about new products and applications, in addition to the latest technological advances in the HPC industry.

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Source: ISC Events