July 18 — OpenSHMEM 2016, the leading workshop on OpenSHMEM research and related technologies, will be held on August 2 – 4, 2016 in Baltimore, MD. Each year of this workshop, we have engaging speakers and constructive discussions, and we expect no less from this year. The 2016 workshop will feature two dynamic keynote talks.

The first keynote talk, “GPUs, NVLink, and the Dawn of a New SHMEM Golden Age”, will be presented by Steve Oberlin. Steve has been innovating in high-performance computing (HPC) since 1980, when he joined Cray Research bringing up CRAY-1 supercomputers. Career highlights include working for Seymour Cray designing the CRAY-2 and CRAY-3 vector supercomputers, and leading the architecture and design of Cray Research’s first massively parallel processors, the T3D (the first SHMEM machine) and T3E. In the early 21st Century, Steve stepped away from HPC to co-found and lead a couple of cloud computing start-ups, but returned to his first love in 2013, joining NVIDIA as the CTO for Accelerated Computing

The second keynote talk, “IBM’s Directions for Data Centric Systems”, will be presented by James C. Sexton. Dr. James Sexton is and IBM Fellow and Director of the Data Centric Systems department at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. Dr. Sexton received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Columbia University, NY. His areas of interest lie in High Performance Computing, Computational Science, Applied Mathematics and Analytics. Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Sexton held appointments as Lecturer then Professor at Trinity College Dublin, as postdoctoral fellow at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He has held adjunct appointments as Director and Founder of the Trinity Center for High Performance Computing, as a Board Member for the Board of Trinity College Dublin, as Senior Research Consultant for Hitachi Dublin Laboratory, and as a Hitachi Research Fellow at Hitachi’s Central Research Laboratory in Tokyo. Dr. Sexton has over 70 publications and has participated on three separate Gordon Bell Award winning teams.

We have also invited Dr. Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda to share his extensive experience and knowledge implementing message passing libraries. This talk is entitled “Designing OpenSHMEM and Hybrid MPI+OpenSHMEM Libraries for Exascale Systems: MVAPICH2-X Experience”. DK Panda is a Professor and University Distinguished Scholar of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. He has published over 400 papers in the area of high-end computing and networking. The MVAPICH2 libraries with support for MPI and PGAS on IB, Omni-Path, iWARP, RoCE, GPGPUs, Xeon Phis and virtualization (http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu), are currently being used by more than 2,600 organizations worldwide (in 81 countries). This software is empowering several InfiniBand clusters (including the 12th, 15th, and 31st ranked ones) in the TOP500 list. As of June ’16, more than 379,000 downloads have taken place from this project’s site. This software is also being distributed by many InfiniBand, Omni-Path, iWARP and RoCE vendors in their software distributions. He is an IEEE Fellow.

We invite you to attend the OpenSHMEM Workshop, an annual event dedicated to the promotion and advancement of the OpenSHMEM programming interface and to helping shape its future direction. It is the premier venue to discuss and present the latest developments, implementation technologies, tools, trends, recent research ideas and results related to OpenSHMEM. This year’s workshop will explore the ongoing evolution of OpenSHMEM to interoperate with other programming models and hybrid architectures. The focus will be on future extensions to improve OpenSHMEM on current and upcoming architectures keeping in mind the trend towards accelerators. Although, this is an OpenSHMEM specific workshop, we welcome ideas used for other PGAS languages/APIs that may be applicable to OpenSHMEM.

To register, visit the OpenSHMEM 2016 website and follow the registration link. Registration will close on July 18, 2016 at 5pm ET.

Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory