Programme – SCA20

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HPC Futures – Hyperscalers, Exa, AI, Quantum and Beyond

11 March, Monday

Venue	Room 300	Room 301	Room 302	Room 303	Room 304
11 Mar, Mon	Track: NVIDIA DLI	Track: NVIDIA DLI	Track: Mellanox	Track: Altair PBS & DDN User Groups	Track: IBM User Group	NSCC Data Centre Tour
0900 – 0930	Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Multi-GPUs 0830 – 0900 Registration 0900 – 0945 Theory of Data Parallelism 0945 – 1030 Introduction to Multi GPU Training Click for more information	Deep Learning for Healthcare Genomics 0830 – 0900 Registration 0900 – 0915 Welcome 0915 – 1030 Image Classification with Digits Click for more information	Pave the Road to Exascale HPC 0900 – 0910 Opening 0910 – 1000 Pave the Way to Exascale by Mr. Gilad Shainer, Chairman, HPC-AI Advisory Council Click for more information	0900 – 1000 PBS User Group Inauguration by Mr. Bill Nitzberg, CTO, PBS Works1000 – 1020 Customer Presentation by TBC Click for more information	IBM Spectrum Scale User Group 0800 – 0900 Registration and Networking 0900 – 0915 Welcome Address by Mr. Chris Schlipalius, User Group 0915 – 0935 Spectrum Scale Use Cases and Positioning by Mr. Ulf Troppens, IBM 0935 – 1000 Accelerating AI workloads with IBM Spectrum Scale by Ms. Par Hettinga, IBM 1000 – 1025 IBM Spectrum AI with NVIDIA for Autonomous Driving (AD) by Mr. Frank Kraemer, IBM 1025 – 1030 Meet the Devs Click for more information
0930 – 1000
1000 – 1030			Engineering an HPC cluster solution for GPU-accelerated workloads by Mr. Jeffrey Adie, Principal Solutions Architect, APJI Region, NVIDIA
1030 – 1100	Tea Break					Tour 1: 10.30AM – 11.30AM (Pre-registration is required)
1100 – 1130	1100 – 1215 Introduction to Multi GPU Training (Continued)	1100 – 1145 Image Classification with Digits (Continued)1145 – 1230 Deep Learning for Genomics using DragoNN with Keras and Theano	Excelero NVMesh is a storage game changer for SuperComputing by Mr. Oren Laadan, Chief Technical Officer, Excelero	1100 – 1120 Unified accounting and health checking with Altair PBS Professional by Paul Hiew & Liu Siyuan, NSCC Singapore1120 – 1150 PBS Works Custom Solutions on Various HPC Platforms by Mr. Piush Patel, Vice President, Corporate Development for HPC and Cloud1150 – 1230 User Group Open Forum Discussion1230 – 1240 Closing Notes and Awards	1100 – 1130 What is new in Spectrum Scale? by Mr. Wei Gong, IBM1130 – 1145 What is new in ESS?by Mr. Chris Maestas, IBM1145 – 1200 Lenovo Spectrum Scale Solutions by Michael Hennecke, Lenovo1200 – 1230 Spectrum Scale on AWS (Live Demo) by Ms. Smita Raut, IBM	Tour 1: 10.30AM – 11.30AM (Pre-registration is required)
1130 – 1200			In-Network Computing in HPC System by Mr. Avi Telyas, Director of System Engineering, Mellanox
1200 – 1230			MPI Acceleration in HPC System by Dr. Richard Graham, HPC Scale Special Interest Group Chair, HPC-AI Advisory Council
1230 – 1330	Lunch
1330 – 1400	Algorithmic Challenges to Multi GPU Training	1330 – 1445 Deep Learning for Genomics using DragoNN with Keras and Theano (Continued) 1445 – 1530 Radiomics 1p19q Chromosome Image Classification with TensorFlow	AMD Radeon Instinct™ Platforms For HPC and Machine Intelligence by Dr. Yang Jian, Fellow, AMD	DDN User Group 1330 – 1340 Opening DDN & Whamcloud User Group by Mr. Atul Vidwansa, DDN Session 1: AI & Big Data 1340 – 1420 ABCI and its Storage Architecture by Hirotaka Ogawa, Ph.D. Leader, AI Cloud Research Team, AI Research Center National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 1420 – 1450 Customer Keynote: GPGPU Driven Data Warehousing for Enterprise Messaging Services on All-Flash Storage by Mr. Ajit Singh, Sr. Vice President Engineering, ACL-Mobile 1450 – 1515 Partner Update: NVIDIA DGX Ready Data Centre by Dr. Gabriel Noaje, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA 1515 – 1540 High-Performance File Storage for Containerized Environments by Shuichi Ihara, DDN Click for more information	1330 – 1350 Customer/Partner Talk1350 – 1410 Customer/Partner Talk1410 – 1440 Enabling Precision Medicine with IBM Spectrum Scale by Mr. Sandeep Patil, IBM1440 – 1500 Sidra Medicine with IBM Spectrum Scale – Enhancing Patient Care with Personalized Medicine for Qatari population, EMEA & Wider World by Mr. Tushar Pathare, Sidra1500 – 1530 What is new in Support by Mr. Ravikumar Ramaswamy, IBM
1400 – 1430			GPU Direct Accelerate HPC System by Mr. Ashrut Ambastha, Sr. Staff of Solution Architect, Mellanox
1430 – 1500			Accelerating Machine Learning with NVMe over Fabrics for GPU Clusters by Mr. Zivan Ori, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, E8 Storage			Tour 2: 2.30PM – 3.30PM (Pre-registration is required)
1500 – 1530			In-Network Computing In HPC System by Dr. Richard Graham., HPC Scale Special Interest Group Chair, HPC-AI Advisory Council			Tour 2: 2.30PM – 3.30PM (Pre-registration is required)
1530 – 1600	Tea Break
1600 – 1630	1545 – 1745 Engineering Challenges to Multi GPU Training1745 – 1800 Closing Comments and Questions	1600 – 1715 Radiomics 1p19q Chromosome Image Classification with TensorFlow (Continued)1715 – 1730 Closing Comments and Questions	Exascale HPC Fabric Topology by Mr. Ashrut Ambastha, Sr. Staff of Solution Architect, Mellanox	Session 2: Accelerating Data-Intensive Science 1600 – 1620 Partner Update: GPU Enhanced, Accurate, scalable genomic analysis for the planet by Mr. Mehrzad Samadi, CEO, Parabricks 1620 – 1635 DDN Product & Roadmap Update by: Mr. Nobu Hashizume, DDN 1635 – 1650 ExaScaler for HPC, Big Data & AI by Mr. Carlos Thomaz, DDN Session 3: Industry Positions: HPC, Big Data, and AI in Advancing Research Panel Discussion: Impact of AI on the Future of Business & Technology Moderator: Prof Tan Tin Wee, NUS & NSCC, Singapore 1655 – 1710 Industry: ACL Mobile by Vineet Jain, CTO & Co-founder 1710 – 1725 Life Sciences: Parabricks by Mehrzad Samadi, CEO 1725 – 1740 Technology Provider: DDN Storage by Robert Triendl, EVP Worldwide Sales 1740 – 1755 Data Reduction and Noisy Machine Learning in High-throughput Single Particle Imaging by Dr. Duane Loh, NUS Center for Bio-imaging Sciences 1755 – 1800 Closing Remarks by Mr. Atul Vidwansa, DDN	1600 – 1625 Running Spark/Hadoop workload on Spectrum Scale by Mr. Wei Gong, IBM1625 – 1650 Spectrum Scale support for Container by Ms. Smita Raut, IBM1650 – 1715 Tiering cold data to Spectrum Archive by Mr. Khanh Ngo, IBM1715 – 1735 Open Discussion1735 – 1740 Wrap-up by Mr. Chris Schlipalius, User Group1740 – 2010 Get Together
1630 – 1700			Exascale HPC Fabric Optimization by Mr. Qingchun Song, HPC-AI Advisory Council
1700 – 1730			Panel Discussion and Q&A
1730 – 1800			Lucky Draw & Closing by Mr. Qingchun Song, HPC-AI Advisory Council

*Please note that information is accurate as of 26 Feb 2019.

12 March, Tuesday

Venue	Summit 2
12 Mar, Tues	Opening Ceremony
0925 – 0930	Welcome Address by Mr. Peter Ho, Chairman, NSCC Steering Committee
0930 – 0940	Opening Speech by Guest-of-Honour, Mr. Heng Swee Keat, Minister For Finance
0940 – 0950	SCA Awards Presentation
0950 – 1020	Opening Keynote From Sci-fi to Reality: Quantum Computing is Here by Dr. Christine Ouyang, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Quantum Computing Technical Partnership and Systems Strategy, IBM Master Inventor and member of Academy of Technology
1020 – 1040	Tea Break
1040 – 1110	Industry Keynote The Changing Face of HPC by Dr. Steve Scott, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cray
1110 – 1140	Plenary Keynote by Prof. Dahua Lin, Co-Founder of SenseTime, Assistant Professor at The Chinese University Of Hong Kong
1140 – 1210	Plenary Keynote Cracking open the network ‘black-box’ by Dr. Inder Monga, Division Director, Scientific Networking Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Executive Director, Energy Sciences Network
1210 – 1240	Industry Keynote Intelligent Data Center Architecture to Enable Next Generation HPC/AI Platforms by Mr. Gilad Shainer, Chairman of HPC-AI Advisory Council
1240 – 1330	Lunch Break

Venue	Room 323	Room 324	Room 325	Room 326	Room 328	Room 329
	Session: SG-JP / SG-AU	Session: HPC-AI Competition	Track: Industry	Track: Quantum	Track: Joint HPC Cloud Security Workshop	Track: Precision Medicine
1330 – 1400	1330 – 1335 Welcome Remarks by Mr. Alan Davis, Director, Strategic Policy, Planning and Projects, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore 1335 – 1345 Japan Update by Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science and Dr. Motoi Okuda, Deputy Head of Kobe Centre, RIST 1345 – 1410 The Roles of high performance computing in heavy industry by Dr. Ittetsu Inuzuka, Associate Senior Researcher, Computational and Mathematical Engineering Department, IHI Corporation 1410 – 1435 New approach to find biological adaptation rules using CFD and Genetic Algorism by Dr. Ryutaro Himeno, Coordinator, Head office for Information Systems and Cybersecurity Research and Development Group, RIKEN 1435 – 1500 Social Simulations with Supercomputers by Dr. Nobuyasu Ito, Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo and Riken Center for Computational Science 1500 – 1525 High-speed networks to enable SG-JP collaborations by Prof. Francis Lee, Vice President, Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network 1525 – 1530 Closing Remarks	1330 – 1340 Opening Remarks by Mr. Qingchun Song, HPC-AI Advisory Council 1340 – 1400 Welcome Address by Prof. Tan Tin Wee, Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore	TOWARDS EXASCALE In-Network Computing in HPC System by Mr. Avi (Avraham) Telyas, Director of System Engineering, Mellanox	1330 – 1415 Quantum Information Processing Overview by Prof. Rodney Van Meter, Vice Center Chair of the Keio Quantum Computing Center	1330 – 1340 Welcome Remarks by Dr. Lee Hing Yan, Executive Vice President APAC, Cloud Security Alliance 1340 – 1405 Cloud First Strategy – How to Secure it? by Mr. Gavin Liu, Solutions Architect, Alibaba Cloud 1405 – 1430 The Science of Cloud Computing in Scientific Computing by Mr. Vincent Quah, Regional Head for Education, Research, Healthcare and Not-For-Profit Organisations, APAC Global Public Sector, Amazon Web Services 1430 – 1455 Is Secured High Performance Computing Possible? By Mr. Jeffery Tay, Solutions Architect, Microsoft 1455 – 1520 Securing HPC Cloud: Learning from Securing Internet-of-Things (IoT) by Mr. Cheng Jang Thye, Chief Architect and Head, Digital eXperience Center, Fujitsu	1330 – 1340 Welcome Remarks by Dr. Kenneth Ban, Chair, Precision Medicine Track1340 – 1415 Keynote: Big Data, Smart Data, and Actionable Data: Shaping the Future of Precision Medicine and Healthcare by Prof. Yu Shyr, Professor and Chair, Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics1415 – 1450 Keynote: (Epi) Genomic Predictors of Disease Outcome by Prof. Patrick Tan, Deputy Executive Director, Agency for Science, Technology & Research1450 – 1510 Australia’s Precision Medicine Is Powered by Ultra-high Dimensional Machine Learning and Serverless Cloud-architecture by Dr. Denis Bauer, Head Cloud-computing, Bioinformatics, CSIRO1510 – 1530 When Machine Learning Meets Healthcare by Prof. Feng Mengling, Assistant Professor, SSHSPH NUS
1400 – 1430		1400 – 1420 Building a Superhighway for Artificial Intelligence by Prof. Dahua Lin, Co-Founder Of SenseTime, Assistant Professor At CUHK 1420 – 1440 Building Data Centre Centric Supercomputer by Mr. Gilad Shainer, Chairman, HPC-AI Advisory Council 1440 – 1500 Scalable and Distributed DNN Training on Modern HPC Systems by Dr. D.K. Panda, Professor of Ohio State University and Founder of MVAPICH	Convergence of Supercomputers, Clusters and on-premises Clouds by Mr. Rajesh Chhabra, General Manager, SE Asia, Cray	1415 – 1530 IBM Q Overview, Qiskit and Aqua Demo by Dr. Shaohan Hu, Research Staff Member, IBM Q
1430 – 1500			Post-K Supercomputer Development by Mr. Toshiyuki Shimizu, Vice President, System Development Division, Next Generation Technical Computing Unit, Fujitsu
1500 – 1530		1500 – 1520 Sunway Deep Learning Platform by Dr. Lin Gan, R&D Director of NSCC, Wuxi 1520 – 1540 HPC Cloud as a Service by Dr. Derek Wang, Chief Cloud Architect of Alibaba Cloud international	China Exascale: The Road Beyond 2020 by Mr. Nebojsa Novakovic, Independent HPC Consultant
1530 – 1600	Tea Break
1600 – 1630	1600 – 1603 Welcome Remarks by Prof. Tan Tin Wee, CE, NSCC Singapore 1603- 1608 Opening Remarks by H.E. Mr. Bruce Gosper, Australian High Commissioner 1608 – 1615 Opening Remarks Australia Update by Mr. Mark Stickells, Executive Director, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre 1615 – 1640 The Future of Digital in Science by Mr. Angus Macoustra, Chief Technology Officer, and Scientific Computing Program Leader, CSIRO 1640 – 1705 Future proofing Australia’s research infrastructure by Prof. Sean Smith, Director, NCI & Mr. Allan Williams, Associate Director, NCI 1705 – 1730 Current and future directions for HPC at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre by Dr. Jenni Harrison, Director of Strategic Projects and Engagement, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre & Mr. Mark Gray, Cloud Lead, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre 1730 – 1755 Skin Simulations – Challenges for High Performance Computing by Dr. Jernej Zidar, Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), ASTAR 1755 – 1800* Closing Remarks	1600 – 1620 Deploying NVMe at scale in HPC by Mr. Oren Laadan, Chief Technology Officer, Excelero1620 – 1640 UCX Accelerate HPC Application by Mr. Richard Graham, HPC Scale Special Interest Group Chair, HPC-AI Advisory Council1640 – 1655 Accelerating Machine Learning with NVMe over Fabrics for GPU Clusters by Mr. Zivan Ori, Chief Executive Officer, E81655 – 1710Importance of Latency in Mixed Storage Workloads by Mr. CT Chu, Sr. Product Manager, WekaIO	ARCHITECTURE / PROCESSOR AMD Radeon Instinct^TM Platforms For HPC and Machine Intelligence by Dr. Yang Jian, Fellow, ASIC and Layout Design, AMD	1600 – 1645 Industry Panel Discussion The Road to Quantum Advantage Moderator: Dr. Christine Ouyang, IBM Panellist: Mr. George Loh Director, Programmes, National Research Foundation Ms. Stephanie Hung Senior Vice President, ST Engineering Electronics Dr. Qi Gao Senior Scientist at Mitsubishi Chemical Group, Science and Technology Research Center Prof. Dennis Polla Professor, ASTAR 1645 – 1715* Startup Panel Discussion Towards Quantum Economy Moderator: Ms. Yvonne Gao, ASTAR Panellist: Prof. Joe Fitzsimons, Founder of Horizon Quantum Computing Dr. Ewan Munro, Co-Founder of Entropica Labs Dr. Mark Jackson*, Cambridge Quantum Computing	1600 – 1620 Introduction to HPC Cloud Security WG by Mr. Ong Guan Sin, Head of New Services and Cybersecurity, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore and Mr. Zhuang Haojie, Director of Research, APAC, Cloud Security Alliance	NSCC-CSIRO Presentation: Future Architectures for Precision Medicine
1630 – 1700			Transforming HPC with a heterogeneous Intelligent Computing Architecture by Mr. Francis Lam, Director of HPC Product Management, Huawei		1620 – 1640 Going Forward – The HPC Cloud Security Stakeholders’ Platform by Mr. Jon Lau, Director of Business Development, APAC, Cloud Security Alliance	Closed Door Discussion
1700 – 1730		1710 – 1730 2018 HPC-AI Competition Sharing by Mr. Ziji Shi, Nanyang Technological University	Expand Computing Area with NEC’s Unique Vector Processor by Mr. Yoshinori Ohkura, Manager, Global Platform Division, NEC		1640 – 1720 Panel Discussion Differences in Security between HPC and HPC Cloud Moderator: Mr. Ong Guan Sin Panellist: Mr. Gavin Liu Mr. Vincent Quah Mr. Jeffery Tay Mr. Cheng Jang Thye Mr. Andrew Howard Dr. Fang-Pang Lin1720 – 1730Q&A and Session Close
1730 – 1800		1730 – 1750 2019 HPC-AI Competition Launch by Mr. Gilad Shainer, Chairman, HPC-AI Advisory Council 1750 – 1800 Lucky Draw & Closing by Mr. Qingchun Song, HPC-AI Advisory Council	Build, Accelerate and Scale AI applications on Intel Architectures by Mr. Ananth Sankaranarayanan, Senior Director of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Products Group, Intel

*Please note that information is accurate as of 26 Feb 2019.

13 March, Wednesday

Venue	Room 323	Room 324 – 326			Room 327	Room 329
13 Mar, Wed	Track	Plenary			Track: ASEAN HPC Taskforce Meeting	Track: CoNGA
0900 – 0930		Plenary Keynote Capable Platform for the Next Generation Supercomputing by Prof. Lu Yutong, Director, National Supercomputer Centre In Guangzhou, China			By Invitation Only	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
0930 – 1000		Plenary Keynote Beyond hyperscale, to hyper-connected – an emerging Asian HPC zone by Mr. Mark Stickells, Executive Director, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
1000 – 1030		Plenary Keynote Boosting the Efficiencies for HPC Systems: Lessons from Sunway and Reconfigurable Architectures by Dr. Lin Gan, Assistant Director and Director (R&D), National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China
1030 – 1100	Tea Break
1100 – 1130		Industry Keynote AMD Silicon and Software Solutions for HPC by Mr. Jay Hiremath, Corporate Vice President, Platform and Software Engineering, AMD			By Invitation Only	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
1130 – 1200		Industry Keynote How to Design Convergent HPC, Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics Software Stacks for Exascale Systems? by Dr. D.K. Panda, Professor of Ohio State University and Founder of MVAPICH
1200 – 1230		Plenary Keynote Supercomputing Multiscale Modeling in Biomedical Engineering Guided by Machine Learning for Optimal Accuracy and Efficiency by Prof. Deng Yuefan, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Stony Brook University
1230 – 1330	Lunch
Venue	Room 323	Room 324	Room 325	Room 326	Room 327	Room 329
	Track: SCFA	Track: APRP	Track: Industry	Track: Quantum	Track: ASEAN HPC Taskforce Meeting	Track: CoNGA
1330 – 1400	001: MH-QEMU: Memory-State-Aware Fault Injection Platform by A/Prof. Hideyuki Jitsumoto, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Welcome and Intro to APRP by Mr. Yves Poppe, Consultant, Intercontinental SuperComputing Networking NSCC and Dr. Jeonghoon Moon, Leader of Network Development Team of KREONET Center, KISTI	AI and Cloud Azure HPC & AI State of the Art: powering everything from HPC to Quantum Simulation to Autonomous Driving by Mr. Rob Futrick, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Compute (HPC)	Reality of Quantum Computing by Prof. Lloyd Hollenberg, University of Melbourne	By Invitation Only	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
1400 – 1430	003: Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Linear Algebra Kernels in the prototype Tianhe-3 Cluster by Mr. Xin You, Beihang University	The European Processor Initiative (EPI) by Mr. Jean-Marc Denis, Distinguished Expert Strategy & Plan, BDS Strategy & Innovation Chair of the Board, European Processor Initiative	AI and Cloud with Intel FPGA Accelerators by Mr. Israr Sheikh, FAE Manager, South Asia Pacific, Intel	Potential Applications for Quantum Computing by Dr. Shaohan Hu, Research Staff Member, IBM Q
1430 – 1500	1430-1450 038: Analysis of the CPU Cooling Temperature Effect on the Performance and Power Consumption for the HPC Operational Decision Support by Dr. Jorji Nonaka, RIKEN Center for Computational Science 1450-1510 035: NVMe-based BeeGFS as a next-generation scratch filesystem for High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning workloads by Dr. Joseph Antony, CSIRO 1510-1530 002: “Into the DEEP”: A Modular Supercomputing Architecture towards Exascale by Dr. Herbert Cornelius, Megware Computer GmbH	GÉANT as the foundation of the European HPC ecosystem by Mr. Vincenzo Capone, Head of Research Engagement and Support, GÉANT	How We Get to the Future: HPC & AI by Dr. Bill Nitzberg, CTO, PBS Works, Altair Engineering Inc.	Complexity Science in a Quantum World by Prof. Mile Gu, Fellow, Centre for Quantum Technologies
1500 – 1530		APAN APRP Update by Dr. Jeonghoon Moon, Leader of Network Development Team of KREONET Center, KISTI and Mr. Andrew Howard, Cloud Team Manager, National Computational Infrastructure Australia	Disaggregation in ML /AI Hyperscale Data Centre by Mr. Shaowen Ma, Director, Ethernet Switches, APAC, Mellanox	Atos Quantum: an application-oriented program for business by Mr. Philippe Duluc, Chief Technology Officer, Atos Big Data & Security
1530 – 1600	Tea Break
1600 – 1630	1600-1620 028: Tuning Alya for Energy Efficiency with READEX by Dr. Venkatesh Kannan, Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) 1620-1640 025: Secure Data Reservoir:70 Gbps fully encrypted data transfer facility by A/Prof. Junichiro Shitami, The University of Tokyo 1640-1700 034: SuperCloud – The evolution of HPC to Software Defined Computing by Mr. Jacob Anders, CSIRO and Mr. Garry Swan, CSIRO	EU-ASEAN HPC cooperation and the STI Policy Exchange Platform by Dr. Kostas Glinos, European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation	Cloud – The New Frontier of Scientific Research by Mr. Vincent Quah, Regional Head – Education, Research, Healthcare and Not-For-Profit Organizations, APAC Global Public Sector, Amazon Web Services & Ms. Akanksha Bilani, Regional Lead, APAC, Intel Corporation	Error-Aware Compilation for the IBM 20-qubit Machine by Prof. Rodney Van Meter, Associate Professor at Keio University	By Invitation Only	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
1630 – 1700		1630 – 1645 Data Mover Challenge Overview and Acknowledgement of Partners by Prof. Francis Lee 1645 – 1700 Data Mover Challenge Judging, Reflections and Award Announcement by Mr. Andrew Howard	Fab or Fad: Cloud HPC and FPGA, Cray on Demand and Quantum Computing by Mr. Ben Di Qual, WW Infrastructure Technical Lead, Microsoft	Quantum Computing for the Near Future by Prof. Man Hong Yung, Associate Professor of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUST), Vice Dean of the Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (SIQSE)
1700 – 1730		Presentation by Data Mover Challenge 2019 Winner	Architecting Multi-Scale Neural Network Systems for Life Science Innovations by Mr. Andrew Underwood, Asia-Pacific Chief Technology Officer – HPC & AI, Dell EMC	Panel Discussion Panellist: Dr. Shaohan Hu, IBM Q Mr. Philippe Duluc, Atos Prof. Rodney Van Meter, Associate Professor at Keio University Prof. Lloyd Hollenberg, University of Melbourne Prof. Mile Gu, Centre for Quantum Computing Mr. Man Hong Yung, Huanwei, SUST
1730 – 1800		Discussion	System / Software Architecture Engineering Reality: The path towards realistic designs generated through multiple physics based on high-performance computing by Mr. Sridhar Dharmarajan (DS), Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Region, MSC Software Corporation
1900 – 2200	Networking Dinner and Award Ceremony Venue: Concourse 2 – 4

*Please note that information is accurate as of 26 Feb 2019.

14 March, Thursday

Venue	Room 320	Room 323	Room 324 – 326			Room 327	Room 329
14 Mar, Thurs	Track:	Track:	Track: Hyperscale Infrastructure			Track: ASEAN HPC Taskforce Meeting	Track: CoNGA
0900 – 0910			Welcome Address by Prof. Tan Tin Wee, Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), Singapore			By Invitation Only	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
0910 – 0930			Opening Speech by Mr. Philip Heah, Assistant Chief Executive, Technology & Infrastructure, IMDA
0930 – 1000			Plenary Keynote Modelling and Simulation: Innovations to Solve Challenges in Data Centres by Dr. Lim Keng Hui, Executive Director, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR
1000 – 1030	Tea Break
1030 – 1100			Plenary Keynote Computing for the Endless Frontier by Dr. Dan Stanzione, Executive Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center and Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Texas, Austin			By Invitation Only	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
1100 – 1130			Plenary Keynote What can we learn from the Worlds Largest Super Computer ? by Mr. Sinisa Nikolic, Director Systems for Cloud and Cognitive Platforms, IBM
1130 – 1140			SCA19 Highlights Presenting SCA20
1140 – 1200			SCA19 Highlights Presenting SCA20
1200 – 1300	Lunch
Venue	Room 320	Room 323	Room 324	Room 325	Room 326	Room 327	Room 329
	Track: IBM AI & HPC Meet-up	Track: SCFA	Track: Hyperscale Infrastructure	Track: Industry	Track: Quantum	Track: ASEAN HPC Taskforce Meeting	Track: CoNGA
1300 – 1330	1300 – 1315 Welcome Remarks 1315 – 1345 Convergence of AI and HPC 1345 – 1430 IBM software stack for AI and HPC		Building and running a supercomputing centre by Mr. Brad Evans, Head of Centre Operations, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre	System / Software Architecture Introduction to Digital Annealer – A Quantum-inspired technology by Mr. Cheng Jang Thye, Chief Architect and Head, Digital eXperience Center, Fujitsu	Quantum Computing and its impact on Security by Dr. Michael Osborne, Security and Privacy Research, IBM	By Invitation Only	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
1330 – 1400		037: PHINEAS: an Embedded Heterogeneous Parallel Platform by Mr. Nikhil Khatri, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES University – Bangalore, Mr. Nithin Bodanapu, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PES University – Bangalore & Dr. TSB Sudarshan, Dean of Research, PES – University	Panel Discussion HPC in academia A look at the current HPC trends in academia, including key technologies and whether there is a skills gap for designers, builders and operators Moderator: Mr. Joshua Au, Head, Data Centre, ASTAR Panellist: Mr. Rob Futrick, Principal Program Manager for R&D Compute, Microsoft Mr. Brad Evans, Head of Centre Operations, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Ms. Jessie Yu, Senior Product Lead, Alibaba Cloud Prof. Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Director, Murchison Widefield Array, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, Curtin University Mr. Vincent Lim*, Senior Facilities Manager, NSCC	Building Computing Architecture for the Era of AI and multicloud by Dr. Peter Hofstee, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM	Toward Quantum Supremacy with Photons by Prof. Chaoyang Lu, Professor at University of Science and Technology of China
1400 – 1430		039: Practical Resource Usage Prediction Method for Large Memory Jobs in HPC clusters by Mr. Bill McMillan, Global Offering Manager, IBM Cognitive Systems & Ms. Yuan Yuan He, Senior Architect, IBM Cognitive Systems	1400 – 1420 The Convergence Of Compute on HPC, AI & Data by Mr. Sachin Nagpal, Director- Solution Sales, Intel	Storage/ Data Management / Architecture Improving efficiency Machine Learning and HPC applications with Storage, Job Management and Containers by Mr. Howard Weiss, Managing Director, Pacific Teck Limited	Entanglement distribution for QKD and other applications by Prof. Alex Ling, Principal Investigator, Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT)
1430 – 1500	Genomics Case Study	021: A Crystal/Clear Pipeline for Applied Image Processing by Mr. Christopher Watkins, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)	Panel Discussion HPC in the Cloud A look at the current trend of putting HPC in the cloud Moderator: Ms. Lim May-Ann, Executive Director, Asian Cloud Computing Association Panellist: Mr. Ben Di Qual, WW Technical Lead, Office of the CTO, Intelligent Cloud, Microsoft Ms. Jessie Yu, Senior Product Lead, Alibaba Cloud Mr. Mauro Sauco, Director, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud Platform Dr. Peter Hofstee, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM	Designing the right storage solution for AI & Machine Learning Application by Mr. Atul Vidwansa, General Manager, DDN India & S.E. Asia	Blind quantum computation and secure delegation by Prof. Joe Fitzsimons, Horizon Quantum Computing
1500 – 1530	IBM Spectrum LSF family update	016: A Cache-based Data Movement Infrastructure for On-demand Scientific Cloud Computing by Prof. David Abramson, The University of Queensland	Transforming data centre operations & management via Artificial Intelligence by Prof. Wen Yong Gang, School of Computer Engineering, NTU	Data, the New Frontier by Mr. Rob Mollard, APAC Senior Data & Storage Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Practical Quantum Cryptography: Know your enemy by Prof. Charles Lim, Assistant Professor, CQT
1530 – 1600	Tea Break
1600 – 1630	Kubernetes in HPC	1600 – 1620 023: Accelerate and Operationalize AI Deployments Using AI-Optimized Infrastructure by Mr. Dave Taylor, Executive Architect, Cloud Storage and Software Defined Storage Solutions, IBM 1620-1640 015: Sidra Medicine with IBM Spectrum Scale – Enhancing Patient Care with Personalized Medicine for Qatari population, EMEA & Wider World by Mr. Tushar Pathare, Big Data, GPFS, CSXF Lead – SIDRA Research Department and Mr. Sandeep Patil, IBM STSM, Spectrum Scale Development	1600 – 1620 Overview of SGTech Cloud & DataChapter by Mr. Ashton Soh, Co-Chair, SGTech Data Center Committee & Associate Director (Data Centers – Business Products), Singtel 1620 – 1640 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Learnings & Practices from Hyperscale by Mr. Frank Petit, Senior Sales Manager, APAC DCD Group 1640 – 1720 Panel Discussion Hyperscale data centre design Industry experts weigh in what does it take to design and build a hyperscale data centre Moderator: Mr. Omer Wilson, Senior Director APAC, Digital Realty Panellist: Dr. Chong Yoke Sin, Chief, Enterprise Business Group, StarHub Mr. Christopher Street, Group Chief Marketing Officer, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Mr. Hisham Muhammad, Director, Global Solutions Enablement, Equinix Mr. Ling Chi Yee, Head, Development & Design, Data Center, Ascendas-Singbridge Mr. Yongsuk Choi, Director, Infrastructure – APAC, Data Center, Facebook 1720 – 1730 Closing	Network Technologies Network Topologies and In-Network Computing For Future Data Centres by Mr. Ashrut Ambastha, Senior Staff Solution Architect, Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.	QRNG and Iron Bridge by Dr. Mark Jackson, Cambridge Quantum Computing	By Invitation Only	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
1630 – 1700	GPU Scheduling in IBM Spectrum LSF			Miscellaneous Learnings from a HPC procurement by Mr. Rikky Purbojati, Research Assistant, Head of HPC-SCELSE	Panel Discussion Panellist: Prof. Chaoyang Lu, Professor at University of Science and Technology of China Prof. Charles Lim, CQT Prof. Alex Ling, CQT Dr. Mark Jackson, Cambridge Quantum Computing Prof. Joe Fitzsimons, Horizon Quantum Computing Dr. Michael Osborne, IBM
1700 – 1730	Q&A			Arm in HPC by Mr. Toshinori Kujiraoka, Sales Manager, APAC HPC Tools, Arm Limited
1730 – 1800

*Please note that information is accurate as of 26 Feb 2019.

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The National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore was established in 2015 and manages Singapore’s first national petascale facility with available high performance computing (HPC) resources to support science and engineering computing needs for academic, research and industry communities.

HPC Futures – Hyperscalers, Exa, AI, Quantum and Beyond

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