28 February 2023, Tuesday
Time / Date
(in SGT)
DAY 1
28 Feb 2023 (Tuesday)
08:00 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:00
Peridot Ballroom
09:00
Arrival of Guest-of-Honour
09:25-09:35
Welcome Speech
by Mr Quek Gim Pew, Chairman, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
09:35-09:45
Opening Speech by Guest-of-Honour
by Ms Chan Lai Fung, Permanent Secretary (National Research and Development), National Research Foundation
09:45-09:55
MoU Signing
09:55-10:05
SCA Awards Ceremony
10:05 – 10:35
Tea Break / Exhibition Open
10:35 – 12.05
Peridot Ballroom
10:35-11:05
Opening Keynote “The Fugaku Supercomputer – Past, Present, and Future of Exascale”
by Prof Satoshi Matsuoka, Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Japan
11:05-11:35
Keynote 2 “Energy Efficient Supercomputing in Australia: Strategies towards Net Zero”
by Mr Mark Stickells, Executive Director, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
11:35-12:05
Industry Plenary
Lenovo + Intel “The Path to Zero Emissions Computing”
by Mr Scott Tease, Vice President, General Manager HPC and AI WW, Lenovo
12:05 –
13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15.30
Garnet Ballroom
212 & 213
HPC ASIA 2023
13:15-13:30
Opening Session
by Prof Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Professor and Distinguished Scholar, Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America and Prof Taisuke Boku, Director & Professor, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
13:30-15:30
Best Paper Finalist
Session Chair: Prof Ryohei Kobayashi, Assistant Professor, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
“Reducing shared memory footprint to leverage high throughput on Tensor Cores and its flexible API extension library”
by Hiroyuki Ootomo and Rio Yokoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan “Efficient Large Integer Multiplication with Arm SVE Instructions” by Takuya Edamatsu and Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
“Effectiveness of the Oversubscribing Scheduling on Supercomputer Systems”
by Shohei Minami, Toshio Endo, and Akihiro Nomura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
“A new data conversion method for mixed precision Krylov solvers with FP16/BF16 Jacobi preconditioners”
by Takuya Ina, Japan Atomic Energy Agency; Yasuhiro Idomura, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Toshiyuki Imamura, RIKEN; and Naoyuki Onodera, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
Garnet Ballroom
215
APAC HPC-AI Competition 2023 (HPCAIAC) Track Chair: Dr Gabriel Noaje
14:00-14:05
Opening
by Dr Gabriel Noaje, Representor of HPC-AI Advisory Council, Singapore
14:05-14:20
“Accelerating Performance with In-Network Computing for Power Limited Supercomputers”
by Mr Gilad Shainer, Chairman, HPC-AI Advisory Council, USA
14:20-14:35
“NSCC ASPIRE2A: A Brief Introduction”
by Mr Muhammad Teguh Satria, Assistant System Manager, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
14:35-14:50
“NCI HPC/AI/Data Science skill building vision and evolution”
by Dr Jingbo Wang, Acting Deputy Director, Business Development and User Engagement, NCI Australia
14:50-15:00
“How the HPC – AI Skills Changed My Life after Actively Participate in an International Competition: a Report of Thai Students’ Perspective.”
by Asst Prof Dr Worawan Diaz Carballo, Thammasat University
15:00-15:10
2022 APAC HPC-AI Competition Award
by Mr Gilad Shainer, Chairman, HPC-AI Advisory Council, USA A/Prof Tan Tin Wee, Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore Dr Jingbo Wang, Acting Deputy Director, Business Development and User Engagement, NCI Australia
15:10-15:20
“A Champion of Student Cluster Competition: 10 years in the making”
by Prof Jerry Chou, National TsingHua University
15:20-15:30
“The Development of the SUSTech Supercomputing Club”
by Mr Zunyao Mao, Student, Southern University of Science and Technology
Garnet Ballroom
218
Industry Track
Track Chair: Dr Jernej Zidar
13:30-13:50
DUG Technology (Australia) Pty Ltd “Accelerating the translation of research and commercialisation with HPCaaS”
by Dr Stuart Midgley, Chief Information Officer, DUG Technology
13:50-14:10
Panasas Inc.
“The Myth of Tuned Performance in a Converged HPC and AI Workload Environment”
by Mr Richio Aikawa, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing & Corporate Development Marketing, Panasas
14:10-14:30
HPC AI Technology Pte. Ltd.
“Colossal-AI: Scaling AI Models in Big Model Era”
by Dr You Yang, Presidential Young Professor, National University of Singapore, HPC AI Technology Pte. Ltd.
14:30 – 14:50
Lenovo + Intel
“Combining High Performance Computing, Genomics, and AI to enable Precision Medicine”
by Mr Ananda Sekhar Bhattacharjee, Head – HPC and AI (Asia Pacific), Lenovo
14:50-15:10
Altair
“TEN WAYS IN WHICH ALTAIR IS SAVING THE PLANET WITH HPC”
by Dr Rosemary Francis, Chief Scientist HPC, Altair
15:10-15:30
NETWEB PTE LTD
“Building Cloud Native solutions for HPC and AI”
by Mr Sandeep Lodha, CEO & Director, Netweb Pte. Ltd.
Garnet Ballroom
219
NSCC HPC Innovation Challenge (HPCIC): 2022 Winners’ Showcase & HPCIC 2023 Announcement
Track Chair: Stephanie Soh
Introduction to NSCC and HPC Innovation Challenge (HPCIC)
by Ms Angie Huang, Senior Manager, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
Introduction to HPCIC 2022 winning teams
by Ms Angie Huang, Senior Manager, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
HPCIC 2022 Winning Solution Showcase:
Presentation by Team Aleph Technologies (Open: Winner) “Optimizing Industrial Energy Efficiency with Cognitive Digital Twins”
by Mr Suwira Teo, Co-Founder, Aleph Digital Technologies Pte. Ltd
Presentation by Team Geo Pulse (Open: 1st Runner Up)
“Supercomputing Subsurface Utility Maps”
by Mr Foo Zhi Rui, Operations Development Executive, HSC Pipeline Engineering Pte Ltd
Presentation by Team Viridis (Student: Winner)
“Enabling a Greener Singapore”
by Mr Lim Sui Kiat, Student, Nanyang Technological University; Mr Chang Dao Zheng, Student, Nanyang Technological University; Mr Chay Hui Xiang, Student, Nanyang Technological University; Mr Teo Ren Jie, Student, Singapore Management University
Soft Launch: HPCIC 2023
by Ms Angie Huang, Senior Manager, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
Q&A Closing Remarks
15:30 – 16:00
Tea Break
Garnet Ballroom
214
Tea Break
15:30 – 16:00
Garnet Ballroom
212 & 213
HPC ASIA 2023
16:00 – 18:00
Programming Models and Systems
Session Chair: Ms Miwako Tsuji, Research Scientist, RIKEN R-CCS, Japan
“Fault Tolerance for Ensemble-based Molecular-Continuum Flow Simulations”
by Vahid Jafari and Philipp Neumann, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
“Comparison of Reproducible Parallel Preconditioned BiCGSTAB Algorithm Based on ExBLAS and ReproBLAS”
by Xiaojun Lei, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, China; Tongxiang Gu, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, China; Stef Graillat, Sorbonne University, France; Xiaowen Xu, CAEP Software Center for Numerical Simulation, China; and Jing Meng, Taishan University, China
“A Case Study on DaCe Portability & Performance for Batched Discrete Fourier Transforms”
by Måns Ivar Anderson and Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
“Memory Usage Prediction of HPC Workloads Using Feature Engineering and Machine Learning”
by Md Nahid Newaz and Md Atiqul Mollah, Oakland University, USA
HPC Centre Leaders Forum
Track Chair: Dr Wang Jingbo
15:30-15:35
Introduction and Welcome
by Dr Wang Jingbo, Acting Deputy Director, Business Development and User Engagement, National Computational Infrastructure, Australia
15:35-15:50
“Empowering researchers with integrated CDA infrastructure at NCI”
by Dr Wang Jingbo, Acting Deputy Director, Business Development and User Engagement, National Computational Infrastructure, Australia
15:50-16:05
“Updates on ThaiSC”
by Dr Piyawut Srichaikul, Deputy Executive Director, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand
16:05-16:20
“Updates from the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore”
by A/Prof Tan Tin Wee, Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
16:20-16:35
“Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre – A Path to Exascale HPC and Data, Quantum Computing and Radioastronomy”
by Mr Mark Stickells, Executive Director, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia
16:35-16:50
“LUMI – sustainable supercomputing in Finland”
by Dr Kimmo Koski, Chief Executive Officer, CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland
16:50-17:05
“Translating Innovation into Practice”
by Dr Frank Wuerthwein, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center, United States
17:05-17:20
“Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center”
by Dr Krzysztof Kurowski, CTO, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
17:20-18:00
Panel Session
TOPICS
– Sustainable Supercomputing
– Achievable Goal or Pipedream?
– Rising Energy Costs, Slowing Economies, Global Tensions: Opportuniities and Challenges for HPC Centres
Moderator: Mr Mark Stickells
Panel: A/Prof Tan Win Wee, Dr Piyawut Srichaikul, Dr Kimmo Koski, Prof Satoshi Matsuoka, Dr Frank Wuerthwein
Garnet Ballroom
215
APAC HPC-AI Competition 2023 (HPCAIAC)
Track Chair: Dr Gabriel Noaje
16:00-16:30
“High-Performance and Scalable Middleware for HPC, AI and Data Science”
by Prof Dhabaleswar K (DK) Panda, Professor and University Distinguished Scholar, The Ohio State University
16:30-17:00
“AI-Driven Visual Content Generation”
by Assoc Prof Ziwei Liu, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University
17:00-17:20
“RDMA-enabled Distributed Scale-out Flash Storage”
by Mr Shuang Xie, CTO & Founder, ScaleFlash
17:20-17:25
2023 APAC HPC-AI Competition Launch
by Dr Jingbo Wang, Acting Deputy Director, Business Development and User Engagement, NCI Australia
Dr Gabriel Noaje, Representor of HPC-AI Advisory Council, Singapore
17:25-17:30
Closing
by Dr Gabriel Noaje, Representor of HPC-AI Advisory Council, Singapore
Garnet Ballroom
217
Unlocking the Potential of HPC-AI
(By Invitation Only)
Track Co-Chair: Mr Danny Lim, Mr Chung Shin Yee
15:30-15:45
Opening Address
by A/Prof Tan Tin Wee, Chief Executive, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
15:45-16:05
“Generative AI – Trends from an Industry Perspective”
by Dr Tomasz Bednarz, Director, Strategic Researcher Engagement – APAC and EMEA, NVIDIA
16:05-16:25
Technical Talk “How Large-scale Models can be Trained”
by Mr Jeff Adie, Principal Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
16:25-16:45
“Sustainable AI: The Challenges and Innovations”
by Dr Li Xiaoli, Department Head and Principal Scientist of the Machine Intellection (MI) department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), & Investigator, Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), A*STAR
16:45-17:00
Tea Break
17:00-17:45
AI-HPC Roundtable Discussions
-Track 1: AIxFoundation Models
– Track 2: Quantum Computing
– Track 3: Modelling, Simulation and Digital Twins
17:45-17:50
Updates on Fugaku Call for Proposals
17:50-17:55
Open Research Innovation Platform (ORIP)
A funded research opportunity in partnership with DSO National Laboratories (DSO)
Garnet Ballroom
218
Industry Track
Track Chair: Dr Jernej Zidar
16:00-16:20
Lenovo + Intel
“TruScale for HPC – Enabling HPC for all”
by Mr Wil Wellington, Global Director, HPC Professional Services, Lenovo
16:20-16:40
TechSource Systems Pte Ltd
“How MATLAB® is Accelerating the Vision of High Performance Computing for All”
by Dr Vineet Jacob Kuruvilla, Principal Industry Manager at MathWorks, TechSource
16:40-17:00
ASUS
“Building Next-Gen HPC and AI Clusters with NVIDIA”
by Mr John Chan, Director, AI Solutions, PTC System (s) PTE LTD (ASUS)
17:00-17:20
AWS
“Convergence of HPC, Machine Learning and Sustainability”
by Dr Srinivas Tadepalli, Head of GTM, HPC and Accelerated Computing, AWS
17:20-17:40
AMD
“Accelerating Sustainability: Harnessing the Power of AMD EPYC Processors for a Greener Future”
by Mr Raghu Nambiar, Corporate Vice President, Silicon Design Engineering, AMD
17:40-18:00
Semidynamics Technology Services
“Efficient HPC using RISC-V vectors”
by Dr Roger Espasa, CEO, Semidynamics Technology Services
18:00 – 20:00
Foyer
Conference Networking Reception
Welcome & Opening by SCA23 Steering Committee Co-Chairs
