02 March 2023, Thursday
Time / Date
(in SGT)
DAY 3
02 Mar 2023 (Thursday)
08:00 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:30
Garnet Ballroom 212 & 213
Future of High Performance Computing with Quantum @SG Workshop
09:00-09:30
Inaugural Keynote: “Future of computing with Quantum”
by Dr Joseph S. Broz, IBM Vice President, Quantum Strategy and Growth, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
09:30-10:00
“NISQ algorithms on cloud quantum computing”
by Dr Dimitris G. Angelakis, Associate Professor, Centre for Quantum Technologies and TU Crete
10:00-10:30
“Quantum computing in the presence of noise”
by Assoc Prof Ng Hui Khoon, Yale-NUS College and the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Peridot Ballroom
SCA23 Closing Remarks
by Prof Sean Smith, Director, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), The Australian National University (ANU), Australia [Co-chair of the SCA23 Steering Committee]
Keynote
“Quantum Mechanics Modelling of Materials for Clean Energy & Sustainable Electronics Solutions”
by Prof Michelle Spencer, Deputy Director Centre for Digital Innovation STEM, RMIT University, Australia
Keynote
“Science In Silico: Combining Simulation, Machine Learning and Statistical Inference”
by Prof Amanda Barnard, Senior Professor, Deputy Director, and Computational Science Lead, The Australian National University, Australia
Industry Plenary
“Accelerating Carbon Neutral Scientific Discoveries”
by Andrew Underwood, APJ Chief Technology Officer, Dell Technologies
10:30 – 11:00
Tea Break
11:00 – 12:30
Garnet Ballroom 212 & 213
Future of High Performance Computing with Quantum @SG Workshop
11:00 – 11:30
“Techniques to Enhance a QUBO Solver for Permutation-Based Combinatorial Optimization”
by Prof Lau Hoong Chuin, Professor of Computer Science, SMU and Principal Scientist, IHPC, A*STAR, Singapore Management University
11:30 – 12:00
“Dimensionality Reduction in the Era of Quantum Computing”
by Assoc Prof Mile Gu, Group Leader of the Quantum and Complexity Science Initiative, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
12:00-12:30
“Quantum chemistry on simulators and NISQ devices”
by Dr Adrian Mak, Senior Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Peridot Ballroom
Industry Plenary
“Tangible Quantum Computing Benefits, Now: Amplify Quantum Production Performance”
by Dr Georges-Olivier Reymond, Chief Executive Officer, PASQAL
Industry Plenary
“The Next Generation of Purpose-built HPC in the Cloud”
by Mr Naoyuki Isogai, Azure Global Black Belt Director – HPC/AI, Microsoft Asia
SCA23 Inaugural SCA Award Winners’ Lecture Series
“Translational Computer Science and it’s application to Supercomputing”
by Prof David Abramson, Director of Research Computing, University of Queensland
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:30
Garnet Ballroom
212 & 213
Future of High Performance Computing with Quantum @SG Workshop
13:30-14:45
Section 1: Introduction
– Introduction, inspiration and motivation for Quantum
– Introduction to IBM Quantum and Quantum Tools (Quantum Composer, Quantum Lab, Qiskit Runtime, Quantum serverless)
14:45-15:00
Short Break
15:00-16:00
Section 2: Intermediate basics and handson with Qiskit
– Basics of quantum computational principles with Quantum Primitives
– Basics and overview of Near term quantum algorithms – In-depth on VQE
– VQE with Qiskit Application modules: Qiskit Machine Learning
Garnet Ballroom
214
Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
Track Chair: Prof John Gustafson
13:30-14:30
Keynote Talk “Farewell to Floats: A Personal History of the Rise and Fall of IEEE Std 754™”
by Prof John Gustafson, Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University
14:30-15:00
“PHAc: Posit Hardware Accelerator for Efficient Arithmetic Logic Operations”
by Ms Diksha Shekhawat, Ph.D. Scholar, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani
15:00-15:30
“Fused Three-Input SORN Arithmetic”
by Mr Moritz Bärthel, Research Associate and PhD candidate, University of Bremen
Garnet Ballroom
217
Green Data Centre
Track Chair: Mr Vincent Lim
13:30-14:00
“NUS NSCC i4.0 DC A Tropical Supercomputing DC”
by Mr Vincent Lim, Deputy Director DC (Operations/Projects), National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
14:00-14:30
Women in data centres: a fireside chat
Panellists:
Ms Soh Lay Khuan, Head of Carrier, OneQode, Ms Nimisha Tailor, Competition & Regulation Specialist
Ms Carmen Chan, Vice President, Global Business Development, NOVA Global, Ms Tejaswini Tilak, VP Marketing, APAC, Digital Realty
14:30-14:40
Break
14:40-15:20
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Mr Joshua Au, Chief Technology Officer, Data Centre Facility, Huawei Digital Power Business
Panellist:
Prof Wen Yonggang, Professor & President’s Chair, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Dean (Research), College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Mr Chak Lee Meng, Co-founder, CoolestDC, Mr Ashton Soh, Co-chair, DC Committee, SGTECH, Mr Rathish Mani, Director, Datacenter Operations, Digital Realty
Garnet Ballroom
218
Industry Track
Track Chair: Dr Jernej Zidar
13:30-13:50
Atos
“Advanced computing technologies paving the way towards the virtual human”
by Dr Okba Hamitou, HPC Senior Technical Expert, Atos, HPC Division”
13:50-14:10
Microsoft
“Unlock the Potential of Public Cloud with AMD for HPC workloads”
by Mr Paul Skaria, Regional Lead, HPC & Cloud – APJ, AMD (Microsoft)
14:10-14:30
Google Cloud
“HPC best practices for the most demanding workloads on Google Cloud”
by Mr Injae Kwak, HPC Practice Lead, Asia Pacific, Google Cloud”
14:30-14:50
PASQAL
“Solving industry-relevant optimization problems with neutral atoms-based quantum computers”
by Dr Wesley Coelho, Quantum Applications Engineer, PASQAL”
14:50-15:10
ASUS
“AI for Video Analytics & Its Applications and Architecture”
by Ms Jane Shen Shengmei, Chief Scientist, Pensees Systems Pte Ltd (ASUS)
15:10-15:30
Run AI Labs
“Build an Enterprise-Class AI Infrastructure with Run:ai Atlas”
by Mr Nir Lubliner, Senior Director of Sales and BD APAC, Run:AI
Garnet Ballroom
219
Mini Global Research Platform (GRP) Workshop
Track Co-Chair: Prof Francis Lee Bu Sung, Prof Joe Mambretti, Ms Maxine Brown
13:30-13:35
Introduction To Mini-GRP Workshop
by A/Prof Francis Lee, Secretary of SingAREN
13:35-13:45
SDSC-SingAREN MOU Signing Ceremony
13:45-14:20
Keynote Talk “The Next 10 Years of NRP”
by Dr Frank Wuerthwein, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center
14:20-14:40
“The Asia Pacific Research Platform in APAN & KRP: An Overview”
by Dr Jeonghoon Moon, Principal Researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
14:40-15:00
“The Global Research Platform: An Overview”
by Prof Joe Mambretti, Director, International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern University
15:00-15:20
“SingAREN Open Exchange and GRP”
by A/Prof Francis Lee, Secretary of SingAREN
15:20-15:40
“Australia Research Platform and the SKA”
by Mr Andrew Howard, Associate Director Cloud Services, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Canberra Australia
15:30 – 16:00
Tea Break
15:20-15:50
“Data Centre Sustainability and Greenhouse Gas Abatements”
by Mr Lee Seng Wee, Director, i3 Solutions Group & i3 Critical Facilities
15:50-16:00
Break
Tea Break
16:00 – 18:00
Garnet Ballroom
212 & 213
Future of High Performance Computing with Quantum @SG Workshop
16:00-17:00
Section 3: Quantum Services on Cloud and HPC integration
– Qiskit Runtime and Error Mitigation on Qiskit Runtime
– Circuit cutting and Entanglement forging with Quantum Serverless
Garnet Ballroom
214
Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)
Track Chair: Prof John Gustafson
16:00 – 16:30
“Towards a Better 16-Bit Number Representation for Training Neural Networks”
by Dr Himeshi De Silva, Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
16:30 – 17:00
“Improving the Stability of Kalman Filters with Posit arithmetic”
by Mr Vinay Shankar Saxena, Research Specialist, Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
17:00 – 17:30
“Evaluation of the use of Low Precision Floating-Point Arithmetic for Applications in Radio Astronomy”
by Dr Thushara K. Gunaratne, Research Council Officer – Signal Processing, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada
17:30 – 18:00
“PLAUs: Posit Logarithmic Approximate Units to Implement Low-Cost Operations with Real Numbers”
by Mr Raul Murillo, PhD. Student, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
16:00-16:30
“Airbitat Sustainable Data Centre Cooling Solution”
by Dr Li Fuyun, Head, Sustainable Cooling, Urban Solutions, ST Engineering
16:30-17:00
“KoolLogix: A paradigm-shifting heat removal solution for data centers that furthers sustainability”
by Dr Seri Lee, Chief Technology Officer, KoolLogix Pte Ltd
17:00-17:10
Break
17:10-17:40
“Making Green Data Centre a Reality”
by Mr Wandrille Doucerain, Head, Business Development Data Centre, ENGIE South East Asia
17:40-17:45
Closing
by Mr Vincent Lim, Deputy Director DC (Operations/Projects), National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
Garnet Ballroom
218
Industry Track
Track Chair: Dr Jernej Zidar
16:00-16:20
DELL
“Energy Efficient Supercomputing to Drive Global Research”
by Mr Romain Bottier, HPC & AI Subject Matter Expert, Dell Technologies
16:20-16:40
DDN
“New Data Driven Storage Architecture for HPC, AI and Private Cloud”
by Mr Atul Vidwansa, General Manager, India & ASEAN, DDN Storage, DataDirect Networks”
16:40-17:00
WEKA
“Why a Hybrid Cloud Data Platform Architecture is Critical for Next-Generation HPC Research?”
by Ms Barbara Murphy, VP Cloud Strategy, WEKA
17:00-17:20
DELL
“Architecting a sustainable Supercomputer”
by Mr Romain Bottier, HPC & AI Subject Matter Expert, Dell Technologies
Garnet Ballroom
219
Mini Global Research Platform (GRP) Workshop
16:00-16:20
“KAUST Update for AutoGOLE”
by Mr Alex Moura, Senior Network Engineer, KAUST
16:20-16:40
“Evolution of ESnet – A Changing Landscape in Scientific Networking”
by Mr Guok Chin Peng, CTO, ESnet
16:40-17:00
“NICT’s Integrated Testbed”
by Dr Hidehisa Nagano, Director, ICT Testbed Research, Development and Operations Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
17:00-17:20
“SCinet, NRE Program, and OFCnet”
by Mr Rodney Wilson, Chief Technologist, External Research, Ciena Corporation, R&D Labs, Ottawa Canada
17:20-17:40
“Accelerated ONION based on DTN experience”
by Dr Susumu Date, Associate Professor of the Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
17:40-18:00
“Supporting International Partnerships in Science: The Role of International Networks at Indiana University”
by Ms Brenna Meade, Network Engineer, International Networks at Indiana University
18:00-18:10
Closing Remarks
by A/Prof Francis Lee, Secretary of SingAREN
