{"id":42,"date":"2020-08-21T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pearc.hosting2.acm.org\/pearc19\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2020-08-25T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T20:11:02","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pearc.acm.org\/pearc19\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Tuesday, July 30, Keynote<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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AI for Science<\/h2>

Rick Stevens
Argonne National Laboratory
The University of Chicago<\/h4>

Presentation Slides<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\"\"In this talk, I will describe an emerging initiative at Argonne National Laboratory to advance the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) aimed at addressing challenge problems in science. We call this initiative \u201cAI for Science\u201d. The basic concept is threefold: (1) to identify those scientific problems where existing AI and machine learning methods can have an immediate impact (and organize teams and efforts to realize that impact); (2) identify areas of where new AI methods are needed to meet the unique needs of science research (frame the problems, develop test cases, and outline work needed to make progress); and (3) to develop the means to automate scientific experiments, observations, and data generation to accelerate the overall scientific enterprise. Science offers plenty of hard problems to motivate and drive AI research, from complex multimodal data\u00a0analysis\u00a0to integration of symbolic and\u00a0data intensive\u00a0methods, to coupling large-scale simulation and machine learning to drive improved training to control and accelerate simulations. A major sub-theme is the idea of working toward the automation of scientific discovery through\u00a0integration\u00a0of machine learning (active learning and reinforcement learning) with simulation and automated high-throughput experimental laboratories. I will provide some examples of projects underway and layout a set of long-term driver problems.<\/p>

Biography<\/h5>

Professor Rick Stevens is internationally known for work in high-performance computing, and\u00a0collaboration visualization technology, and for building computational tools and web infrastructures to support large-scale genome and metagenome analysis for basic science and infectious disease research. He is the\u00a0principle\u00a0investigator for the NIH-NIAID funded PATRIC Bioinformatics Resource Center which is developing comparative analysis tools for infectious disease research, and for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Exascale Deep Learning and Simulation Enabled Precision Medicine for Cancer project which focuses on building a scalable deep neural network code called the CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) to address three top challenges of the National Cancer Institute. Stevens has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1999, and Associate Laboratory Director at Argonne National Laboratory since 2004. Over the past twenty years, he and his colleagues have developed the SEED, RAST, MG-RAST, and\u00a0ModelSEED\u00a0genome analysis and bacterial modeling servers that have been used by tens of thousands of users to annotate and analyze more than 250,000 microbial genomes and metagenomic samples. He teaches and supervises students in the areas of computer systems and computational biology, and he co-leads the DOE national laboratory group that has been developing the national initiative for exascale computing.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Wednesday, July 30, Plenary Speakers<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Redefining Today\u2019s HPC<\/h2>

Patricia (Trish) A. Damkroger
Intel Corporation<\/h4>

\"\"In this\u00a0talk\u00a0we will look at the paradigm shift that is happening in HPC. It\u2019s no longer just simulation and modeling. It now includes other data-centric applications such as advanced analytics and AI. We will take a deep dive into what this means, the current and future trends we are seeing the market place and look at how industries\u00a0today\u00a0are already moving toward this new Data-Centric HPC.<\/p>

Biography<\/h5>

Patricia (Trish) A. Damkroger is vice president and general manager of the Extreme Computing Organization in the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation. She leads Intel\u2019s global technical and high-performance computing (HPC) business and is responsible for developing and executing strategy, building customer relationships and defining a leading product portfolio for technical computing workloads, including emerging areas such as\u00a0high performance\u00a0analytics, HPC in the cloud and artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>

An expert in the HPC field, Damkroger has more than 27 years of technical and managerial expertise both in the private and public sectors. Prior to joining Intel in 2016, she was the associate director of computation at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where she led a 1,000-member group comprised of world-leading supercomputing and scientific experts.\u00a0Since 2006, Damkroger has been a leader of the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC) series, the premier international meeting for\u00a0high performance\u00a0computing. She served as general chair of the SC\u2019s international conference in 2014 and has held many other committee positions within industry organizations.\u00a0<\/p>

Damkroger holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a master\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She was recognized on HPC Wire\u2019s \u201cPeople to Watch\u201d list in 2014 and 2018.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Future of HPC in the Cloud<\/h2>

Ross Thomson
Google<\/h4>

Click here to download the presentation<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>

\"\"Today\u2019s research computing demands lightning-fast speed, vast data storage, and intensive processing power in order to advance discoveries across disciplines, from genomics to climate change. With high performance computing (HPC) in the cloud you can solve problems faster, reduce queue times for large batch workloads, and relieve compute resource limitations. Attend our talk as we explore the future of HPC in the cloud to help accelerate breakthroughs and unlock new scientific frontiers. We\u2019ll highlight how customers are breaking computing boundaries with Google Cloud Platform as well as discuss TPUs for accelerating data analysis and hybrid HPC.<\/p>

Biography<\/h5>

Trained\u00a0as a computational physicist, I have worked in a broad range of academic and industry fields, from micro-gravity fluid simulation for NASA to “computation advertising” at Google.\u00a0 My current role as a Solutions Architect for Scientific Computing at Google Cloud Platform is among the most rewarding of my career. I have had the pleasure of working with the astronomy community, mostly in the context of the LSST<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Are there Closets in the Cloud<\/h2>

Tim Carroll
Microsoft<\/h4>

\"\"Commodity clusters had a profound change on computational science and more importantly, the science it supported.\u00a0 Cloud represents an equally compelling boost for research.\u00a0 Though HPC users have had the ability to run workloads on public clouds since 2007, the percentage of workloads running in production remains relatively low. \u00a0This talk will examine the coming changes in both technology and funding mechanisms that will accelerate cloud adoption specifically for the academic community.<\/p>

Biography<\/h5>

Tim is responsible for Microsoft\u2019s role in supporting computational research across academic and government research. \u00a0He has spent sixteen years collaborating with the research community to broaden and simplify access to technology. \u00a0While leading Dell\u2019s HPC business from 2007 to 2013, they delivered break-through systems across several centers and NSF-funded centers. \u00a0He joined Cycle Computing in 2014 to enable cloud to continue the trajectory established by Linux clusters. \u00a0In 2017, Cycle was acquired by Microsoft to accelerate and simplify the management of HPC and AI workloads within Azure.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thursday, August 1, Keynote<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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NSF\/CISE and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure: An update and a look at, and over, the horizon<\/h2>

Jim Kurose
National Science Foundation<\/h4>

\"\"In this\u00a0talk\u00a0we provide an overview, an update, and a look into the future for the National Science Foundation Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, with a particular emphasis on the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, and NSF\u2019s Big Ideas.<\/p>

Presentation slides<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

Biography<\/h5>

Dr. Jim Kurose is an Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation, where he leads the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With an annual budget of nearly $1B, CISE\u2019s mission is to uphold the nation’s leadership in scientific discovery and engineering innovation through its support of fundamental research in computer and information science and engineering, transformative advances in cyberinfrastructure, and preparation of a diverse computing-capable workforce.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jim also\u00a0co-chairs the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, the Subcommittee on Machine Learning and AI, and the Subcommittee on Open Science of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), facilitating the coordination of these research and development efforts across Federal agencies. Recently, Jim also served as the Assistant Director for Artificial Intelligence in the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).\u00a0Jim is on leave from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he is Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science.<\/p>

Dr. Kurose received his Ph.D. in computer science from\u00a0Columbia University\u00a0and a BA degree in physics from\u00a0Wesleyan University. He is a Fellow of the ACM and\u00a0IEEE, and has received a number of research and education honors, including the ACM Sigcomm Lifetime Achievement Award, the IEEE Infocom Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Taylor Booth Education Medal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thursday, August 1, Town Hall<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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In this session a very brief description of the NSF Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research solicitation will be presented followed by brief presentations from the announced awardees of this solicitation.\u00a0The resources will be deployed and in production in 2020 and will be available for allocations requests via XSEDE’s resource allocations process.<\/p>

Presenters<\/h3>

Manish Parashar<\/strong>,\u00a0National Science Foundation \u2014\u00a0Presentation Slides<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

John Towns<\/strong>,\u00a0National Center for Supercomputing Applications,\u00a0University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/p>

Nick Nystrom<\/strong>,\u00a0Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center<\/p>

Shawn Strande<\/strong>,\u00a0San Diego Supercomputer Center,\u00a0University of California at San Diego<\/p>

Robert J. Harrison<\/strong>,\u00a0Stony Brook University<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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