Argonne researchers are developing the tools and technologies to advance extreme-scale computing in the coming decade. Some of the earliest and groundbreaking research results achieved on Argonne’s new Mira supercomputer will be presented at SC13 this November in Denver, CO.

A cadre of Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) authors, speakers, and panelists will participate in the high-performance computing community’s premier annual event. Their work in several key areas will be presented in the conference technical program and also in the exhibition as part of the Department of Energy National Laboratories booth. This year, 15 national labs will be sharing a booth under the theme of “DOE: HPC for a Greener, Smarter, Safer World,” that will feature presentations, electronic posters, 3D simulations, demonstrations, and roundtable discussions.

SC is the leading venue for presenting high-quality original research in high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. For computer scientists, networking engineers, and researchers alike, acceptance to the highly competitive SC technical program is a badge of honor.

Several papers coauthored by ALCF researchers have been accepted for the technical papers program, one of which is also a finalist for the ACM Gordon Bell Prize that recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.

• Kinetic Turbulence Simulations at Extreme Scale on Leadership-Class Systems – Bei Wang, Stephane Ethier, William Tang, Timothy Williams, Khaled Ibrahim, Kamesh Madduri, Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker

• Integrating Dynamic Pricing of Electricity into Energy Aware Scheduling for HPC Systems – Xu Yang, Zhou Zhou, Sean Wallace, Zhiling Lan, Wei Tang, Susan Coghlan, Michael E. Papka

• Characterization and Modeling of PIDX Parallel I/O for Performance Optimization – Sidharth Kumar, Avishek Saha, Venkatram Vishwanath, Philip Carns, John Schmidt, Robert Latham, Giorgio Scorzelli, Hemanth Kolla, Robert Ross, Jackie Chen, Michael E. Papka, Ray Grout, Valerio Pascucci

• HACC: Extreme Scaling and Performance Across Diverse Architectures – Salman Habib, Vitali Morozov, Nicholas Frontiere, Hal Finkel, Adrian Pope, Katrin Heitmann, Kalyan Kumaran, Venkat Vishwanath, Tom Peterka, Joseph A. Insley, David Daniel, Patricia Fasel, and Zarija Lukic

Other contributions include two posters:

• The Heuristic Static Load-Balancing Algorithm Applied to CESM
– Yuri Alexeev, Sheri Mickelson, Sven Leyffer, Robert Jacob, and Anthony Craig

• Scalable Ensemble Ab Initio Calculations Using the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method in GAMESS
– Yuri Alexeev, Maricris Mayes, Spencer Pruitt, Graham Fletcher, Dmitri Fedorov, Mark Gordon

two workshops:

• 8^th Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization – Kwan-Liu Ma, Venkatram Vishwanath, Hongfeng Yu

• Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing (PyHPC 2013) – Andreas Schreiber, William Scullin

three Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions:

• Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing – William Scullin, Andreas Schreiber, Andrew Terrel

• High-Performance Communications for High-Performance Computing – 

  Jack Wells, Richard Coffey, Michele De Lorenzi

• INCITE and Leadership-Class Systems – Adam Yates, William Scullin, Adam Hough

one broader engagement session:

• HPC Interconnections – Geri Lamble, Natasha Floersch, Richard Coffey, Tony Drummond

and one visualization showcase:

• Secrets of the Dark Universe: Simulating the Sky on the Blue Gene/Q, The Outer Rim Simulation – Joseph A. Insley, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann

DOE booth activities include talks by ALCF Science Director Paul Messina, Argonne physicist Katrin Heitmann, and INCITE award principal investigator Tim Germann.