Come meet with experts to chart a path forward for the High Performance Computing (HPC) tools ecosystem.
6- 7 JUNE, 2023, YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NEW YORK
Just A Few Words
About The Event
The ASCR Sustainable Tools Ecosystem Project (STEP) Town Halls are foundational to the success of DOE’s Next Generation Scientific Software Technologies efforts for the Tools Ecosystem and provide a unique career opportunity for networking, collaboration, education and training. Today, the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Tools community includes dozens of researchers, mathematicians, computer and computational scientists, U.S. HPC vendor participants, and project management experts in support of software Tools that perform a variety of performance, monitoring, and diagnosing roles.
Where
IBM’s T.J Watson Research Center – 1101 Kitchawan Rd, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
When
6–7 June, 2023, Tuesday & Wednesday
The purpose of these three STEP Town Hall meetings is to develop a plan for the stewardship and advancement of a tools ecosystem for High Performance Computing (HPC) over the long term. STEP will establish a series of three Town Hall meetings, held in the Summer-Fall of 2023. Each Town Hall meeting is expected to have between 50 and 100 experts representing the HPC tools developers, vendors, HPC facilities and application teams communities. These disparate communities have not typically or regularly interacted as a group, but have significant inter-dependencies. Participants will collaboratively explore the current HPC tools space and develop solutions to the sustainability challenges. Town halls will consist of a variety of sessions that seek to clarify the important challenges and urgent gaps in the HPC tools ecosystem and generate concrete actions to move this area forward in the near and long-term future.
How The Event Is Organized
Sessions will seek to establish future directions of HPC tools and identify opportunities for increasing sustainability. These sessions will include discussion of current tools and their characteristics such as their purposes, usages, requirements, development processes, community support, and existing challenges. These sessions will also include identification of potential new tools and directions for emerging use cases, architectures and code reuse. They will also explore how new interactivity among existing tools might provide more holistic insights and expand tool impact. Broader understanding of the HPC tools space will seed brainstorming of opportunities in community issues such as standardization, common API’s, code reuse.
In addition, tool sustainability sessions will explore critical challenges and opportunities in building a sustainable tools ecosystem. STEP has identified an array of challenges to be addressed along with examples of how they currently, and will in the future, affect sustainability. These examples will facilitate discussion of approaches to overcome the challenges in these and similar cases. Potential outcome objectives for each challenge have also been identified. These will seed brainstorming of how such objectives could be realized.
Venue
IBM’s T.J Watson Research Center – 1101 Kitchawan Rd, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for IBM Research. The center comprises three sites, with its main laboratory in Yorktown Heights, New York, U.S., 38 miles (61 km) north of New York City.
Hotel Options
- Hampton Inn White Plains/Tarrytown; ADDRESS: 200 W Main St, Elmsford, NY 10523; PHONE: (914) 592-5680
- Westchester Marriott; ADDRESS: 670 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown, NY 10591; PHONE: (914) 631-2200
- Sheraton Tarrytown Hotel; ADDRESS: 600 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown, NY 10591; PHONE: (914) 332-7900