Will you be at SC24? This year, the large supercomputing conference known as SC will be held in Atlanta, from Sunday, November 17 to Friday, November 22, at the Georgia World Congress Center. ACCESS will have a booth at the conference, and our team will be presenting at several events. Here’s a list of all the ACCESS-affiliated content at SC24:

ACCESS at Booth 739

You can find a map of the SC24 exhibits here. ACCESS will be hosting its ACCESS the Experts series on Tuesday, with a high concentration of experts and Principal Investigators (PIs) for each of the service teams on hand to answer questions (full schedule below). ACCESS will continue to have a booth full of experts throughout the duration of the conference who can answer your questions.

We’ll also have some goodies for visitors to the booth to take home. Stay hydrated with a very packable foldable water bottle, or take home a handy tech organizer kit. We’ll have stickers and a booklet highlighting just some of the many accomplishments and science highlights enabled by ACCESS over its second year.

Finally, Booth 739 isn’t the only place where you can learn more about ACCESS. ACCESS Resource Providers will also be at SC24, and their booths have exciting events planned as well. Here’s a list of ACCESS Resource Provider booth locations:

Check out the ACCESS at SC24 schedule below to see what ACCESS-sponsored events are happening throughout the conference. The list includes workshops, seminars, BoFs, ACCESS booth events and highlights of some of the action at the various Resource Providers and Service Team booths:

Jump directly to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday events.

Sunday 11/17

Competition: Indy Student Cluster Competition

All week

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), Carnegie Melon University and the University of Pittsburgh have a team of students competing in this year’s IndySCC competition. All teams have six students and one advisor. There are three competing IndySCC categories: Fully Funded, Self-Funded, and Virtual.

Tutorial: AI and Scientific Research Computing with Kubernetes

8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., Room B206

• The tutorial aims to educate AI and computational science researchers on Kubernetes as a resource management system, comparing it with traditional batch systems. It provides information on IO/storage options and utilizing GPU and MPI operators in Kubernetes to scale workloads leveraging high-performance networks like InfiniBand. Theoretical knowledge will be reinforced with hands-on sessions using the PNRP production Kubernetes cluster Nautilus.

Workshop: Research Software Engineers in HPC

9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Room B311

• Research software engineers (RSEs) are critical to the impact of HPC, data science and the larger scientific community. They have existed for decades, though often not under that name. The past several years, however, have seen the development of the RSE concept. This workshop will bring together RSEs and allies involved in HPC from all over the world to grow the RSE community by establishing and strengthening professional networks of current RSEs and RSE leaders.

Workshop: Featured Speaker – Bridging the Data Gaps in Computing for Science, Education and Society

9:10 – 10 a.m., Room B309

• The democratization of the digital continuum necessitates an AI-integrated ecosystem where data and research infrastructure are seamlessly integrated and universally accessible. This talk overviews the imperative of bridging the gaps between these components through robust services, facilitating an inclusive AI landscape that empowers diverse research communities and domains.

Monday 11/18

Workshop: HPC-ED: Building a Community CyberTraining Catalog

9:10 – 9:35 a.m., Room B308

• HPC-ED aims to improve discovery and sharing of CyberTraining resources through the combination of the HPC-ED CyberTraining Catalog, an effective and flexible interface, thoughtful metadata design and active community participation.

Tuesday 11/19

Poster: Improvement of Bridges-2 Resource Utilization Through User Optimization

12 – 5 p.m., Room B302-B305

• This poster presents a two-phase solution for improving GPU utilization in NSF-funded ACCESS high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, with a pilot implementation on Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2. The presenter’s approach addresses the limitations of Open XdMoD, which lacks per-job GPU usage monitoring and experiences delays in data availability. By addressing these issues and integrating real-time data presentation, they aim to enhance overall system utilization, reduce GPU job wait times, and enable more efficient use of existing resources.

BoF: Open OnDemand User Group Meeting

12:15 – 1:15 p.m., Room B313B-B314

• This BoF is meant to be an open discussion to guide the future roadmap for Open OnDemand (openondemand.org) by getting feedback from the community on the prioritization of the various tasks planned for the next few years. OOD is extremely relevant to ongoing discussions within the HPC community about user interfaces and science gateways. The session leaders, all part of the OOD development team, will jointly develop the content for the presentation in advance to ensure a wide range of viewpoints and topics are presented. We will also consult with our user advisory group in advance for their suggestions.

BoF: Democratization of Cyberinfrastructure Access by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure’s Learning and Workforce Development Programs

12:15 – 1:15 p.m., Room B204

• The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) supports the development and provisioning of state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure resources, including HPC systems, tools, and services to advance science and engineering. The central vision of OAC is to support inclusive and sustainable research workforce development by leveraging CI across domains. A particular focus now is on the integration of cyberinfrastructure and artificial intelligence. We continue to facilitate innovation and innovative usage of CI and CI+AI, democratized access, and the development of sustainable CI ecosystems. We seek to engage the community and institutions to obtain feedback on the evolving needs of workforce development.

BoF: The Role of HPC Centers in AI-Ready Data

12:15 – 1:15 p.m., Room B208

• Artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning, is increasingly contributing to most areas of scholarship. The AI lifecycle includes gathering and preparing data, selecting a method, training a model (creating and evaluating it), validating and using it, and storing and sharing it for reproducibility and reuse, all in the context of scholarly goals and ethics, privacy, and fairness. HPC centers have a key role to play in terms of the data, the models, and the tasks. This BoF will bring together HPC center staff and users to discuss how centers support AI today and how they might in the future.

WHPC@SDSC: Year One Achievements and Path Forward

4 – 5:30 p.m., Room A313

• Presented by Subha Sivagnanam from SDSC

BoF: SanWorkflows Community: Collaborative Pathways for Designing an Integrated Infrastructure for Research Excellence

5:15 – 6:15 p.m., Room B212

• This session will focus on the integration and scalability of AI-driven scientific workflows across facilities. Building on vibrant discussions from our previous SC BoF sessions, this session will address the challenges and opportunities inherent in multi-facility workflows. Key themes will include the coordination among various computing and experimental facilities, near real-time data processing, and enhancing infrastructure resilience. Participants will engage in collaborative brainstorming sessions to identify innovative solutions for data representation and storage challenges.

Wednesday 11/20

Panel: Educating for a Hybrid Future: Bridging the Gap between High-Performance and Quantum Computing

5:15 – 6:15 p.m., Room B313B – B314

• Quantum computing is a promising paradigm for solving complex problems and accelerating progress in many areas of high-performance computing. The convergence of quantum technologies and high-performance computing offers unique opportunities for research and algorithm development and requires a skilled workforce to exploit its full potential. This panel brings together experts from leading supercomputing centers and the quantum computing industry to address the integration of QC into educational frameworks worldwide. Through interactive discussions, the panel will explore the educational infrastructure and collaborative initiatives essential to cultivating a competent workforce adept at exploiting the capabilities of quantum computing.

BoF: Bridging the Data Gaps to Democratize AI R&D

5:15 – 6:15 p.m., Room B306

• AI needs data to learn and make decisions. Building and using AI requires access to massive amounts of data and computing power. Consequently, democratizing the AI R&D ecosystem requires democratizing access to AI-ready data and the ability to process this data. However, fair, open and equitable access to these resources remains challenging. This session will discuss the many dimensions of democratizing data. It will then introduce key related efforts and facilitate an open discussion about how these and other efforts can come together as part of an open data ecosystem that ensures all researchers can participate in AI R&D.

BoF: Scientific Software and the People Who Make It Happen: Building Communities of Practice

5:15 – 6:15 p.m., Room B306

• Software has become central to all aspects of modern science and technology. Especially in high-performance computing (HPC) and computational science and engineering (CSE), it is becoming ever-larger and more complex while computer platforms evolve and become more diverse. Simultaneously, the teams behind the software are becoming larger, more technically diverse and more geographically distributed. This BoF provides an opportunity for people concerned about these topics to share existing experiences and activities, discuss how we can improve on them, and share the results. Presentations and discussion notes will be made available at the BoF series website.

BoF: The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot User Experience

5:15 – 6:45 p.m., Room B311

• The NAIRR Pilot enables U.S. researchers to access resources needed for AI projects. The Pilot is a collaboration between federal agencies and public and private partners to establish a demonstration of a future NAIRR deployment by soliciting applications for various research and educational resources. SC24 will get to know the Pilot’s offerings in four brief sessions featuring experts who will give short remarks followed by Q&A from the audience. We will cover: (i) What is NAIRR Pilot? (ii) What AI compute resources are available? (iii) What AI model APIs and datasets are provided? And (iv) community building and support.

Thursday 11/21

BoF: Training the Next Generation of Cyberinfrastructure Leaders and Professionals

12:15 – 1:15 p.m., Room B211

• This BoF session, led by Winona Snapp-Childs, will bring together cyberinfrastructure (CI) professionals and cyberinfrastructure professional leaders, largely from academia and national labs, to discuss how to cultivate the cyberinfrastructure professional workforce.

BoF: OpenHPC Community

12:15 – 1:15 p.m., Room B306

• OpenHPC provides an open-source, community-driven stack of common ingredients to deploy and manage Linux-based HPC clusters. Formed in November 2015 and formalized as a Linux Foundation project in June 2016, OpenHPC continues to see rapid growth in adoption. It is used by thousands of organizations worldwide, including academic institutes, non-profit organizations, government labs, and commercial entities. At this BoF, speakers from the Technical Steering Committee will provide technical updates and near-term roadmaps. We then invite open discussion, allowing attendees to provide feedback on OpenHPC conventions and packaging, request additional components and configurations, and discuss future trends.

BoF: Disaggregated Heterogeneous Architectures (DisHetArch)

12:15 – 1:15 p.m., Room B204

• This BoF is a forum for the discussion of recent topics of research in the field of disaggregated heterogeneous architectures, their operation and use. The term “disaggregated” describes systems that organize heterogeneous resources in “pools” and dynamically compose them according to the application needs. Advances in interconnects (e.g. SmartNICs, memory coherence protocols, optical switches) open new perspectives. The discussion will address the opportunities and challenges that this approach presents for HPC system operators, end-users and system and application software developers.

Friday 11/22

Workshop: SuperCompCloud’s 8th Symposium on Interoperability of Supercomputing and Cloud Technologies

8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m., Room B207

• Deployment of exascale systems is expected to enable scientific breakthroughs. Increasingly these systems utilize cloud technologies, enabling complex workflows that can improve productivity and accessibility. This symposium aims to bring together experts and practitioners from academia, national laboratories and industry to discuss technologies, use cases and best practices that leverage high-performance, extreme-scale computing and cloud ecosystems.

Workshop: Experiences in Managing High-performance Computing Management and Support Tools while Upgrading a Campus Cluster

9:10 – 9:40 a.m., Room B311

• Part of the HUST-24: 11th International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools. The Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) is the XX Supercomputing Center. This paper presentation will describe the transition from TSCC 1.0 to TSCC 2.0, focusing on the implementation of new high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure components and management strategies. 

Workshop: Towards Understanding the Societal Impact of Open Science

10:50 – 11:10 a.m., Room B308

• Part of the Ethical, Social and Policy Issues in HPC workshop. Advances in HPC raise enduring and difficult social, economic, epistemological and ethical issues. This fact is dramatically illustrated by the successes and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. But there exist many other social issues engendered by HPC. These outstanding issues are genuinely interdisciplinary: they cannot be adequately addressed without input from experts inside and outside a traditional STEM sphere of influence. The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers from diverse fields to share experiences addressing these difficult issues in HPC, gain a mutual interdisciplinary understanding of their complexities and discuss issues of mutual interest at the international heart of HPC activity. This symposium will be a mix of invited speakers and spirited discussion among attendees. 

Presentation: Benchmarking and Continuous Performance Monitoring of HPC Resources using the XDMoD Application Kernel Module

10:30 – 10:40 a.m., Room B312-B313A

• Presented as part of the HPC Systems Professionals Workshop (HPCSYSPROS24) by Nikolay A Simakov, State University of New York at Buffalo. High-performance computing (HPC) resources are critical for scientific and engineering computations, but they come with significant costs, making optimal utilization essential. The XDMoD Application Kernel Performance Monitoring Module addresses this by automatically executing a suite of applications and benchmarks on a daily basis to identify performance degradation proactively. This module is designed to generate meaningful performance data while keeping short wall times to minimize impact on users. Operational since 2011, this module has successfully monitored the performance of XSEDE and ACCESS resources. This presentation provides an overview of the module’s capabilities and showcases practical use cases illustrating its effectiveness.

Presentation: Benchmarking and Continuous Performance Monitoring of Ookami, an ARM Fujitsu A64FX Testbed Cluster

11:10 – 11:30 a.m., Room B309

• Part of the Second International Workshop on HPC Testing and Evaluation of Systems, Tools, and Software (HPCTESTS 2024), this presentation on continuous performance monitoring is critical for maintaining optimal performance of High-Performance Computing resources.