Software in the Era of Extreme Heterogeneity
September 22 – 24, 2020
Joint virtual workshop of High End Computing (HEC) and Software Productivity, Sustainability, and Quality (SPSQ) Interagency Working Groups
Logistics
- Federal Register Notice: 85 FR 52369, Notice of Virtual Workshop on Software in the Era of Extreme Heterogeneity, National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD)
- When: September 22-24, 2020
- Where: Virtual meeting
- Agenda: Extreme-Heterogeneity-2020-Agenda.pdf
Goal
Software in the Era of Extreme Heterogeneity workshop will examine challenges imposed by extreme heterogeneity of emerging and future computational platforms and how software and community must evolve to respond to the challenges being placed on HEC software development and sustainment. This workshop aims to bring together experts from Federal agencies, academia, and the private sector to discuss these challenges, facilitate information sharing and collaboration, and identify research needs.
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Rationale
The state of HEC technology is rapidly changing due to the need to introduce a variety of unfamiliar hardware solutions to increase performance. This increasing hardware heterogeneity is exacerbated by memory, interconnect and file I/O performance lagging behind computational capabilities leading to substantial demands on the programming environment to keep pace. The HEC community needs to be prepared for these emerging and future challenges to be able to respond to the changing needs and have continued progress.
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Reference Materials
- Future Computing Community of Interest Meeting of August 5-6, 2019, https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/FutureComputing-COI-MeetingReadout-2019.pdf
- National Strategic Computing Initiative Update: Pioneering the Future of Computing, https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/National-Strategic-Computing-Initiative-Update-2019.pdf
- 2018 Report of DOE’s workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity, https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1473756
Planning Committee
- Leslie Hart, NOAA
- Frances Hill, DoD
- Jake Fries, NITRD NCO
- Walid Keyrouz, NIST
- Jim Kirby, NRL
- Ji Lee, NITRD NCO
- Robinson Pino, DOE/SC
- Sonia Sachs, DOE/SC
- Barry Schneider, NIST
- Alan Sussman, NSF
External Advisors
- Saman Amarasinghe, MIT
- William Gropp, UIUC/NCSA
- Kaylan Kumaran, ANL
- Jeff Vetter, ORNL
Workshop Report
- Software in the Era of Extreme Heterogeneity Workshop Report, High End Computing Interagency Working Group; Software Productivity, Sustainability, and Quality Interagency Working Group. June 2022.