oneAPI DevSummit at ISC 2021

Introduction

Sujata Tibrewala, 

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Sujata Tibrewala

Sujata Tibrewala is oneAPI Worldwide Developer Community manager at Intel who defines programs to enable developer community to use oneAPI. She is a co-chair for IEEE Edge Automation Platform Roadmap and is a frequent presenter at various IEEE and industry conferences. She has held positions of Director at Silicon Valley Engineering Council and TSC chair for Documentation Akraino. She is also a self taught artist who has exhibited at various venues in US and India including University of Illinois Chicago, Life Force Arts Center, Lalit Kala Academy etc.

KEYNOTE

Experiences with adding SYCL support to GROMACS

Erik Lindahl, 

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Erik Lindahl

Erik Lindahl received a PhD from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2001, and performed postdoctoral research at Groningen University, Stanford University and the Pasteur Institute. He is currently professor of Biophysics at Stockholm University, with a second appointment as professor of Theoretical Biophysics at the Royal Institute of Technology. Lindahl’s research is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of membrane proteins, in particular ion channels, through a combination of molecular simulations and experimental work involving cryo-EM and electrophysiology. He has authored some 130 scientific publications and is the recipient of an ERC starting grant.  Lindahl heads the international GROMACS molecular simulation project, which is one of the leading scientific codes to exploit parallelism on all levels from accelerators and assembly code to supercomputers and distributed computing. He is co-director of the Swedish e-Science Research Center as well as the Swedish National Bioinformatics Infrastructure, and lead scientist of the BioExcel Center-of-Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research. His research work has been awarded with the Prix Jeune Chercheur Blaise Pascal, the Sven and Ebba-Christian Högberg prize, and the Wallenberg Consortium North prize. Lindahl is currently the chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee. 

TECH TALK

AdePT project - Experience with porting particle transport simulation to oneAPI

Daniel-Florin Dosaru, 

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Daniel-Florin Dosaru

I am a master’s student in Computer Science at EPFL, and I am working on my master thesis as a Technical Student CERN in EP/SFT group. I would describe myself as a computer systems enthusiast, passionate about parallel programming, networking, and security.

HANDS ON SESSION

Single source heterogeneous programming with Data Parallel C++ and SYCL 2020 features

Rakshith Krishnappa, 

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Rakshith Krishnappa

Rakshith is a developer evangelist at Intel, focused on oneAPI, DPC++ and High Performance Computing. For the last 16 years he has worked on various Intel products including CPUs, GPUs, HPC products and Software solutions.

Praveen Kundurthy, 

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Praveen Kundurthy

Praveen Kundurthy is a Developer Evangelist at Intel with over 15 years of experience in software development and optimization on Intel platforms. In his current role, he works with universities and developers to help them learn and utilize oneAPI for their projects. He has expertise in C++, C#, and Python programing languages. Over the past few years at Intel, he has worked on topics spanning artificial intelligence, storage technologies, gaming, virtual reality and Android. Praveen has a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University.

HANDS ON SESSION

Porting NAMD to oneAPI DPC++

Jaemin Choi, 

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Jaemin Choi

Jaemin Choi is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research is focused on efficient execution of asynchronous task-based programming models such as Charm++ on GPU-accelerated systems.

David Hardy, 

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David Hardy

David Hardy is a senior research programmer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He leads the development of NAMD and was part of the research effort awarded in 2020 the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research.

VENDOR UPDATE

Experiences in Using oneAPI

Tom Deakin, 

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Tom Deakin

Dr Tom Deakin is a Senior Research Associate in the High Performance Computing Research Group at the University of Bristol. His research interests include performance portability. Tom is the Chair of the Khronos SYCL Advisory Panel and member of the SYCL Working Group. More at hpc.tomdeakin.com.

Micheal Wong, 

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Micheal Wong

Micheal Wong is the Vice President of Research and Development at Codeplay Software, a Scottish company that produces compilers, debuggers, runtimes, testing systems, and other specialized tools to aid software development for heterogeneous systems, accelerators and special purpose processor architectures, including GPUs and DSPs. He is now a member of the open consortium group known as Khronos, MISRA, and AUTOSAR and is Chair of the Khronos C++ Heterogeneous Programming language SYCL, used for GPU dispatch in native modern C++ (14/17), OpenCL, as well as guiding the research and development teams of ComputeSuite, ComputeAorta/ComputeCPP. For twenty years, he was the Senior Technical Strategy Architect for IBM compilers.

Aksel Alpay, 

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Aksel Alpay

Aksel Alpay is a researcher and software engineer from Heidelberg University, where he works on high performance computing topics. In particular, he is the creator and lead developer of the hipSYCL SYCL implementation, and also engages within the Khronos SYCL working group to advance the language.

James Reinders, 

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James Reinders

James Reinders is a senior engineer who joined Intel Corporation in 1989 and has contributed to projects including systolic arrays systems WARP and iWarp, and the world’s first TeraFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red), as well as compilers and architecture work for multiple Intel processors and parallel systems. James has been a driver behind the development of Intel as a major provider of software development products, and serves as their chief software evangelist. His most recent book is Data Parallel C++, Mastering DPC++ for Programming of Heterogeneous Systems using C++ and SYCL.

Kris Rowe, 

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Kris Rowe

Kris is an Assistant Computational Scientist in the Performance Engineering Group at Argonne National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

TECH TALK

Evaluating CUDA Portability with HIPCL and DPCT

Zheming Jin, 

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Zheming Jin

I finished my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Carolina, where my research focused on program synthesis and applications development targeting FPGAs. As a postdoctoral appointee at Argonne, I evaluated high-level synthesis and oneAPI on FPGAs and GPUs, respectively. My research focus is heterogeneous computing.

TECH TALK

Design, Development and Validation of DPC++ backend for OCCA

Anoop Madhusoodhanan Prabha , 

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Anoop Madhusoodhanan Prabha

Anoop is a Senior Technical Consulting Engineer at Intel specializing in Heterogeneous computing and code modernization. He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Cedric Andreolli, 

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Cedric Andreolli

Cedric is an Application Engineer working on codesign projects at Intel. His expertise includes optimization of HPC workloads as well as application characterization. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from INSA in France.

Saumil Sudhir Patel, 

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Saumil Sudhir Patel

Saumil is an Assistant Computational Scientist in the Computational Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The City College of New York.

Kris Rowe, 

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Kris Rowe

Kris is an Assistant Computational Scientist in the Performance Engineering Group at Argonne National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

TECH TALK

Porting oneAPI DPC++ on Xilinx FPGA & Versal ACAP CGRA

Ronan Keryell, 

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Ronan Keryell

Ronan Keryell is principal software engineer at Xilinx Research Labs. He works on SYCL C++-based programming models for heterogeneous system like FPGA and CGRA. He is the specification editor of the SYCL standard, member of the SYCL, SPIR & OpenCL standard committees from Khronos Group & ISO C++ committee. Ronan Keryell received his MSc in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Computer Science in 1992 from École Normale Supérieure of Paris & University of Paris Sud (France), on the design of a massively parallel RISC-based VLIW-SIMD graphics computer and its programming environment.

KEYNOTE

TensorFlow and oneDNN in Partnership

Penporn Koanantakool, 

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Penporn Koanantakool

Penporn Koanantakool is a senior software engineer at Google. She leads TensorFlow’s performance optimization collaboration with Intel. Penporn holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.Eng. in computer engineering from Kasetsart University, Thailand.

Conclusion

Sujata Tibrewala, 

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Sujata Tibrewala

Sujata Tibrewala is oneAPI Worldwide Developer Community manager at Intel who defines programs to enable developer community to use oneAPI. She is a co-chair for IEEE Edge Automation Platform Roadmap and is a frequent presenter at various IEEE and industry conferences. She has held positions of Director at Silicon Valley Engineering Council and TSC chair for Documentation Akraino. She is also a self taught artist who has exhibited at various venues in US and India including University of Illinois Chicago, Life Force Arts Center, Lalit Kala Academy etc.

Pranati Tewari, 

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Pranati Tewari

Pranati Tewari joined Intel in 2011. She is a Product Marketing Engineer for Intel® oneAPI Priority Support. She assists customers and sales channel with information on product configuration, SKUs, pricing, and support. She is also responsible for product marketing of Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel® GPA) and game development tools.

 

HAPPY HOUR

Happy Hour

Sujata Tibrewala, 

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Sujata Tibrewala

Sujata Tibrewala is oneAPI Worldwide Developer Community manager at Intel who defines programs to enable developer community to use oneAPI. She is a co-chair for IEEE Edge Automation Platform Roadmap and is a frequent presenter at various IEEE and industry conferences. She has held positions of Director at Silicon Valley Engineering Council and TSC chair for Documentation Akraino. She is also a self taught artist who has exhibited at various venues in US and India including University of Illinois Chicago, Life Force Arts Center, Lalit Kala Academy etc.

Russ Beutler, 

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Russ Beutler

Russ Beutler is an Engagement Manager for oneAPI in the Developer Ecosystem Programs Team in the Intel Architecture Graphics and Software group. Previously he was the marketing manager for Intel® persistent memory and moderncode developer programs. He has over twenty-five years’ worldwide hardware and software marketing, consulting, and IT experience – twenty-one of which are at Intel.

Introduction

Sujata Tibrewala, 

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Sujata Tibrewala

Sujata Tibrewala is oneAPI Worldwide Developer Community manager at Intel who defines programs to enable developer community to use oneAPI. She is a co-chair for IEEE Edge Automation Platform Roadmap and is a frequent presenter at various IEEE and industry conferences. She has held positions of Director at Silicon Valley Engineering Council and TSC chair for Documentation Akraino. She is also a self taught artist who has exhibited at various venues in US and India including University of Illinois Chicago, Life Force Arts Center, Lalit Kala Academy etc.

KEYNOTE

Porting Boris Particle Pusher to DPC++. Performance Analysis and Optimization on Intel CPUs and GPUs

Iosif Meyerov, 

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Iosif Meyerov

Iosif Meyerov obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (2005). He is deputy head of the department of Mathematical software and supercomputing technologies (2009), head of the oneAPI Center of Excellence (2021). His research interests include high performance computing, performance analysis and optimization, computational science, scientific software development, sparse algebra algorithms. 

Valentin Volokitin,  Alexey Bashinov,  Evgeny Efimenko,  Arkady Gonoskov, 

TECH TALK

Bringing SYCL to pre-exascale supercomputing with DPC++ for CUDA 

HANDS ON SESSION

Application optimization with Cache-aware Roofline Model and Intel oneAPI tools

Aleksandar Ilic, 

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Aleksandar Ilic

Aleksandar Ilic is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, and a Senior Researcher of the INESC-ID, Portugal. He contributed to more than 50 scientific publications. His research interests include high-performance and energy-efficient computing and modeling of heterogeneous systems.

Diogo Marques, 

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Diogo Marques

Diogo Marques is a member of the HPCAS group at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores R&D (INESC-ID). His research interests include the modeling of multi-core and heterogeneous systems. His work contributed to improve the accuracy of Cache-aware Roofline Model, by proposing the memory metrics and scaled roofs presented in Intel Advisor.

Rafael Campos, 

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Rafael Campos

Rafael Campos is a young researcher at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores R&D (INESC-ID), as part of the HPCAS group. His main interests are performance modeling of heterogeneous systems, with focus on performance optimization of bioinformatics applications and roofline modeling of high-performance heterogeneous CPU/GPU systems.

HANDS ON SESSION

Word-Count with MapReduce on FPGA, A DPC++ Example

Dr. Yan Luo, 

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Dr. Yan Luo

Dr. Luo is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research spans computer architecture, machine learning and data analytics. He teaches undergrad and graduate courses such as embedded systems and heterogeneous computing.

TECH TALK

Performance-Portable Distributed k-Nearest Neighbors using Locality-Sensitive Hashing and SYCL

Marcel Breyer, 

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Marcel Breyer

Marcel Breyer is a PhD student at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His main field of research is on performance portability on heterogeneous hardware, which includes new applications of SYCL. He has contributed performance-portable k-Nearest Neighbors implementations for vast data sets.

TECH TALK

Visualization of human-scale blood flow simulation using Intel OSPRay Studio on SuperMUC-NG

Elisabeth Mayer, 

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Elisabeth Mayer

Elisabeth Mayer has been working at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre since 2017. Her research fields include Virtual Reality, rendering workflows and visualization of complex datasets. Here, she focuses on the development of a rendering workflow utilizing HPC resources to create 360° 3D videos.

Salvatore Cielo,  Jon McCullough, 

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Jon McCullough

Jon McCullough joined University College London in 2019 to continue the development of the HemeLB blood flow simulation code. This work has particularly focused on developing a self-coupled version of the code for simultaneous human-scale arterial and venous flow modelling.

Johannes Gunther,  Peter Coveney, 

TECH TALK

Ginkgo - An Open Source Math Library in the oneAPI Ecosytem

Hartwig Anzt, 

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Hartwig Anzt

Hartwig Anzt is a research group leader at the Steinbuch Centre for Computing at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He obtained his PhD in Mathematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Afterwards, he joined Jack Dongarra’s Innovative Computing Lab at the University of Tennessee in 2013 until he started his own research group in 2017. He still contributed to the Innovative Computing Lab as a Research Consultant. Hartwig Anzt has a strong background in numerical mathematics, specializes in iterative methods and preconditioning techniques for the next generation hardware architectures. His Helmholtz group on Fixed-point methods for numerics at Exascale (FiNE) is granted funding until 2022. Hartwig Anzt has a long track record of high-quality software development. He is author of the MAGMA-sparse open source software package and managing lead of the Ginkgo numerical linear algebra library. Hartwig Anzt is PI of the EuroHPC project MICROCARD, and a co-PI of the PEEKS project and the xSDK project inside the software technology effort of the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP). He is also the technical PI of the multiprecision effort in the xSDK project, a coordinated effort aiming at integrating low-precision functionality into high-accuracy simulation codes. 

TECH TALK

HPC changing the paradigm of film animation as Tangent revolutionizes creative story telling

Jeff Bell, 

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Jeff Bell

Jeff is one of those unique people who brings Art and Computer Science together. Part of the team that brought Alias | Wavefront’s Maya to market, Jeff has been a CG Supervisor, VFX Supervisor and Executive at IDT Entertainment and Starz Animation. Jeff was an integral contributor to memorable features including ‘Everyone’s Hero’, ‘Hoodwinked 2’, and Tim Burton’s ‘9’. Recent credits include ‘Ozzy’ and Netflix’s ‘Next Gen’, where Jeff became a trailblazer by producing the first animated feature created entirely in Open Source 3D content creation software Blender.

TECH TALK

Integrating Arhat deep learning framework with Intel® oneDNN library and OpenVINO™ toolkit

Alexey Gokhberg, 

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Alexey Gokhberg

Alexey Gokhberg is a seasoned software engineer with 25+ years of experience in various industrial and academic branches. His professional interests include deep learning, high-performance computing, programming language construction, and computational geophysics.

KEYNOTE

oneAPI, SYCL and Standard C++: Where Do We Need To Go From Here?

Conclusion

Sujata Tibrewala, 

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Sujata Tibrewala

Sujata Tibrewala is oneAPI Worldwide Developer Community manager at Intel who defines programs to enable developer community to use oneAPI. She is a co-chair for IEEE Edge Automation Platform Roadmap and is a frequent presenter at various IEEE and industry conferences. She has held positions of Director at Silicon Valley Engineering Council and TSC chair for Documentation Akraino. She is also a self taught artist who has exhibited at various venues in US and India including University of Illinois Chicago, Life Force Arts Center, Lalit Kala Academy etc.

Dr. Thomas Steinke, 

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Dr. Thomas Steinke

Thomas Steinke is head of the Supercomputing dept. at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and responsible for HPC research, consulting and operation. His interest is in heterogeneous systems with innovative processor and memory designs for scientific applications, and parallel simulation methods.

HAPPY HOUR

Happy Hour

Sujata Tibrewala, 

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Sujata Tibrewala

Sujata Tibrewala is oneAPI Worldwide Developer Community manager at Intel who defines programs to enable developer community to use oneAPI. She is a co-chair for IEEE Edge Automation Platform Roadmap and is a frequent presenter at various IEEE and industry conferences. She has held positions of Director at Silicon Valley Engineering Council and TSC chair for Documentation Akraino. She is also a self taught artist who has exhibited at various venues in US and India including University of Illinois Chicago, Life Force Arts Center, Lalit Kala Academy etc.

Russ Beutler, 

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Russ Beutler

Russ Beutler is an Engagement Manager for oneAPI in the Developer Ecosystem Programs Team in the Intel Architecture Graphics and Software group. Previously he was the marketing manager for Intel® persistent memory and moderncode developer programs. He has over twenty-five years’ worldwide hardware and software marketing, consulting, and IT experience – twenty-one of which are at Intel.