Event

I gave a talk at SX-Aurora TSUBASA Forum taken place at the NEC headquarter.
My talk was about a hot topic, the performance and functionality of NEC’s new product, SX-Aurora TSUBASA.
I am glad the audiences enjoyed it.
https://jpn.nec.com/event/180727aurora/index.html (in Japanese)

I attended IPDPS 2018 in Vancouver, and gave a talk at the international workshop on automatic performance tuning, iWAPT 2018, on behalf of Yuki Kawarabatake who was the first author of the work. During the stay, I also visited Stanley Park, a great park full of nature. It’s a pity I am not good at taking a selfie… 🙁
Hiro

I have presented our joint research effort at NUG30@Aachen Germany. I stayed as a visiting researcher at RWTH GRS in Aachen from Aug. to Oct. 2011, but it was my first visit in about seven years. The townscape was unchanged from that time, and I felt relieved somehow :-).

Ryusuke

From April 1, 2018, our laboratory will be renamed “Ultra High Speed Information Processing” to “High Performance Computing”.
We will continue to work on research on high performance computing systems and their applications, and also system software that supports high performance computing systems.

Professor Takizawa and Associate Professor Egawa made presentations at Workshop on Sustained Simulation Performance (WSSP) held at the Cyberscience Center on March 22 and 23.
27th WSSP　(https://www.sc.cc.tohoku.ac.jp/wssp27/ja/index.html)
This workshop was hosted by Tohoku University Cyberscience Center, Japan Ocean Research and Development Organization (JAMSTEC), Stuttgart University High Performance Calculation Center (HLRS) in Germany, and NEC, and JHPCN.This workshop invited researchers and supercomputer designers who are internationally active in computational science.We will exchange information on the latest research results on high performance and high efficiency large scale scientific computation, and discuss on future research and development of supercomputer． From our laboratory Professor Takizawa announced the result of code optimization using machine learning, Associate Prof. Egawa on the high energy efficiency job scheduling for the HPC system based on the execution time prediction of the job. (These outcomes summarize the results of Teng and Kawaharaba who completed master’s degree this year and finished.)
Hiroyuki Takizawa, “Towards prediction of effective optimizations in performance engineering.”
Ryusuke Egawa, “Job Run-time Estimation toward Energy-aware System Operation.”

In SIAM 2018 held at Waseda University on March 9th and 10th, we proposed the following mini-symposium plan together with TACC of USA and HLRS of Germany and made presentations respectively.
 
SIAMPP18　Web
https://www.siam.org/meetings/pp18/
MS85 Performance-Aware Programming — Performance Engineering and Modeling in Practice
Organizer:

• Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan
• Ritu Arora, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA

Hiroyuki Takizawa, “User-Defined Code Transformation for Separation of Performance-Awareness from Application Codes,”
 
MS101 HPC Benchmarking ~Past, Present, and Future~
Organizers:

• Ryusuke Egawa, Tohoku University, Japan
• Jose Gracia, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany

Ryusuke Egawa, “HPC Benchmarking; Perspective from Power and Sustained Performance abstract.”

Pei Li (Master course, 2nd year) and Zhen Wang(Master course, 2nd year) made a poster presentation at the HPC Asia 2018 in Tokyo, Japan

Pei Li made a poster presentation on “Thermal-aware Checkpoint Interval Tuning for High-Performance Computing”.

Zhen Wang made a poster presentation on ” Auto-tuning of Hyperparameters of Machine Learning Models”.

We had a happy End-year Party(忘年会 ボウネンカイ) with Kobayashi lab on 22nd December.

 

Mulya Agung (Doctor course, 2nd year) made a presentation at the 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC2017) in Jaipur, India.

Mulya Agung, Muhammad Alfian Amrizal, Kazuhiko Komatsu, Ryusuke Egawa, and Hiroyuki Takizawa, “A Memory Congestion-aware MPI Process Placement for Modern NUMA Systems,” the 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC2017), Jaipur, India, 2017.

Prof. Takizawa gave an invited talk at the First Workshop on Software Challenges to Exascale Computing (SCEC) in Jaipur, India.

Hiroyuki Takizawa, “A User-Defined Code Transformation Approach to Separation of Performance Concerns,” Invited Talk at the First Workshop on Software Challenges to Exascale Computing (SCEC2017), Jaipur, India, 2017.
https://scecforum.github.io/