Agenda

DescriptionArriving on Saturday or Sunday for ISC 2019? Plan to join our Pre-Conference Party!

This Sunday evening party allows ISC attendees and exhibitors alike the possibility to catch up with new and familiar faces in a casual setting and ahead of a busy week. To help you ignore the jetlag, we have packed the evening with various entertainment activities: Science slam, popular music, and of course food and drinks. Come join the fun!

The party is open to all, but is limited to the first 400 attendees.

DescriptionThe ISC First-Time Attendee Session is intended as an introductory session for ISC High Performance attendees who want to learn to navigate through the 2019 conference, make the best use of their time at the event, and have fun meeting other HPC practitioners. Besides helping you navigate, we would also like to introduce you to the inclusivity efforts at ISC 2019. As a conference we strive to make everyone feel welcome and comfortable. Please also join this session for a get together with other first-time attendees.

Description
Applications portability, scientific reproducibility and users productivity are among key challenges facing scientific communities on rapidly evolving hardware and software ecosystems, especially for workflows utilising distributed IT infrastructure encompassing public and private cloud deployments and supercomputing centres. Container technologies have demonstrated not only a widespread adoption among data science communities in cloud environments but also unique problem-solving opportunities for performance-sensitive, scalable applications in modelling and simulation domains on supercomputing platforms. This session brings together experts to share insights on transitioning to container technologies, and to forecast opportunities and challenges for a federated IT environment comprising HPC and cloud infrastructure elements.

DescriptionThe following awards will be given to outstanding research papers submitted to the conference:

HANS MEUER AWARD
The Hans Meuer Award honors the most outstanding research paper submitted to the conference’s Research Papers Committee. This award has been introduced in the memory of the late Dr. Hans Meuer, general chair of the ISC conference from 1986 through 2014, and co-founder of the TOP500 project. From all submitted research papers, the Research Papers Committee will select the overall best paper for the award.

GAUSS AWARD
The GCS Award honors the most outstanding research paper submitted to the Research Papers Committee in the field of HPC. The GCS Award has been a key component of the conference each year since the foundation of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in 2008. It is sponsored by GCS, an alliance of Germany's three national supercomputing centers — the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ).

DescriptionThe ISC Exhibition Party is a traditional welcome to the ISC showfloor, allowing you to meet over 160 industry and research exhibitors face-to-face. This evening event sets a tone for the entire ISC Exhibition.

Food and drinks will be served with ambient lounge music playing in the background, and thus putting you in the right mood to shop for HPC solutions. Also look out for our graphic recorder, Ms. Hübner, who’ll be there to capture the Monday ISC Exhibition in the form of graphic art.

Description
Advanced device technologies such as 3D-stacked memory and non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) have added a new dimension to the already over complex memory hierarchies in high-performance computing (HPC) systems. This is new dimension provides new possibilities to meet the increasing demand of big data applications and to address the notorious memory-wall problem. Computer hardware systems, operating systems, storage and file systems, data models and programming stacks, performance models and tools need to be enhanced, augmented, or even redesigned to address the performance, programmability and energy efficiency challenges to support an integrated deep memory-storage hierarchy for HPC and data-intensive applications. In this session, the speakers will share their experiences and findings in addressing emerging memory challenges for exascale computing. This session is anticipated to help the HPC community understanding the scope of modern memory system research and identifying future research directions to address memory and storage challenges via advanced technologies and emerging systems.

DescriptionFor a complete list of the Research Posters on display at ISC 2019, please refer to the overview of the Research Posters Session on Tuesday, June 18.

For a complete list of the PhD Forum Posters on display at ISC 2019, please refer to the overview of the PhD Forum Posters Session on Monday, June 17.

For a complete list of the HPC in Asia Posters on display at ISC 2019, please refer to the overview of the HPC in Asia Posters Session on Wednesday, June 19.

For a complete list of the Woman in HPC Posters on display at ISC 2019, please refer to the overview of the Woman in HPC Posters on Tuesday, June 18.