2018
Now in its 33rd year, the ISC High Performance set a new attendance record by attracting 3,505 people and 162 companies and research organizations from 59 countries to the event. HPC users and vendors came together over five days to exchange ideas and display new products.
For a complete picture of the 2018 event, please refer to the summary report. Video recording of the conference keynote is also available.
ISC 2018 STEERING COMMITTEE
The members of the ISC Steering Committee are distinguished HPC experts and decision makers who provide guidance on the conference program and help enhance publicity, acceptance and growth of ISC in industry, research and academia.
- Sadaf Alam, CSCS, Switzerland
- David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Rosa Badia, BSC, Spain
- Frank Baetke, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Germany
- Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Arndt Bode, LRZ & TU Munich, Germany
- Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Damian Borth, DFKI, Germany
- Gerd Büttner, Airbus Deutschland, Germany
- Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA
- Florina Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Toni Collis, EPCC, UK
- Dona Crawford, LLNL, USA
- Bronis R. de Supinski, LLNL, USA
- Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & ORNL, USA
- Alfred Geiger, T-Systems Solutions for Research, Germany
- Wolfgang Gentzsch, The UberCloud Marketplace, Germany
- Horst Gietl, ISC Group, Germany
- Bill Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Georg Hager, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland
- Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
- Alison Kennedy, STFC Hartree Centre, UK
- Janis Keuper, ITWM, Germany
- David Keyes, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
- Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ, Germany
- Julian Kunkel, University of Reading, UK
- Jysoo Lee, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
- Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
- Thomas Lippert, JSC, Germany
- Yutong Lu, NUDT, China
- Thomas Ludwig, DKRZ, Germany
- Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK
- Cynthia McIntyre, Washington Technology Partners, USA
- Kim McMahon, McMahon Consulting, USA
- Martin Meuer, ISC Group, Germany
- Thomas Meuer, ISC Group, Germany
- Marek Michalewicz, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Bernd Mohr, JSC, Germany
- Matthias Müller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Wolfgang Nagel, TU Dresden, Germany
- Kengo Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Michael Resch, HLRS, Germany
- Saday Sadayappan, Ohio State University, USA
- Marie-Christine Sawley, Intel, France
- Felix Schürmann, EPFL, Switzerland
- John Shalf, LBNL/NERSC, USA
- Horst Simon, LBNL, USA (Chair)
- Happy Sithole, Center for High Performance Computing, South Africa
- Thomas Sterling, Indiana University, USA
- Erich Strohmaier, LBNL, USA
- Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA
- Carsten Trinitis, TU Munich, Germany
- Ekaterina Tutlyaeva, RSC, Russia
- Matteo Valero, BSC, Spain
- Jeff Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia
- Michele Weiland, EPCC, UK
- Gerhard Wellein, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Sandra Wienke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Andreas Wierse, SICOS BW, Germany
- Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
ISC 2018 Research Papers Committee
The Research Papers Committee sets up the research paper sessions, based on a call-for-papers procedure.
- David Keyes, KAUST, Saudi Arabia (Research Papers Chair)
- Carsten Trinitis, TU Munich, Germany (Research Papers Deputy Chair)
Architectures & Networks
- Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany (Track Chair for Architectures & Networks)
- Holger Fröning, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Pedro J. Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Georgios Goumas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Sébastien Rumley, Columbia University, United States of America
- Federico Silla, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
- Peter Ziegenhein, The Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Yu Wang, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany (Track Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
- Christoph Angerer, NVIDIA, United States of America
- Gonzalo Hernandez, USACH, Department of Industrial Engineering, Chile
- Janis Keuper, Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany
- Romeo Kienzler, IBM, Switzerland
- Chuan Lu, Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
- Lukas Lukas, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, Faculty of Engineering Indonesia
- Hayk Shoukourian, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany
- Michael Steyer, Intel Corporation, Germany
- Johan Suykens, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Marcel Tilly, Microsoft, United States of America
- Edward Zimmermann, NONMONOTONIC Networks, Germany
Data, Storage & Visualization
- Timo Bremer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States of America (Track Chair for Data, Storage & Visualization)
- Mahdi Bohlouli, Institute of Web Science and Technologies, University of Koblenz, Germany
- Matthieu Dorier, Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America
- Steffen Frey, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Japan
- Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America
- Valerio Pascucci, University of Utah, United States of America
- John Patchett, LANL, United States of America
- Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu, Japan
- Ryousei Takano, AIST, Japan
- Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Japan
- Venkatram Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America
HPC Algorithms
- Philipp Neumann, German Climate Computing Center, Germany (Track Chair for HPC Algorithms)
- Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputing Center, United States of America
- Yuefan Deng, Stony Brook University, United States of America
- Harald Köstler, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Miriam Mehl, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Marek Michalewicz, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Kengo Nakajima, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Lena Oden, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
- Daniel Ruprecht, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Tobias Weinzierl, Durham University, United Kingdom
HPC Applications
- Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America (Track Chair for HPC Applications)
- Vassil Dimitrov, University of Calgary and Computer Modelling Group, Canada
- Hubertus Franke, IBM Research, United States of America
- Guido Juckeland, HZDR, Germany
- Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America
- Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America
- Axel Klawonn, Universität zu Köln, Germany
- Miquel Moretó, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Gabriel Noaje, NVIDIA, Singapore
- Miquel Pericas, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, United States of America
Performance Modeling & Measurement
- Saday Sadayappan, Ohio State University, United States of America (Track Chair for Performance Modeling & Measurement)
- Christos Antonopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece
- Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America
- Yuefan Deng, Stony Brook University, United States of America
- Jan Eitzinger, Erlangen Regional Computing Center, Germany
- Allen Malony, University of Oregon, United States of America
- Marek Michalewicz, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
- Fabrice Rastello, INRIA, Grenoble, France
- Aravind Sukumaran-Rajam, Ohio State University, United States of America
- Josef Weidendorfer, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre / Technical
University of Munich, Germany
Programming Models & Systems Software
- Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Track Chair for Programming Models & Systems Software)
- Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputing Center, United States of America
- Alexandru Calotoiu, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Bradford L. Chamberlain, Cray Inc., United States of America
- Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Christian Lengauer, Universität Passau, FIM, Germany
- Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
- Miriam Mehl, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Richard Membarth, DFKI & Saarland University, Germany
- Marek Michalewicz, ICM, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Lawrence Mitchell, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
- Antoniu Pop, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Alex Shafarenko, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Hans Vandierendonck, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
- Tobias Weinzierl, Durham University, United Kingdom
ISC 2018 Research Posters Committee
From all research posters submitted, the Research Posters Committee selects the ones for presentation at ISC.
- Matthias S. Mueller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (Research Posters Chair)
- Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA (Research Posters Deputy Chair)
- James H. Cownie, Intel, UK
- Saber Feki, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
- Andy Herdman, AWE, UK
- Guido Juckeland, HZDR, Germany
- Andreas Knuepfer, Technical University Dresden, Germany
- Julian Kunkel, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Germany
- John Leidel, Tech University, USA
- Naoya Maruyama, LLNL, USA
- Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK
- Hitoshi Murai, Riken, Japan
- Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA
- Dirk Schmidl, Atos, Germany
- Emmanuelle Saillard, INRIA, France
- Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Felix Wolf, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
ISC 2018 HPC IN ASIA COMMITTEE
- Yutong Lu, National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou, China (Chair)
- Kengo Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan (Deputy Chair)
ISC 2018 PROJECT POSTERS COMMITTEE
From all project posters submitted, the Project Posters Committee selects the ones for presentation at ISC.
- Julian Kunkel, University of Reading, UK, Germany (Chair)
- Ekaterina Tutlyaeva, RSC, Russia (Co-Chair)
- Alvaro Aguilera, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Valeria Bartsch, Fraunhofer, Germany
- Thomas Boenisch, High performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
- Matt Bryson, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- Anja Gerbes, FIAS, Germany
- Weicheng Huang, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
- Nabeeh Jumah, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Oleksiy Koshulko, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of NASU, Russia
- Glenn K. Lockwood, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
- George S. Markomanolis, KAUST- King Abdullah University For Science And Technology, Saudi-Arabia
- Alexander Moskovsky, RSC Group, Russia
- Philipp Neumann, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Germany
- Ying Qian, East China Normal University, China
- Yuichi Tsujita, RIKEN AICS, Japan
- Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
ISC 2018 PhD Forum Program Committee
The PhD Forum Program Committee is an international committee of HPC experts. From all PhD Forum proposals submitted, the Committee selects the best ones for presentation at ISC and one contribution to receive the “ISC 2018 PhD Forum Award".
- Gerhard Wellein, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (Chair)
- Florina Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland (Co-Chair)
- Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
- Karl Fuerlinger, LMU München, Germany
- Georgios Goumas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Georg Hager, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & TU Delft, Netherlands
- Harald Köstler, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Satoshi Matsuoka, RIKEN, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Lois McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Miriam Mehl, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
- Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux, Inria, France
- Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK
- Olaf Schenk, Universita della Svizzera italina, Switzerland
- Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Srishti Srivastava, University of Southern Indiana, USA
- Bettina Schnor, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Gracia Ester Martin Garzon, Almería University, Spain
- Hans-Joachim Bungartz, TU Munich, Germany
ISC 2018 BoFs Committee
The BoFs Committee reviews all BoF proposals submitted and selects the sessions to be presented at ISC.
- Georg Hager, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (Chair)
- Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK (Deputy Chair)
- David Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Claudia Blaas-Schenner, TU Wien, VSC Research Center, Austria
- Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA
- Dona Crawford, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Anne C. Elster, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Nahid Emad, University of Versailles, France
- Dominik Göddeke, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Gerard Gorman, Imperial College London, UK
- José Gracia, University of Stuttgart, HLRS Germany
- Harald Köstler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Oana Marin, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Lawrence Mitchell, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Marie-Christine Sawley, Intel, France
- Masha Sosonkina, Old Dominion University, USA
- Hinnerk Stüben, Universität Hamburg, Germany
- Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University, Russia
- Jan Wender, Atos BDS science+computing AG, Germany
- Andreas Wierse, SICOS BW GmbH, Germany
- Xingfu Wu, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, USA
- Roman Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
ISC 2018 TUTORIALS COMMITTEE
- Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain (Chair)
- Sandra Wienke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (Deputy Chair)
- Damian Alvarez Mallon, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
- Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Alejandro Duran, Intel, Spain
- Fernanda S. Foertter, Oak Ride National Laboratory, USA
- Dario Garcia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
- Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah, USA
- Gregory L. Lee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Christian Perez, INRIA, France
- Enrique Quintana, Universidad Jaime I, Spain
- William Sawyer, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland
- Martin Schulz, TU Munich, Germany
- Eric Stotzer, Texas Instruments, USA
- Domenico Talia, Universitá della Calabria
- Michèle Weiland, EPCC – The University of Edinburgh, UK
ISC 2018 Workshops Committee
From all workshop proposals submitted, the Workshops Committee will select the workshops for presentation at ISC.
- John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA (Chair)
- Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Switzerland (Deputy Chair)
- Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
- François Bodin, IRISA, France
- Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK
- Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
- Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA
- Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
- Didem Unat, Koç Universitesi, Turkey
- Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (Workshop Proceedings Chair)
- Heike Jagode, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Diana Moise, Cray, Basel
- Bilel Hadri, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
- Carsten Trintis, TU Munich, Germany
- Michèle Weiland, EPCC – The University of Edinburgh, UK (Workshop Proceedings Deputy Chair)