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UMD an the Supercomputing 2017 (SC17) Conference

The University of Maryland will be returning to the annual ACM/IEEE Supercomputing conference, SC17 brings together scientists, engineers, and researchers from the international community with a technical program full of presentations and tutorials. It is an excellent setting to meet other like-minded individuals with whom you can learn and share information.

SC17 Conference

  • Sunday, Nov 12 - Friday, Nov 17, 2017
  • Denver, CO
  • UMD Booth number 2157

The UMD booth will serve to showcase research and projects currently being performed at the University. Located in the exhibit hall, the UMD booth is number 2157, just look for the giant terrapin suspended from the ceiling.

Booth presentations will be held on Tuesday through Thursday during the conference. The schedule of speakers is included below. Be sure to check back here for updates, as this list is subject to change until the end of the conference.

Speaker Schedule

Tuesday, Nov 14
Day Time Topic Speaker
Tue 10:10 AM MARCC: The Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center: Supporting Maryland's HPC Ecosystem Kevin Manalo
(Johns Hopkins University)
Tue 12:10 PM Computational Sciences Research at ARL Raju Namburu
(ARL)
Tue 12:40 PM Regional Software Defined Science DMZ (SD-SDMZ) Tom Lehman
Xi Yang
(University of Maryland)
Tue 1:10 PM Adaptive compression to improve I/O performance of climate simulations Swati Singhal
(University of Maryland)
Tue 3:10 PM Auto-tuning of Speed and Accuracy Jeff Hollingsworth
(University of Maryland)
Wednesday, Nov 15
Day Time Topic Speaker
Wed 10:10 AM Evaluating Communication Costs for Distributed Sparse Tensor Factorization on Multi-GPU Systems Thomas Rolinger
(University of Maryland)
Wed 12:40 PM SENSE: SDN for End-to-end Networked Science at the Exascale Tom Lehman
Xi Yang
(University of Maryland/MAX)
Wed 1:10 PM Programmable HPC Network Fabrics for Adaptive Computing Venkat Dasari
(ARL)
Wed 3:10 PM Auto-tuning of Speed and Accuracy Jeff Hollingsworth
(University of Maryland)
Thursday, Nov 16
Day Time Topic Speaker
Thu 10:10 AM Managing HPC Allocations and Users with Perl Tom Payerle
(University of Maryland)
Thu 12:40 PM Building 100G DTNs Still Hurts My Head! Kevin Hildebrand
(University of Maryland)