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UMD an the Supercomputing 2018 (SC18) Conference

The University of Maryland will be returning to the annual ACM/IEEE Supercomputing conference, SC18 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.

SC18 Conference

  • Sunday, Nov 11 - Friday, Nov 16, 2018
  • Dallas, TX
  • UMD Booth number 4211

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 4211, 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 13
Day Time Topic Speaker
Tue 10:10 AM Impact of Traditional Sparse Optimizations on a Migratory Thread Architecture Thomas Rolinger
(University of Maryland)
Tue 1:10 PM Dynamic Management of Scientific Workflows Swati Singhal
(University of Maryland)
Tue 3:10 PM Data Centric Performance Measurement Jeff Hollingsworth
(University of Maryland)
Wednesday, Nov 14
Day Time Topic Speaker
Wed 10:10 AM MARCC: The Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center: Supporting Transformative Research Kevin Manalo
(Johns Hopkins University)
Wed 1:10 PM SENSE: SDN for End-to-end Networked Science at the Exascale Tom Lehman and Xi Yangg
(University of Maryland/MAX)
Wed 3:10 PM BigData Express: Toward Predictable, Schedulable, and High-performance Data Transfer Wenji Wu
(Fermilab)
Thursday, Nov 15
Day Time Topic Speaker
Thu 10:10 AM Data Centric Performance Measurement Jeff Hollingsworth
(University of Maryland)
Thu 12:40 PM Building 100G DTNs Still Hurts My Head! Kevin Hildebrand
(University of Maryland)