ICL 2022 Year in Review
2022 was a milestone year for ICL. Take a look back at all the highlights with the ICL 2022 Year in Review.
ICL Brings HPC Expertise to New Consortium for Nuclear Forensics
ICL will spearhead a cross-cutting thrust on HPC, data science, and AI as part of a new project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The project establishes a consortium involving 16 universities, led by the University of Florida, and will collaborate with seven national labs. Deborah Penchoff will lead ICL’s participation along with George Bosilca and Stanimire Tomov.
An excerpt from the NNSA announcement of the consortium:
The new consortium will address the gaps and challenges within important research fields in nuclear forensics through five research thrust areas: rapid turnaround forensics, advanced analytical methods, ultrasensitive measurements, signature discovery, and prompt effects and measurements. The team also plans to use its expertise in high-performance computing and data science to crosscut the thrust areas with artificial intelligence-driven capabilities to accelerate solutions within individual thrust areas. This structure allows them to best connect their broad expertise to address existing challenges in the nuclear forensics field. It also facilitates the exchange of ideas and technologies between consortium partners and develops trained personnel across a comprehensive range of disciplines.
HPC Forecast: Cloudy and Uncertain
ICL’s Jack Dongarra, Dan Reed of the University of Utah, and Dennis Gannon of Indiana University contributed an article to the latest issue of Communications of the ACM titled “HPC Forecast: Cloudy and Uncertain“. The article is an examination of how the technology landscape has changed and possible future directions for HPC operations and innovation.
Along with the article, the three authors recorded a video discussion, available via the Communications of the ACM Vimeo channel:
Donations from Intel and NVIDIA
ICL would like to express gratitude to Intel and NVIDIA for recent generous donations towards our research work. Intel donated ARC A770 graphics cards, with NVIDIA sending their new NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU. These donations give ICL the capability of on-site performance engineering on these platforms.
Clingman’s Dome Excursion
On Saturday, Jan. 28th, a contingent of ICL and GCLab members tackled the Clingman’s Dome hike. Starting from the Newfound Gap parking lot early that morning, the hikers trekked the medium-difficulty trail of approximately 15 miles and were given little challenge from the snowfall of about 3 inches. The clear day provided great visibility and the hikers enjoyed the vistas. The end of the trail found the group in good spirits and planning their next hike.
Conference Reports
2023 ECP Annual Meeting
The 2023 ECP Annual Meeting brought together more than 570 participants in Houston, Texas. A group of 20 from ICL and KIT were in attendance, including Piotr Luszczek, who served as one of the event’s program co-chairs. The theme for the poster sessions was “Then and Now,” and looked back at the projects’ accomplishments over the ECP program. ICL presented 11 posters:
Many of the topics of the ECP Annual Meeting will continue to be discussed in a series of virtual events in February:
- Virtual ECP Project Tutorial Days: Feb 6 — 10, 2023
- Virtual ECP Community BOF Days: Feb 14 — 16, 2023
EU-ASEAN High-Performance Computing School 2022
In December, Jack Dongarra traveled to Bankgok, Thailand to speak at the EU-ASEAN High-Performance Computing School 2022 conference.
🇪🇺🇩🇪EU-ASEAN scientific cooperation at work: an exchange with Jack Dongarra, one of the rock stars in Super Computing @KasetsartU, in the #EU–#ASEAN High Performance Computing School 2022 @EUinThailand #160TG @GIZ_Thailand pic.twitter.com/uDlbLGWLub
— Hans-Ulrich Südbeck (@HansUSuedbeck) December 9, 2022
While in Thailand, Jack had the opportunity to meet up with former ICLer Thara Angskun who received his PhD at ICL in 2007 and is now a professor at Suranaree University of Technology.
