Computing Conferences and Events
ALCF researchers regularly contribute to some of the world’s leading computing conferences and events to share their latest advances in areas ranging from computational science and AI to HPC software and exascale technologies. In 2024, Argonne staff participated in a wide range of events including SC24, ISC High Performance, Grace Hopper Celebration, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, International Conference on Parallel Processing, International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, International Workshop on OpenCL and SYCL, Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference, HPC User Forum, Energy High-Performance Computing Conference, Lustre User Group Conference, Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group Conference, Conference on Machine Learning and Systems, American Physical Society, Energy HPC, High-Performance Computing Security, International Conference On Preconditioning Techniques For Scientific and Industrial Applications, IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IRI/HPDF Meeting, PEARC 2024, NIST Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) Workshop, ADAC Workshop, ISO C++ Conference, and more.
HPC Standards and Community Groups
ALCF staff members remain actively involved in several HPC standards and community groups that help drive improvements in the usability and efficiency of scientific computing tools, technologies, and applications. Staff activities include contributions to the C++ Standards Committee, Cray User Group, DAOS Foundation, HPC User Forum, HPSF High Performance Software Foundation, Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG), Khronos OpenCL and SYCL Working Groups , LDMS User Group, UXL Silver Member/Steering Member, MLCommons, NITRD Middleware and Grid Infrastructure Team, Open Fabrics Alliance, Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS) Board, OpenMP Architecture Review Board, OSTI ORCiD Consortium Membership, SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) HPG (High Performance Group), Better Scientific Software, Energy Efficient High Performance Computing, Unified Communications Framework, OCHAMI, and more.
Performance Portability
The ALCF continued its collaboration with NERSC and OLCF to operate and maintain a website dedicated to enabling performance portability across the DOE Office of Science HPC facilities. The website serves as a documentation hub and guide for applications teams targeting systems at multiple computing facilities. The DOE computing facilities staff also collaborate on various projects and training events to maximize the portability of scientific applications on diverse supercomputer architectures.
Vendor Collaborations
The ALCF works closely with many companies in the HPC and AI industries to develop and deploy cutting-edge hardware and software for the research community. This includes collaborating with Intel and HPE to deliver the Aurora exascale system, working with HPE to deploy the Polaris testbed supercomputer, and partnering with NVIDIA on system enhancements and training related to ThetaGPU. Such partnerships are critical to ensuring the facility’s supercomputing resources meet the requirements of the scientific computing community. In addition, the ALCF is working with several AI start-up companies, including Cerebras, Graphcore, Groq, and SambaNova, to deploy a diverse set of AI accelerators as part of the ALCF AI Testbed. The testbed is playing a key role in determining how AI accelerators can be applied to scientific research, while also allowing vendors to prepare their software and hardware for scientific AI workloads.