Department of Biomedical Informatics
presents
Bronis R. de Supinski, PhD
“Programming Future Large Scale Systems”
Tuesday May 12, 2015
12:30-1:30 pm
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
Abstract: DOE recently announced that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) would both procure large systems from IBM as a result of the CORAL RFP. These systems, which represent significant steps on the path to exascale, will include NVIDIA Volta GPUs. Thus, a major consideration is how they significant performance potential will be accessed. This talk will provide an overview of the CORAL RFP and a brief discussion of the planned systems. It will then detail how LLNL applications will evolve to use this and other future large-scale systems.
Dr. de Supinski is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Livermore Computing (LC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). In this role, he is responsible for formulating LLNL's large-scale computing strategy and overseeing its implementation. His position requires frequent interaction with high performance computing (HPC) leaders and he oversees several collaborations with the HPC industry as well as academia. Prior to becoming CTO, Dr. de Supinski led several research projects in LLNL's Center for Applied Scientific Computing. Most recently, he led the Exascale Computing Technologies (ExaCT) project and co-led the Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) program's Application Development Environment and Performance Team (ADEPT). ADEPT is responsible for the development environment, including compilers, tools and run time systems, on LLNL's large-scale systems. ExaCT explored several critical directions related to programming models, algorithms, performance, code correctness and resilience for future large scale systems. He continues his interests in these topics, particularly programming models, and serves as the Chair of the OpenMP Language Committee.
Dr. de Supinski earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 1998, and joined CASC the same year. In addition to his work with LLNL, he is also Professor of Exascale Computing at Queen's University of Belfast and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Among Dr. de Supinski’s awards are the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in 2005 and 2006, as well as an R&D 100 for his leadership of a team that developed a novel scalable debugging tool. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
Please contact the Department of Biomedical Informatics at (631) 444-8459 with any questions regarding this event.