The Okeanos supercomputer – a Cray XC40 large-scale computing system. Photo courtesy of ICM

Warsaw, Poland – March 09, 2018

About Supercomputing Frontiers

Supercomputing Frontiers is an annual international conference that provides a platform for thought leaders from both academia and industry to interact and discuss visionary ideas, important visionary trends and substantial innovations in supercomputing.
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The first three editions of the conference were organised in Singapore by A*STAR Computational Resource Centre and National Supercomputing Centre Singapore.

Dr. Marek Michalewicz is ICM’s Deputy Director responsible for computational infrastructure. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer heading Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Computational Resource Centre in Singapore. Photo courtesy of ICM

Previous editions of the conference showcased a successful scientific programme with eminent plenary keynote speakers such as Thomas Sterling, Satoshi Matsuoka, Robert Harrison, Rick Stevens, Jack Dongarra, Alan Gara, John Gustafson, Srinivas Aluru, Baroness Susan Greenfield, Horst Simon, Bronis R. De Supinski, Gordon Bell, Alessandro Curioni, Thom H. Dunning Jr. and Haohuan Fu.

Selected papers from the conference were published in the international journal Supercomputing Frontiers & Innovations in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Please follow the links below if you wish to explore the research programme of previous conferences:

• http://supercomputingfrontiers.com/2015/ 

• http://supercomputingfrontiers.com/2016/ 

• http://supercomputingfrontiers.com/2017/ 


The fourth edition of Supercomputing Frontiers will be held from March 12 – 15, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland and will feature an exciting lineup of speakers.

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The programme will include sessions on:

• Supercomputing applications in domains of critical impact in scientific, economic and human terms, and especially those requiring computing resources approaching Exascale

• Cryptography and HPC: classical, quantum and post-quantum

• Big data science merging with supercomputing with associated issues of I/O, high bandwidth networking, storage, workflows, real time processing, graph methods

• Architectural complexity of Exascale systems with special focus on new and special purpose processor architectures, supercomputing interconnects, interconnect topologies and routing

• Cosmology, Astrophysics – Big Data and Big Iron

• Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics and Connectomics

• Any other topic that pushes the boundaries of supercomputing to exascale and beyond.

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Conference Programme

https://supercomputingfrontiers.eu/2018/conference-programme/  

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About Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computer Modeling (ICM)

Established by a resolution of the Senate of the University of Warsaw dated 29 June 1993, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computer Modeling (ICM), University of Warsaw, is one of the top HPC centres in Poland.

http://icm.edu.pl/en/  

ICM is engaged in serving the needs of a large community of computational researchers in Poland through provision of HPC and grid resources, storage, networking and expertise.

Big Data Analysis Centre Constructed in 2015, ICM Technology Centre, helps fulfill our mission: to understand data and provide innovative solutions within the areas of science, economy and management. Our cutting-edge data centre provides for optimal utilization of existing infrastructure with room for future expansion. Photo courtesy of ICM

It has always been an active research centre with high quality research contributions in computer and computational science, computational weather prediction, visualisation, materials engineering, digital repositories, social network analysis and other areas.

http://icm.edu.pl/en/about-icm/organization/laboratory-of-visual-analysis-vislab/  

ICM’s Laboratory of Visual Analysis has been successfully developing and using in-house visualisation software (VisNow) for over 20 years.

https://gitlab.com/ICM-VisLab  

Their expertise covers scientific visualisation, visual analysis, computer assisted medicine and other competence areas.

Modern e-infrastructure We fulfill our mission through experience and technology. Photo courtesy of ICM

Since 1997, numerical weather prediction is the main objective of ICM’s Natural Environment Modeling Laboratory.

http://icm.edu.pl/en/about-icm/organization/natural-environment-modeling-laboratory/  

Their numerical weather forecast for Central Europe has over 200 million visitors every year, making it one of the most popular weather services in Poland.

http://www.meteo.pl/  

All of these (and other competence areas) are supported by ICM’s state-of-the-art IT infrastructure.

http://icm.edu.pl/en/centre-of-technology/  

At the beginning of July 2016, ICM made available to researchers the Okeanos supercomputer — a large-scale Cray XC40 processing system.

http://kdm.icm.edu.pl/kdm/Okeanos/en  

The Okeanos supercomputer – a Cray XC40 large-scale computing system. Leaders in data science. ICM is a leading centre for data science in Central Europe. Photo courtesy of ICM

Okeanos and other HPC machines at ICM serve approximately 500 active users from about 100 different research centres.

http://kdm.icm.edu.pl/kdm/Komputery/en  

Their work makes up three hundred registered active computational grants, resulting in about 250 publications per year.

Our mission: to understand data. We extract the most valuable information from data sets. Photo courtesy of ICM

Scientific Programme Committee

Programme Chair

Marek T. MICHALEWICZ
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (ICM), Poland

Marek T. Michalewicz, Programme Chair Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (ICM), Poland. Photo courtesy of ICM

Committee Members

George BECKETT
EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK

Pete BECKMAN
Argonne National Laboratory / University of Chicago, USA

Taisuke BOKU
University of Tsukuba, Japan

Lindsay BOTTEN
Australian National University, Australia

Alessandro CURIONI
Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

Maciej CYTOWSKI
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia

Bronis DE SUPINSKI
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Yuefan DENG
Stony Brook University, USA

Jack DONGARRA
University of Tennessee, USA

Thomas Harold Jr DUNNING
University of Illinois, USA

John FEO
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

John GUSTAFSON
A*STAR and National University of Singapore, Singapore

Robert HARRISON
IACS, Stony Brook University, USA

William HARROD
Advanced Scientific Computing Research, USA

Wojciech HELLWING
Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

David KAHANER
Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP), USA

Daniel S. KATZ
NCSA, University of Illinois, USA

Scott KLASKY
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Patricia KOVATCH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Michael KRAJECKI
CReSTIC, Université de Reims Champagne–Ardenne, France

Henryk KRAWCZYK
Centrum Informatyczne Trójmiejskiej Akademickiej Sieci Komputerowej, Poland

Julian KUNKEL
Universität Hamburg, Germany

Krzysztof KUROWSKI
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

Jysoo LEE
KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab, Saudi Arabia

Madhav MARATHE
Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, USA

Satoshi MATSUOKA
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Richard MURPHY
Micron, USA

Marek NIEZGÓDKA
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (ICM), Poland

Gabriel NOAJE
NVIDIA Corporation, Singapore

Jacek OKO
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

Witold RUDNICKI
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (ICM), Poland

Sven-Bodo SCHOLZ
Heriot–Watt University, UK

Thomas SCHULTHESS
ETH Zurich / CSCS, Switzerland

John SHALF
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Horst SIMON
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Happy SITHOLE
Centre for High Performance Computing, South Africa

Thomas STERLING
Indiana University, USA

Rick STEVENS
Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Maciej STROIŃSKI
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

John A. TAYLOR
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia

Vladimir VOEVODIN
Research Computing Centre, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Kazimierz WIATR
Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Polska

Roman WYRZYKOWSKI
Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland

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Source: Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2018

https://supercomputingfrontiers.eu/2018/  



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