An SC19 workshop


In collaboration with IEEE DFSTC and TCHCP


PANEL INFORMATION


PANEL TITLE
End-to-End Co-Design - Emerging Parallel and Distributed Runtime Systems and Middleware for Extreme-Scale Systems

PROGRAM

Presentation
Time and date: Friday, 22 November 20198:30am - 12pm
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
Room 503-504
Session Chair: EJ Park and Jose M Monsalve Diaz

PANELIST DETAILS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

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CJ Newburn NVIDIA
Erik Altman IBM slides
Jai Dayal Intel slides
Larry Larry Kaplan Cray

ABSTRACT
Emerging trend of extreme-scale system design are rapidly increasing in capacity, scalability and and complexity. This comes with enormous opportunities of heterogeneous and massive parallelism with multi-level, multi-grain, multi-paradigm of concurrency (so called 3 Ms) . However,designers of runtime systems and middleware must meet unprecedented challenges (so-called 3 Ps): performance, programmability and productivity.
We have witnessed the community effort in exploring a viable path forward for the co-design of future HPC systems, particularly when we are entering the Golden Age of computer architecture innovation of the post-Moore’s Law era, while facing the demands of future AI applications (so-called AGIs: Artificial General Intelligence). This panel provides a forum to discuss the (3-P) challenges and (3-M) opportunities.

QUESTIONS TO PANELISTS
Question 1: We have witnessed increasing optimism that the demands of future Artificial Intelligence (also lately referred to by some as AGIs: Artificial General Intelligence; or Nature Intelligence as called by von Neumann and colleagues at his time) may be realized by the opportunity of massive parallelism (3-Ms) in the Golden Age of computer architecture.
Please comment and name a couple of your favorite AI chips projects.

Question 2: However, there has been wide-spread pessimism that the last 2-Ps (Programmability and Productivity) are the killing challenges HPC runtime systems/middleware community may fail to address – if the computer architecture community (in the golden-age) take a radical departure from the John Von Neumann’s program execution and architecture model.
Please comment.

Question 3: Your vision of end-to-end code design as a path forward to follow up your answers to Q1 and Q2 ?

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