Schedule for October 14, 2022

Time Activity Presenter Slides
8:30–9:30am Registration and Breakfast    
9:30–9:45am Introductory Remarks    
  LLE Welcome Valeri Goncharov, LLE  
  Workshop Overview and Goals William Scullin and Sreepathi Pai  
9:45–10:30am Invited talk    
  DNA Computing and Storage David Turek, CATALOG Whitepaper
10:30–10:45am Break    
10:45–12:30pm Research talks    
  Data-Driven Optimization of Nuclear Fusion Experiments Varchas Gopalaswamy, LLE, U. Rochester  
  Setting up Spack in your home directory as an alternative to Conda Sidney Pendelberry, RC, RIT  
  Advancing HPC and ML Systems via Efficient Data Management Dingwen Tao, ISE, IU  
  How to Choose an Algorithm Matt Knepley, CS, Buffalo  
  Accelerating Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory Molecular Dynamics Simulations Relevant to Inertial Confinement Fusion with GPUs Deyan Mihaylov, LLE, U. Rochester  
12:30–1:30pm Lunch    
1:30–3:00pm Poster Session    
  Supporting Interactivity in High Performance Computing Louis Jenkins, CS, U. Rochester  
  Portability Autotuning of Linear Algebra Kernels on GPUs Robert Hochgraf, CS, RIT  
  Queueing Model of Shared Atomics on NVIDIA Volta GPU Rongcui Dong, CS, U. Rochester  
  Exploring novel electromagnetic algorithms for efficient PIC simulationsExploring novel electromagnetic algorithms for efficient PIC simulations Andrew Sexton, ME, U. Rochester  
  Software Architecture Design for Modular Multiphysics Simulations Ayden Kish, ME, U. Rochester  
  TriForce: Projects, Progress, and Plans Adam Sefkow, ME, U. Rochester  
  Towards Deep Learning Based Predictive Models for Laser Direct Drive on the Omega Laser Facility Rahman Ejaz, ME, U. Rochester  
3:00–4:30pm Tour of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics    
4:30–5:00pm Roundtable and Concluding Remarks    

Keynote

DNA Computing and Storage, David Turek from CATALOG

Dave Turek is CTO at CATALOG, a Boston-based start up building the world’s first DNA-based computing platform. Prior to CATALOG, he was the executive responsible for IBM’s Supercomputer Business which produced notable platforms such as Blue Gene, Roadrunner, the SP system and others. He has been an advisor to governments around the world on HPC strategy and policy including several presentations to Congressional committees. He is also an alum of the University of Rochester