Technical Programme
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All times are in CEST (Central European Summer Time)
Monday, 6 September 2021
Session Chairs: Vincent Etienne (Saudi Aramco) & Fabrice Dupros (Arm)
| Time | Presentation |
| 14:00 | Welcome Address from Co-Chairs Amik St-Cyr (Shell) & Vincent Etienne (Saudi Aramco) |
14:10 | Keynote: Processing and imaging - flops, bandwidth and new tech
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| 14:50 | HP01 | Leveraging GPUs for matrix-free optimization with PyLops M. Ravasi* (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) |
| 15:20 | HP02 | Up-to-date assessment of 3D frequency-domain full waveform inversion based on the sparse multifrontal solver MUMPS P. Amestoy* (MUMPS Technologies, ENS Lyon), L. Combe (UCA - CNRS - GeoAzur), M. Gerest (EDF), J.-Y. L'Excellent (MUMPS Technologies, ENS Lyon), T. Mary (Sorbonne University CNRS-LIP6), S. Operto (UCA - CNRS - GeoAzur), C. Puglisi (MUMPS Technologies, ENS Lyon) |
| 15:50 | Break |
| 16:00 | Keynote: Attacking Energy Challenges with AI |
| 16:40 | HP03 | Hybridized discretizations for seismic wave simulations L. Gao* (UT Austin), D. Keyes (KAUST) |
| 17:10 | HP04 | Toward High Performance Asynchronous RTM with Temporal Blocking and Buffered I/O L. Qu (KAUST)*, H. Ltaief (KAUST), D. Keyes (KAUST) |
| 17:40 | Break |
17:50 | Panel Discussion on Accelerated Computing Moderator: Andrew Jones (Microsoft) |
| 18:50 | Virtual Coffee & Open Discussion Session |
| 19:20 | End of Day 1 |
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Session Chairs: Gaël Youinou (CGG) & Jonathan Philips (ExxonMobil)
| Time | Presentation |
| 14:00 | Introduction to Day 2 |
| 14:05 | Keynote: The modernization of HPC applications for the cloud era |
| 14:45 | HP05 | HPC in The Cloud MVP J. Pontvianne (Total SE)*, D. Klahr (Total EP Research & Technology USA, LLC), D. Cooper (Total EP Research & Technology USA, LLC) |
| 15:15 | HP06 | HPC workload management for full resource utilization N. Bienati (Eni)*, L. Bortot (Eni), C. Fortini (Eni), J. Panizzardi (Eni) |
| 15:45 | HP07 | Leveraging DAOS file system for seismic data storage M. Moawad (Brightskies Inc.)*, A. Nasr (Brightskies Inc.), O. Marzouk (Brightskies Inc.), K. ElAmrawi (Brightskies Inc.), P. Thierry (Intel Corp.), J. Lombardi (Intel Corp.), M. Chaarawi (Intel Corp.) |
| 16:15 | Break |
| 16:25 | Keynote |
| 17:05 | HP08 | Cloud Elasticity Combined with Innovative Assisted History Match Accelerates Reservoir Risk Assessment C. Cosson (Emerson Automation Solutions)*, T. Taha (Emerson Automation Solutions), P. Ward (Emerson Automation Solutions), S. Tadepalli (AWS), D. Tishechkin (AWS) |
| 17:35 | HP09 | GEOSX: a multiphysics, multiscale, reservoir simulator for HPC H. Gross (Total EP Research & Technology USA, LLC)* |
| 18:05 | Break |
Lightning Talks | |
| 18:15 | LT01 | Performance Evaluation of Stencil Calculation in RTM Code S. Momose (NEC Corporation), Y. Kubo (NEC Corporation)*, M. Ikuta (NEC Corporation) |
| 18:25 | LT02 | Nonlinear Preconditioning for Two-phase Flows L. Luo (KAUST)*, X. Cai (University of Macau), D. Keyes (KAUST) |
| 18:35 | LT03 | Improving GPU throughput of reservoir simulations using NVIDIA MPS and MIG
R. Gandham (Stone Ridge Technology)*, Y. Zhang (Stone Ridge Technology), K. Esler (Stone Ridge Technology), V. Natoli (Stone Ridge Technology) |
| 18:45 | LT04 | Toward an application of quantum computing in geophysics M. Dukalski (Aramco Overseas Company B.V.)* |
| 18:55 | LT05 | MPI + DPCPP for scalable and portable RTM A. Ayyad (Brightskies Inc.)*, A. Nasr (Brightskies Inc.), E. Nasr (Brightskies Inc.), I. Monir (Brightskies Inc.), M. Samier (Brightskies Inc.), M. El-Sherbiny (Brightskies Inc.), Z. Osama (Brightskies Inc.), P. Thierry (Intel Corp.), S. Gogar (Intel Corp.), C. Andreolli (Intel Corp.) |
| 19:05 | LT06 | Optimizing HPC Parameters for Reverse Time Migration R. Sampath (Exxonmobil Technical Computing Company)* |
| 19:15 | Virtual Coffee & Open Discussion Session |
| 19:45 | End of Day 2 |
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Session Chairs: Saber Feki (KAUST) & Philippe Thierry (Intel Corporation)
| Time | Presentation |
| 14:00 | Introduction to Day 3 |
| 14:05 | Keynote: Energy Transition and the Exascale Era |
| 14:45 | HP10 | GPU accelerated FWI using the Open Concurrent Computing Abstraction (OCCA) A. St-Cyr (Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd)*, S. Reker (Shell Global Solutions International B.V.), S. Frijters (VORtech B.V.), S. Chawdhar (Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd), A. Panda (Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd), S. Banerjee (Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd), H. Knibbe (EZ Numeric), M. Muruganantham (Calligo Technologies Pvt Ltd) |
| 15:15 | HP11 | Opensource RTM using DPC++ programming model A. Ayyad (Brightskies Inc.), A. Nasr (Brightskies Inc.), E. Nasr (Brightskies Inc.)*, I. Mounir (Brightskies Inc.), O. El-Maihy (Brightskies Inc.), M. Samier (Brightskies Inc.), M. El-Sherbiny (Brightskies Inc.), Z. Osama (Brightskies Inc.), K. Elamrawi (Brightskies Inc.), S. Gogar (Intel Corp.), P. Thierry (Intel Corp.) |
| 15:45 | HP12 | GPUFORT: A source-to-source translator for Fortran accelerator dialects D.e. Charrier* (Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)), M. Sabony (Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)) |
| 16:15 | Break |
| 16:25 | Keynote: Extremely Heterogeneous HPC: Coming, Ready or Not |
| 17:05 | HP13 | Application of the vectorization library NSIMD to the EFISPEC3D kernel G. Quintin (Agenium Scale)*, S. Jubertie (University of Orléans), F. De Martin (French geological survey), K. Péou (Agenium Scale) |
| 17:35 | HP14 | Performance Characterization of a Vector Architecture for Seismic Applications V. Etienne (Saudi Aramco, EXPEC ARC)*, A. Momin (Saudi Aramco, EXPEC ARC), L. Gatineau<2>, S. Momose (NEC Deutschland GmbH) |
| 18:05 | Break |
| 18:15 | Panel Discussion on Cloud Moderator: Suha Kayum (Saudi Aramco) |
| 19:15 | Virtual Coffee & Open Discussion |
| 19:45 | Closing Remarks & End of Workshop |