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Monday, 6 September 2021

Session Chairs: Vincent Etienne (Saudi Aramco) & Fabrice Dupros (Arm)

TimePresentation
14:00Welcome Address from Co-Chairs Amik St-Cyr (Shell) & Vincent Etienne (Saudi Aramco)

14:10

Keynote: Processing and imaging - flops, bandwidth and new tech

    Dr. Stuart Midgley (DUG)

14:50HP01 | Leveraging GPUs for matrix-free optimization with PyLops
M. Ravasi* (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
15:20HP02 | 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)
15:50Break
16:00Keynote: Attacking Energy Challenges with AI
 
Marc Hamilton (NVIDIA)
16:40HP03 | Hybridized discretizations for seismic wave simulations
L. Gao* (UT Austin), D. Keyes (KAUST)
17:10HP04 | Toward High Performance Asynchronous RTM with Temporal Blocking and Buffered I/O
L. Qu (KAUST)*, H. Ltaief (KAUST), D. Keyes (KAUST)
17:40Break

17:50

Panel Discussion on Accelerated Computing

Moderator: Andrew Jones (Microsoft)
18:50Virtual Coffee & Open Discussion Session
19:20End of Day 1

Tuesday, 7 September 2021

Session Chairs: Gaël Youinou (CGG) & Jonathan Philips (ExxonMobil)

TimePresentation
14:00Introduction to Day 2
14:05Keynote: The modernization of HPC applications for the cloud era
 Marco Aldinucci (University of Torino)
14:45HP05 | 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)
15:15HP06 | HPC workload management for full resource utilization
N. Bienati (Eni)*, L. Bortot (Eni), C. Fortini (Eni), J. Panizzardi (Eni)
15:45HP07 | 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.)
16:15Break
16:25Keynote
 Jean-Marc Denis (Atos/Bull & European Processor Initiative (EPI))
17:05HP08 | 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)
17:35HP09 | GEOSX: a multiphysics, multiscale, reservoir simulator for HPC
H. Gross (Total EP Research & Technology USA, LLC)*
18:05Break

Lightning Talks

18:15LT01 | Performance Evaluation of Stencil Calculation in RTM Code
S. Momose (NEC Corporation), Y. Kubo (NEC Corporation)*, M. Ikuta (NEC Corporation)
18:25LT02 | Nonlinear Preconditioning for Two-phase Flows
L. Luo (KAUST)*, X. Cai (University of Macau), D. Keyes (KAUST)
18:35LT03 | 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)
18:45LT04 | Toward an application of quantum computing in geophysics
M. Dukalski (Aramco Overseas Company B.V.)*
18:55LT05 | 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.)
19:05LT06 | Optimizing HPC Parameters for Reverse Time Migration
R. Sampath (Exxonmobil Technical Computing Company)*
19:15Virtual Coffee & Open Discussion Session
19:45End of Day 2

Wednesday, 8 September 2021

Session Chairs: Saber Feki (KAUST) & Philippe Thierry (Intel Corporation)

TimePresentation
14:00Introduction to Day 3
14:05Keynote: Energy Transition and the Exascale Era
 Sharda Krishna (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
14:45HP10 | 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)
15:15HP11 | 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.)
15:45HP12 | GPUFORT: A source-to-source translator for Fortran accelerator dialects
D.e. Charrier* (Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)), M. Sabony (Advanced Micro Devices (AMD))
16:15Break
16:25Keynote: Extremely Heterogeneous HPC: Coming, Ready or Not
Barbara Chapman (Stony Brook University)
17:05HP13 | 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)
17:35HP14 | 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)
18:05Break
18:15

Panel Discussion on Cloud

Moderator: Suha Kayum (Saudi Aramco)
19:15Virtual Coffee & Open Discussion
19:45Closing Remarks & End of Workshop