NSF NCAR and CISL have a slate of activities planned for SC24 in Atlanta at the Georgia World Conference Center, November 17 to 22, 2024. You can find us in Booth #931, where we will feature presentations, opportunities to meet with CISL staff experts on a range of topics, and an in-booth reception.

SC24 Booth Schedule

Come join us in our booth Monday evening during the opening gala from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. On Tuesday from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., we’ll have a small in-booth reception with drinks and snacks. We’ll also have some cookies, popcorn, and drinks Wednesday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. for students and SC24 Family Day. Everyone is welcome!

In addition to these activities, we will also feature a series of presentations on activities at NSF NCAR and CISL, including our supercomputer, Derecho. CISL staff will also be on hand throughout the exhibition. 

Booth Presentations

Tuesday (Nov. 19)

• Michèle Weiland; "CONTINENTS: A Collaboration towards Net Zero Weather & Climate Simulations"; 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• TBD
• TBD

Wednesday (Nov. 20)

• Virginia Do; "SIParCS Internship Program and Student Opportunities"; 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Matt Rehme; "Art of HPC: Photorealistic Visualization of a Cloud Simulation"; 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• TBD

Thursday (Nov. 21)

• TBD
• TBD
• TBD

Ask An Expert

Tuesday (Nov. 19)

• Daniel Howard (performance profile, energy efficiency on GPUs); 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• Jian Sun (GPU computing); 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• TBD; 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
• Jenett Tillotson (HPC systems engineering); 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
• John Clyne (CISL research and development); 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• TBD; 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
• TBD; 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• TBD; 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Wednesday (Nov. 20)

• Jessica Wang (HPC training, education, and outreach); 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• TBD; 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• TBD; 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
• Jenett Tillotson (HPC systems engineering); 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
• John Clyne (CISL research and development); 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• Matt Rehme (data visualization); 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
• TBD; 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• TBD; 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Thursday (Nov. 21)

• Allison Baker (verification, compression, solvers); 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• TBD; 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• TBD; 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
• TBD; 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
• TBD; 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

SC24 Technical Program

You’ll also find NSF NCAR and CISL staff participating in the SC24 Technical Program. Look for us in the following sessions and activities.

Sunday (Nov. 17)

• Helen Kershaw will participate in the workshop, "Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2024)." 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in location B311.
• Jared Baker will deputy-chair the CUG-Xtreme session, details TBD.  
• Jenett Tillotson and Bodhi Rubinstein are participating in the Students@SC program, from Sunday, November 17 to Tuesday, November 19.
• Helen Kershaw is serving on the committee for the Tutorials program, from Sunday, November 17 to Monday, November 18.

Monday (Nov. 18)

• Allison H. Baker will participate in the presentation, "The Fused Multiply-Add and Global Atmospheric Models: A Distributional Investigation into a Surprising Correctness Scenario." 9:09 a.m. to 9:29 a.m. in location B315.
• Jared Baker will participate in a workshop, details TBD.
• Jenett Tillotson is serving as Chair Emeritus in the Student Cluster Competition, from Monday, November 18 to Wednesday, November 20, 2024. Opening ceremonies for the Student Cluster Competition will take place shortly after the SC24 opening Gala, which runs from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Monday, November 18.

Tuesday (Nov. 19)

• 

  Work by Matt Rehme, Hugh Morrison, and Kamal Kant Chandrakar, "Visualization of a CM1 Cloud Simulation," will be part of the Art of HPC Display, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., location B301.

• CISL will be participating in the SC24 Job Fair, recruiting CI professionals and students for internships and positions with NCAR, 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
• Allison H. Baker will participate in the presentation, "Boosting Earth System Model Outputs and Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators." 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in location B312-B313A. 
  • This work has been selected as a finalist for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling, which will be presented at the SC24 conference. 
• Daniel Howard will lead the "OpenACC Users Forum" session. 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. in location B207. (See more detailed description here.)
• Emma Shaub is participating in the SC Papers program, taking place from Tuesday, November 19 to Thursday, November 21, as a committee member in the SIGHPC SysPro conference paper selection process.
• Helen Kershaw, Anh Pham, and Suman Shekhar are participating in the poster presentation occurring from Tuesday, November 19, to Thursday, November 21. Authors: Anh Pham, Suman Shekhar, Helen Kershaw, Dan Amrhein, Ufuk Turuncoglu. post263: DART-X: Software Infrastructure for Prototyping in-memory Data Transfer between Ensemble Data Assimilation and Coupled Earth Systems Models.

Wednesday (Nov. 20)

• TBD

Thursday (Nov. 21)

• TBD

Friday (Nov. 22)

• Jared Baker will chair the session, "HPC Systems Professionals Workshop (HPCSYSPROS24)." 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in location B312-B313A.
• Aric Werner will present the presentation, "Increasing Effective Storage Capacity with Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) for NCAR’s Campaign Storage." Ben Kirk and Joseph Mendoza will also be participating in the presentation. 10:50 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in location B312-B313A.