Yutaka Ishikawa (RIKEN-CCS/AIST) - System Software for Armv8-A with SVE
System Software for Armv8-A with SVE
Dr. Yutaka Ishikawa is the leader of Post-K computer development project, that deploys the next Japanese flagship supercomputer, at Riken Center for Computational Science, Japan. Ishikawa received PhDdegree in electrical engineering from Keio University. From 1987 to 2001, he was a member of AIST (former Electrotechnical Laboratory). From 1993 to 2001, he was the chief of Parallel and Distributed System Software Laboratory at Real World Computing Partnership. He led development of cluster system software called SCore, which was used in several large PC cluster systems around 2004. From 2002 to 2006 and from 2006 to 2014, he was an associate professor and a professor at the University Tokyo, respectively. From 2006 to 2008, he was a project co-leader to design a commodity-based supercomputer called T2K open supercomputer. As a result, three universities, Tsukuba, Tokyo, and Kyoto, obtained each supercomputer based on the specification. From 2010 to 2014, he was also the director of Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo. He led the design and implementation of HPCI, High Performance Computing Infrastructure in Japan, from 2010 to 2012.
Mohamed Wahib (RIKEN-CCS/AIST) - Deep Learning Frameworks Portability Survey: Post-K perspective
Deep Learning Frameworks Portability Survey: Post-K perspective
Mohamed Wahib is currently a senior scientist at AIST/TokyoTech Open Innovation Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan. Prior to that he worked as a researcher in RIKEN Center for Computational Science (RIKEN-CCS). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2012 from Hokkaido University, Japan. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked as a researcher at Texas Instruments (TI) R&D labs in Dallas, TX for four years. His research interests revolve around the central topic of ""Performance-centric Software Development”, in the context of HPC. He is actively working on several projects including high-level frameworks for programming traditional scientific applications, as well as high-performance AI and data analytics.
Francesco Petrogalli (Arm) - Arm SVE and ML Acceleration
Arm SVE and ML Acceleration
Francesco Petrogalli is a software engineer working on the development of Arm Compiler for HPC. He contributed to the implementation of the Vector Length Agnostic (VLA) vectorizer for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) of Arm, to ABI specifications for the vector functions, and to the open source library SLEEF. Francesco has also worked on optimizing a variety of computational kernels that are core to Machine Learning algorithms.
Shinji Sumimoto (Fujitsu) - The First SVE Enabled Arm Processor: A64FX and Building up Arm HPC Ecosystem
The First SVE Enabled Arm Processor: A64FX and Building up Arm HPC Ecosystem
Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu, Senior Architect of Software Development division. He is in charge of technical development for Post-K computer, and is an HPC System SW Specialist, especially ultra large scale high performance communication library and cluster filesystem research and development for over 20 years. He is also working on ARM HPC ecosystem development.
Key Liao (Shanghai JiaoTong University) - Benchmarking Huawei ARM Multi-Core Processors for HPC workloads
Benchmarking Huawei ARM Multi-Core Processors for HPC workloads
Mr. Key Liao is now an engineer in the Center for HPC(CHPC), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He received his B.S. degree from School of Environment Science and Engineering of SJTU in 2017. In 2015, he joined student HPC competition team lead by CHPC of SJTU and became the captain in the next year. In 2016, he got 2nd place in ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge and 3rd place in ISC Student Cluster Competition for SJTU. He's now an engineer and researcher working in Dr. James Lin's lab. His research focuses on computer architecture, performance evaluation and modeling onmany-core processors, and parallel computing. He is now the leader of ARM HPC research team and the supervisor of student HPC competition team.
Teppei Ono (HPC System Inc.) - Science Cloud services for Computational Chemistry with Arm HPC
Science Cloud services for Computational Chemistry with Arm HPC
BSBA from Northeastern University MA, USA. In 2004, founded Industrial computer and High-end server development and small-medium manufacturing service company in Taiwan. Experienced developing low power microblade server with Transmeta Efficeon processor for Japanese Tier-One IT company, as well as developed Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workstation and high-end server with AMD Opteron processor for semiconductor companies. Since 2007, became President & CEO at HPC Systems Inc., customer-oriented HPC Solution Company providing hardware and simulation software, system integration service, cloud service for High Performance Computing, AI/Deep Learning, and Computational Chemistry consulting services for technology and manufacturing companies in Life Science and Materials Science.
Renato Golin (Linaro) - HPC Cluster and CI
HPC Cluster and CI
Renato is the Tech-Lead for the HPC-SIG at Linaro, working with vendors and users to foster the open source ecosystem on Arm hardware. As a toolchain engineer for the past 10 years, he has previously worked as LLVM Team-Lead at Linaro, on HPC compilers for HPCC, embedded compilers and debuggers for Arm. Before that, he worked with bioinformatics, web infrastructure and some consultancy, adding up another 10 years.
Xiaohu Guo (UK STFC Hartree Centre) - Multi-scale Application Software Development Ecosystem on ARM
Multi-scale Application Software Development Ecosystem on ARM
Dr. Xiaohu Guo, Ph.D in parallel computing. He is currently a principle computational scientist at STFC Hartree Centre(UK National HPC Centre), leading in the development of computational methods using particle method based and unstructured mesh based computation for a range of application fields including CFD, Materials Science and Medical image processing and reconstruction. His work has provided enabling technologies for a wide range of engineering and science applications spanning the brief of the UK STFC, EPSRC and NERC research councils. One of Guo’s research commitments at the moment is to address the common computational challenges for large scale particle method based application simulations and unstructured mesh based applications with novel computing technologies. Dr. Guo is the leading developer of several software packages which has wide applications in the area of nuclear thermal hydraulics, offshore and marine energy industries, offshore oil and gas industries and coastal engineering. Dr. Guo is also member of SC/ISC technical program committee, Specialist Editor in HPC, Grid and Novel Computing, Computer Physics Communications and visiting Professor of Harbin Engineering University.
Pak Lui (Huawei) - Transforming HPC with Huawei ARM HPC Solution
Transforming HPC with Huawei ARM HPC Solution
Pak works as a Principal Architect at Silicon Valley Computing Lab at Futurewei Technologies, the Huawei Technologies R&D center in the USA. He is served in the HPC Advisory Council HPC|Works Special Interest Group Co-Chair and Student Cluster Competition Manager for the HPC Advisory Council. He has been involved in demonstrating application performance on various open source and commercial applications. His main responsibilities involve characterizing HPC workloads, analyzing MPI profiles to optimize on the HPC applications, as well as exploring new technologies, solutions and their effectiveness on real HPC workloads. Previously Pak worked as a Senior Manager at Mellanox Technologies in Silicon Valley where his main focus is to optimize HPC applications on products, explore new technologies and solutions and their effect on real workloads. Pak has been working in the HPC industry for over 17 years. Pak worked as a Cluster Engineer at Penguin Computing, responsible for building and testing HPC cluster configurations from different OEMs hardware and ISVs software. Pak also worked at Sun Microsystems for over 7 years in Sun’s High Performance Computing (HPC) group, he worked as a Software Engineer on Sun’s own MPI implementation (Sun HPC ClusterTools) as well as Open MPI, and contributed code and performed scalability analysis with MPI applications on large clusters and SMPsPak holds a B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Boston University in the USA. Pak also helped organizing the last Linaro Arm Architecture HPC Workshop in Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) in July last year.
Mr Guo Yu Feng (Phytium) - The New Generation of Phytium‘s 64Cores Processor and Ecosystem
The New Generation of Phytium‘s 64Cores Processor and Ecosystem
Guo Yufeng, deputy general manager of Tianjin Phytium Information Technology Co., Ltd., Ph.D. He has been engaged in research and development of high-performance computers and microprocessor chips for a long time, and has hosted many developments of Phytium CPU chips.
Dong Wei (Arm) - Arm Neoverse
Arm Neoverse
Dong Wei is a senior director and lead architect, distinguished engineer at Arm. He is responsible for the ServerReady certification program and the related SBSA, SBBR, EBBR and SBMG standards. He is the Vice President (Chief Executive) of the UEFI Forum, co-chair its ACPI Spec Working Group and chair its UEFI Test Working Group. He chairs the PCI Firmware Working Group at the PCI SIG. He is also the vice-chair of the Software Working Group at the CCIX Consortium. He represents Arm at DMTF and OCP. Before joining Arm in 2016, he was a VP and Fellow at HP responsible for the system architecture definitions for PA-RISC, Itanium, x86, and RISC-V systems, and cofounded the UEFI technology with Intel.
Jammy Zhou (Linaro) - End to End Deep Learning Solution on Arm
End to End Deep Learning Solution on Arm
Jammy Zhou is the Solution Director of Linaro China, driving the technical collaborations with regional members in various areas including Arm servers, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and etc. Before that, he worked in AMD as the leading architect of AMDGPU-Pro Linux graphics driver stack, and contributed a lot of patches to the upstream. He also worked at Freescale for some time, and had rich experience on Linux/Android BSPs for Arm embedded platforms.
Akira Hoshino (Gigabyte) - GIGABYTE Position in ARM Server Market - Leading Pioneer
GIGABYTE Position in ARM Server Market - Leading Pioneer
Akira Hoshino is the Product Strategy & Planning Head of GIGABYTE’s NCBU (Network & Communications Business Unit), with responsibility for the planning and roadmap of GIGABYTE’s worldwide server products, leading the company’s development of ARM server products, and managing business with selected ARM processor vendors.
Fu Li (Quantum Cloud) - Scale-out AI Training on Massive Core System: from HPC to Fabric-based SOC
Scale-out AI Training on Massive Core System: from HPC to Fabric-based SOC
Dr. Fu Li is the founder and CEO of Quantum Cloud Future (Beijing) Technologies Co., Ltd., which aimed to the cutting-edge application-centric hyper-converged computing and storage products for media, AI, and blockchain industries. Dr. Fu Li is also the founder and CEO of Lumi Media Limited and Quantum Cloud Inc. He has garnered a wealth of experience across a range of quantum statistics, molecular simulation and future network. Dr. Fu Li is often recognized for his vast contributions to cloud computing and media application industries, he has become vice-minister of China Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and Industry professor of School of Digital Media of Jiangnan University, as well as the innovative and entrepreneurial talent of Jiangsu province.
Elsie Wahlig (Linaro) - Frontiers of AI deployments in HPC on Arm
Frontiers of AI deployments in HPC on Arm
Elsie Wahlig is a Senior Director of HPC and Data Sciences at Linaro. Prior to joining, Elsie has been in high-tech field working at semiconductor companies for 22 years. She's been building the Arm server market since 2011 at Qualcomm and Samsung with roles spanning both engineering and product management. Before embracing Arm Servers, she worked at AMD contributing to development of software and architectural extensions of the AMD microprocessor.
Open Source HPC Collaboration on Arm Architecture Linaro workshop
Monday 14th January 2019 - GuangzhouIn January 2019, Linaro hosted an Open Source HPC Collaboration on Arm Architecture workshop, which was co-located with HPC Asia 2019 - the International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia Pacific Region. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together the leading Arm vendors, end users and open source development community to discuss the latest products, developments and open source software support in HPC on Arm. Key topics included:
- HPC and AI convergence and how it is accelerating AI/deep learning to a new level
- Data Science and its significance for efficiently transferring big data to AI engine
- Heterogeneous computing - Why HPC on Arm provides the perfect platform to develop differentiated features
To watch videos or download presentation slides from the workshop, click here. To read more about the speakers click here.
This is the third HPC Workshop Linaro has hosted, you can view resources from our two previous workshops here: Tokyo 2017 and Santa Clara 2018.
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Dr. Yutaka Ishikawa is the leader of Post-K computer development project, that deploys the next Japanese flagship supercomputer, at Riken Center for Computational Science, Japan. Ishikawa received PhDdegree in electrical...

Mohamed Wahib is currently a senior scientist at AIST/TokyoTech Open Innovation Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan. Prior to that he worked as a researcher in RIKEN Center for Computational Science (RIKEN-CCS). He...

Francesco Petrogalli is a software engineer working on the development of Arm Compiler for HPC. He contributed to the implementation of the Vector Length Agnostic (VLA) vectorizer for the Scalable...

Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu, Senior Architect of Software Development division. He is in charge of technical development for Post-K computer, and is an HPC System SW Specialist, especially ultra large scale...

Mr. Key Liao is now an engineer in the Center for HPC(CHPC), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He received his B.S. degree from School of Environment Science and Engineering of...

BSBA from Northeastern University MA, USA. In 2004, founded Industrial computer and High-end server development and small-medium manufacturing service company in Taiwan. Experienced developing low power microblade server with Transmeta...

Renato is the Tech-Lead for the HPC-SIG at Linaro, working with vendors and users to foster the open source ecosystem on Arm hardware. As a toolchain engineer for the past...

Dr. Xiaohu Guo, Ph.D in parallel computing. He is currently a principle computational scientist at STFC Hartree Centre(UK National HPC Centre), leading in the development of computational methods using particle...

Pak works as a Principal Architect at Silicon Valley Computing Lab at Futurewei Technologies, the Huawei Technologies R&D center in the USA. He is served in the HPC Advisory Council...
Guo Yufeng, deputy general manager of Tianjin Phytium Information Technology Co., Ltd., Ph.D. He has been engaged in research and development of high-performance computers and microprocessor chips for a long...
Dong Wei is a senior director and lead architect, distinguished engineer at Arm. He is responsible for the ServerReady certification program and the related SBSA, SBBR, EBBR and SBMG standards....

Jammy Zhou is the Solution Director of Linaro China, driving the technical collaborations with regional members in various areas including Arm servers, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and etc. Before that, he...

Akira Hoshino is the Product Strategy & Planning Head of GIGABYTE’s NCBU (Network & Communications Business Unit), with responsibility for the planning and roadmap of GIGABYTE’s worldwide server products, leading...

Dr. Fu Li is the founder and CEO of Quantum Cloud Future (Beijing) Technologies Co., Ltd., which aimed to the cutting-edge application-centric hyper-converged computing and storage products for media, AI,...

Elsie Wahlig is a Senior Director of HPC and Data Sciences at Linaro. Prior to joining, Elsie has been in high-tech field working at semiconductor companies for 22 years. She's...