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NCSA at SC24 Technical Program

NCSA to Participate in SC24

Every day for more than 35 years, NCSA has partnered with visionaries to find answers to problems across a wide variety of disciplines. Our advanced digital resources, software and
visualization capabilities combined with our world-class staff, push research into areas previously thought to be unimaginable, putting answers within reach.

Join us at SC24 November 17–22 in-person or virtually.

NCSA features ways to find answers that are more than you imagine.

We’ll be on the exhibit floor.

Stop by booth #1021 and say hi if you’re in Atlanta!

Explore exciting career opportunities at NCSA.

Talk to our team and subject matter experts at the SC24 Job Fair. Learn how you can help us impact more than ever.

Our expert staff are an integral part of the program.

Check out our staff’s technical program participation below and don’t miss your opportunity to learn more than the basics from them.

You still have time to register to attend SC24, either in-person or virtually!


SUNDAY, November 17

TutorialAdvanced MPI Programming
William (Bill) Gropp, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8:30 am – 5:00 pm EST
Location: B210
Session – Research Software Engineers in HPC (RSE-HPC-2024)
Daniel Katz, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9am – 5:30pm EST
Location B311
WorkshopShared Memory-Aware Latency-Sensitive Message Aggregation for Fine-Grained Communication
Kavitha Chandrasekar and Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11:55 am – 12:05 pm EST
Location: B310
Presentation – Security Testbed for Preempting Attacks against Supercomputing Infrastructure: A Case Study 
Phuong Cao, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA),
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2:30 – 3:00 pm EST
Location: B305
WorkshopAn Adaptive Asynchronous Approach for the Single-Source Shortest Paths Problem
Ritvik Rao, Kavitha Chandrasekar and Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2:40 – 2:50 pm EST
Location: B310

Monday, November 18

Workshop – Jupyter Notebook Attacks Taxonomy: Ransomware, Data Exfiltration, and Security Misconfiguration
Phuong Cao, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
12:00 – 12:06 pm EST
Location: B305
WorkshopAstroMLab 2: Benchmarking Specialized LLMs for Astronomy
Rui Pan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5:10 – 5:30 pm EST
Location: B313
Workshop Parsl+CWL: Towards Combining the Python and CWL Ecosystems
Daniel Katz, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11:21 – 11:44 am EST
Location: B302
Panel Discussion – The Tenth Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC
William Moses, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4:00 – 5:30 pm EST
Location: B310

Tuesday, November 19

Art of HPC, Posters – Challenges of Finding Cyber Attacks and Remediating Network Issues
Phuong Cao, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
Location: B301
Art of HPC Display – NCSA Delta Wrap Design
NCSA Creative, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
Location: B301
Art of HPC Display – NCSA Granite Wrap Design
NCSA Creative, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10:00 am – 5:00 pm EST
Location: B301
Birds of a Feather (BOF) – The Role of HPC Centers in AI-Ready Data
Daniel Katz, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
12:15 – 1:15 pm EST
Location: B208
Birds of a Feather (BOF) – Making Sense of the Chaos: Best Practices for HPC Software Sustainability Strategies and Metrics
Daniel Katz, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5:15 – 6:45 pm EST
Location: B210

Wednesday, November 20

Panel – Educating for a Hybrid Future: Bridging the Gap between High-Performance and Quantum Computing
Bruno Abreu, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)
3:30 – 5:00 pm EST
Location: B313B-B314
Birds of a Feather (BOF) – Evolving Practical Reproducibility in HPC: Lessons from the Past, Strategies for the Future
Daniel Katz, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5:15 – 6:45 pm EST
Location: B209
Awards Presentation – 2024 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award
David Padua, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8:30 – 9:00 am EST
Location: Exhibit Hall A3
Paper – Distributed-Memory Parallel Algorithms for Sparse Matrix and Sparse Tall-and-Skinny Matrix Multiplication
Charles Block, Gerasimos Gerogiannis and Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10:30 – 11:00 am EST
Location: B311

Thursday, November 21

SC25 Session SC25 Conference Preview
Davey Wheeler, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8:30 – 8:40 am EST
Location: Exhibit Hall A3
PaperHPAC-ML: A Programming Model for Embedding ML Surrogates in Scientific Applications
Zane Fink and Praneet Rathi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9:00 – 9:30 am EST
Location: B312-B313A

FRIDAY, November 22

Workshop – Establishing a High-Performance and Productive Ecosystem for Distributed Execution of Python Functions Using Globus Compute
Daniel Katz, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8:40 – 9:10 am EST
Location: B311

LEARN HOW NCSA IS ADVANCING MORE THAN EVER FOR MORE THAN 35 YEARS.

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