The Journey to Ubiquitous SYCL Adoption
In this panel discussion, we will talk with experts and software development leaders in research and industry about their path towards adopting the open cross-platform SYCL abstraction layers. We will explore the benefits of SYCL for an open multi architecture, open accelerated compute ecosystem. Not only will we touch on what makes adoption of and migration to SYCL easy, we will also try to understand the challenges and hurdles developers need to overcome in the process. We will look into next steps that SYCL, oneAPI and SYCL migration tools need to take to become accepted as a common open standard across the ecosystem and the industries looking for performance, code reuse, portability and scale.
Speaker(s)
Moderator: Robert Mueller-Albrecht - Intel Corp/Product Marketing Manager / Engineer
Rob Mueller-Albrecht helps enable developers to streamline programming efforts across heterogeneous compute devices for high performance applications taking advantage of Intel’s family of development tools. He has extensive 20+ years of experience in technical consulting and software architecture working in IoT & Edge embedded software and hardware developer enabling for Intel in Arizona. This included managing a team of engineers on two continents leading embedded platform application engineering efforts. He holds a MS (Dipl.-Phys.) degree from University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.
Steve Petruzza - Utah State University/Assistant Professor
Dr. Steve Petruzza is an Assistant Professor at Utah State University and a Research Associate at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute of the University of Utah. His research spans the area of in high performance computing and large scale scientific visualization with focus on efficient and portable workflows for parallel and distributed data analysis and visualization.
Yasaman Ghadar - ANL/Computational Scientist
Yasaman Ghadar is computational scientist at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Yasaman has a PhD in computational Chemistry and is a main Argonne collaborator for the EXAALT project, an Exascale Computing Project (ECP) effort using molecular dynamics to simulate materials relevant to nuclear fusion and fission. She is working directly with the project team to enable LAMMPS application on Argonne’s upcoming exascale machine, Aurora. For this work she focuses on KOKKOS implementation of LAMMPS with SYCL backend.
She also specialized in creating training materials for current and upcoming HPC machines to our user community such as Polaris and Aurora. She has organized and chaired over twenty technical workshops and forty webinar series, including seven external events in collaboration with both industrial partners and other national laboratories.
Andreas Goetz - University of California San Diego/Associate Research Scientist
Andreas Goetz is an associate research scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego where he leads a research group in Data-Driven and High-Performance Computational Chemistry, working at the intersection of chemistry, life sciences, and scientific computing. His research draws on quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, molecular dynamics, and machine learning approaches to enable simulations of complex molecular systems with applications from atmospheric chemistry to computational drug design on massively parallel computer architectures. He is a contributing author to the ADF and QUICK quantum chemistry software and the AMBER software for biomolecular simulations, which are widely used in academic and industrial research. Andreas also enjoys training the next generation of scientists in software engineering and numerical simulation methods via lectures, workshops, and supervision of interns. He is author of over 75 scientific publications and editor of the book ‘Electronic structure calculations on graphics processing units’. Prior to joining SDSC in 2009 Andreas performed postdoctoral research at the VU University in Amsterdam and obtained his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany.
Hugh Bird - Codeplay Software Ltd/Staff Software Engineer
Hugh Bird is a software engineer at Codeplay Software. He obtained his PhD on “Low-order methods for the unsteady aerodynamics of finite wings” at the University of Glasgow, before moving to Codeplay to work on the ComputeCpp SYCL runtime. He now works in the Performance Libraries team, contributing to the oneMKL interface library, and DFTs in particular.
