Overview

As the power of modern supercomputing systems continues to advance at an exciting pace forward to extreme scales, it is quite clear that the associated software development challenges are also increasingly formidable. On the emerging architectures, memory and data motion present increasingly serious bottlenecks as the required low-power consumption requirements lead to systems with significant restrictions on available memory and communications bandwidth. Consequently, computational science experts in multiple application domains will need to re-visit key application algorithms and solvers – with the likelihood that new capabilities will be demanded in order to keep up with the dramatic architectural changes that accompany the impressive increases in compute power.

Co-design, in the most basic sense, engages the necessary collaborations between hardware designers, computer scientists, applied mathematicians, and computational science experts in multiple application domains to carry out the essential interdisciplinary research that will enable harvesting in a timely way the scientific and technological benefits as HPC hardware moves forward to extreme scales.

Following the successes of CoDesign 2011 through 2023, the 11th International Workshop on CoDesign will be held on December 11-13, 2024 in Osaka, Japan.

The primary motivation for the international CoDesign Workshop is to continue to enable productive and timely interdisciplinary discussions with focus on stimulating progress in domain applications that engage extreme-scale computing and modern big data problems. This will feature new challenges and opportunities encountered in the development of numerical simulation software needed for computing at the extreme scale. By gathering insights from successful experiences in petascale simulation applications, it is hoped that this workshop will help optimize a converged co-design path toward computing at the extreme scale and associated big data challenges.

Topics of Interest

The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Algorithms
  • Algorithms for numerical methods and algebraic systems
  • Data-intensive parallel algorithms
  • Energy- and power-efficient algorithms
  • Fault-tolerant algorithms
  • Uncertainty quantification methods
  • Machine learning algorithms
• Applications
  • Life Sciences: Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences: Computational earth and atmospheric sciences
  • Physical Sciences and Engineering: Computational materials science and engineering, computational astrophysics/astronomy, chemistry, and physics, and computational fluid dynamics and mechanics
  • Accelerated Physics: Particle accelerator simulations, high-energy physics simulations and accelerated plasma physics
• Systems
  • Energy-efficient and power-aware system designs
  • Fault-tolerant and resilient system architectures
  • Data compression and storage optimization techniques
  • High-performance file systems and storage management
  • Scheduling, resource provisioning, and load balancing in large-scale systems
• Hardware/software co-design for HPC
  • Co-design of software algorithms and system architectures for performance optimization
  • Integration and management of HPC hardware in cloud and distributed environments
  • Parallel/networked file system integration with the OS and runtime
  • System software for reducing energy and data movement
  • Collaborative design and integration of hardware and software for energy-efficient computing

Workshop Program

TBD

Keynote Speaker

• Dr. William M. Tang, Princeton University, U.S.

Invited Speaker

• Dr. Pete Beckman, Northwestern University, U.S.
• Dr. Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.
• Dr. Murali Krishna Emani, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.
• Dr. Georg Hager, Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center, Germany
• Dr. Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Dr. Erwin Laure, Max Planck Computing and Data Facility, Germany
• Dr. Guillaume Pallez, INRIA, French
• Dr. Kentaro Sano, RIKEN, Japan
• Dr. Kento Sato, RIKEN, Japan
• Dr. Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Dr. Thomas C. Schulthess, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland
• Dr. Felix Wolf, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Dr. Gerhard Wellein, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany
• Dr. Kesheng John Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.

Organizers

General Chair

• Dr. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, U.S.
• Dr. Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Chair

• Dr. Sheng Di, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.
• Dr. Weile Jia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Executive Chair

• Dr. Dingwen Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Web Chair

• Fanjiang Ye, Indiana University, U.S.

Local Chair

• Dr. Lijun Liu, Osaka University, Japan