Dates and Location

Dates: July 12, 2023 - July 15, 2023 (Wednesday – Saturday)
Location: South Shore Harbour Resort and Conference Center in League City, Texas (NASA and Clear Lake)

Overview

ACES (Accelerating Computing for Emerging Sciences) is a cyberinfrastructure test-bed that offers cutting-edge technologies on a Liqid Composable fabric. ACES aims to offer a holistic computing platform to meet the needs of researchers advancing research that combines numerical simulation and modeling with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) frameworks. Toward addressing these needs, Graphcore IPUs, Next Silicon co-processors, Intel FPGAs, NEC Vector engines and the latest GPUs from Intel and NVIDIA are offered on the ACES platform.These resources are supported by a rich software ecosystem including Charlie Cloud and Open on Demand. ACES is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is hosted by Texas A&M University, and is assigned via the ACCESS allocation process.

The ACES team invites researchers to apply to the first ACES user-meeting. The meeting will give researchers an avenue to network, share adoption stories, and collaborate on future projects. We will simultaneously offer tutorials and guided sessions to support research on these technologies.

We especially welcome participants and researchers from minority-serving institutions in computing and STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). If you are interested in providing a session or short talk, please contact us.

Please apply to participate in the workshop. The application requires a brief description of your current research, plans for future research using the ACES machine, and a copy of your NSF biosketch. Some travel support is available for researchers based in the United States. Enquiries, questions, and offers to assist are welcomed!

Full Schedule (All times are Central Time)

Last updated: July 15, 2023

Wednesday, July 12	Reception and Dinner
	South Shore Harbour Resort and Conference Center Map Address: 2500 South Shore Blvd, League City, TX 77573 Phone Number: (281) 334-1000
5:00PM - 6:30PM	Reception with Light Hors d'Oeuvres Lighthouse Bar and Bistro
6:30PM - 8:30PM	Dinner (Harbourview)

Thursday, July 13	Tutorials and Lightning Talks (Amphitheater)
7:00AM - 9:00AM	Breakfast
9:00AM - 9:15AM	Opening Remarks and ACES Overview (presentation)
9:15AM - 12:00PM	Distributed Deep Learning with H100s (presentation, lab instructions)
12:00PM - 1:30PM	Lunch (Harbourview Room)
1:30PM - 2:15PM	Lightning talks
2:15PM - 2:30PM	Break
2:30PM - 5:00PM	Intel oneAPI AI Analytics Toolkit (agenda,presentation)
6:30PM - 8:30PM	Dinner (Paradise Reef)

Friday, July 14	Tutorials
7:00AM - 9:00AM	Breakfast
9:00AM - 12:00PM	ACES Graphcore Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) Training (Amphitheater) (presentations[1,2])	9:00AM - 12:00PM	CryoSPARC Cryo-EM Data Processing on ACES (Pier) (presentation)
12:00PM - 1:30PM	Lunch
1:30PM - 4:30PM	ACES Charliecloud Container Training (Amphitheater) (presentations[1,2], hands-on)	1:30PM - 4:00PM	NEC Vector Engine: Vectorization for HPC applications (Pier) (presentation)
		4:00PM - 4:30PM	Solving Combinatorial Optimization and NP-Hard problems using novel Quantum Annealing using NEC Vector Engine (Pier) (presentation)
1:30PM - 4:30PM	ACES External Advisory Committee Meeting - closed session (Baccarat)
4:30PM - 5:30PM	User Feedback/Survey
6:30PM - 8:30PM	Dinner (Harbourview)

Saturday, July 15	Tutorials
7:00AM - 9:00AM	Breakfast
9:00AM - 10:30AM	CyberGIS-Compute: Geospatial Middleware for Simplifying Access to High-Performance Computing (Amphitheater) (presentation , CyberGISX account information)
10:30AM - 12:00PM	Intel-Optimized AlphaFold on ACES (Amphitheater) (presentation)	10:30AM - 12:00PM	VASP on NEC Vector Engine (Pier) (presentation)
12:00	Close of the ACES Workshop

Acknowledgement

Acknowledgment: The ACES team gratefully acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This project is supported by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) award number 2112356. To learn more about ACES, please visit us at https://hprc.tamu.edu/aces/.

Contact Information

Phone: 979-845-0219
Email: events@hprc.tamu.edu