Supercomputing 2024

Khronos @ Supercomputing 2024

Khronos standards are fundamental to many of the technologies being discussed and on display at SC24. The current presentations and events scheduled for are listed below.

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Khronos BOF

ANARI: Making the Future of 3D Scientific Visualization Available to Everyone, Everywhere

Simplifying the development of portable 3D visualization applications using state-of-the-art rendering

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Date & Time: Tuesday Nov 19th, 12:15pm-1:15pm
Location: Room B209 (provisional), Georgia World Congress Center
Session Link: View SC24 Listing
Registration: SC24 registration required
Description: ANARI is the industry's first cross-platform API to describe scenes independently of rendering techniques, giving practioners in domains such as scientific visualization the ability to rapidly access the latest rendering engines without needing to be low-level graphics experts. Join researchers, developers, and industry experts as they share insights on ANARI's capabilities, discuss best practices for ANARI applications, and showcase innovative use cases. Don't miss this chance to understand ANARI's potential for shaping the future of easily accessing scalable and portable 3D rendering.
Currently Confirmed Presenters:

• John Stone, NVIDIA and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Victor Mateevitsi, Argonne National Laboratory
• William Sherman, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
• Kevin Griffin, NVIDIA

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SYCL Tutorial

Hands-On HPC and AI Application Development Using C++ and SYCL

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Date & Time: Sunday, 17 November 2024 - 8:30am - 12pm EST
Location: Room B214, Georgia World Congress Center
Session Link: View SC24 Listing
Registration: SC24 registration required
Description: SYCL is a programming model that lets developers support a wide variety of devices (CPUs, GPUs, and more) from a single-code base. Given the growing heterogeneity of processor roadmaps, moving to an open standard, platform-independent model such as SYCL is essential for modern software developers. SYCL has the further advantage of supporting a single-source style of programming using completely standard C++. In this tutorial, we will introduce SYCL and provide programmers with a solid foundation they can build on to gain mastery of this language. The main benefit of using SYCL over other heterogeneous programming models is the single programming language approach, which enables one to target multiple devices using the same programming model, and therefore to have a cleaner, portable, and more readable code. This is a hands-on tutorial. The real learning will happen as students write code. The format will be short presentations followed by hands-on exercises. Hence, attendees will require their own laptop to perform the hands-on exercises.
Currently Confirmed Presenters:

• Rod Burns, Codeplay Software
• Jolly Chen, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), University of Twente
• Thomas Applencourt, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• Abhishek Bagusetty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• James Reinders, Intel Corporation

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Khronos SYCL BOF

Khronos SYCL: Heterogeneous Programming with Open Standards

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Date & Time: Tuesday, 19 November 2024 - 12:15pm - 1:15pm EST
Location: Room B212, Georgia World Congress Center
Session Link: View SC24 Listing
Registration: SC24 registration required
Description: The open-standard SYCL programming model provides a portable way to program heterogeneous systems. The abstractions and features for HPC in SYCL has seen its increased use in application domains needing GPU-accelerated, Top 500 machines such as Aurora and Dawn, for fusion energy, molecular dynamics, aerospace and AI. In this Birds of a Feather, we will bring together the community of everyone using and developing SYCL applications and implementations. We will discuss future directions and seek feedback on priorities for the next version of SYCL. A panel of SYCL experts, runtime/compiler implementers, and application specialists, will lead an audience discussion and Q&A.
Currently Confirmed Presenters:

• Tom Deakin, University of Bristol (Session Leader)
• Rod Burns, Codeplay Software
• James Brodman, Intel Corporation