ISAV 2016: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization

Held in conjunction with
SC16: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.

Sunday 13 November 2016 (full day)

Salt Palace Convention Center, 251-A

ISAV 2016 Proceedings at ACM: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3018859

Workshop Theme

The considerable interest in the HPC community regarding in situ analysis and visualization is due to several factors. First is an I/O cost savings, where data is analyzed/visualized while being generated, without first storing to a file system. Second is the potential for increased accuracy, where fine temporal sampling of transient analysis might expose some complex behavior missed in coarse temporal sampling. Third is the ability to use all available resources, CPUs and accelerators, in the computation of analysis products.

The workshop brings together researchers, developers and practitioners from industry, academia, and government laboratories developing, applying, and deploying in situ methods in extremescale, high performance computing. The goal is to present research findings, lessons learned, and insights related to developing and applying in situ methods and infrastructure across a range of science and engineering applications in HPC environments; to discuss topics like opportunities presented by new architectures, existing infrastructure needs, requirements, and gaps, and experiences to foster and enable in situ analysis and visualization; to serve as a "center of gravity" for researchers, practitioners, and users/consumers of in situ methods and infrastructure in the HPC space.

Program

09:00 - 10:00Keynote: Exascale Applications: Opportunities and Challenges by Dr. Doug Kothe, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (chair: Wes Bethel, LBNL)
10:00 - 10:30Morning Refreshment Break
10:30 - 12:00Short Papers I (15 minute talks and 5 minutes for questions per talk; session chair: Patrick O'Leary, Kitware)
  • A HYDRA UQ Workflow for NIF Ignition Experiments (Steven Langer, Brian Spears, J. Luc Peterson, John Field, Ryan Nora and Scott Brandon)
  • Scalable and Modular Online Data Processing for Ultrafast Computed Tomography Using CUDA Pipelines (Tobias Frust, Guido Juckeland and André Bieberle)
  • Asynchronous in situ connected-components analysis for complex fluid flows (James McClure, Mark Berrill, Jan Prins and Cass Miller)
  • In-Situ Visual Exploration of Multivariate Volume Data based on Particle Based Volume Rendering (Takuma Kawamura, Tomoyuki Noda and Yasuhiro Idomura)
12:00 - 13:30Lunch Break (Continued Discussion on Infrastructure Breakout Topics)
13:30 - 15:00Short Papers II (15 minute talks and 5 minutes for questions per talk; session chair: Earl Duque, Intelligent Light)
  • Early Investigations Into Using a Remote RAM Pool with the vl3 Visualization Framework (Dawid Zawislak, Brian Toonen, William Allcock, Silvio Rizzi, Joseph Insley, Venkatram Vishwanath, and Michael E. Papka)
  • An I/O Mini-App Dedicated to In Situ Visualization (Sean Ziegeler)
  • Statistical Analysis for Parametric Studies(Theophile Terraz, Bruno Raffin, Alejandro Ribes and Yvan Fournier)
  • The SENSEI Generic In Situ Interface (Utkarsh Ayachit, Brad Whitlock, Matthew Wolf, Burlen Loring, Berk Geveci, David Lonie and E. Wes Bethel)
15:00 - 15:30Afternoon Refreshment Break
15:30 - 16:00Lightning Presentations (5 minute talks & 10 minutes discussion; Session chair/moderator: Nicola Ferrier, ANL)
  • In-situ data analytics for highly scalable cloud modeling (Brown, Hill, Weiland and Shipway)
  • Visualizing the Infeasible: In Situ Analysis of Large-Scale Derived Particle Data for a Fusion Simulation (Kress, Klasky, Churchill, Childs and Pugmire)
  • Information Preserving Data Reductions for Complex Operations and the Role of In Situ Methods (Pugmire, Kress, Churchill, Childs and Klasky)
  • Integrated Volume Visualization Environment on the Web (Shimizu, Sakamoto, Nonaka, Ono and Koyamada)
16:00 - 16:20Short Paper III (15 minute talk and 5 minutes for questions per talk; session chair: Gunther H. Weber, LBNL)
  • Visualization and Analysis Requirements for In Situ Processing for a Large-Scale Fusion Simulation Code (James Kress, Dave Pugmire, Scott Klasky and Hank Childs)
16:20 - 17:25 Panel: In Situ: Challenges to In Situ Adoption, Deployment, Sustainability (panel chair: Matthew Wolf, ORNL)
17:25 - 17:30 Closing remarks by Wes Bethel, LBNL

Proceedings

The proceedings are published via the IEEE Computer Society.

Participation/Call for Papers

We invite two types of submissions to ISAV 2016: (1) short, 4-page papers that present research results, that identify opportunities or challenges, and that present case studies/best practices for in situ methods/infrastructure in the areas of data management, analysis and visualization; (2) lightning presentation submission, consisting of a 1- or 2-page submission, for a brief oral presentation at the workshop. Short papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be invited to give an oral presentation of 15 to 20 minutes; lightning round submissions will not be included as part of the proceedings. Submissions of both types are welcome that fall within one or more areas of interest, as follows:

Areas of interest for ISAV, include, but are not limited to:

In situ infrastructures: Current Systems: production quality, research prototypes; Opportunities; Gaps

System resources, hardware, and emerging architectures: Enabling Hardware; Hardware and architectures that provide opportunities for In situ processing, such as burst buffers, staging computations on I/O nodes, sharing cores within a node for both simulation and in situ processing.

Methods/algorithms/applications/Case studies: Best practices; Analysis: feature detection, statistical methods, temporal methods, geometric methods; Visualization: information visualization, scientific visualization, time-varying methods; Data reduction/compression; Examples/case studies of solving a specific science challenge with in situ methods/infrastructure.

Simulation: Integration, data modeling, software-engineering; Resilience: error detection, fault recovery; Workflows for supporting complex in situ processing pipelines

Requirements: Preserve important elements; Significantly reduce the data size; Flexibility for postprocessing exploration

Review Process

All submissions will undergo a peer-review process consisting of three reviews by experts in the field, and evaluated according to relevance to the workshop theme, technical soundness, creativity, originality, and impactfulness of method/results. Lightning round submissions will be evaluated primarily for relevance to the workshop.

Publication in proceedings, presentation at the workshop.

All paper submissions that receive favorable reviews will be included as part of the workshop proceedings, which will be published along with other SC16 workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Lightning round submissions will not be included as part of the proceedings. Subject to the constraints of workshop length, some subset of the accepted publications will be invited to give a brief oral presentation at the workshop. The exact number of such presentations and their length will be determined after the review process has been completed.

Submission Process

Authors are invited to submit papers of at most 4 pages in PDF format, excluding references, and lightning presentations of at most 2 pages in PDF format, excluding references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (templates available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) and submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isav2016). No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed.

Papers must be self-contained and provide the technical substance required for the program committee to evaluate their contributions. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. See the ACM Prior Publication Policy for more details. Papers can be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isav2016.

Timeline/Important Dates

22 Aug 2016 15 Aug 2016: Paper submission deadline (Deadline extended)
15 Sep 2016: Author notification
30 Sep 2016: Camera ready copy due
15 October 2016: Final program posted to ISAV web page
13 Nov 2016: ISAV workshop at SC16

Committees

Organizing Committee
E. Wes Bethel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Earl Duque, Intelligent Light, USA
Nicola Ferrier, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Patrick O'Leary, Kitware, USA
Gunther H. Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Matthew Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Program Committee
Utkarsh Ayachit, Kitware Inc., USA
Hank Childs, LBNL and University of Oregon, USA
Earl P.N. Duque, Intelligent Light, USA
Nicola Ferrier, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Tom Fogal, NVIDIA, USA
Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Burlen Loring, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Ken Moreland, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Dmitriy Morozov, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Patrick O'Leary, Kitware Inc., USA
Kenji Ono, Kyushu University, Japan
Manish Parashar, Rutgers, USA
Bruno Raffin, INRIA, France
Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Brad Whitlock, Intelligent Light, USA
Kesheng (John) Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Early Career Program Committee
Roba Binyahib, University of Oregon, USA
Hanqi Guo, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Samuel Li, University of Oregon, USA
Sudhanshu Sane, University of Oregon, USA
Arun Sathanur, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Contact

For questions about the workshop, please contact E. Wes Bethel at ewbethel at lbl dot gov