Workshop on Batched,
Reproducible, and Reduced Precision BLAS
Innovative Computing
Laboratory
University of Tennessee
May 18th Ð 19th,
2016
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updated: 5/17/16 9:13 AM
This workshop
will touch on extending the Basic Linear Algebra Software Library (BLAS). The
existing BLAS have proven to be very effective in assisting portable, efficient
software for sequential and some of the current class of high-performance
computers. We would like to investigate the possibility of extending the
currently accepted standards to provide greater parallelism for small
size operations, reproducibility, and reduced precision support. This is the beginning of a forum to
discuss and formalize details related to batched, reproducible, and reduced
precision BLAS.
The purpose of
the workshop is to look into defining a standard interface for the Batched
BLAS, Reproducible BLAS, and Reduced Precision BLAS. While these
are separate issues we will have presentations and
discussions on the need and issues related to these topics.
Workshop Format:
We will start the
workshop at 9:00 am on Wednesday, May 18th and plan to
finish around 4:00 pm on Thursday, May 19th. The
structure will be for the vendors to describe what they have in terms of
hardware and mathematical software for their HPC systems, various reports from
hardware and software vendors and developers on what they need in terms of
numerical linear algebra software for todayÕs and future systems. The authors
of the Batched, Reproducible, and Reduced Precision BLAS will present the
current proposal and various implements (reference and more specific ones). We
will have discussion on various aspects of the plans.
Workshop
Location:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1122 Volunteer Blvd.
Claxton Building, Room 205-206
Map and directions to Claxton Building
http://icl.utk.edu/directions/ICL-directions.pdf
(You should be able to walk from the Hotel to the Claxton
building. The distance is about 1 mile.)
There is also a free trolley to campus. Take the Orange Line from the corner of
Locust and Clinch (same block as Hilton Hotel) to the Hodges Library stop. Claxton
is the building with a courtyard; enter through the large glass doors next to
the courtyard, and take the first left in the building.
Orange
Line runs Mon-Fri 7am-8pm (everyday:
every 15 mins)
Hotel
Information:
Hilton Knoxville (Downtown)
501 W. Church Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37902
Ph: (865) 523-2300
(From the airport the easiest way to the Hilton is by taxi.)
Taxi
Info:
Paradise: 865-691-1900 or 865-406-9105
Nation: 865-317-0788
United: 865-437-7375
Fare is ~$22 from campus to airport.
Draft
Agenda:
|
Tuesday | ||
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May
17th | ||
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6:00 PM
-8:00 PM |
Reception at the Hilton
Sponsored by Intel | |
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Wednesday | ||
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May
18th |
Claxton
Room 205-206 | |
|
8:00 AM |
Breakfast available |
Room 205 |
|
9:00 AM |
Jack
Dongarra, UTK | |
|
9:30 |
Stan Tomov, UTK | |
|
10:00 |
Reference Implementation and Testing of Batched BLAS Routines |
Mawussi
Zounon, U of Manchester |
|
10:30 |
Jakub Kurzak, UTK | |
|
11:00 |
Break |
Room 205 |
|
11:30 |
Azzam Haidar, UTK | |
|
12:00 |
Ahmad Ahmad,
UTK | |
|
12:20 |
Hartwig Anzt, UTK | |
|
12:40 |
Lunch provided |
Room 233 |
|
1:20 |
Jonathan
Hogg, Rutherford | |
|
1:40 |
Bench-testing
Environment for Automated Software Tuning (BEAST) |
Piotr Luszczek, UTK |
|
2:10 |
Sarah Knepper, Intel | |
|
2:40 |
Jim Demmel, UCB | |
|
3:40 |
Break |
Room 205 |
|
4:00 |
Bill Gropp, UIUC | |
|
4:30 |
Mike Heroux, Sandia Labs | |
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5:00 |
Jack
Dongarra, UTK | |
|
6:00 |
Dinner at The Square Room, 4
Market Square, Knoxville, TN (You should be able to walk from the hotel to the restaurant.
The distance is about 0.3 miles) |
Sponsored
by Intel |
|
Thursday | ||
|
May
19th |
Claxton
Room 205-206 | |
|
8:00 AM |
Breakfast available |
Room 205 |
|
9:00 AM |
Bo Kagstrom, Umea University | |
|
9:30 |
Greg Henry,
Intel | |
|
10:00 |
Clint
Whaley, LSU | |
|
10:30 |
Batched
Linear Algebra Operations: BLAS for Many Small Problems |
David
Keyes and Hatem Ltaief,
KAUST |
|
11:00 |
Break |
Room 205 |
|
11:30 |
Vendor presentations | |
|
Shane
Story, Intel | ||
|
ARM (no slides provided) |
Chris Goodyer, ARM | |
|
12:30 |
Lunch provided |
Room 233 |
|
1:30 |
Vendor presentations
continued | |
|
Mick
Pont, NAG | ||
|
Bobby
Cheng, MathWorks | ||
|
Sharan Chetlur, Nvidia | ||
|
Cray (no slides provided) |
Aaron
Collier, Cray | |
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4:00 |
Jack
Dongarra |
Its about 25 minutes from the Hotel to
the meeting site and about 25 minutes from the meeting site to the Square Room.
Draft
Reports:
You can find a draft copy of the Batched
BLAS and Reproducible
Batched BLAS Draft
Reports:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/olocmipyxfvcaui/batched_api_03_30_2016.pdf?dl=0
Batched BLAS Poster:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ddkym76fapddf5c/Batched%20BLAS%20Poster%2012.pdf?dl=0
Batched BLAS Slides:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kz4fhcipz3e56ju/BatchedBLAS-1.pptx?dl=0
Webpage on ReproBLAS:
http://bebop.cs.berkeley.edu/reproblas/
Efficient Reproducible
Floating Point Summation and BLAS:
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-229.pdf
If
you have any questions please let me know (dongarra@icl.utk.edu).
Attendees:
|
Ahmad |
Ahmad |
UTK | |
|
Hartwig |
Anzt |
UTK | |
|
Konstant |
Arturov |
Intel | |
|
Mohsen |
Aznaveh |
TAMU |
mahmoudi.mohsen@gmail.com |
|
Bobby |
Cheng |
MathWorks | |
|
Eugene |
Chereshnev |
Intel |
eugene.chereshnev@intel.com |
|
Sharan |
Chetlur |
Nvidia | |
|
Aaron |
Collier |
Cray | |
|
Anthony |
Danalis |
UTK | |
|
Jim |
Demmel |
UC Berkeley | |
|
Jack |
Dongarra |
UTK | |
|
Iain |
Duff |
Rutherford | |
|
Mark |
Gates |
UTK | |
|
Chris |
Goodyer |
ARM | |
|
Laura |
Grigori |
INRIA | |
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Bill |
Gropp |
UIUC | |
|
Murat |
Guney |
Intel | |
|
Azzam |
Haidar |
UTK | |
|
Sven |
Hammarling |
Manchester | |
|
Alex |
Heinecke |
Intel | |
|
Greg |
Henry |
Intel | |
|
Mike |
Heroux |
SNL | |
|
Jonathan |
Hogg |
Rutherford | |
|
David |
Hough |
Oracle |
david.hough@oracle.com |
|
Bo |
Kagstrom |
Umea | |
|
David |
Keyes |
Kaust | |
|
Sarah |
Knepper |
Intel | |
|
Alexander |
Kobotov |
Intel | |
|
Jakub |
Kurzak |
UTK | |
|
Mohamed Sid |
Lakhdar |
TAMU |
wissam@tamu.edu |
|
Pedro |
Lara |
Manchester | |
|
Hatem |
Ltaief |
Kaust | |
|
Piotr |
Luszczek |
UTK | |
|
Terry |
Moore |
UTK | |
|
Mick |
Pont |
NAG | |
|
Siva |
Rajamanickam |
SNL | |
|
Jason |
Riedy |
GATech | |
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Jakub |
Sistek |
Manchester |
jakub.sistek@manchester.ac.uk |
|
Shane |
Story |
Intel | |
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Stan |
Tomov |
UTK | |
|
Eric |
van Hensbergen |
ARM | |
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Clint |
Whaley |
LSU | |
|
Asim |
YarKhan |
UTK | |
|
Mawussi |
Zounon |
Manchester |