Programme – SC-ASIA

Convergence of AI and HPC Bringing Transformation

Day 0 (26 Mar)

Mon, 26 Mar	Track: Tutorial Venue: Pisces 1 and 2	Track: Tutorial Venue: Pisces 3	Track: Tutorial Venue: Virgo 2	Track: Tutorial Venue: Pisces 4
0900 – 0930	NVIDIA – DLI Workshop Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision	NVIDIA – Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA and OpenAcc	IBM – Spectrum Scale User Group	Cray & Microsoft – Run HPC Applications Seamlessly on Microsoft Azure
0930 – 1000
1000 – 1030
1030 – 1100	Tea Break
1100 – 1130	NVIDIA – DLI Workshop Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision	NVIDIA – Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA and OpenAcc	IBM – Spectrum Scale User Group	Cray & Microsoft – Run HPC Applications Seamlessly on Microsoft Azure
1130 – 1200
1200 – 1230
1230 – 1330	Lunch Break
1330 – 1400	NVIDIA – DLI Workshop Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision	NVIDIA – Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA and OpenAcc	IBM – Spectrum Scale User Group	Cray & Microsoft – Run HPC Applications Seamlessly on Microsoft Azure
1400 – 1430
1430 – 1500
1500 – 1530
1530 – 1600
1600 – 1630	Tea Break
1630 – 1700	NVIDIA – DLI Workshop Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision	NVIDIA – Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA and OpenAcc	IBM – Spectrum Scale User Group	Cray & Microsoft – Run HPC Applications Seamlessly on Microsoft Azure
1700 – 1730
1730 – 1800
1930 – 2200	Speakers’ Reception at the Terrace at Hard Rock Bar (*By Invitation Only)

*Please note that the programme may be subject to changes.

Day 1 (27 Mar)

Tue, 27 Mar	Opening Plenary Venue: Ballroom East
0900 – 0910	Welcome Address by Mr Peter Ho, Chairman, NSCC Steering Committee & Welcome Remarks by Mr Gerrit Bahlman, Chairman, APAN45
0910 – 0925	Opening Speech by Guest-of-Honour, Senior Minister of State Dr Janil Puthucheary
0925 – 0945	SCA Awards Presentation & SCA18 Programme Highlights
0945 – 1015	Opening Keynote Relationship between High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence by Dr Goh Eng Lim, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1015 – 1045	Tea Break
1045 – 1115	Keynote Constructing the world’s first open public infrastructure for advancing AI research and deployment by Dr Satoshi Sekiguchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
1115 – 1145	Keynote Toward the Global Research Platform by Prof. Thomas A. DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago
1145 – 1215	Industry Keynote Paving the Road to Exascale by Gilad Shainer, HPC & AI Advisory Council
1215 – 1330	Lunch Break

	Track: SCF Asia Papers Presentation Venue: Pisces 1	Track: Industry Venue: Pisces 2 & 3	Track: Education Venue: Pisces 4	APRP & APAN45 Venue: Virgo 1 – 4
1330 – 1400	Big Data	Anchoring AI in Singapore by Adhiraj Saxena, Manager, Industry Innovations, AI Singapore	1330 – 1340 Opening Welcome by Charlie Foo, Vice President & GM, Mellanox APJ1340 – 1400 NSCC’s Vision by A/Prof Tan Tin Wee, CE NSCC Singapore	Towards an Asia Pacific Research Platform (APRP) and Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meeting (APAN45)
	HHVSF: A Framework to Accelerate Drug-based High-throughput Virtual Screening on High-Performance Computers
1400 – 1430	HBasechainDB — A Scalable Blockchain Framework on Hadoop Ecosystem	Networking Technologies for AI HPC	The Vision of HPC & AI Advisory Council by Gilad Shainer, Chairman of HPC-AI Advisory Council
		Network Computing: Accelerate HPC & AI Performance by Avi Telyas, Director of Solution Engineering, Mellanox APAC
1430 – 1500	DETOUR: A Large-Scale Non-Blocking Optical Data Center Fabric	AI HPC Processor and Architecture	Industrial-Level Deep Learning Training Infrastructure: the Practice and Experience from SenseTime by Dr. Shengen Yan, Research Director, SenseTime Group Limited
		Reconfigurable Accelerator Platform with Intel FPGAs by Robin Liu, Business Development Manager, Intel PSG Asia-Pac
1500 – 1530	Querying Large Scientific Data Sets with Adaptable IO System ADIOS	New era in supercomputing- a wide variety of choices! by Rajesh Chhabra, General Manager-South East Asia, Greater China & Western Australia, Cray	RDMA over ML/DL and Big Data Framework by Ido Shamay, Software Architect, Mellanox
1530 – 1600	On the Performance of Spark on HPC Systems: Towards a Complete Picture	HPE Exascale HPC Strategy, Technologies and Status by Todd Churchward, Senior Technologist, HPC & AI, HPE APAC
1600 – 1630	Tea Break
1630 – 1700	Big Data	Storage and Data Management for AI-HPC	Why AI Frameworks Need RDMA by Dr. Bairen Yi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Towards an Asia Pacific Research Platform (APRP) and Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meeting (APAN45)
	Experiences of Converging Big Data Analytics Frameworks with High Performance Computing Systems	Compute, Storage and Interconnects – Performance and Usage Scenarios by Sandeep Lodha, CEO Netweb
1700 – 1730	Linear Algebra	Parallel File System Implementation for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Computing by Carlos Thomaz, DDN	Student Cluster Competition (SSC) Experience Sharing by Liu Siyuan, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), SC17 SSC Winning Team 1730 – 1800 HPC-AI Competition Launch by NSCC + HPC-AI AC 1800 – 1810 Lucky Draw by Mellanox & NTU
	High Performance LOBPCG Method for Solving Multiple Eigenvalues of Hubbard Model: Efficiency of Communication Avoiding Neumann Expansion Preconditioner
1730 – 1800	Application of a Preconditioned Chebyshev Basis Communication-Avoiding Conjugate Gradient Method to a Multiphase Thermal-Hydraulic CFD Code	Managing Trillions of Research Data Files by David Honey, HPE APAC HPC & AI – Data Management & Storage Principal Consultant
1800 – 1830	Optimization of Hierarchical Matrix Computation on GPU	AI for HPC and HPC for AI Workflows: The Differences, Gaps and Opportunities with Data Management by Dr Rangan Sukumar, Cray Inc
1930 – 2200	Networking Reception at S.E.A. Aquarium

*Please note that the programme may be subject to changes.

Day 2 (28 Mar)

Wed, 28 Mar	Plenary Venue: Pisces 1 – 4
0900 – 0930	Keynote Creating 21st Century Global Research Platforms for Science: Emerging Architecture, Techniques, and Technologies by Prof. Joe Mambretti, International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern University
0930 – 1000	Industry Keynote Drive AI To Enter New Stage by Qingchun Song, Mellanox APAC
1000 – 1030	Industry Keynote Medical Discoveries when Big Data, AI & HPC Converge by Dr Rangan Sukumar, Cray Inc
1030 – 1100	Tea Break

	Track: SCF Asia Papers Presentation Venue: Pisces 1	Track: Industry Venue: Pisces 2 & 3	Track: CoNGA Venue: Pisces 4	Track: Precision Medicine Venue: Gemini 2
1100 – 1130	GPU/FPGA	AI-HPC Platforms and Infrastructure	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)	1100 – 1105 Welcoming Address by Dr Kenneth Ban, Chair, Precision Medicine Track 1105 – 1125 The National Precision Initiative – Landscape and Strategic Outlook by Prof Tai E-Shyong, Head, Precision Medicine NUHS, co-chair Precision Medicine Steering Committee 1130 – 1230 Morning Presentations: Precision Medicine in Singapore – Where Are We Today? Session Chair: Dr Kenneth Ban, Chair, PM Track Dr Nicolas Bertin, GIS, c-BIG Program Manager, A*STAR Dr Benedict Yan, Director, Molecular Diagnostics Centre, NUH Mr Rob Smith, Senior Solution Specialist – Higher Ed & Research, Microsoft APAC
1100 – 1130	MACC: An OpenACC Transpiler for Automatic Multi-GPU Use	Executing AI Projects Successfully In Your Organisation by Dr. Bhushan Desam, AI Global Business Leader, Lenovo Data Center Group
1130 – 1200	Architecture of an FPGA-Based Heterogeneous System for Code-Search Problems	Meet the most demanding HPC and AI needs with help of Microsoft Azure by Luka Debeljak, APAC Manager for Azure Applications & Infrastructure, Microsoft
1200 – 1230	Acceleration of Wind Simulation Using Locally Mesh-Refined Lattice Boltzmann Method on GPU-Rich Supercomputers	Spark Over RDMA: Accelerate Big Data by Ido Shamay, Software Architect, Mellanox Technologies
1230 – 1330	Lunch Break
1330 – 1400	Performance Tools	AI-HPC Platforms and Infrastructure	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)	1330 – 1430 Afternoon Panel: How Can Singapore Create an Eco-System to Deliver Precision Medicine? Session Chair: Dr Benedict Yan, Director, Molecular Diagnostics Centre, NUH Mr Wuling Li, Trek 2000 International Ltd Dr Mohammad Asif Khan, President, AMBIS Mr Jeffery Tay, Technology Strategist – Education, Skills & Research, Microsoft Mr Robert Hodges, Senior Director (Medtech), Investments for SGInnovate Dr Sidney Yee, CEO, DxD Hub, ETPL 1430 – 1530 Tea Break & Networking
1330 – 1400	TINS: A Task-Based Dynamic Helper Core Strategy for In Situ Analytics	Building an integrated AI-accelerated HPC hardware infrastructure by Francis Lam, Director of HPC Product Management, Huawei Technologies
1400 – 1430	Machine Learning Predictions for Underestimation of Job Runtime on HPC System	Building a High Performance Analytics Platform By Cheng Jang Thye, Chief Architect, Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd
1430 – 1500	A Power Management Framework with Simple DSL for Automatic Power-Performance Optimization on Power-Constrained HPC Systems	Access, Control, and Optimize HPC Clusters & Clouds with PBS Works 2018 by Dr. Bill Nitzberg, CTO of PBS Works, Altair
1500 – 1530	Scalable Data Management of the Uintah Simulation Framework for Next-Generation Engineering Problems with Radiation	Heterogeneous Supercomputing and the POWER9 Processor by Dr. H. Peter Hofstee, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research
1530 – 1600	End of SCFA	Network Accelerated AI by Elad Wind, Director of Networking Solutions, Mellanox APAC
1600 – 1630	Tea Break
1630 – 1700	Special Track: Hyperion Research	AI-HPC Platforms and Infrastructure	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)	This is left blank intentionally
1630 – 1700	Hyperion Research HPC Market Update	AI: Another Infrastructure? by Mr. Fumiki Negishi, Regional Sales Director for HPC/AI APJ, Data Center Group Sales, Intel
1700 – 1730		Dell EMC – A day in life … 2030 by Romain Bottier, Dell EMC HPC & AI Subject Matter Expert
1730 – 1800		Watercooling and Impact on Performance and TCO by Matthew T. Ziegler, Director HPC and AI Architecture, Lenovo

*Please note that the programme may be subject to changes.

Day 3 (29 Mar)

Thu, 29 Mar	Plenary Venue: Pisces 1 – 4
0900 – 0930	Industry Keynote Hybrid HPC strategies with a Hyperscale Cloud by Dr Chia Jer-Ming, Microsoft
0930 – 1000	Industry Keynote The Path Toward Tomorrow’s AI by Dr Loy Chen Change, SenseTime Group Limited
1000- 1030	Closing Ceremony SCA Outstanding Technical Paper Award Presentation Highlights of SCA18 Presenting SCA19
1030 – 1100	Tea Break

	Track: SG-JP Joint Session Venue: Pisces 1	Track: Industry Venue: Pisces 2 & 3	Track: Spectrum LSF User Group Venue: Pisces 4
1100 – 1230	Opening & Keynote 1100 – 1105 Welcome to SG-JP Joint Session by Dr. Motoi Okuda, Director RIST 1105 – 1120 Opening Speech by Minister Naohiro Tsutsumi, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan 1120 – 1130 Brief on NSCC and SG-JP Collaborations by A/Prof. Tan Tin Wee, CE NSCC 1130 – 1220 Invited Talk on “Convergence of Big Data and AI with HPC“ by Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology 1220 – 1230 Sharing of K-Computer Call for Usage by Dr. Motoi Okuda, Director RIST	Enabling Government Innovations 1100-1120 Introduction to GovTech’s Innoleap & Translational R&D Grants Programme by Vivien Chow, Director, Applied Innovation and Partnership, Government Technology Agency 1120-1205 Sharing of AI projects through Translational R&D Grants Programme “FoodAI – Food Image Recognition” by A/Prof. Steven Hoi, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University “Intelligent Case Retrieval System (ICRS)” by Dr Victor Chu, Nanyang Technological University “Email Processing and Question & Answering System (EPQAS)” by Rafael E Banchs, Research Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR 1215-1225 Ideas! Portal* 1225-1230 Q&A	1100 Opening by Hong Wei Sun, Program Director, IBM Software Defined Infrastructure1120 Spectrum LSF Roadmap by Bill Mcmillan, Global Offering Lead, Spectrum LSF, IBM 1200 Cross-region Big Data Analytics in Weather Forecasting CMA (China Methodological Administration)
1230 – 1330	Lunch Break
1330 – 1400	Session 1- Energy Efficiency & DC Cooling 1330 – 1400 HPC Cooling Technologies by Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka,Tokyo Institute of Technology 1400 – 1420 Intelligent Data Centre by Wilson Ang, Director IMDA 1420 – 1450 Beating the Law of Diminishing Returns: HPC liquid cooling by Edvard König, EKWB 1450 – 1530 Panel Discussion: The Next Generation Data Center in Singapore. What would they be and how they would impact the industry. Moderator: Mr. Vincent Lim, NSCC (Singapore) Panellists: Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology Prof. Lee Poh Seng, Associate Professor, Micro Thermal Systems Group, National University of Singapore Wilson Ang, Director, Infocomm Media Development of Singapore Dennis Wee, Head (Innovation and Process Improvements), Keppel Data Centres Holding Pte Ltd Joshua Au, Head (Data Centre), Agency for Science, Technology and Research	1330 – 1420 Panel Discussion: AI High-performance Computing in Fintech by Sinuhe Arroyo, CEO, Taiger Swara Mehta, Senior Vice President, Technology Group – Data Science, GIC Johnson Poh, Head of Data Science, DBS 1420 – 1510 Panel Discussion: “Will AI High-performance Computing Replace Data Scientists?” by Drew Perez, Managing Director, Adatos 1510 – 1600 Panel Discussion: AI High-performance Computing in Biotech by Aneesh Sathe, CEO, Qritive Hossein Nejati, Chief Technology Officer, KroniKare Huang Chao-Hui, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, MSD Moderator: To be confirmed	1300 – 1330 Customer Sharing – LSF Explorer, A light tool for your LSF data insight1330 – 1400 Cognitive Scheduling
1400 – 1430			BP Sharing – LSF Suite, the best one-stop HPC Solution by Chang Hua Luo, Senior Director, ClusterTech
1430 – 1500			Hybrid Cloud in Spectrum LSF by Xun Pan, Architect, Spectrum LSF, IBM
1500 – 1530			Spectrum LSF use case/client story
1530 – 1600	Session 2 – Aerospace Sharing by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency by Naoyuki Fujita, Manager, JAXA Supercomputer Division		Q&A Session, Site Report & Wrap up
1600 – 1630	Tea Break
1630 – 1700	Session 3 – Smart City Toward disaster-resilient and sustainable society — Examples of recent simulations on the K computer by Dr. Shinichi Iga, RIST, Japan Virtual Singapore by Dr. Lou Jing, IHPC, A*STAR	AI6 Challenge Top 3 Winners Presentations	Spectrum LSF user group
1700 – 1730
1730 – 1800

*Please note that the programme may be subject to changes.

All Days

Mon, 26 Mar	Track: Tutorial Venue: Pisces 1 and 2	Track: Tutorial Venue: Pisces 3	Track: Tutorial Venue: Virgo 2	Track: Tutorial Venue: Pisces 4
0900 – 0930	NVIDIA – DLI Workshop Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision	NVIDIA – Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA and OpenAcc	IBM – Spectrum Scale User Group	Cray & Microsoft – Run HPC Applications Seamlessly on Microsoft Azure
0930 – 1000
1000 – 1030
1030 – 1100	Tea Break
1100 – 1130	NVIDIA – DLI Workshop Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision	NVIDIA – Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA and OpenAcc	IBM – Spectrum Scale User Group	Cray & Microsoft – Run HPC Applications Seamlessly on Microsoft Azure
1130 – 1200
1200 – 1230
1230 – 1330	Lunch Break
1330 – 1400	NVIDIA – DLI Workshop Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision	NVIDIA – Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA and OpenAcc	IBM – Spectrum Scale User Group	Cray & Microsoft – Run HPC Applications Seamlessly on Microsoft Azure
1400 – 1430
1430 – 1500
1500 – 1530
1530 – 1600
1600 – 1630	Tea Break
1630 – 1700	NVIDIA – DLI Workshop Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision	NVIDIA – Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA and OpenAcc	IBM – Spectrum Scale User Group	Cray & Microsoft – Run HPC Applications Seamlessly on Microsoft Azure
1700 – 1730
1730 – 1800
1930 – 2200	Speakers’ Reception at the Terrace at Hard Rock Bar (*By Invitation Only)

Tue, 27 Mar	Opening Plenary Venue: Ballroom East
0900 – 0910	Welcome Address by Mr Peter Ho, Chairman, NSCC Steering Committee & Welcome Remarks by Mr Gerrit Bahlman, Chairman, APAN45
0910 – 0925	Opening Speech by Guest-of-Honour, Senior Minister of State Dr Janil Puthucheary
0925 – 0945	SCA Awards Presentation & SCA18 Programme Highlights
0945 – 1015	Opening Keynote Relationship between High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence by Dr Goh Eng Lim, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
1015 – 1045	Tea Break
1045 – 1115	Keynote Constructing the world’s first open public infrastructure for advancing AI research and deployment by Dr Satoshi Sekiguchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
1115 – 1145	Keynote Toward the Global Research Platform by Prof. Thomas A. DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago
1145 – 1215	Industry Keynote Paving the Road to Exascale by Gilad Shainer, HPC & AI Advisory Council
1215 – 1330	Lunch Break

	Track: SCF Asia Papers Presentation Venue: Pisces 1	Track: Industry Venue: Pisces 2 & 3	Track: Education Venue: Pisces 4	APRP & APAN45 Venue: Virgo 1 – 4
1330 – 1400	Big Data	Anchoring AI in Singapore by Adhiraj Saxena, Manager, Industry Innovations, AI Singapore	1330 – 1340 Opening Welcome by Charlie Foo, Vice President & GM, Mellanox APJ1340 – 1400 NSCC’s Vision by A/Prof Tan Tin Wee, CE NSCC Singapore	Towards an Asia Pacific Research Platform (APRP) and Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meeting (APAN45)
	HHVSF: A Framework to Accelerate Drug-based High-throughput Virtual Screening on High-Performance Computers
1400 – 1430	HBasechainDB — A Scalable Blockchain Framework on Hadoop Ecosystem	Networking Technologies for AI HPC	The Vision of HPC & AI Advisory Council by Gilad Shainer, Chairman of HPC-AI Advisory Council
		Network Computing: Accelerate HPC & AI Performance by Avi Telyas, Director of Solution Engineering, Mellanox APAC
1430 – 1500	DETOUR: A Large-Scale Non-Blocking Optical Data Center Fabric	AI HPC Processor and Architecture	Industrial-Level Deep Learning Training Infrastructure: the Practice and Experience from SenseTime by Dr. Shengen Yan, Research Director, SenseTime Group Limited
		Reconfigurable Accelerator Platform with Intel FPGAs by Robin Liu, Business Development Manager, Intel PSG Asia-Pac
1500 – 1530	Querying Large Scientific Data Sets with Adaptable IO System ADIOS	New era in supercomputing- a wide variety of choices! by Rajesh Chhabra, General Manager-South East Asia, Greater China & Western Australia, Cray	RDMA over ML/DL and Big Data Framework by Ido Shamay, Software Architect, Mellanox
1530 – 1600	On the Performance of Spark on HPC Systems: Towards a Complete Picture	HPE Exascale HPC Strategy, Technologies and Status
1600 – 1630	Tea Break
1630 – 1700	Big Data	Storage and Data Management for AI-HPC	Why AI Frameworks Need RDMA by Dr. Bairen Yi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Towards an Asia Pacific Research Platform (APRP) and Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meeting (APAN45)
	Experiences of Converging Big Data Analytics Frameworks with High Performance Computing Systems	Compute, Storage and Interconnects – Performance and Usage Scenarios by Sandeep Lodha, CEO Netweb
1700 – 1730	Linear Algebra	Parallel File System Implementation for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Computing by Carlos Thomaz & Shuichi Ihara, DDN	Student Cluster Competition (SSC) Experience Sharing by Liu Siyuan, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), SC17 SSC Winning Team 1730 – 1800 HPC-AI Competition Launch by NSCC + HPC-AI AC 1800 – 1810 Lucky Draw by Mellanox & NTU
	High Performance LOBPCG Method for Solving Multiple Eigenvalues of Hubbard Model: Efficiency of Communication Avoiding Neumann Expansion Preconditioner
1730 – 1800	Application of a Preconditioned Chebyshev Basis Communication-Avoiding Conjugate Gradient Method to a Multiphase Thermal-Hydraulic CFD Code	Managing Trillions of Research Data Files by David Honey, HPE APAC HPC & AI – Data Management & Storage Principal Consultant
1800 – 1830	Optimization of Hierarchical Matrix Computation on GPU	AI for HPC and HPC for AI Workflows: The Differences, Gaps and Opportunities with Data Management by Dr Rangan Sukumar, Cray Inc
1930 – 2200	Networking Reception at S.E.A. Aquarium

Wed, 28 Mar	Plenary Venue: Pisces 1 – 4
0900 – 0930	Keynote Creating 21st Century Global Research Platforms for Science: Emerging Architecture, Techniques, and Technologies by Prof. Joe Mambretti, International Center for Advanced Internet Research, Northwestern University
0930 – 1000	Industry Keynote Drive AI To Enter New Stage by Qingchun Song, Mellanox APAC
1000 – 1030	Industry Keynote Medical Discoveries when Big Data, AI & HPC Converge by Dr Rangan Sukumar, Cray Inc
1030 – 1100	Tea Break

	Track: SCF Asia Papers Presentation Venue: Pisces 1	Track: Industry Venue: Pisces 2 & 3	Track: CoNGA Venue: Pisces 4	Track: Precision Medicine Venue: Gemini 2
1100 – 1130	GPU/FPGA	AI-HPC Platforms and Infrastructure	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)	1100 – 1105 Welcoming Address by Dr Kenneth Ban, Chair, Precision Medicine Track 1105 – 1125 The National Precision Initiative – Landscape and Strategic Outlook by Prof Tai E-Shyong, Head, Precision Medicine NUHS, co-chair Precision Medicine Steering Committee 1130 – 1230 Morning Presentations: Precision Medicine in Singapore – Where Are We Today? Session Chair: Dr Kenneth Ban, Chair, PM Track Dr Nicolas Bertin, GIS, c-BIG Program Manager, A*STAR Dr Benedict Yan, Director, Molecular Diagnosis Centre, NUH Mr Rob Smith, Senior Solution Specialist – Higher Ed & Research, Microsoft APAC Dr Sidney Yee, CEO, DxD Hub, ETPL
1100 – 1130	MACC: An OpenACC Transpiler for Automatic Multi-GPU Use	Executing AI Projects Successfully In Your Organisation by Dr. Bhushan Desam, AI Global Business Leader, Lenovo Data Center Group
1130 – 1200	Architecture of an FPGA-Based Heterogeneous System for Code-Search Problems	Meet the most demanding HPC and AI needs with help of Microsoft Azure by Luka Debeljak, APAC Manager for Azure Applications & Infrastructure, Microsoft
1200 – 1230	Acceleration of Wind Simulation Using Locally Mesh-Refined Lattice Boltzmann Method on GPU-Rich Supercomputers	Spark Over RDMA: Accelerate Big Data by Ido Shamay, Software Architect, Mellanox Technologies
1230 – 1330	Lunch Break
1330 – 1400	Performance Tools	AI-HPC Platforms and Infrastructure			Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)	1330 – 1430 Afternoon Panel: How Can Singapore Create an Eco-System to Deliver Precision Medicine? Session Chair: Dr Benedict Yan, Director, Molecular Diagnosis Centre, NUH Mr Wuling Li, Trek 2000 International Ltd Dr Mohammad Asif Khan, President, AMBIS Mr Jeffery Tay, Technology Strategist – Education, Skills & Research, Microsoft Mr Robert Hodges, Senior Director (Medtech), Investments for SGInnovate 1430 – 1530 Tea Break & Networking
1330 – 1400	TINS: A Task-Based Dynamic Helper Core Strategy for In Situ Analytics	Building an integrated AI-accelerated HPC hardware infrastructure by Francis Lam, Director of HPC Product Management, Huawei Technologies
1400 – 1430	Machine Learning Predictions for Underestimation of Job Runtime on HPC System	Building a High Performance Analytics Platform By Cheng Jang Thye, Chief Architect, Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd
1430 – 1500	A Power Management Framework with Simple DSL for Automatic Power-Performance Optimization on Power-Constrained HPC Systems	Access, Control, and Optimize HPC Clusters & Clouds with PBS Works 2018 by Dr. Bill Nitzberg, CTO of PBS Works, Altair
1500 – 1530	Scalable Data Management of the Uintah Simulation Framework for Next-Generation Engineering Problems with Radiation	Heterogeneous Supercomputing and the POWER9 Processor by Dr. H. Peter Hofstee, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research
1530 – 1600	End of SCFA	Network Accelerated AI by Elad Wind, Director of Networking Solutions, Mellanox APAC
1600 – 1630	Tea Break
1630 – 1700	Special Track: Hyperion Research	AI-HPC Platforms and Infrastructure	Conference on Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA)	This is left blank intentionally
1630 – 1700	Hyperion Research HPC Market Update	AI: Another Infrastructure? by Mr. Fumiki Negishi, Regional Sales Director for HPC/AI APJ, Data Center Group Sales, Intel
1700 – 1730		Dell EMC – A day in life … 2030 by Romain Bottier, Dell EMC HPC & AI Subject Matter Expert
1730 – 1800		Watercooling and Impact on Performance and TCO by Matthew T. Ziegler, Director HPC and AI Architecture, Lenovo

Thu, 29 Mar	Plenary Venue: Pisces 1 – 4
0900 – 0930	Industry Keynote Hybrid HPC strategies with a Hyperscale Cloud by Dr Chia Jer-Ming, Microsoft
0930 – 1000	Industry Keynote The Path Toward Tomorrow’s AI by Dr Loy Change Chen, SenseTime Group Limited
1000- 1030	Closing Ceremony SCA Outstanding Technical Paper Award Presentation Highlights of SCA18 Presenting SCA19
1030 – 1100	Tea Break

	Track: SG-JP Joint Session Venue: Pisces 1	Track: Industry Venue: Pisces 2 & 3	Track: Spectrum LSF User Group Venue: Pisces 4
1100 – 1230	Opening & Keynote 1100 – 1105 Welcome to SG-JP Joint Session by Dr. Motoi Okuda, Director RIST 1105 – 1120 Opening Speech by Minister Naohiro Tsutsumi, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan 1120 – 1130 Brief on NSCC and SG-JP Collaborations by A/Prof. Tan Tin Wee, CE NSCC 1130 – 1220 Invited Talk on “Convergence of Big Data and AI with HPC“ by Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology 1220 – 1230 Sharing of K-Computer Call for Usage by Dr. Motoi Okuda, Director RIST	Enabling Government Innovations 1100-1120 Introduction to GovTech’s Innoleap & Translational R&D Grants Programme by Vivien Chow, Director, Applied Innovation and Partnership, Government Technology Agency 1120-1205 Sharing of AI projects through Translational R&D Grants Programme “FoodAI – Food Image Recognition” by A/Prof. Steven Hoi, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University “Intelligent Case Retrieval System (ICRS)” by Dr Victor Chu, Nanyang Technological University “Email Processing and Question & Answering System (EPQAS)” by Rafael E Banchs, Research Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR 1215-1225 Ideas! Portal* 1225-1230 Q&A	1100 Opening by Hong Wei Sun, Program Director, IBM Software Defined Infrastructure 1120 Spectrum LSF Roadmap by Bill Mcmillan, Global Offering Lead, Spectrum LSF, IBM 1200 Cross-region Big Data Analytics in Weather Forecasting CMA (China Methodological Administration)
1230 – 1330	Lunch Break
1330 – 1400	Session 1- Energy Efficiency & DC Cooling 1330 – 1400 HPC Cooling Technologies by Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology 1400 – 1420 Intelligent Data Centre by Wilson Ang, Director IMDA 1420 – 1450 Beating the Law of Diminishing Returns: HPC liquid cooling by Edvard König, EKWB 1450 – 1530 Panel Discussion: The Next Generation Data Center in Singapore. What would they be and how they would impact the industry. Moderator: Mr. Vincent Lim, NSCC Panellists: Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology Prof. Lee Poh Seng, Associate Professor, Micro Thermal Systems Group, National University of Singapore Wilson Ang, Director, Infocomm Media Development of Singapore Dennis Wee, Head (Innovation and Process Improvements), Keppel Data Centres Holding Pte Ltd Joshua Au, Head (Data Centre), Agency for Science, Technology and Research	1330 – 1420 Panel Discussion: AI High-performance Computing in Fintech by Sinuhe Arroyo, CEO, Taiger Swara Mehta, Senior Vice President, Technology Group – Data Science, GIC Johnson Poh, Head of Data Science, DBS 1420 – 1510 Panel Discussion: “Will AI High-performance Computing Replace Data Scientists?” by Drew Perez, Managing Director, Adatos 1510 – 1600 Panel Discussion: AI High-performance Computing in Biotech by Aneesh Sathe, CEO, Qritive Hossein Nejati, Chief Technology Officer, KroniKare Huang Chao-Hui, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, MSD Moderator: To be confirmed	1300 – 1330 Customer Sharing – LSF Explorer, A light tool for your LSF data insight 1330 – 1400 Cognitive Scheduling
1400 – 1430			BP Sharing – LSF Suite, the best one-stop HPC Solution by Chang Hua Luo, Senior Director, ClusterTech
1430 – 1500			Hybrid Cloud in Spectrum LSF by Xun Pan, Architect, Spectrum LSF, IBM
1500 – 1530			Spectrum LSF use case/client story
1530 – 1600	Session 2 – Aerospace Sharing by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency by Naoyuki Fujita, Manager, JAXA Supercomputer Division		Q&A Session, Site Report & Wrap up
1600 – 1630	Tea Break
1630 – 1700	Session 3 – Smart City Toward disaster-resilient and sustainable society — Examples of recent simulations on the K computer by Dr. Shinichi Iga, RIST, Japan Virtual Singapore by Dr. Lou Jing, IHPC, A*STAR	AI6 Challenge Top 3 Winners Presentations	Spectrum LSF user group
1700 – 1730
1730 – 1800

*Please note that the programme may be subject to changes.