INVITED SCIENTIFIC TALKS AND PANELS (SELECTION)
2023
IT44. “Revolutionizing HPC Operations & Research”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Keynote at HPCMASPA workshop at IEEE Cluster 2023.
IT43. “Sustainable and Scalable Simulations for Computational Sciences”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited panel talk at the Sibiu Innovation Days (SID 2023), Sibiu, Romania, October 5-6, 2023 (video).
IT42. “Unlocking Data Locality in Imbalanced Supercomputers: Unveiling the Energy Perspective”,
Speaker: O. S. Simsek
Invited talk at 6th Programming and Abstractions for Data Locality Workshop (PADAL), Istanbul, Turkey, September 4-6, 2023.
IT41. “Accurately Measuring Energy Consumption of Large Cosmological Simulations”,
Speaker: O. S. Simsek
Invited talk at PASC23 MS6G mini-symposium on “Green Computing Architectures and Tools for Scientific Computing”, Davos, Switzerland, June 26-28, 2023.
IT40. “Outlook on Loop Scheduling Between Theory and Practice”,
Speaker: A. Eleliemy
Invited talk at PASC23 MS4H mini-symposium on “ Breaking the Silos to Enhance HPC Impact”, Davos, Switzerland, June 26-28, 2023.
IT39. “SPH-EXA: A Framework for Scalable, Flexible, and Extensible Astrophysical and Cosmological Simulations”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the 35th Workshop on Sustained Simulation Performance Workshop, Stuttgart, Germany, April 13-14, 2023.
IT38. “Automated Scheduling Algorithm Selection in OpenMP”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the Scheduling Variable Capacity Resources for Sustainability Workshop, Paris, France, March 29-31, 2023.
IT37. “Automated Scheduling Algorithm Selection in OpenMP”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the Leogang HPC Workshop, Leogang, Austria, March 27, 2023.
IT36. “Multilevel Scheduling in Action for Data Analysis Pipelines with DAPHNE“,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the Resource-Aware Data Science at IT University of Copenhagen, February 13, 2023.
IT35. “Die verborgene Seite der Digitalisierung – wie viel Energie benötigen wir für unsere Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien?“,
Panelists: K. Berrendorf, F. M. Ciorba, F. Bürkli, Moderator: Urs Gredig
Invited panel discussion in the event series “Digitization – what now?” by uptownBasel and the Responsible Digital Society Research Network (University of Basel), January 25, 2023.
IT34. “Multilevel Scheduling Reflection on DAPHNE”,
Speaker: A. Eleliemy
Invited talk at EVEREST+DAPHNE: Workshop on Design and Programming High-performance, distributed, reconfigurable and heterogeneous platforms for extreme-scale analytics, held at the HiPEAC 2023 Conference, January 18, 2023.
2022
IT33. “Automated Scheduling Algorithm Selection and Chunk Parameter Calculation in OpenMP”,
Speaker: A. Mohammed
Invited talk at the SC22 OpenMP Booth at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, November 14-17, 2022. (slides, video, paper)
IT32. “Multilevel Scheduling and Load Balancing in Scientific Applications“,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited keynote talk at the 1st NHR4CES Community Workshop: The Role of High-Performance Computing in Computational Engineering Science, June 21, 2022 (online).
IT31. “Scheduling of Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the 12th Leogang 2022 HPC Workshop, Leogang, Austria, March 2022.
2021
IT30. “Quantitative Codesign of Supercomputers“,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited panel talk at the SC21 Quantitative Codesign of Supercomputers Symposium, November 19, 2021.
IT29. “Multilevel Scheduling and Load Balancing in Scientific Applications“,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the ISC Digital 2021 Invited Program, Track Parallel Programming and Performance Modelling, Focus Session Overcoming Challenges in Exascale Programming, July 1, 2021 (online).
IT28. “Multilevel Scheduling and Load Balancing in Scientific Applications“,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited seminar talk at the Computational Research and Programming Laboratory (CRPL), University of Delaware, June 22, 2021 (online).
IT27. “To Study or Not to Study Computer Science“,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the launch event of the “We are Computer Science” student association of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, April 13, 2021 (slides).
2020
IT26. “LB4OMP: A Load Balancing Portfolio for OpenMP”,
Speaker: J. H. Müller Korndörfer
Invited talk at the SC20 OpenMP Booth at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, September 23, 2020. (video)
2019
IT25. “Robust Dynamic Load Balancing of Scientific Applications Against System Variability and Failures”
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk in MS79 on Resilience and Fault Tolerance for Extreme Computing Systems at the SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (SIAM PP20), Seattle, WA, USA, February 12-15, 2020. ( slides )
IT24. “Dynamic Load Balancing of Loops in OpenMP”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the OpenMP booth at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Denver, CO, USA, November 19, 2019. (video)
IT23. “A Lifetime of Scheduling”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the Wolfgang E. Nagel Honorary Colloquium, Dresden, Germany, October 2019.
IT22. “Data Analysis for Improving High Performance Computing Operations and Research”,
Speaker: A. Cavelan
Invited talk at the Logging and Monitoring Workshop, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, on October 3, 2019.
IT21. “SPH-EXA: A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Mini-app for Exascale Computing”
Speakers: F. M. Ciorba and A. Cavelan
Invited talk at PASC19 MS39 mini-symposium on “Breaking the Wall in Computational Astrophysics: Current Bottlenecks and How to Address them towards the Exascale Era ”, Zurich, Switzerland, June 14, 2019.
IT20. “Toward Intelligent Scheduling for High Performance Scientific Applications”
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at Asian Supercomputing Challenge (ASC) 2019 HPC Connection Workshop, Dalian, China, April 24, 2019.
IT19. “A Look into Well-Known HPC Benchmarks”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the 11th Leogang 2019 HPC Workshop, Leogang, Austria, February 2019.
2018
IT18. “SPH-EXA: Optimizing Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Exascale Computing”
Speakers: F. M. Ciorba and R. M. Cabezón
Invited talk at PASC18 MS02 mini-symposium on “Capability Computing, Performance Portability, and Co-Design in the PASC Projects”, Basel, Switzerland, July 3, 2018.
IT17. “OpenMP Loop Scheduling Revisited: Making a Case for More Schedules”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited speaker at the 6th ADAC: Accelerated Data Analytics and Computing Institute workshop, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2018. (video)
IT16. “Career Panel for Women in Computer Science”
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited Speaker at CSNOW ETH Zurich Panel, Zurich, Switzerland, May 2, 2018.
IT15. “OpenMP Loop Scheduling Revisited: Making a Case for More Schedules”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the 10th Leogang 2018 HPC Workshop, Leogang, Austria, February 2018.
2017
IT14. “On Multilevel Scheduling in HPC”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the 9th Leogang 2017 HPC Workshop, Leogang, Austria, March 2017.
IT13. “A Study of Dynamic Loop Scheduling on Modern Manycore Architectures”
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited speaker at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, February 2017.
2016
IT12. “Scheduling and Load Balancing in High-Performance Computing: A Multilevel Approach”
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, December 2016.
IT11. “The value of and need for system monitoring in HPC operations and research”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk in the 3rd Baden-Würtenberg HPC Symposium (online agenda), University of Heidelberg, Germany, October 12, 2016.
IT10. “Performance Modeling and Optimization in High Performance Computing”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba.
Invited talk at the 2016 Competence Center for Computational Sciences Research Seminar (online program), at the University of Basel, Switzerland, on April 5, 2016.
IT9. “Modeling System Behavior: A Monitoring or a Big Data Challenge?”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the 8th Leogang 2016 HPC Workshop, Leogang, Austria, February 28-March 3, 2016.
IT8. “Modeling Resilience in High Performance Computers”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Lugano, Switzerland, February 9, 2016.
2015
IT7. “To choose or not to choose a career in computer science”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk in the course “Anwendungen der Informatik/Applications of Computer Science” at the University of Basel, Switzerland, October 12, 2015.
2014
IT6. “Performance optimization for scientific computing: From theory to applications”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the University of Basel, Switzerland, October 09, 2014.
IT5. “Performance Optimization for Scientific Computing: From Theory to Applications”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited lecture at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, February 07, 2014.
2013
IT4. “Towards simulation-based prediction of performance and energy-efficiency of future parallel computing systems”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited seminar at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA, November 22, 2013.
2012
IT3. “Design of a trace-based discrete event simulation framework for hybrid parallel applications”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the 4th Leogang 2012 HPC Workshop (online program), Leogang, Austria, February 27, 2012.
2008
IT2. “Enhancing self-scheduling algorithms via synchronization and weighting”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited talk at the 2nd Scheduling in Aussois Workshop, Aussois, France, May 19, 2008.
IT1. “Algorithms design for the parallelization of nested loops”,
Speaker: F. M. Ciorba
Invited seminar at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, USA, September 24, 2007.