SST User Group Meeting
September 25-26th, to be held at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 1116 E/W
The Structural Simulation Toolkit (SST) user group meeting will be held on the Georgia Tech campus on September 25th and 26th. This user event is hosted by the Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH) and will include presentations by SST users as well as discussions of future efforts to grow the SST codebase and user community.
Event Location
We will be meeting in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building in the main room off the atrium, Klaus 1116 E/W. Please see below for more detailed directions.
Event Sponsors
Webinar Link
We anticipate this will primarily be an in-person event. However, if you are unable to travel but are interested in the activities of the SST User Group, we have created a best-effort Zoom webinar option.
Please note that you should have received a login from your registration or a passcode to connect in the welcome email. If you did not receive either of these emails please contact the event organizers below.
Registration
Thanks to generous sponsorship, this user group meeting will be free to attend. However, you must be registered to attend this event, so we can plan for catering for breakfast and lunch each day. Registration is now closed.
Call for Lightning Talks
Lightning talk proposals are closed.
Agenda
Monday, September 25th
| Time (EDT) | Session | Presenters |
| 8-8:40 | Breakfast and Registration | |
| 8:40 | Welcome and Introduction | Scott Hemmert and Gwen Voskuilen |
| Co-Design | ||
| 9:00 | Designing the HPE Slingshot Network with SST for Exascale Systems | Todd Carrington (HPE) |
| 9:25 | Modelling Next Generation High Performance Computing Fabrics | Dean Chester (Cornelis Networks) |
| 9:50 | Architecting an Innovative Supercomputer With SST | Aditya Deshpande (Samsung) |
| 10:15 | Q-adaptive Project: from Intelligent Routing to Workload Interference Mitigation on Dragonfly Systems | Zhiling Lan (University of Illinois Chicago) |
| 10:25 | Speaker Panel | |
| 10:40 | Break and Networking | |
| Scalability and Tools | ||
| 11:05 | To Infinity and Beyond: Extreme Scale SST Simulation Tuning | John Leidel (TCL) |
| 11:30 | Streamlining SST workflows with a simulation pipeline | Andreas Freund (Cornelis Networks) |
| 11:40 | Creating Dynamic Visualizations using SST Simulation Output Using Low Overhead WebGL-based Interfaces | Ryan Kabrick (TCL) |
| 11:50 | Speaker Panel | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Discussion: Core Roadmap and Future Directions | SST Team |
| 2:15 | Break and Networking | |
| Node-level Models | ||
| 2:40 | Simulating CXL-based multi-systems using gem5-SST Infrastructure | Jason Lowe-Power (UC Davis) |
| 2:50 | Experiences using SST to build cycle-level many-core CPU simulations with SimEng | Jack Jones (University of Bristol) |
| 3:00 | Multifidelity Memory System Modeling in SST | Patrick Lavin (SNL/GaTech) |
| 3:25 | Extending Vanadis’s RISC-V ISA to Support the RoCC Interface | Austin Weatherly (SNL/GaTech) |
| 3:35 | Simulating more than just hardware: The challenge of applications | David Donofrio (TCL) |
| 3:45 | Speaker Panel | |
| 4:00 | Day 1 End |
Tuesday, September 26th
| Time | Session | Presenters |
| 7:45-8:30 | Breakfast and Registration | |
| 8:30 | Discussion: Contributing to SST | SST Team |
| 10:00 | Break and Networking | |
| Modeling Spatial Architectures | ||
| 10:30 | ERAS: A Flexible and Scalable Framework for Seamless Integration of RTL models with Structural Simulation Toolkit | Shubham Nema (NCSU) |
| 10:55 | MMIO Balar with CUDA Programs on SST | Weili An (Purdue) |
| 11:20 | Designing Multi-Tensor Core Systems in SST | Taekyung Heo (Postdoc Researcher, Georgia Tech) |
| 11:35 | Enabling Detailed Cycle-Level Simulation of AI and HPC Applications with Detailed Memory Hierarchy using SST-STONNE | Raveesh Garg (PhD Candidate, Georgia Tech) |
| 11:50 | Modeling Spatial Architectures with SST | Clay Hughes (Sandia) |
| 12:00 | Speaker Panel | |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15 | Discussion: Wrap-up and Next Steps | |
| 2:30 | Day 2 End |
Event Logistics
Dining Suggestions
Travel and Transporation
The event venue is located in Midtown Atlanta, which is easily accessible from Hartsfield-Jackson airport via rideshare, taxi, or the MARTA rail system. We will be meeting in the main Klaus conference room off the atrium, Klaus 1116 E/W. Please see below for a picture of the entrance to the Klaus atrium.
To take MARTA and the Tech Trolley to Klaus Advanced Computing Building
(Additional map to Klaus https://www.scs.gatech.edu/content/building-facilities)
- Take the RED or GOLD train to the 10th street MARTA station. Either line will stop at the North Avenue or 10th street stations. Tickets are $2.50 each way, and it is not worth using the MARTA app at this point in time.
- At the south exit of the train station, the Tech Trolley (a bus) will stop and pick up riders every 10-15 minutes. You can check where buses are using the Georgia Tech bus tracking website at bus.gatech.edu. It is also about a 15 minute walk from the station to Klaus.
- If you are taking the trolley, ride it 4 stops from the 10th street station to the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. It will be a large building, and the bus stop is right at the baseball field.
- You will go up the rainbow staircase. The atrium and Klaus user group meeting space will be on your right. We will be meeting in the main Klaus conference room off the atrium, Klaus 1116 E/W.
To take an Uber/Lyft to Klaus Advanced Computing Building; Meeting is in Klaus 1116 right off the atrium
It takes about 40-50 minutes to get from the airport to the Klaus building via the train and the Tech Trolley. However, if you are in a hurry, you can take a Lyft/Uber which takes about 25-30 minutes once you are picked up.
Key note: The rideshare pickups keep moving at the Atlanta airport so please check signs. As of September 2023, they are currently on the ground floor (down one floor from baggage claim) and in the North Hourly parking lot.
Hotel Information
The User Group meeting does not have a reserved hotel block for attendees. Most of the hotels in Midtown Atlanta (North Avenue – 14th Street) are reasonable as far as price, ratings, and distance to campus. You may want to either select the GT Hotel or a hotel near the 10th Street MARTA station so that you can take the Tech Trolley to the Klaus building on campus.
Recommended Hotels
- Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center (in Tech Square)
- Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel
- Hyatt Centric Midtown Atlanta
- Home2Suites (slightly cheaper option)
- Courtyard by Marriott Atlanta Midtown
Event Contact
Please contact the event organizers using the CRNCH webform for any questions about this event.
Organizers: Hyesoon Kim, Jeffrey Young, Franeseya Kendrick
Co-organizers: Richard Vuduc, Tushar Krishna