ModSim 2023

Date: August 9–11, 2023

Motivation

Over the years, this workshop has provided a forum for engaging, educating and growing the modeling and simulation (ModSim) research community from academia, industry, and government. In addition to closely surveying the current state of the art, the ModSim workshop has addressed areas that have been crucial to expanding ModSim-related research, and foster advances in methods, uses, and reach for ModSim. Areas of emphasis include examining relevant system architecture trends, quantitative co-design, new tools and technologies, or the impact of advances in computing technologies at all scales from the processor to the extreme, to name a few. This year, we look forward to engaging the still-growing community as we take a look at "ModSim for Disruptive Technologies."

Workshop Agenda

Speaker Presentations

Day 1: August 9

• What You Should Know About the CHIPS Act
  Bob Colwell (Independent Consultant)
• A View of Post-Exascale Computational Science and the Emerging Mix of HPC, AI, and Quantum
  Rick Stevens (Argonne National Laboratory)
• Digital Twins and Omniverse Workloads and System Design
  Ian Karlin (Nvidia)
• Towards smart(er) High-Performance Networking Driving Future Simulations
  Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich)
• Classical Simulation and Noise Modeling to Advance Quantum Frontiers
  Gokul Subramanian Ravi (University of Chicago)
• Challenges in AI Infrastructure for Enterprise Foundation Models
  Jeff Burns (IBM Research)
• Modeling and Simulation Challenges of Neuromorphic Architectures
  Suma George Cardwell (Sandia National Laboratories)

Day 2: August 10

• Modeling and Simulating Future Computer Architectures for Data-intensive Applications
  Bill Harrod (IARPA)
• Co-Design and Systems Modeling for Advanced Scientific Computing Research
  Hal Finkel (Office of Science; U.S. Department of Energy)
• Performance Modelling Facing Disruptive Technologies on the Horizon
  Gerhard Wellein (Erlangen National Center for HPC)

Day 3: August 11

• Realizing Petabit/s IO and sub-pJ/bit System-wide Communication with Silicon Photonics
  Keren Bergman (Columbia University)

Workshop Venue

University of Washington Botanic Gardens - Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st Street
Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Our Sponsors

Event ID: 44243
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

ModSim 2022

Date: August 10–12, 2022

Motivation

Over the years, this workshop has provided a forum for educating and growing the modeling and simulation (ModSim) research community. In addition to closely surveying the current state of the art, the ModSim workshop has addressed areas that have been crucial to expanding ModSim-related research, including examining relevant system architecture trends, co-design implications, new tools and technologies, and even the impact of exascale, to name a few. This year, we look forward to engaging the still-growing community as we assess Reflections on "ModSim: Successes, Failures, and the Future."

Workshop Agenda

Speaker Presentations

Day 1: August 10

• You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
  David Mountain (Laboratory of Physical Sciences)
• A Retrospective Look at SPEC Benchmarking, including Successes and Failures
  John Henning (Oracle)
• Applications and ModSim: How the two are Intertwined
  Tom Gibbs (Nvidia)
• Modeling and Simulation in the Exascale Computing Project
  Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Profiling and Modeling for Application and System Analysis
  Heidi Poxon (Amazon Web Services)
• Principal Kernel Analysis: A Tractable Methodology to Simulate Scaled GPU Workloads
  Tim Rogers (Purdue University)

Day 2: August 11

• A Decade of Design to Reach Exascale for ModSim
  Al Geist (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
• The Modeling and Simulation Process for Large IBM Systems
  Jose Moreira (IBM)
• Towards FugakuNEXT - Experiences of Fugaku and Path Moving Forward
  Satoshi Matsuoka (RIKEN)

Day 3: August 12

• Scientific Computing Beyond the Exascale Era
  Horst Simon (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
• Modeling and Self-evaluation for Accelerator Control and Performance
  Kevin Brown (Brookhaven National Lab)
• Challenges and Directions in Modeling Cloud Performance
  Abhishek Dhanotia (Meta)

Workshop Venue

University of Washington Botanic Gardens - Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st Street
Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Our Sponsors

Event ID: 43175
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

ModSim 2021

Date: October 5–8, 2021

Motivation

Over the years, this workshop has provided a forum for educating and growing the modeling and simulation (ModSim) research community. In addition to closely surveying the current state of the art, the ModSim workshop has addressed areas that have been crucial to expanding ModSim-related research, including examining relevant system architecture trends, co-design implications, new tools and technologies, and even the impact of exascale, to name a few. This year, we look forward to engaging the still-growing community as we assess Modeling and Simulation in the Artificial Intelligence Era.

Workshop Agenda

Speaker Presentations

• ESP: An Open-Source Platform for Collaborative Design of Heterogeneous Systems
  Luca Carloni (Columbia University)

• Enabling Large Architectural Design Space Exploration Using Machine Learning
  Lizhong Chen (Oregon State University)

• High-Performance Scalable Deep Learning
  Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

• Challenges and Directions in ML System Performance: The MLPerf™ Story
  David Kanter (MLCommons)

• FlyBrainLab: a Complete Programming Environment for Discovering the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain
  Aurel Lazar (Columbia University)

• A Unified Framework for Performance Analysis and Optimization of Memory Systems
  Jason Liu (Florida International University)

• Accelerating Simulation via AI-derived Reduced-Order Models
  Serge Leef (DARPA)

• Accelerating Computational Fluid Dynamics with ML/AI at AMD
  Nicholas Malaya (Advanced Micro Devices - AMD)

• Wafer-scale Processors for HPC
  Rob Schreiber (Cerebras Systems, Inc.)

• Modeling Modern GPU Applications in gem5
  Matt Sinclair (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• The Price Performance of Performance Models
  Felix Wolf (University of Darmstadt)

• Improving Model Performance, Portability and Productivity with Apache TVM and the Octomizer
  Luis Ceze (University of Washington)

• Computer Architecture Simulation Using Machine Learning
  Adolfy Hoisie (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Rapid Fire: Contributing Presentations

• NPUsim: Full-System, Cycle-Accurate, Function Simulations of Deep Neural Network Accelerators
  Bogil Kim: (Yonsei University)
• CrossSim: GPU-Accelerated Simulation of Analog Neural Networks
  T. Patrick Xiao (Sandia National Laboratories)
• Fast Trace-Driven Simulation of Programmable Heterogeneous Accelerators
  Subhankar Pal (University of Michigan)
• Machine Learning Model Exploration for Accurate and Fast Microarchitecture Simulation
  Lingda Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• Democratizing Computer SystemSimulation with a Components Library
  Bobby Bruce (University of California, Davis)
• Enabling Holistic Machine-Learning Hardware Evaluation via Full-System Simulation
  Y. Sophia Shao (University of California, Berkeley)
• Design Space-Aware Statistical Simulation with Machine Learning
  Thomas Flynn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• UNION: A HW-SW Co-Design Ecosystem in MLIR for Evaluating Tensor Operations on Spatial Accelerators
  Geonhwa Jeong (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Using AI for Self-Driving Networks
  Mariam Kiran (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• ASTRA-sim: Enabling SW/HW Co-Design Exploration for Distributed Deep Learning Training Platforms
  Tushar Krishna (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Trace Generation of Machine Learning Workloads with GTReplay For Intel integrated-GPU Modeling
  Jaewon Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Sing Occam for Reducing Search Space for Multiobjective Optimization through Machine Learning Models
  Daniel Mosse (University of Pittsburgh)
• ATHENA: A High Efficiency Codesign Tool for Novel Accelerators
  Mark Plagge (Sandia National Laboratories)
• SST-Explorer: Enabling System-level Performance and Reliability Analysis for Designs with Real-World IPs
  Arun Rodrigues (Sandia National Laboratories)
• Accurately Modeling Sparse Accesses for Benchmarking and Architectural Simulation
  Jeffrey Young (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Workshop Venue

UPDATE (Aug. 10, 2021): Due to ongoing travel considerations and public health and safety concerns posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ModSim Committee has decided to host the 2021 workshop virtually. The virtual workshop will span four days, beginning on Tuesday, October 05 through Friday, October 08, 2021. Each day will begin at 8:00 AM PDT. Once complete, the final ModSim 2021 agenda will be posted online. We look forward to welcoming all speakers, presenters, and attendees to virtual ModSim 2021.

Our Sponsors

Event ID: 42333
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

ModSim 2020

Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2020

The ModSim 2020 Organizing Committee would like to thank all of the speakers, participants, and attendees for joining us at this first-ever virtual version of Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Systems and Applications. We appreciate everyone's efforts to support and grow our research community and look forward to seeing you again (in person) next year.

Motivation

Over the years, this workshop has provided a forum for educating and growing the modeling and simulation (ModSim) research community. In addition to closely surveying the current state of the art, the ModSim workshop has addressed areas that have been crucial to expanding ModSim-related research, including examining relevant system architecture trends, co-design implications, new tools and technologies, and even the impact of exascale, to name a few. This year, we look forward to engaging the still-growing community as we assess Modeling and Simulation in the Artificial Intelligence Era.

Workshop Agenda

Organizing Committee

Steering Committee

Workshop Venue

The ModSim 2020: Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Systems and Applications initially scheduled for August 12-14, 2020 in Seattle, Washington, now will be hosted as a "virtual" event. The ModSim Committee has made the decision due to the wide-spread travel and gathering restrictions, and prevalent health and safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The virtual workshop will be a  half-day event on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. The formal agenda and schedule will be posted shortly. Please note that ModSim 2020 remains a "invitation-only" event. However, the ModSim Committee will consider extending invitations to colleagues in the community by request. Anyone interested in attending or inviting a colleague to the virtual workshop should contact Logistics Coordinator, Patricia Foy at pfoy@bnl.gov.

Our Sponsors

Event ID: 41489
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

ModSim 2019

Date: August 14, 2019–August 16, 2019

Motivation

Over the years, this workshop has provided a forum for educating and growing the modeling and simulation (ModSim) research community. In addition to closely surveying the current state of the art, the ModSim workshop has addressed areas that have been crucial to expanding ModSim related research, including examining relevant system architecture trends, co-design implications, new tools and technologies, and even the impact of exascale, to name a few. This year, we look forward to engaging the still-growing community as we assess Full-system Modeling and Simulation, where we will take an integrative view of systems; discuss leading-edge technology; and stake out future directions in methods, tools, and initiatives.

Workshop Agenda

Speaker Presentations

• Fit Fly: A Case Study on Interconnect Innovation Through Parallel Simulation
  Chris Carothers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• ModSim as Part of the ECP Hardware Evaluation Project
  David Donofrio (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Scaling Insights to Exascale: An Integration of Simulation and Modeling
  Dan Ernst (Cray)
• Predictive Modeling for Heterogeneous System Design
  Andreas Gerstlauer (University of Texas)
• State of the Art in Modeling of Memory Systems
  Bruce Jacob (University of Maryland)
• Compute Cache Architecture for the Acceleration of Mission-Critical Data Analytics
  Herman Lam (University of Florida)
• Gem5, Interoperability, and Improving Simulation Methodology
  Jason Lowe-Power (UC Davis)
• Architecture for Neuromorphic Computing
  Rajit Manohar (Yale University)
• The first 'Exascale' Supercomputer
  Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Enabling Processor Design Space Exploration with SimEng
  Simon McIntosh-Smith (Bristol University)
• NanoSystems - The N3XT 1,000X
  Subhasish Mitra (Stanford University)
• Benchmark Modeling and Projections - Summit and Sierra Supercomputers
  Jaime Moreno (IBM)
• Project 38 Success Requires ModSim
  David Mountain (NSA/DOD)
• Architecting and Programming of Future Extremely Heterogeneous Systems
  Jeff Vetter (Oak Ridge National Lab)
• Simulation by Composition: Using Models as Building Blocks to Enable Simulation of Complex Node Architectures
  Gwen Voskuilen (Sandia)

Workshop Venue

University of Washington Botanic Gardens - Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st Street
Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Our Sponsors

Event ID: 39646
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

ModSim 2018

Date: August 15–17, 2018

Motivation

Over the past several years, this workshop has contributed to the expansion of the modeling and simulation (ModSim) research community by providing a close forum for analyzing how ModSim methods can impact applications and systems evolution. We look forward to engaging the still-growing community as we assess how far we have come and examine the road ahead for ModSim research and development.

Workshop Agenda

Workshop Venue

University of Washington Botanic Gardens - Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st Street
Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Event ID: 37925
Workshop website hosted and maintained by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

Workshop websites hosted and maintained by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).