BLIS Retreat 2018 Program

Contributed talks

Monday Sept. 17

08:30-09:00 Breakfast
(breakfast tacos, pastries, coffee)
09:00-09:10 Welcome Robert van de Geijn, UT-Austin
09:10-09:40 Looking back on another year of progress
[ slides ] [ video ]
Field Van Zee, UT-Austin
09:40-09:50 BLIS Performs
[ slides ] [ video ] [ poster ]
Devangi Parikh, UT-Austin
09:50-10:00 Investig ations into GEMM on the Cavium Thunder X2
[ video ]
Joe Dobson, ARM
10:00-11:00 Discussion/Coffee
11:00-11:10 Analysis of BLIS Multithreaded GEMM and HPC workloads
[ slides ] [ video ]
Pradeep Rao, AMD
11:10-11:20 Intel MKL Vectorized Compact Routines
[ slides ] [ video ]
Mesut Meterelliyoz, Intel
11:20-11:30 Intel MKL small matrix multiplication optimizations using JIT compilation
[ slides ] [ video ]
Arthur Araujo Mitrano, Intel
11:30-11:40 CPU INFOrmation library
(Slides and video will not be made available)
Marat Dukhan, Facebook
11:30-01:20 Discussion/Lunch
01:20-01:30 Other BLAS Precisions Greg Henry, Intel
01:30-01:40 Flyte-MM: A Software Based Sub-Floating Point Precision GEMM
[ slides ] [ video ]
Richard Veras, LSU
01:40-01:50 Low-Precision Inference Friendly GEMM and Convolution Library: Interface and Implementation
Daya Khudia, Facebook
01:50-02:00 Supporting Mixed Domain/Precision in BLIS
[ slides ] [ video ]
Field Van Zee, UT-Austin
02:00-03:00 Discussion/Coffee
03:00-03:10 Sharing a BLISful State
[ slides ]
Maggie Myers, UT-Austin
03:10-03:20 Julia, BLIS, and Pedagogy
[ slides ] [ video ]

Examples on Github:
Sacha Verweij, Stanford
and Jane Herriman, Caltech and Julia Computing
03:20-03:30 Making Julia more inclusive and accessible
[ slides ] [ video ]
Jane Herriman, Caltech and Julia Computing
03:30-04:15 Discussion/Coffee
04:15-04:30 Outcomes Day 1 Robert van de Geijn, UT-Austin

We will need to vacate the room since there is another function at 5:30 for which the room needs to be prepared. Feel free to move to the 5th floor of the south building for further discussions. (Near my office: GDC 5.704.)

5:30 - ??? Beer and food at Crown & Anchor Pub.

Tuesday Sept. 18

08:30-09:00 Breakfast
(breakfast tacos, pastries, coffee)
09:00-09:10 Lots of things look like matrices
[ video ]
Devin Matthews, SMU
09:10-09:20 Linear algebra in ab initio computational chemistry
[ slides ] [ video ]
Evgeny Epifanovsky, Q-Chem
09:20-09:30 Parallel Nonnegative CP Decomposition of Dense Tensors
[ slides ] [ video ]
Koby Hayashi
09:30-09:40 Notation for distributed-memory parallel tensor computations
(Slides and video will not be made available)
Martin Schatz, Facebook
09:40-10:40 Discussion/Coffee
10:40-10:50 Extending the BLIS analytical model to GPUs
[ slides ] (video available by request to author)
Tze Meng Low, CMU
10:50-11:00 CUTLASS
[ video ]
Cris Cecka, NVIDIA
11:00-11:10 Strassen's Algorithm Reloaded for GPUs
[ video ]
Chenhan Yu, UT-Austin/NVIDIA
11:10-11:20 Multi-GPU GEMM: A cache-based approach
(Slides and video will not be made available)
Paul Springer, NVIDIA
11:20-12:20 Discussion/Coffee
12:20-12:30 Outcomes Day 2 Robert van de Geijn, UT-Austin