Supercomputing Frontiers : 6th Asian Conference, SCFA 2020 Singapore, February 24–27, 2020 Proceedings

Abstract

As the share of supercomputers in Asia continues to increase, the relevance of supercomputing merits a supercomputing conference for Asia. Supercomputing Asia (SCA 2020) was planned to be an umbrella of notable supercomputing events that promote a vibrant HPC ecosystem in Asian countries. With over 600 speakers, participants, and exhibitors already pre-registered to attend, SCA20 was on course to be the biggest SCA conference yet. It was planned to be held during February 24–27, 2020, at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre. Unfortunately, the physical conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the current proceedings contain the list of papers selected under its technical paper program. The technical program of SCA19 provided a platform for leaders from both academia and industry to interact and to discuss visionary ideas, important global trends, and substantial innovations in supercomputing. SCA19 was attended by over 700 delegates from over 20 different countries. In March 2017, the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore hosted the Supercomputing Frontiers (SCF 2017). NSCC expanded the scope of SCF by embarking on the first Supercomputing Frontiers Asia (SCFA) technical paper program at SCA 2018. NSCC was established in 2015 and manages Singapore’s first national petascale facility with available HPC resources to support science and engineering computing needs for academic, research, and industry communities. SCFA represents the technical program for SCA 2020, consisting of four tracks: – Application, Algorithms, and Libraries – Architecture, Network/Communications, and Management – Data, Storage, and Visualization – Programming Models and Systems Software The submitted papers for the technical papers program went through a rigorous peer review process by an International Program Committee. A set of eight papers were finally selected for inclusion in these proceedings. The accepted papers cover a range of topics including file systems, memory hierarchy, HPC cloud platform, container image configuration workflow, large-scale applications, and scheduling. I would like thank all authors for their submissions to this conference. My sincere thanks to all Program Committee members for doing high-quality and in-depth reviewing of the submissions and selecting the papers for this year’s program. I would like to thank the conference organizers for giving me an opportunity to serve this year’s conference as the technical papers chair. To the readers, please enjoy these proceedings.