[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 165 (Tuesday, August 25, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 52369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18289]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Notice of Virtual Workshop on Software in the Era of Extreme 
Heterogeneity

AGENCY: Networking and Information Technology Research and Development 
(NITRD) National Coordination Office, National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Notice of virtual workshop.

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SUMMARY: The workshop on ``Software in the Era of Extreme 
Heterogeneity'' will explore challenges and opportunities brought on by 
extreme heterogeneity of emerging and future computational platforms 
and how software and community must evolve to respond to the challenges 
being placed on high-end computing software development and 
sustainment.

DATES: September 22--24, 2020.

ADDRESSES: The workshop on ``Software in the Era of Extreme 
Heterogeneity'' will be held virtually.
    Instructions: Participation is by invitation only; limited number 
of virtual seats are available to observers. These virtual seats 
require registration and are available on a first come, first served 
basis. The registration link will be published on the workshop website 
the week before the event. For more information on the agenda, 
registration, and remote participation, please see the workshop 
website: https://www.nitrd.gov/nitrdgroups/index.php?title=Software-Extreme-Heterogeneity.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jake Fries at [email protected] and 
Ji Lee at [email protected]. Individuals who use a telecommunications 
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay 
Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 
time, Monday through Friday.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Overview. This notice is issued on behalf of 
the NITRD National Coordination Office. The agencies of NITRD High End 
Computing and Software Productivity, Stainability, and Quality 
Interagency Working Groups are jointly conducting a workshop focused on 
the software challenges of extreme heterogeneity. Experts from 
government, academia, and the private industry will discuss the 
software development and sustainment challenges and opportunities in 
extreme heterogeneity, including how productivity can be augmented in 
the emerging heterogeneous computing environment, workforce requirement 
needed to support and develop software, reducing human challenges of 
software development, evolution, and porting. The workshop will be held 
virtually on September 22-24, 2020 from 11 a.m. (ET) to 4:10 p.m. (ET).
    Goal. Experts from government, academia, and the private industry 
will discuss the software challenges and opportunities brought on by 
extreme heterogeneity, facilitate information sharing and 
collaboration, and identify research needs.
    Rationale. The state of high-end computing technology is rapidly 
changing due to the need to introduce a variety of unfamiliar hardware 
solutions to increase performance. This increasing hardware 
heterogeneity is exacerbated by memory, interconnect, and file I/O 
performance lagging behind computational capabilities leading to 
substantial demands on the programming environment to keep pace. The 
software challenges for the emerging and future computational platforms 
are substantial.

Reference Materials

[ssquf] Future Computing Community of Interest Meeting of August 5-6, 
2019, https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/FutureComputing-COI-MeetingReadout-2019.pdf
[ssquf] National Strategic Computing Initiative Update: Pioneering the 
Future of Computing, https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/National-Strategic-Computing-Initiative-Update-2019.pdf
[ssquf] 2018 Report of DOE's workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity, https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1473756

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1861.

    Submitted by the National Science Foundation in support of the 
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development National 
Coordination Office on August 17, 2020.

Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2020-18289 Filed 8-24-20; 8:45 am]
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