All talks will take place at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103. A virtual option is also available via Zoom at: https://slu.zoom.us/my/qingleicao.

Note: The in-person location varies daily. Please check the “Travel” section for details.

Scientific Program and Timetable:
TimeWed Feb 19 (Day 1)Thu Feb 20 (Day 2)Fri Feb 21 (Day 3)
08:00 AMRegistration / Coffee and PastriesRegistration / Coffee and PastriesRegistration / Coffee and Pastries
08:45 AMWelcoming Remarks
08:55 AMWAMTA'26 Preview
09:00 AMKeynote 1, Chair: Q. Cao
Alan Edelman: Improving the HPC experience: did Julia get it right or will AI hide the problem (or both)?
Keynote 2, Chair: P. Diehl
Christian Trott: Task-Graphs: Why aren't we all using them?
Keynote 3, Chair: Q. Cao
Hatem Ltaief: Chaos to Cosmos: Orchestrating Complex Scientific Applications with Dynamic Runtime Systems
10:00 AMCoffeeCoffeeCoffee
Session 1, Chair: C. JunghansSession 3, Chair: P. DiehlSession 6, Chair: Q. Cao
10:30 AMJiakun Yan: Contemplating a Lightweight Communication Interface for Asynchronous Many-Task SystemsNafees Iqbal: Type-level invariants for SPMD programming with RustJoseph Schuchart: Scalable Block-Sparse Matrix Multiplication Using Template Task Graphs
11:00 AMAurelien Bouteiller: Comparing and Contrasting User and Runtime Directed Data Placement Strategies for Owner-Compute, Multi-Accelerator Distributed Task Based SchedulingPatrick Diehl: Evaluating AI-generated code for C++, Fortran, Go, Java, Julia, Matlab, Python, R, and RustQiao Zhang: Leveraging Hardware-Aware Computation in Mixed-Precision Matrix Multiply: A Tile-Centric Approach
11:30 AMShreyas Atre: ChplX: an Asynchronous Many Task Runtime Foundation for ChapelJonas Posner: Dynamic Resource Management: Comparison of Asynchronous Many-Task (AMT) and Dynamic Processes with PSets (DPP)Panel discussion: SWOT
12:00 PMLunchLunch & Poster sessionLunch
Session 2, Chair: V. CarricaSession 4, Chair: J. Yan
01:00 PMVicenc Beltran Querol: Supporting OpenMP Free Agents by Leveraging the nOS-V Threading LibraryAmadeu Moya: Unifying the Architecture and Implementation of Task-Aware Libraries
01:30 PMRüdiger Nather: Futures in Task Graphs & Extending Taskflow With Dynamic Data DependenciesRabab Alomairy: Data Sparsity in Global and Compact Support Radial Basis Functions for 3D Unstructured Mesh Deformation
02:00 PMKarame Mohammadiporshokooh: Adaptively Optimizing the Performance of HPX's Parallel AlgorithmsCheng-Hsiang Chiu: A Task-parallel Pipeline Programming Framework with Token Dependency
02:30 PMCoffeeCoffeeCoffee
Session 3, Chair: J. SchuchartSession 5, Chair: A. Bouteiller
03:00 PMClaudia Fohry: Fail-stop Failure Protection for Coordinated Work Stealing of Tasks that Communicate through FuturesAlexander Strack: GPRat: Gaussian Process Regression with Asynchronous Tasks
03:30 PMAnthony Cabrera: Q-IRIS: The Evolution of the IRIS Task-Based Runtime to Enable Classical-Quantum WorkflowsMaxwell Onyango: Julia-Unified Recursive Implementation of TRMM and TRSM for GPU Acceleration
04:00 PMDiscussion: Integration with other standardsDiscussion: AI
05:30 PMBanquet on Campus (until 8:00 PM)
06:45 PMPizza dinner at Vito's Sicilian Pizzeria & Ristorante (until 8:30 PM)
Contact

If you have any problems or questions, please contact us via e-mail at: qinglei.cao@slu.edu