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February 16th, 2012
Dear members and guests of hpc-ch
Last year was very successful for our hpc-ch community. In addition to the two forums we also participated for the first time with our own booth at ISC11 and SC11. I would like to thank all organizations (sponsoring, infrastructure) and people (engagement) that made all this possible. I believe that we could demonstrate the capabilities of Switzerland in HPC at an international level.
This year´s goal will be to keep the (high) level of last year the same, with a small extension.
Let me start with the small extension: Different companies deploying HPC systems demonstrated interest in our activities. For this reason I started creating a sub community called “industry” (the original one being called “academia”). I’m sure in the mid term we will find interesting synergies between these two communities. At this time I do not plan any specific activity or event for industry. Please tell me if you know someone from industry (not vendors) that could be interested in joining us.
For the events we have a small change in the subject order of the forums. Together with our colleagues at EMPA we decided to change the content (not the date and place) of the forums. EMPA will host an event in May on Infrastructure for HPC and CSCS will host in October an event on storage. This because we have different running projects about storage in Switzerland, with results expected in autumn.
The list of events for 2012 is the following:
- HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012, March 13-15 in Lugano, bringing together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements. More details on a the agenda and registration »
- hpc-ch Forum “Infrastructure for HPC“, hosted by EMPA, May 24, 2012
- Community booth at ISC12, Hamburg, June 18-21, 2012
- hpc-ch Forum “Handling huge amount of data for HPC“, hosted by CSCS, October 25, 2012
- Community booth at SC12, Salt Lake City, November 12-15, 2012
In due advance we will send you a call for participation for the two forums and ask for a contribution for the booths (sponsorships are welcome).
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February 13th, 2012
HPC Advisory Council and Swiss Supercomputing Centre to host HPC Switzerland Conference 2012
Date: March 13-15, 2012
Location: Palazzo dei Congressi, Switzerland
The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2012. The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC) education, hands-on and classroom training and overviews of new important HPC developments and trends.
The conference will include comprehensive education for topics such as high-speed interconnects, high-performance and parallel I/O, communication libraries (such as MPI, SHMEM and PGAS), GPU and accelerations, Big Data, high-performance cloud computing, and will include advanced topics and development for upcoming HPC technologies. In addition, attendees will receive hands-on training for topics on clustering, network, troubleshooting, tuning, and optimizations.
For the complete agenda and schedule, please refer to the conference website here ». The 3-day conference is CHF 80.00. Registration is required and can be made at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference registration page.
Speaking opportunities as well as sponsorship opportunities are still available. You can submit a speaking proposal here ».
Media sponsorship and coverage is being provided by HPC-CH, insideHPC and Scientific Computing World.
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February 9th, 2012
CSCS announced the detailed agenda of the
Programming GPU Devices using OpenACC Directives on the Cray XK6
March, 6-7 2012
CSCS in Manno
The registration fee is of CHF 150 including the coffee breaks.
Registration and agenda »
Participants will learn about the Cray XK6 hybrid multi-core and GPU architecture and its programming environment. They will learn about the OpenACC directives, which were designed to help users develop and port applications to run on heterogeneous systems.
The course syllabi and all lecture details are available here »
The deadline for registration is 29 February 2012.
First day (March 6)
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome / Introductions (Luiz DeRose, Cray)
09:15 – 09:30 Overview of the Cray XK system (Luiz DeRose, Cray)
09:30 – 10:30 Steps to create a hybrid code (Heidi Poxon, Cray)
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 OpenACC (Alistair Hart, Cray)
- Execution and memory models
- OpenACC Directives
- CUDA Interoperability
- CCE Support status
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 13:30 User experiences talks on the Cray XK6 system (Tim Ewart, University of Geneva)
13:30 – 14:30 Use case examples (Alistair Hart, Cray)
14:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 15:30 How to build/run existing CUDA and OpenCL on the Cray XK6 (Alistair Hart, Cray)
15:30 – 17:30 Lab (Cray / CSCS)
Second day (March 7)
09:00 – 09:45 Performance Tools for the Cray XK (Heidi Poxon, Cray)
09:45 – 10:30 DDT debugger for the XK6 (Patrick Wohlschlegel, Allinea)
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Cray libsci_acc (Luiz DeRose, Cray)
11:30 – 12:00 OpenACC future (Luiz DeRose, Cray)
- New features (functionality and performance)
- Standardization
- Support for other architectures
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 User experiences talks on the Cray XK6 system (Xavier Lapillonne (Meteoswiss), Joachim Stadel (University of Zurich) and Matthias Christen (USI))
14:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 17:30 Lab (Cray / CSCS / Allinea)
Tags: Course, Cray XK6, CSCS
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February 7th, 2012
Open Competition at the 4th PRACE Industrial Seminar
16th & 17th April 2012, Bologna, Italy
The objective of this contest is to award the boldest industrial HPC application – we want to see how far one can take this technology in changing the present paradigms of European industry. This competition is open to all fields of HPC.
The conditions are as follows:
- It is not necessary to take part in the seminar in order to participate in the Competition
- The solution must pertain to industry, i.e. it must be possible to apply it in an industrial context with clear benefits – there must be a market potential for that kind of solution
- The solutions must represent some level of implementation maturity – we are not looking just for ideas but rather for working solutions, although we will also accept those in early implementation stages
Application deadline: March 16, 2012
Additional information about the competition »
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February 2nd, 2012
We are happy to report about a job opening for a specialist in the area of High Performance Computing, who wants to work in an international environment in Switzerland
Senior HPC Specialist
This position is based in Basel, Switzerland, and is a long-term contract starting asap
You will be the responsible person for managing the operation and support as well as maintenance and application optimization. Liaising with the system owners, taking care of all service management processes, being in charge of incident and change management as well as supervising the support activities are part of your daily job.
Your skills:
- 4+ years of experience in High Performance Computing (Cluster environment)
- Strong work experience with cluster system management
- Experience in Linux administration (RHEL 4/5), as well as Apache, mySQL and PHP
- Know-how of Linux application and software installation
- Solid understanding of Java web applications (Tomcat, JBOSS)
- Expertise in Job Scheduling/Queuing systems (e.g. SGE, LSF, PBS)
- Scripting experience is a plus
- Previous working experience in an international environment required
- Awareness of regulated environment processes is an advantage
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
Move your career forward and work in a dynamic and multinational environment. Become part of an international crowd and use this opportunity to get to know a globe spanning and renowned company.
The personnal consulting service in charge of this opening is Elan Computing Schweiz AG (http://www.elanit.ch). For more information you may contact Alexandra Dudczak +41 (0)61 282 22 13.
Send your CV to alexandra.dudczak@elanit.ch (you may like to tell having read about the opening on hpc-ch).
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