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PRACE Competition: The Most Innovative Industrial HPC Application in Europe

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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Open Position HPC Specialist in Swiss Industry

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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HLRS-Course: Fortran for Scientific Computing, March 5-9, 2012

January 31st, 2012

The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) opened the registration for the following course:

“Fortran for Scientific Computing”
March 5-9, 2012, in Stuttgart

For more details visit the web page of the course »

Registration deadline is Feb. 5, 2012.

Abstract

This course is dedicated for scientists and students to learn (sequential) programming with Fortran for scientific applications. The course teaches newest Fortran standards. Hands-on sessions will allow users to immediately test and understand the language constructs.

Content

Fortran syntax overview: Basics – Program units – Dynamic data – IO
Obsolete features of Fortran
Fortran intrinsics
Multiple source files
Optimisation of single processor performance
Features of Fortran 2003 and 2008
Coarray Fortran
Fortran Development Live Environment (FonDLE)

Registration

Via online registration form »

Fee

Students of German universities: none
Members of German universities and public research institutes: none
Members of other universities and public research institutes: 120 EUR
Others: 400 EUR (will be collected on the first day of the course, cash only)

Prerequisites

Familiarity with Linux and Linux editors is recommended
Basics/principles of programming (in any language)
Basic mathematics (integration and differentiation)

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Course on Programming GPU Devices using OpenACC Directives on the Cray XK6

January 21st, 2012

CSCS and HP2C are announcing the following course

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 »

Attendees of this HP2C training event 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. They will have an understanding on how to use the Cray Performance tools to identify “hot areas” in the code to focus the use of OpenACC directives. They will have the opportunity to experiment the OpenACC directives with the Cray Compilation Environment (CCE). In addition, they will learn about the Cray scientific libraries for accelerators and will learn and experiment Allinea’s DDT and Cray’s Performance Tools for debugging and performance tuning of heterogeneous applications on the Cray XK6 systems.

Attendees are encouraged to bring in their own applications and codes for the hands-on sessions. Experts from Cray PE, OpenACC and libsci development and performance tools and Allinea DDT debugger will be present at the meeting for discussions and feedback. We also invite current users who have their applications running successfully on the Cray XK6 system to present brief user experience talks.

Agenda

- Welcome
- Overview of the Cray XK6 system
- Introduction to Cray XK6 Programming Environment
- Support for GPU application development and execution

GPU development environments (CUDA C & Fortran, OpenCL & OpenACC from Cray & PGI)
GPU accelerated libraries
Message passing communication (MPI)

- Introduction to OpenACC
- Development cycle of application porting

Static analysis of the application
Find hot loops
Scoping Analysis
Add OpenMP
Create OpenACC regions from OpenMP regions

- Using libsci_acc
- Debugging
- Performance tuning

Profile application
Using the accelerator hardware counters
Analysis of data transfers
Add data regions

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Speedup High-Performance Computing Workshop, University of Basel, Feb 2012

January 18th, 2012

We would like to draw your attention, to the upcoming

40th SPEEDUP Workshop on High Performance Computing,
taking place on February 6/7, 2012, at University of Basel, Switzerland

The workshop is open for researchers, students and scientific and industrial partners. The intention is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in high-performance and parallel scientific computing. Presentations will focus on algorithms, applications, and software issues related to high-performance parallel computing. The focus of the workshop on Monday February 6 will be “Scalable Heterogeneous Computing and Programming Models for Computational Science”.

More information and a registration page for the Colloquium or Colloquium+Tutorial are available here »

The fees are:

Colloquium: CHF 50, free for students
Tutorial : CHF 150, CHF 50 for students

The Colloquium Day, February 6, 2012

The following invited speakers will present and discuss the state-of-the-art in high-performance and parallel scientific computing (6 talks of 45 minutes each + poster session):

Prof. Jeff Vetter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Dr. Peter Tang (Intel)
Dr. Brad Chamberlain (Cray)
Prof. Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen)
Prof. Dimitri Komatitsch (CNRS)
Prof. Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva)

To promote fast exchange of information in our community, a poster session with contributed posters will take place also on Feb 6. Please, encourage your collaborators to register with a poster title and upload an abstract for their posters, the deadline is January 28, 2012.

The Tutorial Day, Feb 7, 2012

On February 7 Speedup will organize a tutorial on Intel Threading Building Blocks taught by Hans Pabst (Intel).

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