Archive for May, 2010

hpc-ch Dinner at ISC’10 in Hamburg

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

For all members and friends of the hpc-ch community attending the ISC’10 conference in Hamburg.

Please join us for a common community dinner on

Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 20:00
Restaurant September

Feldstr. 60, 20357 Hamburg
Telefon: +49 40 437611
www.september-hh.de

The Restaurant September is next to the Hotel NH Hamburg (U-Bahn Feldstraße (U3), U-Bahn Messehallen (U2), U-Bahn St.Pauli (U3), Bus line 111, bus stop: Sievekingsplatz or U-Bahn Feldstr).

We reserved 15 places under the name “hpc-ch”. It would be kind if you can inform delorenzi(at)cscs.ch if you will join us.

Please inform also your hpc-ch colleagues about this meeting.

See you in Hamburg!

2nd Workshop on Programming Models for Emerging Architectures

Monday, May 24th, 2010

The 2nd Workshop on Programming Models for Emerging Architectures will be co-located with the 19th PACT conference in Viena, Austria.

Current trends in computer architecture incorporate many cores into a single chip some of which can be specialized heterogeneous accelerators. This makes it difficult to program without knowledge of the underlying architecture. The workshop goal is to discuss improvements in programming models  that allow to reduce the programmability gap for emerging architectures (e.g., manycore, heterogeneous or hierarchical computing, …). On one hand, the programming model expressiveness can be increased to improve the productivity on such architectures. On the other hand, new runtime optimizations for existing programming models that allow a program to adapt better to the underlying resources is possible.

Topics of interest to the workshop, in the context of new emerging architectures, include, but are not limited to:

  • Programming models extensions
  • New programming models
  • Compiler transformations, optimizations and support
  • Runtime techniques, dynamic adaptability, and OS support
  • Methodologies for programming
  • Architectural support for programming models
  • Application cases with new programming models

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More information about the workshop »

hpc-ch on Twitter #hpcch

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Are you using Twitter and do you have news that could be of interest to the hpc-ch community?

Then use the hashtag

#hpcch

Have a look to the last #hpcch postings on twitter »

Common dinner hpc-ch and SwiNg communities

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Lausanne is for two days the HPC and Grid center of Switzerland. In fact both communities SwiNG and hpc-ch managed to organize two very interesting meetings:

We managed to meet for a common dinner in a restaurant downtown in Lauanne having a very good time and good food. If you love statistics: total of 21 participants, 7 from SwinNG, 7 from hpc-ch and 7 from both communities.

We would at this place thanks Dean from SwinNG for having invited all of us to the dinner. We really appreciated.

For the people leaving the dinner early: Yes, we had an additional meeting after the dinner until 2 in the morning having long discussions about life and system management.

ETH Zurich Energy Science Colloquium: “Neubau CSCS in Lugano Cornaredo”

Monday, May 17th, 2010

The Energy Science Center of ETH Zurich invites to Colloquium invites to the Energy Science Colloquium on

Neubau CSCS in Lugano Cornaredo,
Ladina Gilly, Associate Director Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)

Hauptgebäude (HG) E1.2, ETH Zentrum, Zürich
8092 Zürich, Rämistrasse 101
Thursday, May 20th, 2010, 17:15 – 18:15

Abstract:

Die nationale Strategie für Hochleistungsrechnen, die im 2008 vom Schweizer Parlament beschlossen wurden, soll die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Schweizer Forschung im internationalen Umfeld sichern. Dazu soll im Jahre 2012 eine Superrechner der Petaflopsklasse am CSCS installiert werden und die Nutzeranwendungen auf diese neuen Möglichkeiten vorbereitet werden. Die aktuelle Infrastruktur des CSCS kann die nötige Energie- und Kälteleistung für einen solchen Rechner nicht bieten. Daher sieht die Strategie auch den Bau eines neuen Hochleistungsrechenzentrums für das CSCS vor.

Seit Januar 2008 arbeitet das CSCS eng mit der Abteilung Bauten der ETH Zürich an der Planung diese Neubaus. Die drei Hauptziele für den Neubau waren eine höchstmögliche Flexibilität bei der Energiekapazitäten, dem Raumangebot und der Kühltechnologie; höchstmögliche Energieeffizienz und Nachhaltigkeit durch ein PUE von maximal 1.23 und Minergie-Bauweise, sowie die Nutzung der anfallenden Abwärme, wo immer möglich. Der Baubeginn ist für erste Hälfte 2010 geplant. Der Bezug findet voraussichtlich Ende 2011 statt.

Der Vortrag wird das Projekt vorstellen und über den aktuellen Fortschritt der Arbeiten berichten.

ESC Colloquia »

Web page of building project »