Archive for the ‘Conference’ Category

Easier Access to the CSCS Video Productions

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

The videos produced by CSCS can now easily be accessed over the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich. A special flash interface allows to easily browse through the videos to search for relevant content. The videos can also be downloaded in different file format and with different quality and file sizes. So they can used for display on large screens but also downloaded on mobile devices.

The opening of the CSCS channel is a good chance to have a view to some previous talks at CSCS.

For example “The Physics and Experiments at the LHC” (see previous blog posting):

Or the talk of Kathleen Kobe on “Concurrent Collections (CnC): A new approach to parallel programming” (see previous blog posting).

Or the CRAY XT5 code porting workshop of 2009.

39th SPEEDUP Workshop on High Performance Computing

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

39th SPEEDUP Workshop on High Performance Computing,
September 6/7, 2010, at ETH Zurich


The intention of this workshop 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 Sept 6 will be on software environments for large scale simulations and on the issues of fault tolerance in massively parallel systems.

The scientific program of Sept 6 consists of seven 45-minute talks and a poster session.  Please encourage your collaborators to uploaded an abstract.  The deadline is August 28, 2010.

On Sept 7 we will organize a tutorial on hybrid MPI/OpenMP computing. It will be taught by Timothy Stitt and Neil Stringfellow (both CSCS, Manno, Switzerland).

There is a small fee of CHF 50 payable at the workshop.  For students the workshop is free of charge.

Details and the registration form can be found at http://www.speedup.ch/.

The fee for the tutorial are CHF150 payable at the workshop or tutorial.  For students the price is CHF50.

Organizing Committee:Andreas Adelmann (PSI Villigen), Peter Arbenz (ETH Zurich), Olaf Schenk (University of Basel), Vittoria Rezzonico (EPF Lausanne), Ales Janka (University of Fribourg).

Scientific program

September 6, 2010: (7 talks of 45 minutes each + poster session)

Invited Speakers:

  • Omar Gattas (University of Texas, Austin)
    Petascale AMR, with Applications to Solid Earth Geophysics Problems
  • Matthew Knepley (Argonne National Laboratory):
    PETSc: the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
  • Michael Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories):
    Trilinos for Emerging Parallel Computing Systems
  • Rolf Krause (USI Lugano):
    UG (Unstructured Grids): Development of PDE Solvers for Biomechanics
  • Romain Teyssier (University of Zurich):
    Fault Tolerance Issues in Large Scale Applications
  • Christian Engelmann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory):
  • Beyond Application-Level Checkpoint/Restart – Advanced Software Approaches for Fault Resilience
  • Georg Hager (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg):
    Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Computing

September 7, 2010:  Tutorial

Tutorial on hybrid MPI/OpenMP computing.  It will be taught by Timothy Stitt and Neil Stringfellow (both CSCS, Manno, Switzerland).

CRAY XT5 code porting workshop

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Last July CSCS organized a Cray XT5 code porting workshop with representatives of Cray Inc. and of the University of Zurich.

Now the different presentation are available online on the multimedia portal of ETH Zurich.

We are sorry for the low quality of the videos. We will soon publish other workshops in a higher video quality.

Follow-up second hpc-ch forum on OS and Installation Methods at EPFL

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

The second hpc-ch forum on operating systems and installation methods at EPF Lausanne on May 20 has been a great success with more than 35 HPC participants.

In the morning we have been welcomed to EPFL by Vittoria Rezzonico (sysadmin and local organizer) and Jean-Claude Berney (director of the IT services). Jean-Claude pointed out the importance of HPC for EPFL and the growing infrastructure needs to run the supercomputers. He also acknowledged the importance of our community giving the possibility to exchange knowledge between peers in Switzerland.

Vittoria organized for us site visits to the technical infrastructure and computing room at EPFL. Every think was very impressive and show how complex it is today to run data centers.

In later postings we will publish the slides presented in the different technical talks.

In different visits we had also a look to the technical infrastructure and the different computer room (both very impressive).

We would like to thank Vittoria Rezzonico and all the team at EPFL for the organization and hosting us.

Here below you will find some pictures of the day.

(Some) participants to the forum:

Vittoria in HER computer room:

Pascal giving information about the  IBM Blue Gene he is in charge of:

The diesel generator:

The batteries for the USP:

CSCS Awarded by HPC Advisory Council at ISC’10

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

The HPC Advisory Council awarded CSCS during the closing session at the ISC 2010 conference in Hamburg as organization who demonstrated above and beyond HPC outreach/education.  CSCS organized last March the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 in Lugano. The workshop has been a great success with more than 100 HPC professionals attending the conference. CSCS will host a similar conference in 2011

The prize of the HPC Advisory Council has been received by Hussein Harake  who has beein the initiator of the conference at CSCS (see picture here below).