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

Wednesday, 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).

 

CSCS User Day Poster Session – Videos on “Stellar Explosions” and “Modeling of Anion-Pi Interactions for Substituted Naphthalenediimide”

Monday, November 7th, 2011

We continue our series of poster presentations at CSCS User Day 2011 with Dr. Matthias Hempel, post-doc researcher at the University of Basel in the group of Professor Matthias Liebendoerfer  presenting his poster on “Stellar explosions, nuclear physics and multiple dimensions”.

Dr. Jiri Mareda is leading the group of Computational Chemistry in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Geneva. In this video Jiri explains why he is attending the User Day and explains his poster on “Modeling of Anion-Pi Interactions for Substituted Naphthalenediimide: Structure and Function”.

Call for presentations and participants: Forum on the Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Thursday 27 October 2011, 10:00 – 17:00, hosted by Universität Basel

Setting the Scope

In the last years the interest in using Graphics Processing Units (GPU) for HPC computing has been growing. Modern GPUs are designed to support computer games in the real time calculation of their visual effects. Therefore modern GPUs are highly parallel multi core systems optimised for floating point operations and high throughput. They pack more computing power in the same space than a traditional CPU with reduced power consumption and cost. While those characteristics are perfectly fitted for HPC computing others impose problems.  The more problematic features of GPU arise since in its classic use neither precision is a top priority nor is there much need for access control to the GPU.

With the introduction of CUDA, OpenCL and similar products a larger number of programmers were enabled to use GPUs. This is leading to an increasing number of programs making use of GPU capabilities and leads to an increased demand of GPUs in HPC computing.

The use of GPU in HPC clusters pose new challenges like the integration in the queuing system and the programming languages to use. The goal of this forum is to exchange the information about the usage of the GPU in a HPC environment.

Key Questions

  • Are GPUs a current hype or the technology of the future?
  • How can we make use of this new technology?
  • How to integrate the GPUs in the queuing systems?
  • Which system tools are you deploying to monitor and report the HW status of the GPGPUs accelerators integrated into your HPC Cluster? How do you handle GPU drivers failure detection and recovery, also from a batch queuing system point of view?
  • How to gain usage metrics per user?
  • What are your experiences in the integration of GPU in the HPC clusters?
  • What could be the possible metric in order to measure the usage and the performance of the GPU?
  • What are the limitations of this technology (benefit versus overhead)?
  • Development tool CUDA versus OpenCL: experience, advantage, disadvantage?
  • Are your GPGPU cluster customers adopting GPU-Direct technology ? If yes, in which application field ? In which particular application ? Did they measure any interesting application performance improvement ?

Location / Hosting

The Topic Forum will take place at the Biozentrum at the University of Basel in the room 106.

Please refer to this link to get information about how to reach Biozentrum and a map of the site: http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/directions/

Chairmanship

  • Martin Jacquot, URZ, tel 061 267 22 66
  • Michele De Lorenzi, CSCS, tel 091 610 82 08

Registration

This event is only open to hpc-ch community members and guests. To register contact your representative listed here.