hpc-ch » Conference http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:06:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Speedup High-Performance Computing Workshop, University of Basel, Feb 2012 http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2012/01/18/speedup-high-performance-computing-workshop-university-of-basel-feb-2012/ http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2012/01/18/speedup-high-performance-computing-workshop-university-of-basel-feb-2012/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:05:34 +0000 mdl http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/?p=2193 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).

 

]]> http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2012/01/18/speedup-high-performance-computing-workshop-university-of-basel-feb-2012/feed/ 0 Call For Papers: ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2012/01/03/call-for-papers-acm-international-conference-on-computing-frontiers/ http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2012/01/03/call-for-papers-acm-international-conference-on-computing-frontiers/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:50:13 +0000 mdl http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/?p=2164 There are the last available days to submit papers for the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers to be held in May 15th to 17th, 2012 in Cagliari, Italy (deadline for submission is January 9th, 2012).

Home page of the conference with additional information »

The increasing complexity, performance, cost and energy efficiency needs of current and future applications require novel and innovative approaches for the design of computing systems. Boundaries between state of the art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to provide the support required for the advancement of science, engineering and information technology. The Computing Frontiers conference focuses on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions relevant to the development of the whole spectrum of computer systems, from embedded to high-performance computing.

Authors are invited to submit full papers to the main conference and Ph.D. students are invited to submit an extended abstract for a special Ph.D. forum and poster session.

Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • Applications, programming and performance analysis of advanced architectures
  • Next-generation high performance computing and systems
  • Accelerators: many-core, GPU, custom, reconfigurable, embedded, and hybrid
  • Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, dependable computing
  • Power and energy efficiency: architectures, compilers and algorithms
  • Virtualization and virtual machines
  • Cloud-, internet-scale, service-oriented and smart infrastructure computing
  • Compilers and operating systems: adaptive, run-time, and auto-tuning
  • System management and security
  • Quantum and nano-scale computing
  • Impact of novel technology (e.g. NV memory, silicon photonics) on computing
  • Computational neuroscience, neuromorphic and biologically-inspired architectures
  • Computational aspects of intelligent systems and robotics
  • Reconfigurable, autonomic, organic, and self-organizing computation and systems
  • Interfaces and visualization for emerging applications and systems
  • Novel frontiers in computational science and scientific data repositories
  • Storing, managing, analyzing, and searching  large data sets (” big data “)
  • Sensors and sensor networks
]]> http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2012/01/03/call-for-papers-acm-international-conference-on-computing-frontiers/feed/ 0 HPC Advisory Council and CSCS Announce Switzerland Conference 2012 http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/12/12/hpc-advisory-council-and-cscs-announce-switzerland-conference-2012/ http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/12/12/hpc-advisory-council-and-cscs-announce-switzerland-conference-2012/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:32:04 +0000 mdl http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/?p=2110 SUNNYVALE, CA. and LUGANO, SWITZERLAND – Dec. 12, 2011 – The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, and CSCS, the Swiss National 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.

“Continuing our successful international conference programs, the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference is expected to uphold our tradition of providing rich educational content, taught from some of the industry’s most recognized luminaries and scientists, that will help HPC users optimize their HPC systems and experience,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “We are pleased to collaborate again with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre for this upcoming hands-on technical training and education conference, and will continue to assist and provide resources for industry and community organizations to better leverage HPC system capabilities and improve productivity and efficiency.”

“The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is delighted to continue our collaboration with the HPC Advisory Council,” said Hussein Nasser El-Harake at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre who serves as the Director of the HPC Advisory Council Center of Excellence in Switzerland. “The council continues to be a cornerstone for HPC outreach and education and we are looking forward to providing attendees a very rich and engaging training program that enhances their usage of HPC technologies and platforms.”

For the complete agenda and schedule, please refer to the conference website. The 3-day conference is CHF 80.00. Registration is required and can be made at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference registration page.

Sponsorship opportunities are available today and provide exceptional “budget-conscious” awareness opportunities. Media sponsorship and coverage is being provided by HPC-CH, insideHPC and Scientific Computing World.

]]> http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/12/12/hpc-advisory-council-and-cscs-announce-switzerland-conference-2012/feed/ 0 Interview with John Feo, Pacific Northwest Lab about the usage of the Cray XMT http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/12/02/interview-with-john-feo-pacific-northwest-lab/ http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/12/02/interview-with-john-feo-pacific-northwest-lab/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:21:55 +0000 mdl http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/?p=2070 John Feo is the director of the Center for Adaptive Supercomputer Software (CASS) at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. John and his team are using a Cray XMT 1 supercomputer since three years to study a large spectrum of applications like graphs algorithms, Dynamic network analysis (DNA), Emerging Subnetwork Patterns, bioinformatics, semantic search, and semantic database development.

The CASS group is also developing compilers and runtime systems to improve the compilation of code and is working on new programming models for highly multithreated machines like the XMT.

For John one important application of  the Cray XMT will be in companies like Facebook, Google, or banks doing graphs algorithms, semantic search and knowledge discovery on huge data sets.

In this interview John explains the particularities of developing applications for this new kind of architectures and how his team is supporting users and scientists in porting their code.

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The model used by DWD is named COSMO and is the same being used in Switzerland and other countries in Europe and worldwide. COSMO has been developed in the late 90thies as a non hydrostatic regional model. COSMO is not only being used by weather services but also by the academia for research and to teach and train students . DWD and Ueli Schättler are also involved in the Swiss HP2C project aimed to port COSMO to next generation HPC platforms.

At this place we would also like to remember you about the Colloquium at MeteoSwiss on How much HPC does meteorology need? planned for tomorrow, Tuesday, November 29th.

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Vincenzo Annaloro (CSCS) presents details on system installation and operation for two clusters: a production and experimental testbed that serves as HP2C prototype system and a multi-purpose visualization and GPU development cluster.

Download the slides of the presentation (PDF) »

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Diego Rossinelli (ETH Zurich) discusses the design of wavelet-based adaptive solvers for compressible flow simulations that run effectively on multi- and many-core architectures.

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]]> http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/11/22/hpc-ch-forum-on-gpu-multi-resolution-flow-simulations/feed/ 0 Colloquium at MeteoSwiss: How much HPC does meteorology need? http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/11/21/colloquium-at-meteoswiss-how-much-hpc-does-meteorology-need/ http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/11/21/colloquium-at-meteoswiss-how-much-hpc-does-meteorology-need/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:26:31 +0000 mdl http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/?p=2032 MeteoSchweiz invites you to attend its research colloquium FOKO 2011-2:

How much high performance computing does meteorology need?

29 November 2011, 10:30 am -  4:30 pm

at MeteoSwiss, Krähbühlstrasse 58, 8044 Zurich, Room for events 353 – 354

No registration is required; participation is free of charge.

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Agenda

10:30 – 10:45 Welcome Address, Saskia Willemse, Philippe Steiner, MeteoSwiss

10:45 – 11:10 Contribution of high performance computing to the evolution of meteorology in the last decade, Dominique Marbouty, ECMWF

Part A: Added value of the increasing computing performance

11:10 – 11:35 What is the expected added value of a further increase in resolution in the short to medium range forecast?, Humphrey Lean, UK Met Office

Short break

11:45 – 12:10 What is the expected added value of a further increase in resolution in climate science? Bjorn Stevens, MPI-M

12:10 – 12:35 Towards cloud-resolving climate modeling, Christoph Schär, ETH Zürich

Lunch break

13:35 – 14:00 Higher resolution vs. ensemble forecasting, Bodo Ritter, DWD

14:00 – 14:25 The importance of high performance computing for post-processing, Thordis Thorarinsdottir, Uni Heidelberg

Part B: The future of high performance computing

14:25 – 14:50 Future role of high performance computing in the advancement of science, Thomas Schulthess, CSCS

Coffee break

15:15 – 15:40 How MeteoSwiss is preparing for future HPC architectures, Oliver Fuhrer, MeteoSwiss

15:40 – 16:30 Discussion: What could a further increase in available computing power be used for in order to get the largest added value in meteorology? Speakers & Audience

]]> http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/11/21/colloquium-at-meteoswiss-how-much-hpc-does-meteorology-need/feed/ 0 hpc-ch Forum on GPU – Video on “Enhancing” commercial software http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/11/21/hpc-ch-forum-on-gpu-enhange-sw/ http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/11/21/hpc-ch-forum-on-gpu-enhange-sw/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:12:49 +0000 mdl http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/?p=1972 In this presentation Adrian Ulrich (ETH Zurich) shares his experience with Nvidia CUDA, AMD FireStream and Platform LSF.

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]]> http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/11/21/hpc-ch-forum-on-gpu-enhange-sw/feed/ 0 hpc-ch Forum on GPU – Video on GPU Use at the University of Basel http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/11/21/forum-on-gpu-video-gpu-use-at-unibasel/ http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/2011/11/21/forum-on-gpu-video-gpu-use-at-unibasel/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:12:17 +0000 mdl http://www.hpc-ch.org/wp/?p=1968 In October hpc-ch organized together with the University of Basel a Forum on the Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC. In a series of articles we publish the videos of the presentations.

Martin Jacquot (Universitiy of Basel) was hosting the event and presented the implementation and usage of GPU at the University of Basel.

Download the slides of the presentation (PDF) »

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