HPC Advisory Council and Swiss Supercomputing Centre to host HPC Switzerland Conference 2012
Date: March 13-15, 2012
Location: Palazzo dei Congressi, Switzerland
The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss 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.
For the complete agenda and schedule, please refer to the conference website here ». The 3-day conference is CHF 80.00. Registration is required and can be made at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference registration page.
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).
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).
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 “)
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.”
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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.
