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HPC Advisory Council Announces European HPC Workshop in Conjunction with ISC 2010

Monday, March 29th, 2010

HPC Advisory Council Announces European HPC Workshop in Conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference.

The HPC Advisory Council today announced that the HPC Advisory Council, in conjunction with ISC´10, will host the HPC Advisory Council European Workshop 2010 in the CCH-Congress Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany on May 30, 2010. The workshop will cover advanced topics such as GPU computing, MPI offloads, congestion management, networking optimizations and will feature presenters from Oakridge National Laboratory, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Simula Research Laboratory, the 451 Group, and HPC Advisory Council professionals as well as technologists from various Independent Software Vendors and OEMs. The workshop will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements.

Pricing for the one-day workshop is 30?. Registration for the workshop is required and is now open through the ISC´10 registration page. The one-day workshop will include coffee breaks, lunch, and dinner courtesy of the HPC Advisory Council. For more information please visit the web page of the workshop.

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Slides HPC Advisory Council Now Online

Friday, March 26th, 2010

The slides of the HPC Advisory Council are now available online.

We are also glad to announce that Lugano will host in 2011 again a conference of the HPC Advisory Councily. Stay tuned on this blog for additional information.

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Last Days to Register to HPC Council Switzerland Workshop

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

With more than 100 registered attendees, the HPC Council Switzerland Workshop (Lugano, March 15-17) is having a great success.

If you want to know more about InfiniBand technologies, this is the right time to register online.

Download the latest agenda with the list gold ans silver sponsors: Flyer HPC Council Switzerland Workshop

Agenda – Day 1
9:00-9:30 Welcome Session (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council Chairman)
9:30-9:45 HPC in the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (Dominik Ulmer, CSCS)
9:45-10:00 HPC Systems in the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (Neil Stringfellow)
10:00-10:30 HPC Storage Systems at CSCS (Hussein N. Harake, CSCS)
10:30-10:45 The HPC Advisory Council Recent Activities (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council)
11:00-12:00 Sponsor Presentations (IBM, Microsoft, HP)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 InfiniBand Architecture Overview (Erez Cohen)
14:30-15:15 Large Scale Applications Scalability – Past Experience
15:30-16:15 InfiniBand Storage Tutorial (Mike Anderson, StreamScale)
16:15-17:00 Using InfiniBand for High-Performance Visualization – HPV (Stefan Eilemann, Eyescale Software GmbH
17:00-18:30 InfiniBand Clustering Basics Hands-on Training (Erez Cohen)
18:30-20:00 Evening Event

Agenda – Day 2
9:00-10:00 Advanced Topics in HPC Networking – Adaptive/Static Routing, Congestion Avoidance (Sven-Arne
Reinemo, Simula Research Laboratory)
10:00-10:45 Advanced HPC Technologies – Collectives Operations and Offloading (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council)
11:00-12:00 Sponsor Presentations (Sun, AMD, Voltaire)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:45 Networking Topologies – CLOS (Fat-Tree), 3D Torus, Network Management
13:45-14:00 Sponsor Presentation (Dell)
14:00-16:00 Clustering Fabric Management and Monitoring Hands-on (Erez Cohen)
16:30-17:30 Swiss Supercomputer Center – What We Need from InfiniBand? (Sadaf Alam, CSCS)
17:30-18:00 The JuRoPA Supercomputer – Experience from Building a Supercomputer (Hugo Falter, ParTec)
18:00-18:30 Q&A
18:30-20:00 Evening Event

Agenda – Day 3 (Industrial Day)
8:45-9:00 Industrial Day introduction (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council)
9:00-9:45 Keynote session: HPC – Challenges of the 21st century (Goldi Misra, Centre For Development of
Advanced Computing)
9:45-10:30 HP
10:45-11:30 IBM
11:30-12:15 Voltaire
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:00 Dell
14:00-14:45 Microsoft
14:45-15:30 Sun
15:45-16:30 AMD Opteron? processors scalability and roadmap (Herve Chevanne, AMD)
16:30-17:00 Putting Personality into High-Performance Computing (John D. Leidel, Convey Computer Corporation)
17:00-17:30 Gateway Technology
17:30-18:00 DataDirect Networks
18:00-18:30 Advancements in Copper Cable Interconnects for HPC Applications (Russell Hornung and
Henry N.Yates II, W.L. Gore & Associates)
18:30-18:45 Adjourn and prize raffle!

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HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

As announced in a previous posting, the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2010 is going to take place in Lugano, 15-17 March, 2010.

The 3-day conference is free for attendees and we already have registrants from both the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS and several other universities in Switzerland, Italy, and more.

Scope

The workshop is dedicated to the following aspects of InfiniBand:

Training
Architecture
Hands-on training
Advanced features
fabric management
and more

Registration

Please note that registration is required. For registration information please go to:

http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/switzerland_workshop/attendee_reg.php.

The workshop includes coffee breaks and lunch courtesy of the HPC Advisory Council.

Call for speakers and presentations

Call for speakers and presentations are now open. To sign-up as a speaker or to propose HPC training sessions please use the following link:

http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/switzerland_workshop/speakers_reg.php

Hotel Accomodation

Please fill out the following form to book an hotel by February 1st, 2010:

Prenotazione Hotel Infiniband 2010

The form has to be sent to hotel@lugano-conventions.com

We look forward to seeing you in Lugano.

Call for Presentations & Participation: Infiniband Workshop – Lugano 2010

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

We are glad to announce the call for participation for an Infiniband workshop jointly organized by Mellanox and CSCS in Lugano (March 15-17 2010).

The workshop will be dedicated to InfiniBand training – InfiniBand architecture, hands-on training, advanced features, fabric management, and more. This is an excellent training and education opportunity for HPC IT professionals. The conference is free. Registration is required.

For registration information please click here.

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