The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre will host again the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012 in the
Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland,
March 13-15, 2012
The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing education, training (including hands-on) and overview of new developments. The conference will include the following sections per day:
- High Speed Networks
- High Performance and Parallel I/O
- Communication libraries: MPI, SHMEM, PGAS
- GPU computing, CUDA, OpenCL
- Big Data
- Advanced topics / Technologies / development / the road to Exascale
- Hands-on: clustering, network, troubleshooting, tuning, optimizations
It will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements.

