PASC14 Conference – Call for Registration
The agenda of the PASC14 Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC14) Conference that will take place June 2-3, 2014 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland is now online
Registration and the preliminary program are available at: http://www.pasc14.org/
There will be seven plenary talks, one public lecture, 65 selected contributed talks, and over 75 poster presentations.
Pre-Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2014
The conference brings together computational scientists and research groups from diverse scientific domains, including Climate Modelling, Solid Earth Dynamics, Life Sciences, Material Science, Physics, and Computer Science/Mathematics. It aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and to strengthen HPC research and knowledge exchange.
PASC14 Plenary speakers
– Pier Luigi Vidale, University of Reading,
– Omar Ghattas, University of Texas at Austin, USA
– John Lowengrub, University of California at Irvine, USA
– Eric Lindahl, SciLifeLab Stockholm, KTH, Sweden
– Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
– Roman Hatzky, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany
– Bill Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
PASC14 Public Lecture:
– “The Arrow of Computational Science”, Petros Koumoutsakos (ETH Zurich)
Parallel Session on Climate
Towards GPU-accelerated Operational Weather Forecasting; Oliver Fuhrer, MeteoSwiss
Using OpenACC compiler directives to achieve performance portable code on CPU and GPU architectures; Xavier Lapillonne (C2SM, ETH Zurich)
Towards Cloud-Resolving European-Scale Climate Simulations using a fully GPU-enabled Prototype of the COSMO Regional Climate Model; David Leutwyler (Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich)
An Application Driven, Power Efficient System Design for 1-km Scale Global Cloud System Resolving Models; David Donofrio (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs)
Performance of semi-implicit compressible and anelastic EULAG model for all-scale atmospheric flows; Zbigniew P. Piotrowski (IMGW)
Towards a multi-node OpenACC Implementation of the ICON Model; William Sawyer (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)
Big data in climate modeling; Reto Knutti (ETH Zurich)
Distributed Memory GPU-enabled Compression of Very Large Climate Time Series Data; William Sawyer (CSCS)
Statistical regression analysis of extreme events in HPC context; Olga Kaiser (Institute of Computational Science, Università della Svizzera Italiana)
Parallel Session on Solid Earth Dynamics
Opportunities and challenges in large-scale adaptive-mesh simulations; Carsten Burstedde (Institute for Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn)
Challenges in the Simulation of Earthquakes; Christian Pelties (LMU)
HPC Solutions for Geophysical Exploration Problems: Efficiency, Reliability and Maintenance for Real-Life Applications; Josep de la Puente (BSC)
A Semismooth Newton-CG Method for Constrained Parameter Identification in Seismic Tomography; Christian Boehm (Technische Universität München)
Physics-based earthquake scenarios for hazard assessment in large urban areas; Ilario Mazzieri (Politecnico di Milano)
Parallel Adaptive Simulation of Earthquake-Tsunami Events; Michael Bader
Modelling the solid Earth plate tectonics-mantle convection system and its feedbacks with the geodynamo, atmosphere and ocean; Paul J. Tackley
Faster and more accurate interface tracking using a level set two-way wave equation approach; Henri SAMUEL (IRAP)
Immersive experimentation in a wave propagation laboratory; Johan O. A. Robertsson (ETH Zurich)
Constraining the Rheology of the Lithosphere Through Joint Geodynamic and Gravity Inversion; Boris Kaus
Towards magnetic sounding of the Earth’s core by an adjoint method; Kuan Li (ETH Zurich)
Parallel Session on Life Sciences
HPC-ABGEM: High-performance agent-based general ecosystems modeling; Simone Callegari (University of Zurich)
Bone structure analysis on multiple GPGPUs; Peter Arbenz (ETH Zurich)
Computational simulation of heart function with an orthotropic active strain model of electromechanics; Toni Lassila (EPFL)
Red blood cells and related functions of the human spleen; Igor V. Pivkin (University of Lugano)
LBIBCell: A Cell-Based Simulation Environment for Morphogenetic Problems ; Simon Tanaka (D-BSSE, ETH Zurich)
SEM++: a particle model of cellular mechanics, growth, signaling and migration; Gerardo Tauriello (ETH Zurich)
Exploring the unfolded ensemble of proteins; Albert Ardevol (ETH Zürich)
Protein-ligand unbinding kinetics and pathways through metadynamics; Pratyush Tiwary (ETH Zurich and Università della Svizzera italiana)
Improving I/O Performance of ClustalW-MPI Multiple Sequence Alignment Software; Soon-Heum Ko (Linkoping University)
OmicABEL: Story of a successful interdisciplinary collaboration; Diego Fabregat-Traver (AICES, RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Parallel Session on Materials
Nuclear quantum effects in ab initio simulations using colored noise and i-PI; Michele Ceriotti (EPFL)
Accelerating quantum transport simulations on massively parallel computing architectures; Mauro Calderara (ETH Zurich)
Enabling First Principles Simulations at the MP2 and RPA Level: An Efficient and Massively Parallel Algorithm Based on the Resolution-of-Identity Gaussian and Plane Waves Approach; Mauro Del Ben (Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich)
SIESTA-PEXSI for large scale electronic structure calculations; Georg Huhs (BSC)
Computational discovery of new structures using the minima hopping method; Stefan Goedecker (University of Basel)
Engineering polar discontinuities in two-dimensional honeycomb lattices; Marco Gibertini (EPFL)
Quantum Mechanics/Machine Learning for chemically accurate high-throughput screening of thermo and quantum chemical properties of organic molecules; Raghunathan Ramakrishnan (Department of Chemistry, University of Basel)
A combined classical and first-principles study to the modeling of resistance drift in phase-change materials; Federico Zipoli (IBM Research – Zurich)
Epitaxial strain-induced point-defect formation and ordering in oxides; Ulrich Aschauer (Materials Theory, ETH Zurich)
Linear Scaling Electronic Structure Theory; Ole Schütt (ETH Zurich)
Massively Parallel Hartree-Fock Exact Exchange Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Valery Weber (IBM Research – Zurich)
Parallel Session on Physics
TBD; Ben F. McMillan (University of Warwick)
Simulations of energetic particle driven instabilities in Tokamak; A. Bottino ( Max Planck Institut furur Plasmaphysik, Germany)
Towards a GPU-MIC Particle-In-Cell Code For Plasma Applications; Farah Hariri (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL)
Structure preserving schemes; Roger Käppeli (ETH Zurich)
Radiative transfer in multi-scale, multi-physics simulations; the big challenge in astrophysics and cosmology; Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)
Efficient Space-Charge calculation on Irregular Domains using Adaptive Mesh Refinement; Tulin Kaman (ETH-Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute)
TBD; Joachim Stadel (University of Zurich)
Adaptively balanced parallel MLMC solver for acoustic wave propagation with log-normal coefficients; Jonas Sukys (ETH Zurich)
Enabling LHC for HPC; Sigve Haug (University of Bern)
DFT+DMFT study of epitaxially strained perovskite LVO; Gabriele Sclauzero (ETHZ)
TBD; Romain Teyssier (University of Zurich)
Parallel Session on Computer Science & Mathematics
Performance Engineering for Stencil Updates on Modern Processors; Gerhard Wellein (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
ppOpen-HPC: Open Source Infrastructure for Development and Execution of Large-Scale Scientific Applications on Post-Peta-Scale Supercomputers with Automatic Tuning (AT); Kengo Nakajima (The University of Tokyo)
Automatic Code Generation for Highly Parallel Multigrid Solvers; Harald Koestler (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Reproducible Experiments in High-Performance Computing: Techniques and Stencil Compiler Benchmark Study; Helmar Burkhart (University of Basel)
A roofline model of energy; Richard Vuduc (Georgia Tech)
3D-Stacked Logic-in-Memory Hardware For Sparse Matrix Operations; Franz Franchetti (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)
Massively Parallel and near Linear Time Graph Analytics; Yves Ineichen (IBM Research – Zurich)
Performance Prediction for Tensor Contractions; Paolo Bientinesi (RWTH Aachen)
Using Adaptive Sparse Grids to Solve High-Dimensional Dynamic Economic Models; Simon Scheidegger (University of Zurich)
High-Performance Implementation of High-Dimensional Quadrature for Bayesian Inverse Problems; Robert Gantner (ETH Zurich)
Entropy-stable space-time discontinuous Galerkin schemes for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws; Andreas Hiltebrand (ETH Zurich)