Welcome to the 2016 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference

HPC Advisory Council SwissConference 2016

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Day 1 Agenda

9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks Hussein Harake & Gilad Shainer

9:15-9:30 Welcome CSCS, Deputy Director Michele de Lorenzi

9:30-10:15 Keynote: Industry Shifts to Open Infrastructure and Momentum of OpenPOWER Foundation IBM, Open Power Global Alliances Calista Redmond

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:15 Best Practices: High-Performance and Scalable Designs of Programming Models for Exascale Systems Ohio State University DK Panda

11:15-12:00 Tutorial Part I: Deep Learning Università della Svizzera Italiana Zaikun Xu

12:00-13:00 Lunch & Vendor Exhibits

13:00-13:30 Best Practices: Addressing Emerging Challenges in Designing HPC Runtimes: Energy-Awareness, Accelerators and Virtualization Ohio State University DK Panda

13:30-14:15 Best Practices: Increasing Cluster Performance by Combining rCUDA with Slurm Technical University of Valencia Federico Silla

14:15-15:00 Tutorial Part II: Deep Learning Università della Svizzera Italiana Zaikun Xu

15:00-15:15 Break & Vendor Exhibits

15:15-16:00 Best Practices: Containers in HPC environments with Shifter Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico Miguel Gila

16:00-18:00 Tour CSCS 18:00 Enjoy the Evening

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Day 2 Agenda

9:00-10:00Keynote: Big Data Meets HPC: Exploiting HPC Technologies for Accelerating Big Data Processing Ohio State University DK Panda

10:00-10:30Industry Insights: An Open Source HPC Stack To Simplify Management and Use Lenovo Luigi Brochard

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:30 Tutorial Part I: Open Stack University of Zurich Sergio Maffioletti

11:30-12:00Industry Insights: Protecting Your Data, Protecting Your Hardware DDN Jean Thomas Acquaviva

12:00-13:00 Lunch & Vendor Exhibits

13:00-13:30 Industry Insights: The Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform NVIDIA Axel Khoeler

13:30-14:15Best Practices: Applications Performance Optimizations HPC Advisory Council Pak Lui

14:15-14:45 Industry Insights: HPC Storage Update Seagate Technologies Miro Lehocky

14:45-15:30 Best Practices: The State of Linux Containers Gaikai Inc. Christian Kniep

15:30-15:45 Break and Vendor Exhibits

15:45-16:30Best Practices: Manage Reproducibility of Computational Workflows with Docker Containers and Nextflow Center for Genomic Regulation Paolo Di Tommaso

16:30-17:15 Industry Insights: Looking Back Into the (Parallel) HPC Future Intel Herbert Cornelius

17:15-18:00 The Road To Exascale Panel18:00 Evening Event: The Pinnacle of Enjoyment

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Day 3 Agenda

9:00-9:45 Keynote: Co-Design Architecture – Emergence of New Co-Processors Mellanox Technologies Dror Goldenberg

9:45-10:15 Industry Insights: HPC and Hyperscale Trends for 2016 Intersect360 Addison Snell

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:30Tutorial Part I: EasyBuild - Getting Scientific Software Installed With Ease University Ghent Kenneth Hoste

11:30-12:00 Industry Insights: OpenPOWER Roadmap Toward CORAL IBM Klaus Gottschalk

12:00-13:00 Lunch & Vendor Exhibits

13:00-13:30Industry Insights: Fresh Technologies Power Innovative, Efficient and Scalable HPC Huawei Technologies Francis Lam

13:30-14:15 Tutorial Part II: Getting Started With EasyBuild University Ghent Kenneth Hoste

14:15-15:00 Tutorial Part II: Open Stack SWITCH Saverio Proto

15:00-15:15 Break and Vendor Exhibits

15:15-15:45 Best Practices: Using Xeon + FPGA for Accelerating HPC Workloads Intel Gaurav Kaul

15:45-16:30 End Note: Quantum Effect D-Wave Systems Bo Ewald

16:30 Closing Remarks

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Administration

• The workshop goals– Education, training, solutions, futures

• 3 days workshop and a tight schedule– We encourage live discussions– We want to have all sessions start in time– There are breaks for offline discussions

• Speakers – make sure we have your slides!

• Raffle– Wed afternoon!

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HPC Advisory Council Members

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HPC Advisory Council HPC Center

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R730 32-node cluster

HP Cluster Platform 3000SL 16-node cluster

HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8 4-node cluster

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815 11-node cluster

Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6145 6-node cluster

Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 38-node cluster

Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6100 4-node cluster

White-box InfiniBand-based Storage (Lustre)

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720xd/R720 32-node cluster

Dell PowerVault MD3420 Dell PowerVault MD3460

InfiniBandStorage (Lustre)

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• Lattice QCD

• LAMMPS

• LS-DYNA

• miniFE

• MILC

• MSC Nastran

• MR Bayes

• MM5

• MPQC

• NAMD

• Nekbone

• NEMO

• NWChem

• Octopus

• OpenAtom

• OpenFOAM

• OpenMX

• OptiStruct

• PARATEC

• PFA

• PFLOTRAN

• Quantum ESPRESSO

• RADIOSS

• SNAP

• SPECFEM3D

• STAR-CCM+

• STAR-CD

• VASP

• VSP

• WRF

158 Applications Best Practices Published

• Abaqus

• ABySS

• AcuSolve

• Amber

• AMG

• AMR

• ANSYS CFX

• ANSYS FLUENT

• ANSYS Mechanical

• BQCD

• CAM-SE

• CCSM

• CESM

• COSMO

• CP2K

• CPMD

• Dacapo

• Desmond

• DL-POLY

• Eclipse

• FLOW-3D

• GADGET-2

• Graph500

• GROMACS

• Himeno

• HIT3D

• HOOMD-blue

• HPCC

• HPCG

• HYCOM

• ICON

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Getting Ready to 2016 Student Cluster Competition

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2016 HPC Advisory Council Conferences

• USA (Stanford University) – February

• Switzerland – March

• Germany (SCC, ISC’16) – June

• Brazil – TBD

• Spain – Sep

• China (HPC China) – Oct 2015

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