HPC Advisory Council » HPC Events http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog Your contact for High Performance Computing Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:17:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Announcing the HPC Advisory Council China Workshop 2011 http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/07/announcing-the-hpc-advisory-council-china-workshop-2011/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/07/announcing-the-hpc-advisory-council-china-workshop-2011/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:10:27 +0000 shainer http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=207 The HPC Advisory Council will hold the 2011 China Workshop on October 25th, 2011, in conjunction with the HPC China conference in Jinan, China. The workshop will focus on HPC productivity, and advanced HPC topics and futures, and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in High-Performance Computing.

Last year more than 300 attendees participated in the Advisory Council China Workshop 2010. This year we expect to reach 400 attendees. The preliminary agenda is now posted on the workshop web, as well as call for speakers and for sponsors. AMD, Dell, Mellanox and Microsoft already confirmed their sponsorship and we are grateful for that.

The workshop keynotes presenters are Richard Graham (Distinguished Member of the Research Staff, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Professor Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State University, USA) and Professor Rafael Mayo-Gual (University Jaume I, Spain). The workshop will feature many interesting topics and distinguished speakers. More info can be found on the workshop web – http://hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2011/china_workshop/index.php.

Regards,

Gilad

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/07/announcing-the-hpc-advisory-council-china-workshop-2011/feed/ 0 HPC Advisory Council European 2011 Workshop http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/06/hpc-advisory-council-european-2011-workshop/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/06/hpc-advisory-council-european-2011-workshop/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:36:41 +0000 shainer http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=200 The HPC Advisory Council held the 2011 European Workshop on June 19th, 2011, in conjunction with the ISC’11 conference in Hamburg, Germany. More than 80 attendees participated in the workshop, which hosted 21 presenters covering interesting topics related to different aspects of high-performance computing. You can find most of the presentations on the workshop web page http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2011/european_workshop/agenda.php.

I would like to thank the presenters and the sponsors for their generous support, making the workshop a great success. Below you can find some pictures from the workshop. The workshop was also covered by InsideHPC, and you can find some videos on www.insideHPC.com  

Our next workshop will be in China, in conjunction with HPC China, October 25th in Jinan. Call for presentations will be open shortly, and if you would like to present or sponsor, you can also contact the council at info@hpcadvisorycouncil.com.

Regards,

Gilad

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]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/06/hpc-advisory-council-european-2011-workshop/feed/ 0 HPC Advisory Council ISCnet FDR InfiniBand 56Gb/s World First Demonstration http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/06/hpc-advisory-council-iscnet-fdr-infiniband-56gbs-world-first-demonstration/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/06/hpc-advisory-council-iscnet-fdr-infiniband-56gbs-world-first-demonstration/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:31:52 +0000 shainer http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=191 The HPC Advisory Council, together with ISC, showcased the world’s first FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand during the ISC’11 conference in Hamburg, Germany on June 20-22. The demonstration was part of the HPC Advisory Council activities of hosting and organizing new technology demonstrations at leading HPC conferences that demonstrate new solutions which will influence future HPC systems in term of performance, scalability and utilization. The 56Gb/s InfiniBand demonstration connected participating exhibitors on the ISC’11 showroom floor as part of the HPC Advisory Council ISCnet network. The ISCnet network provided organizations with fast interconnect connectivity between their booths on the show floor to demonstrate various HPC applications, and new developments and products.

The FDR InfiniBand network included dedicated and distributed clusters as well as a Lustre-based storage system. Multiple applications were demonstrated, including high-speed visualizations. The following HPC Council member organizations have contributed and are participated in the world’s first FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand ISCnet demonstration: AMD, Corning Cable Systems, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, HPC Advisory Council, MEGWARE, Mellanox Technologies, Microsoft, OFS, Scalable Graphics, Supermicro and Xyratex.

I would like to thank all of the demo participants and you can see the network map below.

Regards,

Gilad

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]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/06/hpc-advisory-council-iscnet-fdr-infiniband-56gbs-world-first-demonstration/feed/ 0 HPC Advisory Council 2nd Swiss Workshop Held this week http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/03/hpc-advisory-council-2nd-swiss-workshop-held-this-week/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/03/hpc-advisory-council-2nd-swiss-workshop-held-this-week/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:06:26 +0000 shainer http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=175 This week we have held the 2nd HPC Advisory Council Swiss workshop in Lugano Switzerland. Nearly 140 attendees participated in the 3-days workshop, 18 sponsors sponsored the workshop, and it was covered by 3 media sponsors. Many videos from the workshop can be found for example on InsideHPC web site (www.insideHPC.com). All of the presentation can be found on the workshop web page – http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2011/switzerland_workshop/.

The workshop was very successful. We had presentations on various topics – MPI, networking, GPUs and many other topics, hands-on sessions on networking and Lustre, and overview on activities at various HPC centers around the world.

I would like to thank all the speakers, the attendees and the sponsors. Now we are getting ready to the next workshop in Germany as part of ISC’11 – http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2011/european_workshop/. I encourage you to join us at the workshop. Folks interested in sponsoring or presenting – please drop me a note at info@hpcadvisorycouncil.com.

All the best,

Gilad, HPC Advisory Council Chairman

 

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]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/03/hpc-advisory-council-2nd-swiss-workshop-held-this-week/feed/ 0 ISC Events in 2011 http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/02/isc-events-in-2011/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/02/isc-events-in-2011/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:23:14 +0000 shainer http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=156 ISC possesses more than 25 years of leadership in organizing supercomputing, computing and scientific conferences and exhibitions. Our family of ISC events include the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) and the ISC Cloud Computing Conference (ISC Cloud’11).  

ISC is a key global conference and exhibition for HPC, networking and storage. This international conference (June 19 – 23, 2011 in Hamburg. Germany) reunites over 2,000 mind-alike HPC researchers, technology leaders, scientists and IT-decision makers and also offers a world-class exhibition by leading solutions providers of supercomputing, software, storage, networking, infrastructure technologies, and more (www.isc11.org). 

The ISC Cloud Conference will take place in Mannheim, Germany, September 26-27, 2011, bringing over 250 decision-makers from industry and research to discuss and find practical solutions on moving to the “Cloud”. More at http://www.isc-cloud.com/2011/.

We hope to see you all there at our ISC events during 2011!

Regards,

Martin Meuer, Prometeus GmbH

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2011/02/isc-events-in-2011/feed/ 0 Come See MBA Sciences at SC’10 http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/11/come-see-mba-sciences-at-sc10/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/11/come-see-mba-sciences-at-sc10/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:33:24 +0000 brian http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=150 MBA Sciences recently joined the HPC Advisory Council, and we are pleased to announce the selection of their SPM.Python product as an SC10 Disruptive Technology (booth 1046C). SPM.Python is a scalable, parallel version of the Python language designed to enable a broad range of users to exploit parallelism.

I will be talking at the Intel Parallel Programming Talk on Intel Software Network TV in Show #97 Tuesday, November 16, 2010
8:30am Pacific (Live from SC10 in New Orleans). http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/parallel-programming-talk

Looking forward to see you all at SC’10,

Minesh B. Amin, MBA Sciences founder and CEO

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/11/come-see-mba-sciences-at-sc10/feed/ 0 HPC Advisory Council Annual Member Meeting http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/10/hpc-advisory-council-annual-member-meeting/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/10/hpc-advisory-council-annual-member-meeting/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:27:46 +0000 brian http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=148 Register now for the upcoming annual HPC Advisory Council Member Meeting during SC10. Cocktails and appetizers will be served during the event. Attendance to the event is open for all council members and those folks interested in joing the Council and participating in the Council’s many areas of HPC outreach and education.

Wednesday, November 17th
6:00 – 7:00pm

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Grand Ballroom
300 Bourbon St.
New Orleans, LA 70130

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/10/hpc-advisory-council-annual-member-meeting/feed/ 0 HPC Advisory Council Announces 2nd Annual China High-Performance Computing Workshop Program http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/hpc-advisory-council-announces-2nd-annual-china-high-performance-computing-workshop-program/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/hpc-advisory-council-announces-2nd-annual-china-high-performance-computing-workshop-program/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:58:09 +0000 shainer http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=128 For those who missed the announcement, our 2nd Annual China High-Performance Computing Workshop will be on October 27th, 2010 in Beijing, China in conjunction with the HPC China National Annual Conference on High-Performance Computing. The Call for presentations as well as workshop sponsorships are now open – http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2010/china_workshop/. The workshop will focus on efficient high-performance computing through best practices, future system capabilities through new hardware, software and computing environments and high-performance computing user experience.

The workshop will be opened with keynote presentations by Prof. Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda who leads the Network-Based Computing Research Group at The Ohio State University (USA) and Dr. HUO Zhigang from the National Center for Intelligent Computing (China). The keynotes will be followed by distinguished speakers from the academia and the industry. The workshop will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in High-Performance Computing.

And again – Call for Presentations and Sponsorships are now Open, so if you are interested, let us know. For the preliminary agenda and schedule, please refer to the workshop website. The workshop is free to HPC China attendees and to the HPC Advisory Council members. Registration is required and can be made at the HPC Advisory Council China Workshop website.

Regards,

Gilad Shainer

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/hpc-advisory-council-announces-2nd-annual-china-high-performance-computing-workshop-program/feed/ 0 Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Conference, July 2010 http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/scientific-discovery-through-advanced-computing-conference-july-2010/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/scientific-discovery-through-advanced-computing-conference-july-2010/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:55:42 +0000 brian http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=118 Each year, scientists participating in the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC), along with other researchers from the computational science community gather at the annual SciDAC conference to present scientific results, discuss new technologies and discover new approaches to collaboration. The SciDAC 2010 Conference is being held this week in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, chairs the conference this year.

I participated in the first 2 days of SciDAC. While the weather there is not ideal to say the least…  I have enjoyed the presentations and discussions.  The Undersecretary Steven Koonin (undersecretary for science, department of energy) commented on DoE future goals – reducing Oil consumption in transportation by 35%, reducing greenhouse gas emissions 17% by 2020, and 83% by 2050, maintain technical base and exploit simulation capabilities.

Many of the discussions were on Exascale computing – what is needed to be done in order to get there – systems, applications etc, with the goal to have the first system by 2018. Our HPC|Scale subgroup will try to help make the right steps toward this goal with exploration and experiments. I hope to report soon on the subgroup progress.

Regards,
Gilad

]]> http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/07/scientific-discovery-through-advanced-computing-conference-july-2010/feed/ 0 International Supercomputing Conference 2010 http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/05/international-supercomputing-conference-2010/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2010/05/international-supercomputing-conference-2010/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 19:05:02 +0000 brian http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/?p=116 The second biggest HPC show will start next week, and I am now on a United flight from San Francisco to Germany on my way to the conference. On Sunday we will do the HPC Advisory Council European workshop, the second workshop of the year (3 more to come – TeraGrid, HPC China and MEW UK). For the workshop we have gathered some interesting HPC people from around the world – Richard Graham and Steve Poole from Oak Ridge National Laboratory US, Norbert Eicker from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre Germany, Tor Skeie from Simula Research Laboratory Norway, and Abhishek Das from C-DAC India. We will also host interesting talks on HPC in cloud computing, virtualization and HPC, application best practices and more. I will make sure to capture the highlights from the day and share it here.

ISC’10 is also the place where the Top500 list is being published. Published twice a year (ISC and SC), the Top500 list rank the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world. Why is it important for us? Because it can give us indications on trends in the HPC world, capabilities and usage models. It is also a great tool for making predications on when we will see the first ExaScale system etc.

And last but not least, the HPC Advisory Council will give the 2009-2010 awards in 4 categories in the closing session of ISC – Thursday at 1pm Germany time. If you are planning to be in Germany feel free to join us at the workshop, or be there for the award ceremony. Or just drop by and say hello…

Gilad

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