The agenda for the workshop
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Agenda - Day 1Presentation PDF files of each presentation may be be downloaded by clicking on the speaker's name. |
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| 8:30-9:00 | Introduction, HPC and HPCAC activities in Switzerland (Gilad Shainer, Hussein Harake, Thomas Schoenemeyer) |
| 9:00-9:45 | InfiniBand for HPC overview (Erez Cohen - Mellanox) |
| 9:45-10:30 | Introduction to MPI part 1 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji - ANL) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:15 | Introduction to MPI part 2 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji - ANL) |
| 11:15-12:00 | Introduction to HPC storage part 1 (Hussein Harake - CSCS, Onur Celebioglu – Dell, Torben Kling Petersen - Xyratex) |
| 12:00-12:20 | Sponsorship Presentation: Dell - Dr. Reza Rooholamini (Director of Global Solutions Engineering) |
| 12:20-13:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20-13:40 | Sponsorship Presentation: Mellanox - Yossi Avni (VP Sales EMEA) |
| 13:40-14:00 | Sponsorship Presentation: IBM - Klaus Gottschalk |
| 14:00-14:45 | Introduction to HPC storage part 2 (Andreas Dilger - Whamcloud, Brent Welch - Panasas) |
| 14:45-15:45 | Networks: Offloading and topologies – how to design (Gilad Shainer – HPCAC) |
| 15:45-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:15 | Sponsorship Presentation: ClusterVision (Arno Ziebart) |
| 16:15-16:45 | HPC Advanced Topics session - Towards Transparent and Efficient GPU Communication on InfiniBand Clusters (Sadaf Alam - CSCS, Jeffrey Poznanovic - CSCS, Kristopher Howard - CSCS, Hussein Harake - CSCS) |
| 16:45-17:15 | HPC Advanced Topics session – Multi-GPU molecular dynamics simulations using LAMMPS on the eStella Cloud (Christian Trott - TU Ilmenau, Greg Scantlen - Creative Consultants LLC) |
| 17:15-18:00 | Clustering hands-on training, troubleshooting, optimizations and Q&A (Erez Cohen - Mellanox) |
Agenda - Day 2 |
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| 8:15-9:00 | Keynotes session - Challenges in growing and implementing heterogeneous HPC systems for academic and industrial research (Sharan Kalwani, KAUST) (please email info@hpcadvisorycouncil.com for presentation request) |
| 9:00-9:45 | InfiniBand diagnostics tools (Erez Cohen - Mellanox) |
| 9:45-10:30 | MPI performance and optimizations part 1 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji - ANL) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:15 | MPI performance and optimizations part 2 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji - ANL) |
| 11:15-12:00 | Futures of HPC storage solutions (Hussein Harake - CSCS, Brent Welch - Panasas, Onur Celebioglu – Dell, Torben Kling Petersen - Xyratex) |
| 12:00-12:20 | Sponsorship Presentation: HP - Update on HP presence in High Performance computing (Patrick Van Reeth) |
| 12:20-13:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20-13:40 | Sponsorship Presentation: AMD (Andre Heidekrueger) |
| 13:40-14:00 | Sponsorship Presentation: LSI (Didier Gava) |
| 14:00-15:00 | Build your own InfiniBand-based Lustre solution (Andreas Dilger - Whamcloud) |
| 15:00-15:45 | HPC Advanced Topics session: Usage models for GPU computing (Timothy Lanfear - NVIDIA) |
| 15:45-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:15 | Sponsorship Presentation: Eurotech |
| 16:15-17:00 | HPC Advanced Topics session: CPUs – now and futures (Andre Heidekrueger - AMD) |
| 17:00-18:00 | Clustering hands-on training, troubleshooting, optimizations and Q&A (Erez Cohen - Mellanox) |
| 18:00-21:00 | Offsite Evening Dinner |
Agenda - Day 3 |
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| 8:15-9:15 | Keynotes session – Congestion management in lossless interconnects: Challenges and benefits (Jos´e Duato, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Valencia) |
| 9:15-9:45 | Keynotes session – High performance computing in seismic data processing: Promises and Challenges (Richa Rastogi – C-DAC) |
| 9:45-10:30 | Futures of MPI part 1 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji - ANL) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:15 | Futures of MPI part 2 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji - ANL) |
| 11:15-12:00 | HPC storage integrations (Onur Celebioglu - Dell) |
| 12:00-12:20 | Sponsorship Presentation: BlueArc (Bjorn Andersson) |
| 12:20-13:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20-13:40 | Sponsorship Presentation: QLogic (Peter Sommer) |
| 13:40-14:00 | Sponsorship Presentation: ParTec (Thomas Moschny) |
| 14:00-14:45 | The pNFS standard and the latest development (Brent Welch - Panasas) |
| 14:45-15:15 | vFtree - A Fat-tree Routing Algorithm using Virtual Lanes to Alleviate Congestion (Sven-Arne Reinemo, Simula Research Lab) |
| 15:15-15:45 | Scaling to the Exascale – Efficient usage of your supercomputer resources (Gilad Shainer – HPCAC) |
| 15:45-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Management portal "CHReME" with web interface for scientific users (Nisha Kurkure – C-DAC) |
| 16:30-16:45 | Sponsorship Presentation: Xyratex |
| 16:45-17:00 | HPC Advisory Council Programs (Gilad Shainer - HPCAC, Hussein Harake - CSCS) |
| 17:00-18:00 | Clustering hands-on competition with prizes! (Erez Cohen) |