The agenda for the workshop
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Agenda - Day 1 |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome session (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council) |
| 9:30-9:45 | HPC in the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (Dominik Ulmer, CSCS) |
| 9:45-10:00 | HPC Systems in the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (Neil Stringfellow) |
| 10:00-10:30 | HPC Storage Systems at CSCS (Hussein N. Harake, CSCS) |
| 10:30-10:45 | The HPC Advisory Council recent activities (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Sponsor presentations (IBM, Microsoft, HP) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | InfiniBand Architecture Overview (Erez Cohen) |
| 14:30-15:15 | Large scale applications scalability – past experience |
| 15:15-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:15 | InfiniBand storage tutorial (Toine Beckers, DataDirect Networks) |
| 16:15-17:00 | Using InfiniBand for High-Performance Visualization - HPV (Stefan Eilemann, Eyescale Software GmbH) |
| 17:00-18:30 | InfiniBand clustering basics hands-on training (Erez Cohen) |
| 18:30-20:00 | Evening Event |
Agenda - Day 2 |
9:00-10:00 | Advanced topics in HPC networking – adaptive/static routing, congestion avoidance (Sven-Arne Reinemo, Simula Research Laboratory) |
| 10:00-10:45 | Advanced HPC technologies – collectives operations and offloading (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Sponsor presentations (Sun Oracle, AMD, Voltaire) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-13:45 | Networking topologies – CLOS (Fat-Tree), 3D Torus, network management |
| 13:45-14:00 | Sponsor presentation (Dell) |
| 14:00-14:30 | The JuRoPA Supercomputer - Experience from Building a Supercomputer (Hugo Falter, ParTec) |
| 14:30-15:30 | Swiss Supercomputer Center - What We Need from InfiniBand? (Sadaf Alam, CSCS) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-18:00 | Clustering fabric management and monitoring hands-on (Erez Cohen) |
| 18:00-18:30 | Q&A |
| 18:30-20:00 | Evening Event |
Agenda - Day 3 (Industrial Day) |
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| 8:45-9:00 | Industrial Day introduction (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council) |
| 9:00-9:45 | Keynote session: HPC - Challenges of the 21st century (Goldi Misra, Centre For Development of Advanced Computing) |
| 9:45-10:30 | HP |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Voltaire |
| 11:30-12:15 | Sun Oracle |
| 12:15-1:00 | IBM |
| 1:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 | Dell |
| 14:45-15:30 | Microsoft |
| 15:30-16:15 | AMD Opteron™ processors scalability and roadmap (Herve Chevanne, AMD) |
| 16:15-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30-17:00 | Putting Personality into High-Performance Computing (John D. Leidel, Convey Computer Corporation) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Gateway Technology |
| 17:30-18:00 | DataDirect Networks |
| 18:00-18:30 | Advancements in Copper Cable Interconnects for HPC Applications (Russell Hornung and Henry N.Yates II, W.L. Gore & Associates) |
| 18:30-18:45 | Adjourn and prize raffle! |