Welcome to the 2018 Swiss HPC Conference
Delve into a wide range of interests, disciplines and topics in HPC – from present day application to its future potential. Join the Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS), HPC Advisory Council members and colleagues from around the world for invited and contributed talks and immersive tutorials at the ninth annual Swiss Conference!
Knowledgeable evaluations, prescriptive best practices and provocative insights, the open forum conference brings together industry experts for three days of highly interactive sessions.
Day One: Monday, 09 April, 2018 |
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| About the HPC Advisory Council * Video * Slides | Gilad Shainer
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| Welcome Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS) * Video |
Michele de Lorenzi | ||||
| Introduction to HPCXXL Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) * Video * Slides |
Michael Stephan | ||||
| Visionary Perspectives: The Transformation of HPC ~ Simulation and Cognitive Methods in the Era of Big Data * Video * Slides | Dave Turek, IBM | ||||
| Keynote: Demystifying Parallel and Distributed Deep Learning ~ An In-Depth Concurrency Analysis Video * Slides |
Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich | ||||
| Shifter ~ Docker Containers for HPC * Video * Slides | Alberto Madonna, CSCS | ||||
| XXL Overview: Julich Supercomputing Centre * Video * Slides | Michael Stephan, JSC | ||||
| High-Performance Artificial Intelligence on Intel Architecture (No video) * Slides | Claire Bild | ||||
| From Scratch to Supercomputers ~ Bottoms-up Build of Large-scale Computational Lensing Software * Video * Slides | Gilles Fourestey, EPFL | ||||
| Tutorial: State of Containers and the Convergence of HPC and BigData * Video * Slides | Christian Kniep, Docker | ||||
| XXL Overview: CSCS * Video * Slides | Colin McMurtrie, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS) | ||||
| Tutorial: Containers Using Singularity on HPC * Video | Abhinav Thota, Indiana University | ||||
| Industry Insights: Advanced Networking ~ The Critical Path for HPC, Cloud, Machine Learning and more … * Video * Slides | Erez Cohen, Mellanox Technologies | ||||
Axel Kohler, NVIDIA |
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Day Two: Tuesday, 10 April, 2018
Exploiting HPC Technologies for Accelerating Big Data Processing and Associated Deep Learning, DK Panda, The Ohio State University * Video * Slides
Kubernetes as a Service Built on OpenStack, Saverio Proto from SWITCH * Video * Slides
XXL Overview: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ), Markus Michael Müller * Video
Designing Scalable HPC, Deep Learning and Cloud Middleware for Exascale Systems
DK Panda, The Ohio State University * Video * Slides
XXL Overview: Indiana University, Robert Henschel * Video * Slides
Energy Efficiency and Water-Cool-Technology Innovations
Karsten Kutzer, Lenovo * Video * Slides
Enabling Object Storage Systems for High-Latency Media
Harald Seipp, IBM * Video * Slides
Deep Learning and Edge Computing, Zaikun Xu, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)/Institute of Computational Science (ICS) * Video * Slides
Tutorial: Charliecloud ~ Unprivileged Containers for User-Defined Software Stacks, Michael Jennings, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) * Video * Slides
Day 3: Wednesday April 11, 2018
Ceph on the Brain ~ Storage and Data-Movement Supporting the Human Brain Project (HBP), Adrian Tate, Stig Telfer, Lena Oden, Cray, StackHPC, Forschungszentrum Jülich * Video * Slides
Patent-Crawler ~ A Web Crawler to Gather Virtual Patent Marking Information, Etienne Orliac, l’Université de Lausanne/École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (UNIL/EPFL) * Video * Slides
NVMe Takes It All, SCSI Has To Fall, ABC Systems AG, Alexander Ruebensaal * Video * Slides
Building Computing and Data Centres for Exascale in the EU, Peter Hopton, EuroEXA/Iceotope * Video * Slides
Applying DDN to Machine Learning, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, DDN * Video * Slides
Heterogeneous2 Computing with rCUDA, Federico Silla, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia * Video * Slides
Tutorial: Hands-on rCUDA Using GPU Virtualization with TensorFlow, Carlos Reaño, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia * Video * Slides
Quantum Computing, Its Principles, Capabilities and Challenges, Mark Mattingley-Scott, IBM * Video
ReFrame ~ A Regression Testing Framework Enabling Continuous Integration of Large HPC Systems, Victor Holanda Rusu, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich/Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico * Video
An Introduction to the SPEC High Performance Group and their HPC Benchmark Suites
Robert Henschel, Indiana University * Video
