Registration Opens for HPC User Forums in Switzerland and Scotland

Steve Conway and Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research

Registration is now open for a pair of HPC User Forum events coming up in October. The first event takes place Oct. 7-8 at CSCS in Lugano and the second event takes place Oct. 10-11 at EPCC in Edinburgh.

The HPC User Forum Steering Committee and Hyperion Research invite interested HPC community members to reserve a seat at one or both HPC User Forum meetings that will take place during the same week at CSCS (the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Lugano) and EPCC/University of Edinburgh in October. The meetings will begin and end at midday, to make same-day travel easier. Registration and food/refreshments are free, but space is strictly limited. Seats will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. We look forward to seeing you in October.

The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users. The organization has grown to 150 members. It is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of users from government, industry and academia, and operated for the users.

Preliminary HPC User Forum Agenda (74th HPC User Forum)
October 7-8, 2019 – CSCS/Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 7

12:00 Lunch
13:00 Welcome/Introductions
Thomas Schulthess, CSCS; Paul Muzio, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway, HPC User Forum
13:15 HPC and Switzerland, Peter Brönnimann, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
13:30 CSCS and European Supercomputing, Thomas Schulthess
14:00 EuroHPC Update, Leonardo Flores, European Commission
14:30 PRACE Update, Thomas Lippert, PRACE Council Chair (invited)
15:00 Networking Break
15:30 Vendor Technical Update: AMD
15:45 Vendor Technical Update: Panasas
16:00 Goals for the Pan-European Supercomputer, Kimmo Koski, CSC
16:30 The Exascale Computing Project’s Application Software Strategy, Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories
17:00 ARM and The UK Catalyst Project, Simon Burbidge, University of Bristol
17:30 End of First Day Meeting.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8

9:00 Welcome/Logistics/ Paul Muzio, HPC User Forum Steering Committee Chair
9:10 HPC Market Update, Earl Joseph & Steve Conway, Hyperion Research
9:30 Energy Efficient Scalable Algorithms For Weather Prediction At Exascale, Andreas Mueller, ECMWF
10:00 Climate: Accelerating MPAS-Ocean on GPUs, Rob Aulwes, Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:30 The E3SMMMF Atmosphere General Circulation Model on Hybrid Leadership Architectures, David Bader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:00 Networking Break
11:30 Metadata and Archiving: Recap of April 2019 HPC User Forum Session, Paul Muzio
12:00 Energy-Efficient Scalable Algorithms For Weather Prediction at Exascale, Andreas Mueller, ECMWF
12:30 Advanced Computing at NASA, Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames
13:00 Meeting wrap up and plans for future HPC User Forum meetings, Earl Joseph, Steve Conway
13:15 Meeting ends

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Preliminary HPC User Forum Agenda (75th HPC User Forum)
October 10-11, 2019 – EPCC/University of Edinburgh
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

12:00 Lunch
13:00 Welcome/Introductions
Mark Parsons, EPCC; Paul Muzio, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway, HPC User Forum
13:15 HPC at EPCC (speaker invited)
13:45 EuroHPC Update, Leonardo Flores, European Commission
14:15 The UK Exascale Project, Mark Parsons, EPCC
14:45 The EU Fortissimo Project: HPC for SMEs, Bastian Koller, HLRS/University of Stuttgart
15:15 Networking Break
15:45 Vendor Technical Update: AMD
16:00 Vendor Technical Update: Panasas
16:15 ARM and The UK Catalyst Project, Simon Burbidge, University of Bristol
16:45 Metadata & Archiving: Recap of the April 2019 HPC User Forum Session, Paul Muzio
17:15 End of First Day Meeting
17:30 After-Meeting Socializing

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11

9:00 Welcome/Logistics/ Paul Muzio, HPC User Forum Steering Committee Chair
9:10 HPC Market Update, Earl Joseph & Steve Conway, Hyperion Research
9:30 ECMWF and The NEXTGenIO Project, Tiago Quintino
10:00 Climate: Accelerating MPAS-Ocean on GPUs, Rob Aulwes, Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:30 The E3SMMMF Atmosphere General Circulation Model on Hybrid Leadership Architectures, David Bader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:30 Networking Break
11:00 Project to Simulate Vehicle Engine Design at Exascale, Leigh Lapworth, Rolls-Royce
11:30 The Exascale Computing Project’s Application Software Strategy, Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories
12:00 The DiRAC Astronomy & Particle Physics Theory Community, Mark Wilkinson (invited)
12:30 Advanced Computing at NASA, Rupak Biswas
13:00 Meeting wrap up and plans for future HPC User Forum meetings, Earl Joseph, Steve Conway
13:15 Meeting ends

In related news, the next HPC User Forum in the USA takes place Sept. 9-11 at Argonne National Lab. Registration for this event is closing soon.

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