Name: PRACE Winter School 2021-Converging HPC Infrastructure & Methodologies
Start: 2021-12-07T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-12-09T17:30:00+02:00
Location: via ZOOM

PRACE Winter School 2021-Converging HPC Infrastructure & Methodologies

from Tuesday, December 7, 2021 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, December 9, 2021 (5:30 PM)

Monday, December 6, 2021
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

8:30 AM Welcome & Tech Check
Welcome & Tech Check
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM HPC Visualizations - Joan Adler (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
HPC Visualizations
- Joan Adler (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
12:15 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM MPI, OpenMP, and Profiling - Guy Tel-Zur (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
MPI, OpenMP, and Profiling
- Guy Tel-Zur (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
1:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

8:30 AM Welcome & Tech Check
Welcome & Tech Check
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Scientific Computing with EC2 and S3 on AWS, hands-on practice - Austin Cherian (Sr. HPC/Batch Developer Advocate, AWS )
Scientific Computing with EC2 and S3 on AWS, hands-on practice
- Austin Cherian (Sr. HPC/Batch Developer Advocate, AWS )
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Introduction to cloud for scientific computing. The goal is to give students the skills to use AWS for scientific computing inspired by genomics use cases
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM HPC on AWS: set up and configuration, hands-on practice - Brian Skjerven (HPC Solutions Architect, AWS) Bruno Silva (Academic Research Solutions, AWS )
HPC on AWS: set up and configuration, hands-on practice
- Brian Skjerven (HPC Solutions Architect, AWS)
- Bruno Silva (Academic Research Solutions, AWS )
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Setting up HPC compute on AWS using open source tools to stand up a HPC cluster in an AWS account, allowing scaling up HPC applications to 1000s of cores
12:15 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Heterogeneous HPC and remote visualisation on AWS, hands-on practice. - Fabio Baruffa (HPC Solutions Architect, AWS )
Heterogeneous HPC and remote visualisation on AWS, hands-on practice.
- Fabio Baruffa (HPC Solutions Architect, AWS )
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Demonstration of Heterogeneous (CPU, GPU, Graviton, etc) HPC infrastructure for performance optimization demonstrated with common applications, including remote visualisation
2:00 PM Running large-scale OpenFOAM simulations on AWS - Neil Ashton (Princ. CFD Solutions Architect, AWS )
Running large-scale OpenFOAM simulations on AWS
- Neil Ashton (Princ. CFD Solutions Architect, AWS )
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Demonstration of large-scale OpenFOAM simulation on AWS, including tooling for data visualization
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM Large-scale GROMACS biomolecular simulations using AWS Batch - Carsten Kutzner (Max Plank Institute) Christian Kniep (Sr. HPC/Batch Developer Advocate, AWS)
Large-scale GROMACS biomolecular simulations using AWS Batch
- Carsten Kutzner (Max Plank Institute)
- Christian Kniep (Sr. HPC/Batch Developer Advocate, AWS)
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
How biomolecular simulations scale on AWS CPU and GPU instances across regions using GROMACS through AWS Batch
4:15 PM Event-driven Simulation at scale using EFISPEC3D on AWS - Steve Messenger (Sr HPC Solutions Architect, AWS)
Event-driven Simulation at scale using EFISPEC3D on AWS
- Steve Messenger (Sr HPC Solutions Architect, AWS)
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Setting up event-driven workflows on AWS to perform realistic earthquake ground-motion simulations using EFISPEC3D
Thursday, December 9, 2021

8:30 AM Welcome & Tech Check
Welcome & Tech Check
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Kubernetes and docker for massive AI workloads - Mordechai Botrashvily (Tel Aviv University)
Kubernetes and docker for massive AI workloads
- Mordechai Botrashvily (Tel Aviv University)
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM Kubernetes and docker for massive AI workloads - Mordechai Botrashvily (Tel Aviv University)
Kubernetes and docker for massive AI workloads
- Mordechai Botrashvily (Tel Aviv University)
1:15 PM - 5:15 PM

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