Name: PRACE Workshop – Kick-off of the Scientific and Innovation Case 2024 Edition
Start: 2023-10-20T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-10-20T16:30:00+02:00
Location: La Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

PRACE Workshop – Kick-off of the Scientific and Innovation Case 2024 Edition

Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:00 AM

Monday, October 16, 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Friday, October 20, 2023

9:00 AM Registration
Registration
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
You are kindly requested to notify late arrival as comment at registration time
10:00 AM Welcome - Constantia Alexandrou (University of Cyprus)
Welcome
- Constantia Alexandrou (University of Cyprus)
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM Setting the scene - Serge Bogaerts (Managing Director PRACE aisbl)
Setting the scene
- Serge Bogaerts (Managing Director PRACE aisbl)
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
- PRACE 3 - History of Scientific Cases
10:40 AM Discussion
Discussion
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Understanding Matter: Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics in the era of Exascale and Beyond - Sinead Ryan (Chair of Theoretical High Energy Physics and Head, School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Understanding Matter: Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics in the era of Exascale and Beyond
- Sinead Ryan (Chair of Theoretical High Energy Physics and Head, School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
This talk will discuss the role of lattice QCD calculations in searches for new physics and understanding the nature and structure of matter at subatomic scales. The scientific case for exascale (and beyond) computing will be described and some of the new, as well as persistent, numerical simulation challenges will be outlined.
11:20 AM Discussion
Discussion
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM From processor interconnection to service integration - Vincent Galinier (IM Enterprise & Innovation Architect, iStudio Leader, Airbus, France)
From processor interconnection to service integration
- Vincent Galinier (IM Enterprise & Innovation Architect, iStudio Leader, Airbus, France)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
To be able to address aircraft programs challenges, technologies and market evolutions, we have to adapt HPC environments. From cabling supercomputers, we had to adapt our expertise, to become service integration taking into account new technologies, market evolutions, and collaboration environments
12:00 PM Discussion
Discussion
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM

12:10 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
1:10 PM Understanding and designing matter and materials at the exascale and beyond - Elisa Molinari (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and CNR-Nanoscience Institute, Modena, Italy)
Understanding and designing matter and materials at the exascale and beyond
- Elisa Molinari (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and CNR-Nanoscience Institute, Modena, Italy)
1:10 PM - 1:40 PM
As we enter the exascale and post-exascale era, I will discuss some of the successes and perspectives in understanding fundamental phenomena at the nanoscale and designing materials and properties that are critical for technology. I will also discuss key challenges and huge opportunities that arise, especially at interfaces between computational and experimental scientific communities.
1:40 PM Discussion
Discussion
1:40 PM - 1:50 PM
1:50 PM Training large language models: workloads and challenges - Timothée Lacroix (CTO Mistral AI)
Training large language models: workloads and challenges
- Timothée Lacroix (CTO Mistral AI)
1:50 PM - 2:20 PM
Training large language models maxes out capacities of modern GPUs as well as modern fabrics. I'll go into the details of a typical large language model training workload, how compute is distributed, how much data is transfered and how compute and communications are interleaved. I'll describe how different balance of compute vs bandwidth can bring different training speeds in practical large language model training. I'll conclude with the challenges associated with training the next generation of models, and how they change the communication patterns.
2:20 PM Discussion
Discussion
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM JUPITER Europe’s first exascale computer - Benedikt von St. Vieth (Foschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
JUPITER Europe’s first exascale computer
- Benedikt von St. Vieth (Foschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
JUPITER, the “Joint Undertaking pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research”, is on its way to provide Exascale computing capabilities to the European HPC and AI community and beyond. The Jülich Supercomputing Centre, together with the EuroHPC JU, joined their efforts to implement one of the most powerful supercomputers world-wide. Within this talk we will show the journey that JSC started more than a decade ago to bring the successful Modular Supercomputing Architecture, implemented first in the DEEP projects and prototypes, to a production level. We will detail the software and a few hardware characteristics of the current JSC flagship system JUWELS that we see as a blueprint for the system architecture for JUPITER. In addition we provide details about the procurement process, in particular benchmarks, as well as the high-level system architecture of JUPITER.
2:50 PM Discussion
Discussion
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM Panel Discussion: Upcoming challenges for Science and Innovation in using Advanced Computing Technologies - Lee Margetts (University Manchester)
Panel Discussion: Upcoming challenges for Science and Innovation in using Advanced Computing Technologies
- Lee Margetts (University Manchester)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Panel Members: - Prof. Jean-Philip Piquemal - Prof. Sinead Ryan - Prof. Nicola Marzari - Andrea R. Beccari
4:00 PM Next Steps
Next Steps
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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