PRACEdays17

May 15, 2017, 8:00 AM → May 18, 2017, 6:00 PM CET

Vertex Building, Campus Nord UPC, Plaza Eusebi Güell, Barcelona, Spain

HPC for Innovation
when Science meets Industry

 

PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference

From 16 to 18 May 2017, PRACE will organise the fourth edition of its Scientific and Industrial Conference – PRACEdays17 – under the motto "HPC for Innovation: when Science meets Industry" in Barcelona, Spain.

The conference will bring together experts from academia and industry who will present their advancements in HPC-supported science and engineering.

For questions please contact: pracedays [at] prace-ri.eu

Registration is now open

PRACEdays17 Program

Participation fee of € 60 includes all sessions and social events. Please go here: https://barcelo.eventsair.com/ehpcsw-2017/registration

The deadline to register is 5 May 2017.

PRACEdays17 Conference Booklet

Organisation and Programme Committee

Serge Bogaerts, Chair of the PRACE Board of Directors chairs the PRACEdays17 Organisation and Programme Committee (OPC) and with Veronica Teodor of Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany as Vice-Chair of the OPC. The other OPC members are: Erik Lindahl, Chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee; Anders Rhod Gregersen, Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee; Lee Margetts, Vice-Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee; Koen Hillewaert, Chair of the PRACE User Forum; Marjolein Oorsprong, PRACE Communications Officer; Silke Lang PRACE Communications Assistant; and Renata Gimenez and Sara Ibañez of Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) as local hosts.

PRACEdays17 is organised by PRACE aisbl and BSC with funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014-2020) under grant agreements 653838 and 730913.

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Mon, May 15

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Registration European HPC Summit week

Tue, May 16

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Registration desk

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Chair of the PRACEdays17 Organisation and Programme Committee

Convener: Serge Bogaerts

9:00 AM Opening of EHPCSW & Opening of PRACEdays17

Speaker: Sergi Girona

9:07 AM Opening of EHPCSW & Opening of PRACEdays17

Speaker: Serge Bogaerts (Chair of the PRACEdays17 OPC)

9:15 AM Opening of EHPCSW & Opening of PRACEdays17

Speaker: Anwar Osseyran (PRACE Council Chair and CEO of SURFsara, Netherlands)

9:30 AM Opening of EHPCSW & Opening of PRACEdays17

Speaker: Mateo Valero (BSC Director)

9:37 AM Opening of EHPCSW & Opening of PRACEdays17

Speaker: Mateo Valero (BSC Director)

9:45 AM The European HPC strategy – The European Data Infrastructure (EDI)

Speaker: Khalil Rouhana (European Commission)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee with finger food

11:00 AM → 1:00 PM Chair of the PRACEdays17 Organisation and Programme Committee

Convener: Erik Lindahl

11:00 AM Vlasiator – Understanding near-Earth space in six dimensions

Speaker: Minna Palmroth (University of Helsinki)

11:45 AM Quantitative supply chain optimization using big-data methodologies in the chemical industry

Speaker: Telli van der Lei (Senior Scientist Supply Chain and Process Modeling, DSM)

12:30 PM Presentation of the upcoming Call for proposals of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom 2017

Speaker: Leonardo Flores Añover (European Commission)

12:35 PM ETP4HPC

Speaker: Jean-Pierre Panziera (ETP4HPC)

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Industrial Parallel Track 1: Spanish Industry Chaired by José María Cela, CASE Department Director at BSC, Spain

Convener: José María Cela (CASE Department Director at BSC, Spain)

2:30 PM In silico drug discovery and computation

Speaker: Roberto Soliva (NBD)

3:00 PM Vortex Bladeless: A new way to harvest wind energy

Speaker: José Viyeira (Vortex Bladeless)

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Scientific Parallel Track 1: Materials Science Chaired by Matej Prapotnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Convener: Matej Prapotnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

2:30 PM Bioinspired surfaces for robust submerged superhydrophobicity: insights from molecular dynamics

Speaker: Alberto Giacomello (Sapienza University of Rome)

3:00 PM Optimized Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Algorithms for modelling the self-organization of two classes of materials: semifluorinated alkanes and semiconducting polymers based on thiophenes

Speaker: Flora Tsourtou (University of Patras)

3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Industrial Parallel Track 2: Industry & Engineering Chaired by Dieter Jahn, BASF, Germany

Convener: Dieter Jahn (BASF)

3:30 PM Next Generation of Co-Processors Emerges – In-Network Computing

Speaker: Gilad Shainer

4:00 PM FTL Systems' Commercial ExaScale Systems Designed & Manufactured in Europe

Speaker: Willis John (FTL Systems)

3:30 PM → 5:00 PM Scientific Parallel Track 2: Life Science Chaired by Erik Lindahl, Chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee

Convener: Erik Lindahl (Chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee)

3:30 PM A multiscale model of chromatin at bp-level

Speaker: Jürgen Walther (Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona)

4:00 PM Rapid, accurate, precise and reliable relative free energy prediction using ensemble based thermodynamic integration

Speaker: Agasthya Bathi (University College London)

4:30 PM PCJ-BLAST – massively parallel sequence alignment using NCBI Blast and PCJ Java library

Speaker: Bala Piotr (University of Warsaw)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Coffee with finger food

5:00 PM → 6:30 PM Industrial Parallel Track 3: European Industry Chaired by Anders Rhod Gregersen, Vestas, Denmark

Convener: Anders Rhod Gregersen (Vestas, Denmark)

5:00 PM Matrix of RNA-Seq project (SHAPE)

Speaker: Fabien Pierrat (MARS)

5:30 PM FORTISSIMO and SHAPE: helping SMEs access HPC

Speaker: Paul Graham (EPCC, Fortissimo)

6:00 PM SesameNET Project

Speaker: Tomi Ilijaš (ARCTUR, Coordinator of SESAMENet Project)

5:00 PM → 6:30 PM Scientific Parallel Track 3: Fluid Dynamics Chaired by Carlo Casciola, University of Rome, Italy

Convener: Carlo Casciola (University of Rome, Italy)

5:00 PM Climate change mitigation: prediction of CO2 dissolution in geological reservoirs

Speaker: Marco De Paoli (Vienna University of Technology)

5:30 PM Large Scale Simulations of Cloud Cavitation Collapse

Speaker: Ursula Rasthofer (ETH Zurich)

6:00 PM Viscosity-modulated breakup and coalescence of large drops in bounded turbulence

Speaker: Alessio Roccon (TU Wien)

6:30 PM → 7:30 PM Chair of the PRACEdays17 Organisation and Programme Committee

Convener: Erik Lindahl

6:30 PM Future GEANT network plans in Europe

Speaker: Mark Johnston (Chief Operations Officer GÉANT)

7:00 PM 6 poster presentations shortlisted for PRACE Best Poster Award

7:30 PM → 9:30 PM Welcome Reception & PRACEdays17 Poster Session

Wed, May 17

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Registration desk

11:00 AM → 12:45 PM Vice-Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee

Convener: Lee Margetts

11:00 AM Opening & Welcome

11:05 AM MoU PRACE-RIST-XSEDE

11:15 AM Innovation of Intelligent Manufacturing Driven by Cloud HPC

Speaker: Xue-Feng Yuan (Director Institute for Systems Rheology (ISR) School of Engineering Science for Intelligent Manufacturing, P.R. China)

12:00 PM Modeling of catalysts with industrial applications

Speaker: Lopez Nuria (Group Leader, Institute of Chemical research of Catalonia, ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain)

12:45 PM → 1:00 PM EHPCSW Group Photo

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Scientific Parallel Track 4: Energy & Particle Physics Chaired by Marina Bécoulet, CEA, France

Convener: Marina Bécoulet (CEA, France)

2:30 PM High Performance Computing for Non-linear MHD Simulations of Pellet Triggered ELMs in Fusion Devices

Speaker: Shimpei Futatani (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

3:00 PM Design and optimization of a portable Lattice QCD Monte Carlo code for heterogeneous HPC architectures, using OpenACC

Speaker: Enrico Calore (INFN and University of Ferrara)

3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Scientific Parallel Track 5: Astrophysics Chaired by Luke Drury, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland

Convener: Luke Drury (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland)

3:30 PM Multi-scale reionization

Speaker: Iliev Ilian (University of Sussex)

4:00 PM State-of-the-art hybrid simulations of plasma turbulence in support of solar and heliospheric space missions

Speaker: Luca Franci (University of Florence)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Coffee with finger food

5:00 PM → 6:30 PM Scientific Parallel Track 6: Climate & Environment Chaired by Dimitri Komatitsch, LMA CNRS-MRS, France

Convener: Dimitri Komatitsch (LMA CNRS-MRS, France)

5:00 PM TBC

Speaker: José Manuel Redondo (UPC Barcelona)

5:30 PM Software stack deployment for Earth System Modelling using SPACK

Speaker: Kim Serradell Marondo (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

6:00 PM Mixing due to large amplitude internal waves and convection

Speaker: Sibgatullin Ilias (Moscow State University)

6:30 PM → 7:30 PM PRACE User Forum Open Session

Convener: Koen Hillewaert

6:30 PM PRACE Peer Review

Speakers: John Clifford (PRACE aisbl), Roxana Dascalu (PRACE aisbl)

6:50 PM How to recruit and retain women in the PRACE HPC community

Speaker: Toni Collis (EPCC)

7:10 PM Open Discussion - Free for All

Free for All

7:30 PM → 8:00 PM Busses to dinner TBC

8:30 PM → 10:00 PM EHPCSW Dinner, Venue: Sala 39 - Fàbrica Moritz (http://moritz.com/en)

EHPCSW Dinner
(20:00 - 22:00)

10:00 PM → 10:30 PM Busses back to venue or nearby hotels

Thu, May 18

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Registration desk

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Vice-Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee

Convener: Lee Margetts (Vice-Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee)

9:00 AM Opening & Welcome

Speaker: Lee Margetts (Vice-Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee)

9:15 AM Challenges of increased HPC complexity and value delivery for the O&G industry

Speaker: Henri Calandra (TOTAL)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee with finger food

10:30 AM → 12:00 PM Panel Discussion: Moderated by Inma Martinez

Conveners: Erik Lindahl, Frauke Gräter, Henri Calandra, Lee Margetts, Thomas Skordas

12:00 PM → 12:45 PM PRACEdays 17 Award Session

Convener: Serge Bogaerts

12:45 PM → 1:00 PM Closing & Announcement of PRACEdays18

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch