The EuroHPC Summit Week 2019 gathered together the main HPC stakeholders in Europe. The EuroHPC Summit Week, endorsed by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, is organised by PRACE, EXDCI-2 and ETP4HPC.
PRACEdays19 was part of the EuroHPC Summit Week 2019. Similar to previous years, this edition offered a wide variety of workshops covering a number of application areas where supercomputers are key, as well as HPC technologies and infrastructures.
The EuroHPC Summit Week 2019 provided a great opportunity to network with all relevant European HPC stakeholders, from technology suppliers and HPC infrastructures to scientific and industrial HPC users in Europe. EuroHPC Summit Week 2019 was hosted by PRACE’s Polish Member PSNC – Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, and welcomed over 360 participants.
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The Wrap up of the EuroHPC Summit Week can be read here:
If you like to print the EuroHPC programme please download the PDF
The following sessions were live streamed:
Open & Welcome (Tuesday 14 May8:30 - 10:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCrY5-LHxfk
PRACEdays - User forum (11:30 - 13:00, Wed 15 May)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUUckLk0coo
PRACE days - Panel Discussion (11:00-12:30, Thu 16 May)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCPR6B_ooNw
Browse and download Photos of EHPCSW 2019 here:
https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/850/page/76-ehpcsw-2019-photogallery
To help you navigate through our rich programme, the EHPCSW team is introducing a new tool: the Conference4Me mobile app. With this app, you will be able to:
Download the app now and start selecting the sessions you do not want to miss: look for Conference4Me in your favourite app store, and then select the EuroHPC Summit Week, or click on the links :
Conference4Me is kindly provided and supported by our host the Poznań Supercomputing Center (PSNC).
Please be informed that photography and filming took place during the conference, further details can be read under Terms & Conditions. If you have any further questions, please contact: Communications Team
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Speaker: Thomas Skordas, Director of European Commission, DG CONNECT, Directorate C “Digital Excellence and Science Infrastructure” and Vice Chair of the EuroHPC Governing Board
Abstract: The EC has defined three pillars for HPC: Next generation technologies, access for industry and academia and HPC application delivery and use. All three require a high end network, reliable security services and a trustworthy identity and access management infrastructure. The European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) and GEANT have together built a network and set of services to meet the demands of HPC. And they will further develop this to meet the future demands of the EuroHPC programme delivering a quality and targeted set of services that distinguishes NRENs from commercial Internet providers.
Scientific Keynote
Industrial keynote
PRACEdays19 will host a session dedicated to an open discussion on Equality and Diversity in HPC.
The presence and contribution of women, and other generally underrepresented groups, is increasing in many scientific domains including HPC, but numbers show that still there is gap to be bridged. Some attempts are being made to increase inclusivity, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Procedures put in place in good faith to support the inclusion of underrepresented groups may actually be perceived as undermining competence, and actually backfire.
Which are present, and sometimes unconscious, barriers for under represented groups in science and in particular in computational research? Have you encountered inclusivity barriers in your career and how did you overcome them? What can be done to reduce those barriers? Which are the best practices from your organisation?
This session is meant to raise awareness and inspire participants to start working with these topics. We would like to hear from you what you experienced, what you tried, what worked, what didn’t work, and what you are thinking of trying and would like to hear others’ opinions on. Outcome of the session will be summarised in an article to be widely disseminated.
Sharing my failures, mistakes and efforts in my HPC master.
The aim of this HPC Ecosystem Summit is to create a coherent HPC landscape including access to HPC resources, services for users and research. This Summit will help to clarify the future roles of each actor in the field.
PRACEdays19 will host a session dedicated to an open discussion on Equality and Diversity in HPC.
The presence and contribution of women, and other generally underrepresented groups, is increasing in many scientific domains including HPC, but numbers show that still there is gap to be bridged. Some attempts are being made to increase inclusivity, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Procedures put in place in good faith to support the inclusion of underrepresented groups may actually be perceived as undermining competence, and actually backfire.
Which are present, and sometimes unconscious, barriers for under represented groups in science and in particular in computational research? Have you encountered inclusivity barriers in your career and how did you overcome them? What can be done to reduce those barriers? Which are the best practices from your organisation?
This session is meant to raise awareness and inspire participants to start working with these topics. We would like to hear from you what you experienced, what you tried, what worked, what didn’t work, and what you are thinking of trying and would like to hear others’ opinions on. Outcome of the session will be summarised in an article to be widely disseminated.
Short session, as part of the collaboration activities between HiPEAC, Eurolab4HPC, PRACE university programme and EXDCI to help students from the poster session to present their research. In this session students will be briefly introduced how to prepare and structure a short pitch and will practice to present their research across different audiences.
Pre-Requisites: No technical pre-requisite. No-poster needed. Best mood to practice, discuss and contribute.
(15 minutes each) China, EU, Japan, US
China (Dr. Jingheng Xu, Tsinghua University)
Japan (Pr. Satoshi Matsuoka, RIKEN)
United States (Dr. Pete Beckman, ANL)
EU (Leonardo Flores Añover, European Commission)
Winner of the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2019
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Co-designing applications with the European Processor Initiative
The co-design with applications is a critical activity in the development of the exascale technology. The European Processor Initiative (EPI) is leading the European effort to develop a competitive solution for the next generation of computing, providing the key components for building Exascale supercomputers based on European hardware and software technologies. This session will bring together the application communities with clear needs for exascale performance and the EPI players to discuss about how to collaborate in the co-design effort in view of the integration of the European technologies in pilots. The final goal will be to ensure that the new European technologies are fully exploited and meet the needs of users and applications addressing grand scientific and societal challenges. This session targets the European technology and application developers (including Centres of Excellence)
(private meeting, by invitation only)
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Co-designing applications with the European Processor Initiative
The co-design with applications is a critical activity in the development of the exascale technology. The European Processor Initiative (EPI) is leading the European effort to develop a competitive solution for the next generation of computing, providing the key components for building Exascale supercomputers based on European hardware and software technologies. This session will bring together the application communities with clear needs for exascale performance and the EPI players to discuss about how to collaborate in the co-design effort in view of the integration of the European technologies in pilots. The final goal will be to ensure that the new European technologies are fully exploited and meet the needs of users and applications addressing grand scientific and societal challenges. This session targets the European technology and application developers (including Centres of Excellence)
(private meeting, by invitation only)
(private meeting, by invitation only)
(private meeting, by invitation only)
Scientific Keynote
Industrial Keynote
Panel Moderator:
Guy Lonsdale, SCAPOS
Panel Members:
- Thomas Lippert - PRACE Council Chair
- Vit Vondrak - IT4Innovations, VSB
- Zoe Cournia - Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Greece
- Núria López - Chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee
- Lee Margetts - Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee
“The future of scientific and industrial computing in Europe”
The two pillars of scientific experiments and theories have been the seed for our understanding of the world for centuries. The appearance of computers and their implementation in efficient numerical techniques provoked the expansion of simulations as a new way to understand, guide and design new experiments, models, materials and processes that could better support the technical and economic development of our societies. Simulations now embrace all the areas of science and humanities and have been the main use of supercomputers world-wide. The large amounts of data generated by simulations together with those derived from instruments now call for a different era: the use of data science and statistical learning has impacted our daily lives almost without us noticing and will impact the way we use supercomputing.
The new exascale computers will need to answer the societal new needs for efficiency, sustainable growth, and security, and have to address crucial problems like energy supply, health, and active aging. The combination of simulations and data will certainly change the way scientific and industrial computing is performed in Europe and the rest of the world. This will challenge our capacities to educate the next generation, develop newer and efficient algorithms and promote the smooth technology transfer.
Plenary part including:
- "A Blueprint for a new Strategic Research Agenda for High Performance Computing" (presenter Michael Malms)
- FET Projects production overview (presenter Jean-François Lavignon)
- Invited talk (40 minutes) by Paul Carpenter of Eurolab4HPC (on update of the vision document)
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Legacy codes capitalize decades of research. While they constitute an important accumulated effort and value, their maintenance and transition to new HPC systems are frequently no concerns of funding agencies. This session aims at bringing the focus on evaluating the investments needed to preserve the legacy code capital and the necessary supporting technologies. This session is organized in two parts. The first will be dedicated to a few short presentations to set the scene. The second part will be devoted to a general discussion with the audience. A restitution of the debate will be provided to the participants.
Start End Agenda Item Speaker
17:00 17:10 Introduction; Dirk Pleiter (JSC)
17:10 17:20 Adapting to the needs of the 2020's scientific computing workloads at CSC Finland; Pekka Manninen (CSC)
17:20 17:40 The experience of PRACE on containers and VM workloads; Abdulrahman Azab (UIO)
17:40 17:50 Technology stacks of HPC and Big Data computing (TBC); Adrian Tate (Cray)
17:50 18:00 Federating services: AAI; Cristiano Padrin (CINECA)
18:00 19:00 Discussion all
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