Welcome!
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Agenda
8:00-9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00-9:15 Opening session (Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council)
9:15-10:00 Keynote Session: The SKA project (Paul Calleja, University of Cambridge)
10:00-10:45 MVAPICH2 and MVAPICH2-X Projects: Latest Developments and Future Plans (DK Panda,
Ohio State University)
10:45-11:30 Exascale panel (DK Panda, Rich Graham, Paul Calleja, Addison Snell)
11:30-11:50 Sponsor Session (Xyratex)
11:50-12:10 Sponsor Session (Mellanox)
12:10-13:10 Lunch
13:10-13:30 Sponsor Session (DDN)
13:30-14:15 Increasing the efficiency of your GPU-enabled cluster with rCUDA (Federico Silla, Universitat
Politècnica de València)
14:15-15:00 HPC Market Update: A Year of Contradictions (Addison Snell, Intersect 360)
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 MPI and OpenSHMEM integration (Rich Graham, Mellanox Technologies and MPI Forum)
16:00-16:30 Applications Performance Optimizations – Best Practices (Pak Lui, HPC Advisory Council)
16:30-17:00 The Student Cluster Competition Round Table (Student Cluster Challenge participants)
17:00-17:30 Runtime Performance Optimizations for an OpenFOAM Simulation (Oliver Schroeder, science +
computing ag)
17:30 Adjourn and Prize Raffle
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Administration
• The conference goals
– Education, training, solutions, futures
• Tight schedule
– We encourage live discussions
– We want to have all sessions start in time
– There are breaks for offline discussions
• Speakers – make sure we have your slides!
• Raffle
• Don’t forget the raffle...
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HPC Advisory Council Members
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HPC Advisory Council HPC Center
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R720xd/R720
32-node cluster HP Cluster Platform 3000SL
16-node cluster
HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8
4-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815
11-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6145
6-node cluster Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610
38-node cluster
Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6100
4-node cluster
InfiniBand-based Storage (Lustre)
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• LS-DYNA
• miniFE
• MILC
• MSC Nastran
• MR Bayes
• MM5
• MPQC
• NAMD
• Nekbone
• NEMO
• NWChem
• Octopus
• OpenAtom
• OpenFOAM
• MILC
• OpenMX
• PARATEC
• PFA
• PFLOTRAN
• Quantum ESPRESSO
• RADIOSS
• SPECFEM3D
• WRF
130 Applications Best Practices Published
• Abaqus
• AcuSolve
• Amber
• AMG
• AMR
• ABySS
• ANSYS CFX
• ANSYS FLUENT
• ANSYS Mechanics
• BQCD
• CCSM
• CESM
• COSMO
• CP2K
• CPMD
• Dacapo
• Desmond
• DL-POLY
• Eclipse
• FLOW-3D
• GADGET-2
• GROMACS
• Himeno
• HOOMD-blue
• HYCOM
• ICON
• Lattice QCD
• LAMMPS
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University Award Program
• University award program – Universities are encouraged to submit proposals for advanced research – Once / twice a year, the HPC Advisory Council will select a few proposals
• Selected proposal will be provided with: – Exclusive computation time on the HPC Advisory Council’s Compute Center – Invitation to present in one of the HPC Advisory Council’s worldwide workshops – Publication of the research results on the HPC Advisory Council website
• 2010 award winner is Dr. Xiangqian Hu, Duke University – Topic: “Massively Parallel Quantum Mechanical Simulations for Liquid Water”
• 2011 award winner is Dr. Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino – Topic: “Effective Streaming on Multi-core by Way of the FastFlow Framework’
• 2012 award winner is Jacob Nelson, University of Washington – “Runtime Support for Sparse Graph Applications”
• 2013 award winner is Antonis Karalis – Topic: “Music Production using HPC”
• To submit a proposal – please check the HPC Advisory Council web site
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ISC’13 Student Cluster Challenge
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Getting Ready to 2014 Student Cluster Competition
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2014 HPC Advisory Council Conferences
• HPC Advisory Council (HPCAC)
– 370+ members, http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/
– Application best practices, case studies
– Benchmarking center with remote access for users
– World-wide workshops
– Value add for your customers to stay up to date and
in tune to HPC market
• 2014 Workshops
– USA (Stanford University) – February 2014
– Switzerland – March 2014
– Brazil – May 2014
– Germany (ISC’13) – June 2014
– Spain – Sep 2014
– China (HPC China) – Oct 2014
– South Africa – Dec 2014
• For more information
– www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com
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