D2.5 Second Dissemination and Use Report Version 1.0

Document Information Contract Number 610402

Project Website www.montblanc-project.eu

Contractual Deadline 30/09/2015

Dissemination Level PU

Nature R

Author Renata Giménez (BSC)

Contributors Núria Masdeu (BSC), Filippo Mantovani (BSC), Marcin Ostasz (BSC), Fermín Sánchez (BSC)

Reviewer Pascale Bernier-Bruna (Bull/Atos)

Keywords website, dissemination, activities

Notices: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement n° 610402.

2014 Mont-Blanc Consortium Partners. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................4

Introduction ..........................................................................................................................4 1

1.1 Branding ...........................................................................................................................4 1.2 Dissemination materials .......................................................................................................4

1.2.1 Brochure ....................................................................................................................4 1.2.2 Newsletter ..................................................................................................................5 1.2.3 Promotional material .....................................................................................................6

1.3 Dissemination activities ........................................................................................................8 1.3.1 Publications ................................................................................................................8 1.3.2 Trainings ................................................................................................................. 10

1.4 News ............................................................................................................................ 10 1.4.1 Press mentions ......................................................................................................... 10 1.4.2 Mont-Blanc news ...................................................................................................... 11

1.5 Outreach and dissemination videos...................................................................................... 11 1.6 Website and statistics ....................................................................................................... 12 1.7 Social media ................................................................................................................... 13

1.7.1 Twitter .................................................................................................................... 13 1.7.2 Facebook ................................................................................................................ 13 1.7.3 LinkedIn .................................................................................................................. 14 1.7.4 Results of social media .............................................................................................. 15

1.8 End User Group .............................................................................................................. 16 1.9 Collaboration with other EU projects..................................................................................... 16 1.10 Collaboration with key HPC stakeholders .............................................................................. 17

Budget .............................................................................................................................. 17 2

Conclusions ...................................................................................................................... 18 3

Annex ............................................................................................................................... 19 4

4.1 Training agenda .............................................................................................................. 19 4.2 Dissemination activities (October 2014-September 2015) ......................................................... 22 4.3 Press Clipping ................................................................................................................. 24 4.4 Key Performance Indicators (KPI) ........................................................................................ 26

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Executive Summary

This report summarizes the dissemination activities carried out by the Mont-Blanc project in the October 2014 – September 2015 period. This period has been characterized by the promotion of the prototype deployment announcement and also with the participation of the Mont-Blanc climbers’ team to the ISC Student Cluster Competition.

Introduction 1

The objective of this report is to present a detailed list of the dissemination activities that took place during the last year of the Mont-Blanc project, as planned in deliverable D 2.1. The activities were carried out in order to promote technical and scientific project results and to ensure the widest possible use of the knowledge generated by the project.

1.1 Branding

In accordance with deliverable D 2.1 (Dissemination Strategy Document), the Mont-Blanc project brand has been continued and applied correctly. The dissemination team has controlled the correct application of its branding in different dissemination materials such as the promotional videos, flyers, social media, booth, etc. during the project’s duration. It has to be said that the Mont-Blanc brand has been widely spread in the HPC community, SC and ISC conferences, and it has also appeared in key scientific publications and press articles. For the above mentioned reasons, the brand has been maintained for the future phases of the project to ensure that it has a long-lasting impact among the HPC community. It has been agreed, that internally the names of Mont-Blanc2 and Mont-Blanc3 will be used, but both projects will be referred to as Mont-Blanc and its extension or Mont-Blanc 2013 – 2016 and Mont-Blanc 2015 – 2018.

1.2 Dissemination materials

1.2.1 Brochure

The Mont-Blanc project brochure has been updated during the project progress. It was also sent to all partners so that they could use it to disseminate the project at local events. The updated brochure has always been available to download on the project webpage http://montblanc-project.eu/sites/default/files/u255/flyer-mb.pdf as well as on the project portal for its internal partners’ use.

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Figure 1: Mont-Blanc updated brochure

1.2.2 Newsletter

As planned in D 2.1, the newsletter campaign was successfully continued with 411 participants in the database. This communication tool has been used to disseminate the projects news and updates. More participants have joined during the project and this demonstrated that the HPC community was interested in the latest scientific updates of the project.

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Figure 2: Sixth issue of the newsletter

All issues were disseminated through the website (http://www.montblanc-project.eu/newsletter), Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn group. The newsletter also provides a way of driving traffic to the website, as web traffic to the Mont-Blanc website rises significantly after each issue is sent.

1.2.3 Promotional material

The branded promotional shirt has been used at all attended events as well as at face-to-face meetings, exhibitions and reviews with the aim to promote the brand by all partners.

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Figure 3: Branded polo shirt

With the aim to promote the project and its brand, the dissemination team produced also promotional merchandising: external mobile phone batteries for SC14 in Denver and luggage weights for ISC2015 in Frankfurt. The aim was to increase also the newsletter database in order to disseminate the project outcome.

Figure 4: Branded promotional material for ISC15 and SC15 (Luggage weights)

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1.3 Dissemination activities

All consortium partners attended events, workshops, conferences, etc. in order to disseminate the project and its results. The full list of all dissemination activities is included in annex 4.2. The consortium attended a total of 19 events and disseminated the project at national and international events which are key for the HPC community, academia, IT industry and general public.

1.3.1 Publications

There were a total of 15 scientific publications. They can all be found on page http://www.montblanc-project.eu/publications. They have also been disseminated through social media channels.

2014: Title: A Performance Perspective on Energy Efficient HPC Links Author: Karthikeyan, S, Carpenter, P, Ramirez, A Title: Adaptive Runtime-Assisted Block Prefetching on Chip-Multiprocessors Author: Garcia, V, Rico, A, Villavieja, C, Carpenter, P, Ramirez, A, Navarro, N Title: Energy Efficient HPC on Embedded SoCs: Optimization Techniques for Mali GPU Author: Grasso, I, Radojkovic, P, Rajovic, N, Gelado, I, Ramirez, A Title: Comparison Based Sorting for Systems with Multiple GPU Author: Tanasic, I, Vilanova, L, Jorda, M, Cabezas, J, Gelado, I, Navarro, N, Hwu, W-M Title: Exploring and Evaluating Array Layout Restructuration for SIMDization Author: Haine, C, Aumage,O, Petit, E, Barthou, D Title: Identifying code phases using piece-wise linear regressions Author: Servat, H, Llort, G, Giménez, J, Labarta, J Title: On the Energy Efficiency and Performance of Irregular Application Executions on Multicore, NUMA and Manycore Platforms Author: E. Francesquinia, Castroc, M., Penna, P. H., Dupros, F., Freitas, H. C., Navaux, P. O. A., and Mehaut, J. - F. Title: Characterizing the Communication Demands of the Graph500 Benchmark on a Commodity Cluster”. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Big Data Computing (BDC '14), 2014 Author: P. Fuentes, Bosque, J. Luis, Beivide, R., Valero, M., and Minkenberg, C 2015: Title: Exploiting CUDA Dynamic Parallelism for low power ARM based prototypes Author: V. Mehta

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Title: Topological Characterization of Hamming and Dragonfly Networks and Its Implications on Routing, vol. Volume 11, no. Issue 4. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Author: C. Camarero, Vallejo, E., and Beivide, R Title: Performance Impacts with Reliable Parallel File Systems at Exascale Level Author: R. Nou, Miranda, A., and Cortes, A Title: “Contention-based Nonminimal Adaptive Routing in High-radix Networks”. 29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, India Author: P. Fuentes, Vallejo, E., García, M., Beivide, R., Rodríguez, G., Minkenberg, C., and Valero, M. Title: Topological Characterization of Hamming and Dragonfly Networks and Its Implications on Routing Author: C. Camarero, Vallejo, E., and Beivide, R., Title: Experiences in Speeding Up Computer Vision Applications on Mobile Computing Platforms. SAMOS '15: International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation, July 2015. Author: Luna Backes, Alejandro Rico, Björn Franke Title: Criticality-Aware Dynamic Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Architectures. ICS '15: Internationcal Conference in Supercomputing, June 2015. Author: Kallia Chronaki, Alejandro Rico, Rosa M. Badia, Eduard Ayguadé, Jesus Labarta, Mateo Valero Author: P. Fuentes, Vallejo, E., García, M., Beivide, R., Rodríguez, G., Minkenberg, C., and Valero, M., Title: “Contention-based Nonminimal Adaptive Routing in High-radix Networks”. 29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, India, 2015

The Mont-Blanc prototype represents a first-of-a-kind effort of putting together an HPC cluster powered by mobile processors. Its evaluation will show the advantages and challenges of the Mont-Blanc approach and the feasibility of bringing such design to the next technology readiness level. The successful design, assembly and configuration of the prototype and the porting and tuning of the applications, two of the three objectives of the project, required the effort of most partners during the whole duration of the project. The importance and effort put in these tasks led us to decide to take the evaluation of the prototype beyond the reporting in the corresponding deliverables and target a joint publication congregating all partners involved. The objective is to increase the dissemination of the prototype evaluation results and get the recognition the effort deserves by achieving a publication in a prestigious international journal of the HPC field. All Mont-Blanc partners agreed to contribute to this publication effort. This publication will present the Mont-Blanc prototype architecture to the community, together with a bottom-up evaluation in terms of performance and energy efficiency while comparing it to traditional HPC approaches. The target date for submission is subject to the readiness of the results, initially targeting the end of the year 2015.

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1.3.2 Trainings

A sustained, high-quality training and education program is important to guarantee that the continuation of Mont-Blanc project will obtain the expected results as part of the dissemination strategy. A training plan (D2.2) has been submitted. The aim is to organize top-quality face-to-face courses to improve the technical skills of the attendants. The target group is formed by members of the universities and project partners. In particular, the researchers and developers of the different partners, as well as the members of the industrial user group are targeted. The submitted training plan included two courses every year, the first one in March- April and the second one in September-October. The training material is uploaded onto the Mont-Blanc project intranet. Fermín Sánchez has been appointed as coordinator of the training subtask. The overall training plan is running smoothly. A total of 2 trainings have been organized in this period.

One training was organized from October 2014 to September 2015:

Tools for parallel programming with OmpSs, 13-15 April 2015, HLRS, Stuttgart

OmpSs and CompSs oriented to scalability, 8-10 October 2015, Jülich

An additional training was organized as part of PRACE titled “Programming ARM-based prototypes” in Barcelona on May 15th, 2015. The agenda of the above mentioned training session is attached in annex 4.1. The objective is to organize internal training courses for the consortium about programming models to be used in the project. The courses were also open to scientists from the other Exascale projects as well as to members of the End-User Group. All were highly valued by the attendees. The initiatives were successful and the hands-on sessions led to fruitful technical discussions.

1.4 News

The Mont-Blanc website features three types of news: news from the sector so as to build up a community, news generated by the project and news published on different media channels. Furthermore, the dissemination team pushed this information out not only through channels such as the website but also through the newsletter and social media, especially through the Mont-Blanc Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. A total of 8 pieces of news generated by the project and 31 news published on different media channels were created.

1.4.1 Press mentions

Following the press strategy within the Dissemination Strategy (D2.1), a press release was launched nearly every year or whenever a result should be announced throughout the project. However, in this last period a total of two press releases were launched:

16th June 2015: Innovative embedded architecture for HPC made in Europe This press release announced the deployment of the Mont-Blanc prototype. The text is available here: http://www.montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/news/innovative-embedded-architecture-hpc-made-europe

13th July 2015: Mont-Blanc HPC software stack tested on E4’s HPC platform based on ARM64 Cavium ThunderX processor. The text is available here: http://www.montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/news/mont-blanc-hpc-software-stack-tested-e4%E2%80%99s-hpc-platform-based-arm64-cavium-thunderx

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A total of 30 mentions in different technical and generic media have been identified. It can be said that the press clipping is mainly focused on IT specialized media as the above mentioned news were mainly addressed to HPC media. The Mont-Blanc website has also been regularly updated with this information: http://montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/press-clippings. The impact (in the form of “clippings”) of all press releases is included in annex 4.3.

1.4.2 Mont-Blanc news

The Mont-Blanc news on the website has been regularly updated with news generated by the project (for example, Mont-Blanc at SC14). They can all be found in the news section of the website http://www.montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/news. As well as being uploaded to the website, the Mont-Blanc news have been disseminated more widely via the newsletter and social media, especially the Mont-Blanc twitter account.

1.5 Outreach and dissemination videos

In order to enhance the project’s online presence and boost social media, the dissemination team has produced a total of 9 short videos. All were uploaded on page http://www.montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/multimedia. From October 2014, the dissemination team has prepared the following ones:

Some short videos were recorded during the SC14, in particular, about the booth set up in order to boost the social media channels. It worked well particularly on Twitter as it reached the HPC community. Video available on http://www.montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/news/mont-blanc-sc14-episode-i and http://www.montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/news/mont-blanc-sc14-episode-ii

Installation of Mont-Blanc prototype (as an additional press material for online media such as HPC blogs, HPC online media, etc.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSYKTeaHaNw

Additional videos were recorded about the ISC15 Student Cluster Competition team called Mont-Blanc climbers. These videos helped them to get promoted and were mainly a material to boost the HPC scientific careers targeted to students.

o Video 1: http://www.montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/news/armaggeddon-team-hpcac-isc-15-student-cluster-challenge

o Video 2: http://www.montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/news/mont-blanc-climbers-warming-isc-2015-student-cluster-competition

o During ISC 15: Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYxK7kzi8OU Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nAs9y4s7ew Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7dYXIo-dvo

Promotion of the European Exascale workshop at ISC2015 and exhibition booth: http://www.montblanc-project.eu/press-corner/news/european-exascale-projects-isc15-%E2%80%93-day-1

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1.6 Website and statistics

In this period the website has been updated regularly including new content such as the Mont-Blanc prototype and new members of the End-User Group (EUG). The website has obtained a total of 53,938 sessions with 37,446 visitors between the 1 October 2014 and the 15 September 2015. During this period, 15,159 page views were obtained with 3.19 pages / session. The most visited page is the homepage, followed by the Prototypes page. The prototypes page was successfully visited due to the launch of the press release with the announcement of the Mont-Blanc prototype. During the project, it can be analysed that the website has been the “main scenario” to present all project information as well as scientific results.

Item Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

Sessions 12,350 16,373 15,714 15,159

Users 9,523 11,551 10,256 10,465

Pageviews 31,203 47,365 65,123 48,415

Pages/Sessions 2.53 2.89 4.14 3.19

Avg. Session Duration

1:45 2:37 4:03 3:03

% New Visitor 77.2% 69.4% 64.2% 67,75%

% Returning Visitor 22.8% 30.6% 35.8% 32,1%

Table 1: Web analytics comparison of MB website As table 1 show, there have been a similar number of sessions compared to previous year.

Figure 5: Overview of visitors to the Mont-Blanc website from October 2014- September 2015

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It is important to highlight that 32,1% are returning visitors. This fact means that we have a community that regularly came back to see the updates about this project and used the website as a reference. This number has been maintained throughout the project thanks to the communication activities such as the content pushed out through the newsletter or the news launched via social media.

1.7 Social media

The Mont-Blanc dissemination team has focused on continuously using the channels to regularly update the followers and create engagement with their community. With the aim of building a community around the project, the dissemination team has been posting regular updates on the project’s dedicated Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn channels. The table below summarizes the activity done throughout the project:

Item Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

Facebook likes 37 72 109 145

Twitter Followers 127 389 538 809

LinkedIn group members

- - 53 68

Table 2: Social channel comparison P1 –P4 As shown by table 2, the presence of social media channels has been rising. The dissemination team has continued its efforts to send out messages through these new communication channels. In Facebook, the target was to send out a message nearly twice a week, while in Twitter nearly every day some activity was done (via re-tweets of other accounts or some tweet was sent out). The channel that is most successful is Twitter that has been increasingly used by the academic community in the last years.

1.7.1 Twitter

The Mont-Blanc twitter account has twitted 1738 times and has 809 followers. The number of followers indicates a considerable interest for Mont-Blanc from the community, as well as the industry. Most frequently used hashtags have been: #HPC, #Exascale, #processor, #science, #supercomputer. The twitter account has been added in a total of 51 Twitter lists. This fact represents that more followers are considering Mont-Blanc account as a reference.

1.7.2 Facebook

In Facebook, the dissemination team has got the following development as shown in the figure below:

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Figure 6: Facebook Insights

The highest peak with highest reach on Facebook is the one back in November 2014 with the announcement of the Mont-Blanc students participating on the ISC Student Cluster Competition, the post is the following one:

Figure 7: Facebook post, December 2014

1.7.3 LinkedIn

During this last period, and under the Mont-Blanc 2013-2016 project, the dissemination team opened a dedicated LinkedIn group with the aim of growing the professional (academia and

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industry) community around the project. Currently this group counts 68 members. The activity can be summarized in the table below:

In this particular group, additional efforts will be taken as this tool is really effective but it requires the participation of the scientists to come up with a technical discussion.

1.7.4 Results of social media

Figure 8: Sources of social media of the Mont-Blanc website (1 Oct 2014 – 30 Sept 2015)

As in the figure above, Facebook and Twitter are helping to increase visits to the Mont-Blanc website. LinkedIn has helped as well but needs to give an additional push. Facebook and Twitter are in the same place due to the fact that the videos are very popular in Facebook as well as the pictures. LinkedIn and ResearchGate are the next ones in the list. This last one is a particular social network addressed to scientists where a link to the Mont-Blanc website has been included in a technical discussion about ARM in HPC.

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1.8 End User Group

The project has identified 20 new candidate companies that could potentially joint the EUG (including Airbus, EDF and Repsol). They were approached formally at the end of June 2015, in conjunction with events and workshops organized by different projects (in order to take advantage of those opportunities and minimize the amount of unneeded communication). A new member Pharmacelera joint the EUG in August 2015 counting now a total of 6 industrial members. They all can be found on page http://www.montblanc-project.eu/industrial-user-group

1.9 Collaboration with other EU projects

The collaboration with the other European Exascale projects started firstly with PRACE, DEEP and CRESTA doing common dissemination activities (joint booths, workshops, flyers, etc.) to strengthen the efforts positioning the European Exascale on an international level. Later the collaboration was extended to other approved projects such as EXA2CT, NUMEXAS and EPIGRAM. Teleconferences every two weeks are organized with them in order to coordinate all activities. Recently, a joint workshop was organized as a satellite event entitled “Enabling Exascale in Europe for Industry” next to the PRACEDays15 event (additional deliverable D0.2 submitted to the EC). Further to the ISC15 booth, the European Exascale projects will organize a joint workshop titled “Is Europe ready for Exascale?”.

Image 9: PRACE Days 15 Satellite Event

Below is a list of the collaborations with related EU projects from September 2014 onwards until June 2015:

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Date Dissemination activity

Collaboration with

EU-

Project/Organization

12-16 July 2015 ISC15: joint booth and BoF

DEEP + CRESTA +

EPIGRAM +

NUMEXAS + EXA2CT

17 May 2015 PATC course, Programming ARM-

based prototypes PRACE

SC14 Joint Exascale booth

DEEP + CRESTA +

EPIGRAM +

NUMEXAS + EXA2CT

May 2015

Satellite event PRACE Days15

“Enabling Exascale in Europe for

Industry”, 26 May 2015, Dublin

PRACE

Monthly Teleconferences

DEEP + CRESTA +

EPIGRAM +

NUMEXAS + EXA2CT

Table 3: Collaborations items with EU-related projects

1.10 Collaboration with key HPC stakeholders

With regard to the IT industry and key HPC stakeholders as well as networks of excellence, the Mont-Blanc team would like to highlight the following:

Contacts with Energy Efficient Exascale Group (Natalie Bates)

Contacts with Samsung

Contacts with ETP4HPC representing the roadmap

Participation of the PRACE 3IP in prototypes

Contacts with Micron, Huawei, Total, E4, Cavium

Contacts with EXDCI, FET HPC Projects

The above contacts, especially the ones with industry, have been made thanks to the booths at SC and ISC conferences.

Budget 2

The total budget allocated for dissemination activities in WP2 has been correctly used for all the above mentioned activities.

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Conclusions 3

The activities collected in this document show that the dissemination and collaboration efforts made by the dissemination team have been successful, as planned at the beginning of the Mont-Blanc project. In addition, the team has reached the established KPIs (see section 4.4) and will continue establishing new ones in order to continue positioning the project at the forefront. The dissemination team will try to include the Mont-Blanc3 and coordinate with the new coordinator BULL for a better and smoother handover of all ongoing dissemination activities. In particular, the Mont-Blanc dissemination team plans to:

• Continue with the visibility of the project in different media • Increase the number of subscribers for the newsletter, topping 450 members • Continue attending key conference of the sector to disseminate the latest results • Increase the number of publications in key scientific publications, as well as technical

reports • Increase the engagement of the social community, generating more conversation • Continue with the Training Plan • Establish new industrial partners for the End-Users Group • Starting the transition in terms of dissemination and ongoing activities from Mont-

Blanc 2013-2016 project to Mont-Blanc 2015-2018 (as it will be coordinated by BULL/Atos)

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Annex 4

4.1 Training agenda

TOOLS FOR PARALLEL PROGRAMMING WITH OMPSS OmpSs is a task-parallel data-dependency honoring programming model developed amongst

other in the EC FP7 project Mont Blanc. This course will give an introduction to the usage of

development tools for OmpSs. The participants will learn how to use the debugging tools

Allinea DDT and Temanejo. The second part of the course will discuss the software

development process for Exascale applications.

Title

Celebration date

13.4.15 – 15.4.15

Website http://www.hlrs.de/organization/sos/par/services/training/2015/TOOLS

Venue Large seminar room, HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart),

Universität Stuttgart

Allmandring 30

D-70569 Stuttgart

Target group

Application developer and application support scientist using the OmpSs programming model.

Picture of the training attendees and face to face meeting attendees

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Attendance fee & material provided

None

Programme DAY 1 Monday, April 13th 2015 13:00 – 17:00 Introduction to Debugging (Allinea + HLRS) DAY 2 Tuesday, April 14th 2015 09:00 – 12:00 OmpSs Debugging with DDT (Allinea) 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch 13:00 – 17:00 OmpSs debugging with Temanejo (HLRS) DAY 3 Wednesday, April 15th 2015 09:00 – 12:00 Software Engineering for Exascale (LRZ)

Registrations

19

Attendees 18

Affiliation of attendees

BSC, LRZ, INRIA, ALLINEA, HLRS

Outcome of the training

Basics of software defects: causes, origins, and categorization; methods of working to increase success; introduction to debuggers – breakpoints, process control and variables for application crashes.

Debugging parallel applications; detecting memory usage problems; discovering differences: detecting changes in application behavior between versions or process counts; scalable debugging – how techniques and tools are applied at extreme scale with Allinea DDT.

Correctness checking in OmpSs applications; detecting bottlenecks and other performance relevant issues in OmpSs applications; debugging OmpSs-parallelised programs with Temanejo; graphical task based debugging

Presentation and discussion on software development processes for Exascale computing.

PATC: Programming ARM based prototypes Agenda: Session 1 9:00 am (2h): 1. The Montblanc Project 2. ARM based machines: Architecture Overview 3. Discussion

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Session 2 (1h + 1h hands-on): Using ARM based machines (How to get access, Job Execution, Support) ( 1:30h ) Lunch Break (13:00 to 14:00) Session 3 (1h + 1h hands-on ): Developing application on ARM based machines(GNU tool chain, examples, etc…) END of COURSE More information available on page: http://www.bsc.es/marenostrum-support-services/hpc-education-and-training/patc-

training/2015-15-may-systems-workshop

4.2 Dissemination activities (October 2014-September 2015)

Type of activities (see note

below)

Main leader - Presenter

Name Event Title Date Place

Type of audience

(See Note 5)

Size of Audience

Countries Addressed

Dissemination Ranking of Importance for Mont-

Blanc team to decide

Presentation Alejandro

Rico HiPEAC Computing Systems

Week

High Performance Computing based on Mobile Embedded

Processors

9th October 2014

Athens, Greece

Industry, Research

100 European 2

Exhibition Filippo

Mantovani SC15 Booth

17-20 November

2014

New Orleans, USA

Academia, Industry

500 International 2

Presentation Filippo

Mantovani Visita a MareNostrum El prototipo Mont-Blanc

16th December

2014 Barcelona

Spanish School

teachers 30 European 3

Keynote Filippo

Mantovani EMiT (EMerging Technology)

conference

High Performance Computing based on mobile embedded

processors 1st July 2015

Manchester, UK

Academia, Industry

100 Europe 1

Presentation Simon

McSmith Dirac workshop The technical challenges ahead

18th June 2015

London, UK Academia,

Industry 65 Europe 2

Exhibition Filippo

Mantovani ISC 2015 Booth

12-16 July 2015

Frankfurt, Germany

Academia, Industry

500 Europe 2

Presentation Filippo

Mantovani ISC2015: BoF

"Is Europe Ready For Exascale? A Summary of Four Years of

European Exascale Research"

16th July 2015

Frankfurt, Germany

Academia, Industry

50 Europe 2

Presentation Filippo

Mantovani HiPEAC Computing System

Week

HPC supercomputer prototype based on commodity embedded

technology

21 September

2015 Milano, Italy

Academia, Industry

100 Europe 2

Presentation Luna Backes

International Conference on Embedded Computer

Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation

Experiences in Speeding Up Computer Vision Applications on

Mobile Computing Platforms

20th July 2015

Samos, Greece

Academia 50 Europe 2

Flyer Filippo

Mantovani Update Mont-Blanc brochure may-15

Academia, Industry

500 Europe 3

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Training Filippo

Mantovani

Workshop on Computational Science Infrastructure and Applications for Academic

Development

ARM-based System and SW stack for HPC

5 October 2015

Trieste (Italy) Academia 30 Europe 3

Presentation Filippo

Mantovani BDEC 15 The Mont-Blanc project 28/01/2014

Barcelona, Spain

Academia 120 European 2

Workshop Jean-

François Méhaut

Séminaire Maison de la Simulation (Saclay)

Environnement de metaprogrammation pour une génération de code portable et efficace des noyaux de calcul

HPC

10 March 2015

Saclay, France

Research 50 France 3

Workshop Jean-

François Méhaut

Journées Calcul Scientifique : Fondation des Sciences Mathématiques de Paris

BOAST : Programmation des noyaux de calcul HPC des

projets européens Mont-Blanc 10 June 2015 Paris, France Research 50 France 3

Conference Anastasiaa

Butko

ASP-DAC 2015: 21st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference

A Trace-Driven Approach for Fast and Accurate Simulation of

Manycore Architectures

22 January 2015

Tokyo, Japan Research 50 International 3

Presentation Filippo

Mantovani Introduction meeting to Universidad Cantabria

The Mont-Blanc project 6th June

2014 Santander,

Spain Research 20 European 3

Training Filippo

Mantovani PATC Course: Programming

ARM based prototypes Mont-Blanc prototype

15th May 2015

Barcelona Academia,

Industry 15 Europe 2

Presentation Filippo

Mantovani Bull User group for eXtreme

computing Mont-Blanc project

24th March 2015

Barcelona Industry, academia

50 Europe 3

Presentation Filippo

Mantovani PASC15 Mont-Blanc project 1 June 2015 Zurich

Industry, academia

100 Europe 2

4.3 Press Clipping

Please find below a list of the press impacts from September 2014 – October 2015:

Media Title Publication date ZDnet France and Spain team up to jumpstart Europe's exascale

computing ambitions

10 August 2015

WS News Publishers

Intraday Movers: Transocean LTD (NYSE:RIG), Cavium Inc (NASDAQ:CAVM), Commscope Holding Company Inc (NASDAQ:COMM)

14 July 2015

HPCWire BSC Researchers Successfully Test Server Platform Based on Cavium ThunderX Chip

13 July 2015

Cavium Mont-Blanc HPC software stack tested on E4's HPC platform based on ARM64 Cavium ThunderX processor

13 July 2015

PR Newswire Mont-Blanc HPC software stack tested on E4's HPC platform based on ARM64 Cavium ThunderX processor

13 July 2015

HPC Wire BSC Researchers Successfully Test Server Platform Based on Cavium ThunderX Chip

13 July 2015

Primeur Magazine

Mont-Blanc HPC software stack tested on E4's HPC platform based on ARM64 Cavium ThunderX processor

13 July 2015

eWeek Applied Micro, Cavium Showcase ARM-Based Platforms for HPC

13 July 2015

HPCWire Filippo Mantovani on What’s Next for Mont-Blanc and ARM

06 July 2015

ISC Blog Challenging the challenge

02 July 2015

Digital Agenda for Europe

The Mont Blanc Project on video

19 June 2015

Scientific Computing World

Show preview ISC15

17 June 2015

Primeur Magazine

Video explaining the Mont-Blanc exascale supercomputer module prototype

16 June 2015

The Platform Mont-Blanc Sets The Stage For ARM HPC

16 June 2015

InsideHPC Video: Mont-Blanc Prototype One Step Closer to Exascale

16 June 2015

HPCWire Innovative Architecture Brings Mont-Blanc One Step Further to Exascale

16 June 2015

HPC.li Innovative architecture made in Europe brings Mont-Blanc one step further to Exascale

16 June 2015

Marca España La supercomputación es un acelerador de la ciencia

20-may-15

Inside HPC Barcelona Team to Build ARM Cluster at ISC Student Cluster Competition

19-may-15

Canal Taronja Central

Tema del dia: la supercomputació

04-may-15

ZDnet Using ARM chips and Linux, Barcelona center dreams of being 'Airbus of supercomputing'

01-may-15

El Mundo Destacado: Proyecto Mont-Blanc

14 April 2015

D2.5 Second Dissemination and Exploitation Report Version 1.0

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Scientific Computing World

Europe's exascale on display in May

05 April 2015

European Commission

Excellent Science in the Digital Age

02 April 2015

Primeur Magazine

Mont-Blanc vision complements On the Road to Exascale interview

02 March 2015

Primeur Magazine

2014 Another year on the road to Exascale - An Interview with Satoshi Matsuoka and Thomas Sterling - Part I

23 February 2015

Next Big future United States, China, Europe and Japan race to the Exaflop supercomputer

14 November 2014

Diario Montañes La UC diseña el ordenador ecológico

04 November 2014

EETimes Microservers Brew in Europe's Labs

16 October 2014

Primeur Magazine

Mont-Blanc: Even with cheap technology it is possible to perform decent scientific computing 12 October 2015

D2.5 Second Dissemination and Exploitation Report Version 1.0

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4.4 Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Key Performance Indicators

Frequency Total Target (by the end of the project)

Total Achieved Reporting M1-M12

Total Achieved Reporting M13 – 24

Newsletter contacts database

Subscribers to the bi-annual newsletter

450 299 411

Newsletter issues

Twice a year 5 2 1

Press releases

At least 1 in a year 3 2 2

Media clippings

Articles appeared at the press about Mont-Blanc

100 16 30

Project flyer At least one brochure regularly updated

1 Updated Updated

Twitter The project twitter account needs to get regularly updated

400 followers 538 809

Facebook The Facebook account needs to be regularly updated

100 likes 109 145

Website visitors

Number of visitors captured by Google Analytics

15,000 visitors/year

15,714 15,159

Videos Promotional video to disseminate the project

10 2 9

Events attended

Where the project had a presence and was disseminated through a presentation, booth, poster, etc.

150 33 19

Training 2 training courses each year

6 2 2

End-User Group

Members of the End-User Group

10 5 6