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HPC Advisory Council
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Welcome!
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Media Sponsors
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Day 1 Agenda
8:30-9:00 Introduction, HPC and HPCAC activities in Switzerland (Gilad Shainer, Hussein Harake, Thomas
Schoenemeyer)
9:00-9:45 InfiniBand for HPC overview (Erez Cohen - Mellanox)
9:45-10:30 Introduction to MPI part 1 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji -
ANL)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Introduction to MPI part 2 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji -
ANL)
11:15-12:00 Introduction to HPC storage part 1 (Hussein Harake - CSCS, Onur Celebioglu – Dell, Torben Kling
Petersen - Xyratex)
12:00-12:20 Sponsorship Presentation: Dell - Dr. Reza Rooholamini (Director of Global Solutions Engineering)
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-13:40 Sponsorship Presentation: Mellanox - Yossi Avni (VP Sales EMEA)
13:40-14:00 Sponsorship Presentation: IBM - Klaus Gottschalk
14:00-14:45 Introduction to HPC storage part 2 (Andreas Dilger - Whamcloud, Brent Welch - Panasas)
14:45-15:45 Networks: Offloading and topologies – how to design (Gilad Shainer – HPCAC)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:15 Sponsorship Presentation: ClusterVision (Arno Ziebart)
16:15-16:45 HPC Advanced Topics session - Towards Transparent and Efficient GPU Communication on
InfiniBand Clusters (Sadaf Alam - CSCS, Jeffrey Poznanovic - CSCS, Kristopher Howard - CSCS,
Hussein Harake - CSCS)
16:45-17:15 HPC Advanced Topics session – Multi-GPU molecular dynamics simulations using LAMMPS on
the eStella Cloud (Christian Trott - TU Ilmenau, Greg Scantlen - Creative Consultants LLC)
17:15-18:00 Clustering hands-on training, troubleshooting, optimizations and Q&A (Erez Cohen - Mellanox)
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Day 2 Agenda
8:15-9:00 Keynotes session - Challenges in growing and implementing heterogeneous HPC systems for
academic and industrial research (Sharan Kalwani, KAUST)
9:00-9:45 InfiniBand diagnostics tools (Erez Cohen - Mellanox)
9:45-10:30 MPI performance and optimizations part 1 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU,
Pavan Balaji - ANL)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 MPI performance and optimizations part 2 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU,
Pavan Balaji - ANL)
11:15-12:00 Futures of HPC storage solutions (Hussein Harake - CSCS, Brent Welch - Panasas, Onur
Celebioglu – Dell, Torben Kling Petersen - Xyratex)
12:00-12:20 Sponsorship Presentation: HP - Update on HP presence in High Performance computing (Patrick
Van Reeth)
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-13:40 Sponsorship Presentation: AMD (Andre Heidekrueger)
13:40-14:00 Sponsorship Presentation: LSI (Didier Gava)
14:00-15:00 Build your own InfiniBand-based Lustre solution (Erez Cohen - Mellanox, Andreas Dilger -
Whamcloud)
15:00-15:45 HPC Advanced Topics session: Usage models for GPU computing (Timothy Lanfear - NVIDIA)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:15 Sponsorship Presentation: Eurotech
16:15-17:00 HPC Advanced Topics session: CPUs – now and futures (Andre Heidekrueger - AMD)
17:00-18:00 Clustering hands-on training, troubleshooting, optimizations and Q&A (Erez Cohen - Mellanox)
18:00-21:00 Offsite Evening Dinner
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Day 3 Agenda
8:15-9:15 Keynotes session – Congestion management in lossless interconnects: Challenges and benefits
(Jos´e Duato, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Valencia)
9:15-9:45 Keynotes session – High performance computing in seismic data processing: Promises and
Challenges (Richa Rastogi – C-DAC)
9:45-10:30 Futures of MPI part 1 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji - ANL)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Futures of MPI part 2 (Dhabaleswar K. Panda - OSU, Sayantan Sur - OSU, Pavan Balaji - ANL)
11:15-12:00 HPC storage integrations (Onur Celebioglu - Dell)
12:00-12:20 Sponsorship Presentation: BlueArc (Bjorn Andersson)
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-13:40 Sponsorship Presentation: QLogic (Peter Sommer)
13:40-14:00 Sponsorship Presentation: ParTec (Thomas Moschny)
14:00-14:45 The pNFS standard and the latest development (Brent Welch - Panasas)
14:45-15:15 vFtree - A Fat-tree Routing Algorithm using Virtual Lanes to Alleviate Congestion (Sven-Arne
Reinemo, Simula Research Lab)
15:15-15:45 Scaling to the Exascale – Efficient usage of your supercomputer resources (Gilad Shainer –
HPCAC)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Management portal "CHReME" with web interface for scientific users (Nisha Kurkure – C-DAC)
16:30-16:45 Sponsorship Presentation: Xyratex
16:45-17:00 HPC Advisory Council Programs (Gilad Shainer - HPCAC, Hussein Harake - CSCS)
17:00-18:00 Clustering hands-on competition with prizes! (Erez Cohen)
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Administration
• The workshop goals
– Education, training, solutions, futures
• 3 day workshop and a tight schedule
– We encourage live discussions
– We want to have all sessions start in time
– There are breaks for offline discussions
• Speakers – make sure Brian has your slides!
• We have a conference dinner on the 2nd evening
– Contact Hussein for any issues / cancelation
• Clustering hands-on competition with prizes
– Wednesday evening!
• We have a raffle every day – don’t miss it!
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HPC Advisory Council Update
• World-wide HPC organization (208 members)
• Bridges the gap between HPC usage and its potential
• Provides best practices and a support/development center
• Explores future technologies and future developments
• Working Groups – HPC|Cloud, HPC|Scale, HPC|GPU, HPC|Storage, HPC|Works
• Leading edge solutions and technology demonstrations
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HPC Advisory Council Members
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HPC Council Board
• HPC Advisory Council Chairman
Gilad Shainer - [email protected]
• HPC Advisory Council Media Relations and Events
Director
Brian Sparks - [email protected]
• Director of the HPC Advisory Council China Center
of Excellence
Tong Liu - [email protected]
• HPC Advisory Council Cluster Center Manager
Pak Lui - [email protected]
• HPC Advisory Council Director of Educational
Outreach
Scot Schultz – [email protected]
• HPC Advisory Council Programming Advisor
Tarick Bedeir - [email protected]
• HPC Advisory Council Workshop Program Director
Eric Lantz – [email protected]
• HPC Advisory Council Research Steering Committee
Director
Cydney Stevens - [email protected]
• HPC Advisory Council HPC|Cloud Sub-group Chair
William Lu – [email protected]
• HPC Advisory Council India Outreach
Goldi Misra – [email protected]
• Director of the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland
Center of Excellence
Hussein Harake – [email protected]
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Centers of Excellence
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HPC Advisory Council HPC Center
GPU Cluster Lustre
192 cores
456 cores 528 cores
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Special Interest Subgroups
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University Award Program
• University award program
– Universities are encouraged to submit proposals for advanced research around high-
performance computing
– 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 the research results in one of the HPC Advisory Council’s
worldwide workshops, including sponsorship of travel expenses (according the to the
Council Award Program rules)
– Publication of the research results on the HPC Advisory Council website and related
publications
– Publication of the research results and a demonstration if applicable within HPC
Advisory Council world-wide technology demonstration activities
• 2010 award winner is Dr. Xiangqian Hu, Department of Chemistry, Duke University
– Topic: “Massively Parallel Quantum Mechanical Simulations for Liquid Water”
• Proposals for the 2011 HPC Advisory Council University Award Program can be
submitted between Nov 1, 2010 through May 31st, 2011. The selected proposal(s)
will be determined by June 19th and the winner(s) will be notified
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HPC Training
• HPC Training Center
– CPUs
– GPUs
– Interconnects
– Clustering
– Storage
– Cables
– Programming
– Applications
• Network of Experts
– Ask the experts
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2011 HPC Advisory Council Workshops
• 2011
– Switzerland – March
– Germany – June
– China – October
– USA – December
• More will be added throughout 2011
• For more information
– www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com, [email protected]
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Clustering Hands-on Competition
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Thank You
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