Welcome!

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Welcome!

Gold Sponsors

Media Sponsors

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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

– info@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

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