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HPC Advisory Council

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Welcome!

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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 - gilad@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• HPC Advisory Council Media Relations and Events

Director

Brian Sparks - brian@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• Director of the HPC Advisory Council China Center

of Excellence

Tong Liu - tong@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• HPC Advisory Council Cluster Center Manager

Pak Lui - pak@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• HPC Advisory Council Director of Educational

Outreach

Scot Schultz – scot@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• HPC Advisory Council Programming Advisor

Tarick Bedeir - Tarick@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• HPC Advisory Council Workshop Program Director

Eric Lantz – eric@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• HPC Advisory Council Research Steering Committee

Director

Cydney Stevens - cydney@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• HPC Advisory Council HPC|Cloud Sub-group Chair

William Lu – william@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• HPC Advisory Council India Outreach

Goldi Misra – goldi@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

• Director of the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland

Center of Excellence

Hussein Harake – hussein@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

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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, info@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

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Clustering Hands-on Competition

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Thank You

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