This document contains the agenda for the HPC Advisory Council Swiss Conference 2016, which will take place in March. It provides details on keynote speakers, tutorials, and best practices sessions covering topics like deep learning, programming models, containers, and more. Sponsor and exhibitor information is also included.

1. HPC Advisory Council Swiss
Conference 2016
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Day 1 Agenda
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks Hussein Harake & Gilad Shainer
9:15-9:30 Welcome CSCS, Deputy Director Michele de Lorenzi
9:30-10:15 Keynote: Industry Shifts to Open Infrastructure and Momentum of
OpenPOWER Foundation IBM, Open Power Global Alliances Calista Redmond
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:15 Best Practices: High-Performance and Scalable Designs of Programming
Models for Exascale Systems Ohio State University DK Panda
11:15-12:00 Tutorial Part I: Deep Learning Università della Svizzera Italiana Zaikun Xu
12:00-13:00 Lunch & Vendor Exhibits
13:00-13:30 Best Practices: Addressing Emerging Challenges in Designing HPC Runtimes: Energy-
Awareness, Accelerators and Virtualization Ohio State University DK Panda
13:30-14:15 Best Practices: Increasing Cluster Performance by Combining rCUDA with Slurm
Technical University of Valencia Federico Silla
14:15-15:00 Tutorial Part II: Deep Learning Università della Svizzera Italiana Zaikun Xu
15:00-15:15 Break & Vendor Exhibits
15:15-16:00 Best Practices: Containers in HPC environments with Shifter Centro Svizzero di Calcolo
Scientifico Miguel Gila
16:00-18:00 Tour CSCS
18:00 Enjoy the Evening

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Day 2 Agenda
9:00-10:00
Keynote: Big Data Meets HPC: Exploiting HPC Technologies for Accelerating Big Data
Processing Ohio State University DK Panda
10:00-10:30
Industry Insights: An Open Source HPC Stack To Simplify Management and Use Lenovo
Luigi Brochard
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Tutorial Part I: Open Stack University of Zurich Sergio Maffioletti
11:30-12:00
Industry Insights: Protecting Your Data, Protecting Your Hardware DDN Jean Thomas
Acquaviva
12:00-13:00 Lunch & Vendor Exhibits
13:00-13:30 Industry Insights: The Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform NVIDIA Axel Khoeler
13:30-14:15
Best Practices: Applications Performance Optimizations HPC Advisory Council
Pak Lui
14:15-14:45 Industry Insights: HPC Storage Update Seagate Technologies Miro Lehocky
14:45-15:30 Best Practices: The State of Linux Containers Gaikai Inc. Christian Kniep
15:30-15:45 Break and Vendor Exhibits
15:45-16:30
Best Practices: Manage Reproducibility of Computational Workflows with Docker
Containers and Nextflow Center for Genomic Regulation Paolo Di Tommaso
16:30-17:15 Industry Insights: Looking Back Into the (Parallel) HPC Future Intel Herbert Cornelius
17:15-18:00 The Road To Exascale Panel
18:00 Evening Event: The Pinnacle of Enjoyment

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Day 3 Agenda
9:00-9:45
Keynote: Co-Design Architecture – Emergence of New Co-Processors Mellanox
Technologies Dror Goldenberg
9:45-10:15
Industry Insights: HPC and Hyperscale Trends for 2016 Intersect360
Addison Snell
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:30
Tutorial Part I: EasyBuild - Getting Scientific Software Installed With Ease
University Ghent Kenneth Hoste
11:30-12:00 Industry Insights: OpenPOWER Roadmap Toward CORAL IBM Klaus Gottschalk
12:00-13:00 Lunch & Vendor Exhibits
13:00-13:30
Industry Insights: Fresh Technologies Power Innovative, Efficient and Scalable
HPC Huawei Technologies Francis Lam
13:30-14:15 Tutorial Part II: Getting Started With EasyBuild University Ghent Kenneth Hoste
14:15-15:00 Tutorial Part II: Open Stack SWITCH Saverio Proto
15:00-15:15 Break and Vendor Exhibits
15:15-15:45
Best Practices: Using Xeon + FPGA for Accelerating HPC Workloads Intel
Gaurav Kaul
15:45-16:30 End Note: Quantum Effect D-Wave Systems Bo Ewald
16:30 Closing Remarks

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Administration
• The workshop goals
– Education, training, solutions, futures
• 3 days 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 we have your slides!
• Raffle
– Wed afternoon!

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HPC Advisory Council Members

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HPC Advisory Council HPC Center
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R730
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
White-box InfiniBand-based Storage (Lustre)
Dell™ PowerEdge™
R720xd/R720 32-node cluster
Dell PowerVault MD3420
Dell PowerVault MD3460
InfiniBand
Storage
(Lustre)

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• Lattice QCD
• LAMMPS
• LS-DYNA
• miniFE
• MILC
• MSC Nastran
• MR Bayes
• MM5
• MPQC
• NAMD
• Nekbone
• NEMO
• NWChem
• Octopus
• OpenAtom
• OpenFOAM
• OpenMX
• OptiStruct
• PARATEC
• PFA
• PFLOTRAN
• Quantum ESPRESSO
• RADIOSS
• SNAP
• SPECFEM3D
• STAR-CCM+
• STAR-CD
• VASP
• VSP
• WRF
158 Applications Best Practices Published
• Abaqus
• ABySS
• AcuSolve
• Amber
• AMG
• AMR
• ANSYS CFX
• ANSYS FLUENT
• ANSYS Mechanical
• BQCD
• CAM-SE
• CCSM
• CESM
• COSMO
• CP2K
• CPMD
• Dacapo
• Desmond
• DL-POLY
• Eclipse
• FLOW-3D
• GADGET-2
• Graph500
• GROMACS
• Himeno
• HIT3D
• HOOMD-blue
• HPCC
• HPCG
• HYCOM
• ICON

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Getting Ready to 2016 Student Cluster Competition

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2016 HPC Advisory Council Conferences
• USA (Stanford University) – February
• Switzerland – March
• Germany (SCC, ISC’16) – June
• Brazil – TBD
• Spain – Sep
• China (HPC China) – Oct 2015

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13. HPC Advisory Council Swiss
Conference 2016
Welcome!