EGI Community Forum 2012

Session

PRACE Workshop

28 Mar 2012, 11:00

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)

Conveners

PRACE Workshop: The PRACE Infrastructure

• Dieter Kranzlmueller (BADW)

PRACE Workshop: User Stories: Using both PetaScale HPC and Distributed HTC resources

• Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

PRACE Workshop: Infrastructure Operations

• Thomas Eickermann (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

Description

The PRACE Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe (PRACE) Research Infrastructure provides a persistent world-class HPC service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry. The workshop will give a general overview of objectives and achievements and then focus on services for the operation and usage of the PRACE Infrastructure as well as on user support activities through examples of user communities whose research needs span the use of PRACE and EGI resources.

9:45 – 10:30 ScalaLife Project: Using PRACE and EGI resources (title tbd) (Erwin Laure)

Schedule:

The PRACE Infrastructure
11:00 – 11:30 PRACE – Introduction and Overview (Th.Eickermann, FZJ)
11:30 – 12:00 Enabling Scientific Codes to the Next Generation of HPC Systems: a Community Driven Approach (Claudio Gheller, CSCS)
12:00 – 12:30 Towards a European training network in high-performance computing(Pekka Maninen)

Technical User Stories: Using both PetaScale HPC and Distributed HTC resources
14:00 – 14:30 ScalaLife (Project Technical Director) title and speaker tbc
14:30 – 15:00 MAPPER (krzysztof.kurowski@man.poznan.pl / Alfons Hoekstra) title and speaker tbc
15:00 – 15:30 DRIHM (Antonio Parodi) title and speaker tbc

Infrastructure Operations
16:00 – 16:20 PRACE Distributed Infrastructure Services and Evolution Tools (Axel Berg, SARA)
16:20 – 16:40 EGI Services for Integrated Use (Tiziana Ferrari, EGI)
16:40 –17:30 Discussion

199. PRACE – Introduction and Overview

Thomas Eickermann (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

28/03/2012, 11:00

Thomas Eickermann: PRACE – Introduction and Overview The Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe (PRACE) is the European HPC Research Infrastructure, providing high-end HPC services to European researchers from academia and industry. This presentation will give a general overview of PRACE, covering its mission, objectives, governance and funding, resources and services, as well as the...

200. Enabling Scientific Codes to the Next Generation of HPC Systems: a Community Driven Approach

Mr Claudio Gheller

28/03/2012, 11:30

Claudio Gheller: Enabling Scientific Codes to the Next Generation of HPC Systems: a Community Driven Approach One objective of the second PRACE Implementation Phase project (PRACE-2IP) is to initiate a sustainable program in application development for supercomputing applications of scientific codes targeted at problems of high scientific impact that require HPC for their solution. This is...

201. Towards a European training network in high-performance computing

Mr Pekka Manninen

28/03/2012, 12:00

Pekka Manninen: Towards a European training network in high-performance computing PRACE creates a pan-European Research Infrastructure for scientific computing and modeling; providing access to computing and data management resources and services for large-scale scientific and engineering applications at the highest performance level. To aid users and potential users as well as preparing the...

197. ScalaLife - Improving the efficiency and scalability of Life Science Software

Rossen Apostolov

28/03/2012, 14:00

Advances in HPC have transformed computational Life Science into an indispensable tool for both theoretical and experimental research. Peta- and upcoming exa-scale systems offer great possibilities for simulations and data processing. As usual software development is playing catch-up to hardware advances, even more so in the Life Science domain where computer engineering expertise is lagging...

198. ScalaLife: Improving the Usage of eInfrastructure for Life Science Researchers

Erwin Laure (KTH)

28/03/2012, 14:30

Erwin Laure: ScalaLife: Improving the Usage of eInfrastructure for Life Science Researchers The ScalaLife project has the aim of improving the usage of eInfrastructure for life science researchers by enhancing the efficiency and scalability of commonly used software packages and providing expert support via a distributed competence center. The initial focus of ScalaLife has been on...

196. The DRIHM (Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology) project and the study of flash-flood producing storms

Antonio Parodi (CIMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION)

28/03/2012, 15:00

Predicting weather and climate and its impacts on the environment, including hazards such as floods and landslides, is still one of the main challenges of the 21st century with significant societal and economic implications. At the heart of this challenge, as also suggested by the DRIHMS (Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology Study) project, lies the ability to have easy...

202. PRACE Distributed Infrastructure Services and Evolution, Tools

Mr Axel Berg

28/03/2012, 16:00

Axel Berg: PRACE Distributed Infrastructure Services and Evolution, Tools For the integration of European HPC facilities PRACE operates services on Networking, Data management, Computing, AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting), User environment and Monitoring. Service quality controls are in place to guarantee the reliability of the services. In parallel PRACE collects new user...

203. EGI Services for Integrated Use

Dr Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)

28/03/2012, 16:30

EGI is a grid computing infrastructure which encompasses more than 330 resource centres across 50 countries, supporting different grid middleware stacks and interoperating with peer grid infrastructures in various regions: Asia Pacific, South Africa, North America and Latin America. T. Ferrari presents the EGI operations governance, the operations service catalogue focusing on the tools...

204. Discussion

28/03/2012, 17:00