Workshop: Capability Computing with Blue Gene/L
Joint Workshop of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing and IBM Deep Computing, 7 - 8 September 2004, Research Centre Jülich
Scope of the Workshop
With Blue Gene/L, IBM introduces a new and extremely powerful high-end computer architecture for capability computing. In the near future, a leadership system with a performance of nearly 400 TFlops including 65.536 specially manufactured PowerPC processors will be installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. What makes Blue Gene/L so attractive are its scalability and its low requirements for power, cooling and floor space. On the other hand, its enormous number of processors will certainly pose special problems to programmers.
The aim of this workshop is to get a first assessment of Blue Gene/L and to find out which types of applications best match its architecture. Speakers from the IBM developer group will give insight into the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/L. Scientists from several application areas will discuss their specific computational requirements and IBM specialists will describe the opportunities that Blue Gene/L offers to these fields and report first experiences. Additional talks will provide a general intorduction to the options of future high-end machines.
Organising Committee
Thomas Lippert, NIC, Research Centre Jülich
Nurcan Rasig, IBM Deep Computing
Anke Reinartz (Workshop Secretary) NIC, Research Centre Jülich
Tuesday, 7 September 2004
| 13:00 | Thomas Lippert, Research Centre Jülich Nurcan Rasig, IBM Deep Computing Welcome and Introduction |
| 13:15 | Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights Blue Gene/L Architecture |
| 14:00 | Fred Gustavson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights Ideas for High Performance Linear Algebra Software |
| 14:45 | Break |
| 15:15 | Gyan Bhanot, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights Experience in Porting Applications |
| 16:00 | Thomas Lippert, Research Centre Jülich Leadership Systems for Capability Computing |
| 16:45 | Break |
| 17:15 | Simon Portegies Zwart, University of Amsterdam Simulating Dense Stellar Systems on Dedicated Parallel Computers |
| 18:00 | Reinhard Männer, University of Mannheim Particle Simulations in Computational Astrophysics Using Reconfigurable Chips |
| 18:45 | Closing |
| 19:30 | Dinner at the Hotel Kaiserhof, Jülich, sponsered by IBM |
Wednesday, 8 September 2004
| 8:30 | Karl Jansen, DESY Zeuthen Particle Physics on Supercomputers |
| 9:15 | Dirk Pleiter, DESY Zeuthen Performance Signatures of Lattice QCD Kernels |
| 9:45 | Gyan Bhanot, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights QCD on Blue Gene/L |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Axel Kohlmeyer, University of Bochum High-Performance Computing in Theoretical Chemistry: Today and Tomorrow |
| 11:45 | Alessandro Curioni, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory CPMD on Blue Gene/L |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Wolfgang Wenzel, Research Centre Karlsruhe Biomolecular Structure Prediction with Stochastic Optimization Methods |
| 14:15 | Alessandro Curioni, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Biological applications on Blue Gene/L |
| 15:00 | Dietmar Erwin, Research Centre Jülich Wrap-up and discussion |
| 16:00 | Closing |