Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)

Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

BrainScaleS CodeJam Workshop #6

Workshop, 27-29 January 2014, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Start

27th January 2014 08:00 AM

End

29th January 2014 11:15 AM

Location

Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Rotunda, building 16.4, room 301

Goal

The goal of the CodeJam workshops is to catalyze open-source, collaborative software development in computational and systems neuroscience and neuroinformatics, by bringing together researchers, students and engineers to share ideas, present their work, and write code together.

The general format of the workshops is to dedicate the mornings to invited and contributed talks, leaving the afternoons free for discussions and code sprints.

The 6th BrainScaleS/ FACETS CodeJam will take place with the focus on 'High-Performance Computing'.

Program

Main Sessions: Rotunda, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Bldg. 16.4

Day 1 (Monday, 27 January 2014)

Time	Topic
09:00 - 09:15	Abigail Morrison Welcome
09:15 - 10:45	HPC Hardware for Neuroscience
09:15 - 09:45	Dave Lester An introduction to neuromorphic modelling on SpiNNaker: the PACMAN 103 tool-chain
09:45 - 10:15	Dirk Pleiter Introduction to the massively parallel Blue Gene/Q architecture
10:15 - 10:45	Christoph Koke The Hybrid Multiscale Facility operating system
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 12:45	Data management for HPC
11:15 - 11:45	Francesc Alted Understanding the memory hierarchy for better data management
11:45 - 12:15	Samuel Garcia Neo: an object model for electrophysiology. Progress and future plans
12:15 - 12:45	Dirk Pleiter Using Blue Gene Active Storage for Neuroscience applications
12:45 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 18:00	*Tutorials and Code Sprints* (simultaneous sessions) Tutorial: Programming for SpiNNaker Code Sprints

Day 2 (Tuesday, 28 January 2014)

Time	Topic
09:00 - 10:30	Neural simulators on HPC
09:00 - 09:30	Susanne Kunkel The NEST 4g kernel: highly scalable network simulation code from laptops to supercomputers
09:30 - 10:00	Michael Hines Parallel NEURON idioms for information exchange during setup, random numbers, and debugging
10:00 - 10:30	Andrew Davison The MUSIC of the PyNNs: a friendlier interface for multi-simulator modelling
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00- 12:30	Neural modelling and simulation workflows
11:00 - 11:30	Marcel Stimberg Code generation in Brian 2: from mathematical model descriptions to executable code
11:30 - 12:00	Jan Antolik Mozaik: Integrated workflows for spiking neuronal network simulations
12:30 -14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 18:00	*Tutorials and Code Sprints* (simultaneous sessions)
	a) Tutorial: Profiling for Python, Yury V. Zaytsev b) Tutorial: Profiling for C/C+, Thorsten Hater Code Sprints

Day 3 (Wednesday, 29 January 2014)

Time	Topic
09:00 - 10:30	High performance software for Neuroscience
09:00 - 09:30	David Schneider PyPy - A fast and compliant Python implementation - an introduction
09:30 - 10:00	Anna Westhoff Simple and hybrid parallelizations for GPU clusters in a nutshell
10:00 - 10:30	Yves Hilpisch Efficient in-memory data analytics with Python & Pandas
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break, incl. photo session
	Contributed talks
11:00 - 11:30	Rajalekshmi Deepu Sphinx: The documentation generator for Python
11:30 - 12:00	Padraig Gleeson The Open Source Brain Initiative: enabling sharing & collaborative development of models in computational neuroscience
12:00-12:15	Abigail Morrison Final remarks
12:15 -14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:45	HPC Tour
15:00 - 18:00	*Tutorials and Code Sprints* (simultaneous sessions) Tutorial: PyPy, David Schneider (Rotunda) Code Sprints (N 203, Bldg. 16.4;)

Organizers

For questions regarding the program please contact:

Abigail Morrison
Andrew Davison
Eilif Muller
Jochen M. Eppler
Yury V. Zaytsev

For questions regarding organizational issues please contact:

Anne Do Lam-Ruschewski

Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)
Forschungszentrum Jülich
D-52425 Jülich, Germany

Phone: +49 2461 61-5642 / 1648
Fax: +49 2461 61-6656

Registration

Accomodation

Participants (except invited speakers and organizers) are kindly asked to book hotel rooms on their own.
A number of hotel rooms at Jülich has been reserved.

Therefore, please refer to the Code Jam Workshop during the reservation process.

A complementary shuttle service from the Forschungszentrum Jülich to the hotels (and back) will be provided.

Hotel rooms have been booked at three different hotels in Jülich:

Stadthotel Jülich
Hotel Kaiserhof
Hotel am Hexenturm

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