JSC @ ISC High Performance '13

The International Supercomputing Conference ISC'13 took place from 16 June to 20 June 2013 in Leipzig. JSC, together with its partners in the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), HLRS (Stuttgart) and LRZ (Garching), presented its wide-ranging supercomputing activities at the GCS booth #741.

In particular, JSC showcased LLview, the comprehensive interactive monitoring software for supercomputers developed in-house, demonstrating live the operation of various supercomputers worldwide. In addition, JSC also showed the LLview monitoring components of the Eclipse PTP development environment for supercomputing applications. A wide spectrum of scientific results obtained with its supercomputers JUGENE, JUQUEEN, and JUROPA were exhibited in videos and animations. Finally, JSC's participation in European Exascale Projects was another hot topic.

JSC staff gave several talks and tutorials and were also present at the PRACE (#725) and the UNICORE (#751) booths.

Events with JSC participation

Sunday

Sunday, June 16, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Seminar Room 6/7 (SR 6/7), CCL
Tutorial 01: Performance Analysis & Optimization on Extreme-Scale Systems
Dr. Brian Wylie, Research Scientist, JSC, and Dr. Bernd Mohr, Senior Scientist, JSC,
will partake in presenting this tutorial.

Monday

Monday, June 17, 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Hall C4, CCL
Crash Course on HPC
Dr. Bernd Mohr, Senior Scientist, JSC, will present this course.

Monday, June 17, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Hall 2, CCL
How to Solve the I/O Challenge
Wolfgang Frings, JSC staff member, will give a presentation on
"Scalable Massively Parallel I/O to Task-Local Files" (Begin 5:00 PM).

Tuesday

Tuesday, June 18, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Hall 4, CCL
BoF 01: Exascale Research – The European Approach
Various JSC staff members working on the research project DEEP
will be present and partake in the discussions.

Tuesday, June 18, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM, M08, Messehaus
UNICORE Summit
Valentina Huber, JSC staff member, will chair this session.

Tuesday, June 18, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Hall 5, CCL
Research Paper Session 04
Stefan Graf, JSC staff member, will give a presentation on
"Using GPFS to Manage NVRAM-Based Storage Cache" (Begin 11:30 AM).

Tuesday, June 18, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM, Hall 1, CCL
Panel: File Systems for Supercomputers: Challenges for the Future
Klaus Wolkersdorfer, Head of "High-Performance-Computing Systems" division, JSC,
will chair this session.

Tuesday, June 18, 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM, Hall 2, CCL
Supercomputing & Human Brain Project – Following Brain Research & ICT on 10-Year Quest
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Head of JSC, will give a presentation on
"The Supercomputing Infrastructure Roadmap for the Human Brain Project"
(Begin 2:40 PM).

Tuesday, June 18, 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM, Multi-Purpose Area 4 (MPA 4), CCL
GCS Workshop @ ISC'13: GCS to Establish HPC Centre of Excellence
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Head of JSC, will give a presentation on
"Supercomputers as Instruments to Decode the Human Brain" (Begin 3:30 PM).

Wednesday

Wednesday, June 19, 7:15 AM - 8:45 AM, Hall 4, CCL
EOFS/OpenSFS Breakfast Panel
Klaus Wolkersdorfer, Head of "High-Performance-Computing Systems" division, JSC,
will be a panel member.

Wednesday, June 19, 9:00 AM - 16:15 AM, Multi-Purpose Area 4, CCL
SPPEXA Satellite Event at ISC 2013
Prof. Dr. Felix Wolf (German Research School of Simulation Sciences, Aachen/Jülich)
will give a presentation on "Using Automated Performance Modeling to Find Scalability Bugs in Complex Codes" (Begin 11:30);
Prof. Dr. Friedel Hoßfeld, former Director of JSC, will partake in a round-table discussion
on "The potentials and limits of simulation and HPC" (Begin 15:00 PM).

Wednesday, June 19, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Hall 2, CCL
Better Understanding Brains, Genomes & Life Using HPC Systems
Prof. Dr. Markus Diesmann, Head of Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM-6),
Forschungszentrum Jülich, will give a presentation on
"Simulation Technology for Brain-Scale Neuronal Networks" (Begin 10:00 AM).

Wednesday, June 19, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, M01, Messehaus
BoF 19: GPU Supercomputing for Physics & Astrophysics – a Road to Exascale
Dr. Paul Gibbon, Head of "Computational Science" division, JSC, and
Prof. Dr. Dirk Pleiter, Research Staff Member, JSC, and University of Regensburg,
will give presentations.

Wednesday, June 19, 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM, Intel booth (#341), Exhibition Hall, CCL
Scalasca
Dr. Bernd Mohr, Senior Scientist, JSC, will give a presentation.

Wednesday, June 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Hall 4, CCL
BoF 16: Execution Analysis & Optimization of Parallel Applications
Dr. Bernd Mohr, Senior Scientist, JSC, will give a presentation.

Wednesday, June 19, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM, M01, Messehaus
BoF 24: Early Experiences Debugging on the Blue Gene/Q
Dr. Bernd Mohr, Senior Scientist, JSC, will give a presentation.

ThursdayThursday, June 20, 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM, Hall 4, CCL
Programming Models & Tools
Dr. Bernd Mohr, Senior Scientist, JSC, will chair this session.

And don't forget to visit us at the GCS booth (#741) at the exhibition!
JSC staff is also present at the PRACE (#725), SPPEXA (#540), and UNICORE (#751) booths.
JSC also participates in the Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA, #755)
and the European Open File System (EOFS, #515).

JSC at the TOP500

Jülich is again No. 1 in Europe