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At this year’s International Supercomputing Conference ISC'16 held in Frankfurt/Main (June 19 - 23), the 64 m² large booth of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (booth #1310) proved once again to be the pivotal platform for the international scientific and industrial HPC community. The open and enticing layout of the booth, designed to encourage the ISC attendees to stop by at the GCS booth and interchange with the representatives of the GCS centres HLRS (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart), JSC (Jülich Supercomputing Centre), and LRZ (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching/Munich) has again paid off. It attracted countless like-minded researchers, technology leaders, and scientists, amongst other visitors interested in HPC technologies and activities.

In addition to its presentations on the exhibition floor of the ISC, GCS contributed to the HPC conference with numerous talks and presentations in various tutorials and sessions, workshops, and birds-of-a-feather meetings. One of the highlights, brought to the ISC attendees by GCS, was the special conference session Advanced Disaster Prediction and Mitigation, hosted by Prof. Arndt Bode of the LRZ. Three users introduced their research projects, which they had carried out on the GCS HPC systems Hazel Hen, JUQUEEN, and SuperMUC, provided detailed insight into the challenges of their undertakings and presented their up to now achieved results:

At ISC's Research Paper session, Prof. Michael M. Resch, Director of the HLRS, was very pleased to put the spotlight on a young and bright researcher of the University of Bologna. The paper Predictive Modeling for Job Power Consumption in HPC Systems, written and submitted by Mr. Andrea Borghesi (University of Bologna) and his team of five, had been selected by the International Award Committee as the most outstanding research paper submitted at this year's ISC and thus was honoured with the coveted GCS Award 2016. The paper focuses on methods to accurately predict the power consumption of typical supercomputer workloads and provides insight into how to implement and successfully execute power-saving techniques to real working environments. Prof. Resch as chairman of the award committee and Dr. Claus Axel Müller, Managing Director of GCS, handed the award certificate over to Mr. Borghesi, who had introduced his very interesting work to the attentively following large audience attending this ISC research paper session.