NEWS
Virtual Conference: SC20 Is Everywhere We Are
Newsflash 13/2020 –
Gauss Centre for Supercomputing
Team deFAUlt of FAU
- GCS supports team deFAUlt, a German university team representing the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg participating in SC’s Student Cluster Competition. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the contest will also be held in digital format and is now called Virtual Student Cluster Competition (VSCC). More Information
- GCS on Social Media: @gcs_hpc
- GCS will use the following hashtags for Twitter outreach: #MoreThanHPC #SC20 #HPCforGermany
High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
HLRS representatives will host resp. participate in the following SC20 sessions:
| Mon., Nov. 16 | 11:45 - 12:15 (EST) 16:45 - 17:15 (CET) | Strengthening HPC Competences in Europe in the Exa-Era Speaker: Dr. Bastian Koller |
| Mon., Nov. 16 | 12:30 - 13:30 (EST) 17:30 - 18:30 (CET) | Virtual Twins, Smart Cities and Smart Citizens Speakers: Leyla Kern, Dr. Fabian Dembski, Dr. Uwe Wössner |
| Tue., Nov. 17 | 10:00 - 10:30 (EST) 15:00 - 15:30 (CET) | HiDALGO: Addressing Global Challenges with HPC and Big Data Technologies Speakers: Dennis Hoppe, Dr. Derek Groen |
| Tue., Nov. 17 | 10:45 - 11:15 (EST) 15:45 - 16:15 (CET) | SODALITE: Software-Defined Execution and Optimization of In-Silico Clinical Trials in HPC with SODALITE Platform Speakers: Dr. Ralf Schneider, Kamil Tokmakov |
| Tue., Nov. 17 | 11:30 - 11:45 (EST) 16:30 - 16:45 (CET) | CATALYST: Leveraging HPC to Drive Innovation in AI Speaker: Dennis Hoppe |
| Wed., Nov. 18 | 10:00 - 10:15 (EST) 15:00 - 15:15 (CET) | EXCELLERAT (part 1): Paving the Way towards Exascale Speaker: Amgad Dessoky |
| Wed., Nov. 18 | 11:00 - 11:45 (EST) 16:00 - 16:45 (CET) | HPCWE: High-Performance Computing Applied in Wind Energy Speaker: Flavio Cesar Cunha Galeazzo |
Further information on HLRS@SC20 Digital is available at: https://www.hlrs.de/sc20/
Follow HLRS on Twitter to get the latest updates from us: @HLRS_HPC
HLRS will use the following hashtags for Twitter outreach: #MoreThanHPC #SC20 #HPCforGermany
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
JSC representatives will have roles in the following SC20 sessions:
| Mon., Nov. 9 | 10:00 - 14:00 (EST 15:00 - 19:00 (CET) | Tutorial: Practical Hybrid Parallel Application Performance Engineering Co-organizer, Presenter: Markus Geimer | Presenter: Christian Feld & Brian Wylie |
| Wed., Nov. 11 | 13:20 - 13:40 (EST) 18:20 – 18:40 (CET) | Workshop: Archival Data Repository Services to Enable HPC and Cloud Workflows in a Federated Research e-Infrastructure Presenter: Dirk Pleiter |
| Thu., Nov. 12 | 14:30 - 18:30pm (EST) 19:30 – 23:30 (CET) | Workshop: ProTools 2020: Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools Co-organizer: Markus Geimer |
| Tue., Nov. 17 | 13:00 - 14:15 (EST) 18:00 – 19:15 (CET) | Birds of a Feather: European HPC Ecosystem Summit Session co-leader, Presenter: Florian Berberich |
| Tue., Nov. 17 | 14:30 - 15:45 (EST) 19:30 – 20:45 (CET) | Birds of a Feather: Designing and Building Next-Generation Computer Systems for Deep Learning Session co-leader, Presenter: Morris Riedel |
| Wed., Nov. 18 | 10:00 - 11:30 (EST) 15:00 – 16:30 (CET) | Panel: SC Conference Series: Past, Present and Future Panelist: Bernd Mohr |
Further information on JSC@SC20 Digital is available at https://fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/sc20
Follow JSC on Twitter to get the latest updates from us: @fzj_jsc
Follow JSC‘s director, Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert: @Tomtherhymer
JSC will use the following hashtags for Twitter outreach: #MoreThanHPC #SC20 #HPCforGermany
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)
LRZ Representatives will be participating in the following sessions:
| Tue., Nov. 10 | 10:00 - 14:00 (EST) 15:00 - 19:00 (CET) | Tutorial: Practical OpenHPC: Cluster Management, HPC Applications, Containers and Cloud Presenter: David Brayford |
| Wed., Nov. 11 | 11:30 - 12:30 (EST) 16:30 – 17:30 (CET) | Talk: Always Celebrate Your Achievement Speaker: Laura Schulz |
| Thu., Nov. 19 | 8:30 - 17:00 (EST) 13:30 – 22:00 (CET) | Poster Session: Orchestration of a Forecasting Chain for Forest Fire Prevention using the LEXIS Cloud/HPC Platform Presenter: Mohamad Hayek |
| Thu., Nov. 19 | 15:00 - 16:00 (EST) 20:00 – 21:00 (CET) | Award Session: Gordon Bell Prize Award Committee Chair of Award Committee: Arndt Bode |
Further information on LRZ@SC20 Digital is available at: https://sc20.lrz.de/
Follow LRZ on Twitter to get the latest updates from us: @LRZ_DE
Follow LRZ‘s director, Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller: @Kranzlmueller
LRZ will use the following hashtags for Twitter outreach:#MoreThanHPC #WeAreLRZ #SC20 #HPCforGermany
GCS Centres Embrace #MoreThanHPC
2020 has been a year filled with unprecedented challenges. Public health challenges have exacerbated public health, economic, and technological challenges already present. Much like the SC20 conference itself, GCS centres had to rethink how we would work together, operate our machines, train our users, and continue to ensure that Germany’s leading HPC resources remained avaiable for scientific discovery. Additionally, the pandemic showed centre leadership that in the face of large-scale emergencies, such as this pandemic, HPC centres had an indispensible role to play. As a result, we have spent the last several months working on ways to ensure that our resources could be used for “rapid response” computing to support decision makers in times like these.
We have certainly not forgotten our core missions, and centres’ staffs worked hard to ensure that our successful training program could be converted and continue on as a series of virtual workshops and courses (more). Researchers have been using our machines to combat COVID-19 in a variety of ways (more) but have also used multiple GCS machines to help design and site wind turbines in complex terrain (more).
While we have yet to find the cure for COVID-19, HPC centres like ours continue to enable dedicated researchers to run calculations that would otherwise be unattainable. While we are only a small part of the immense research effort dedicated to defeating SARS-CoV-2, we will continue to make our resources available for accelerating a cure.
GCS centres’ staffs are certainly disappointed that they cannot participate with HPC colleagues in person at SC20, but we understand that, more than possibly any year before, this year is about #MoreThanHPC
An overview of the complete SC20 program can be found at https://sc20.supercomputing.org/program/ and the SC20 agenda is available at https://sc20.supercomputing.org/attend/schedule/