Spotlight on MareNostrum4 at SC17

10 November 2017
This year the star of the BSC booth at SC17 will be MareNostrum 4, the latest edition of BSC's supercomputer, which has been in operation since 1 July.

Save the dates in your calendar! As in previous editions, BSC will be participating in the SC17 exhibition. During the exhibition, you are welcome to visit our booth (#1975) and we will be happy to answer any questions you might have.

BSC booth sessions at SC17

  • Monday 13 November, 19:30: Talk on the new MareNostrum supercomputer (Sergi Girona, BSC Operations Director)
  • Wednesday 15 November 11:30: Talk on Research projects at BSC (Eugene Griffiths, Head Of Research Support Transfer And Dissemination at BSC)

Demos

PyCOMPSs
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 11:30-12 : PyCOMPSs (presenter: Rosa Badia)
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 14:30-15:00: PyCOMPSs with Singularity (presenter: Francesc Lordan)
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 11-11:30: Alya, PyCOMPSs and Hecuba (presenter: Francesc Lordan)
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 15:00-15:30: PyCOMPSs (presenter: Rosa Badia)
  • Thursday, 16 November, 11-11:30: Alya, PyCOMPSs and Hecuba (presenter: Francesc Lordan)
OMPSs
  • Tuesday, 14 November: 10:30-11
  • Thursday, 16 November: 10:30-11
FTI
  • Wednesday, 15 November: 17:15-17:30

BSC experts will participate in the conference as follows:

Activity and speaker Day Room
Intel HPC Developer Conference 2017: Rosa Badia 11 November 2017, 10:15 Sheraton Denver Downtown
PyHPC 2017 workshop: Rosa Badia 12 November 2017, 10:30 710-712
Workshop on Extreme-Scale Programming Tools (ESPT): Judit Giménez 12 November 2017, 9-5:30 506
Fourth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training: Maria Ribera Sancho 12 November 2017, 2:00-5:30 601
Mastering Tasking with OpenMP (Tutorial): Sergi Mateo and Xavier Teruel 13 November 2017, 8:30-12 210-212
ATIP Workshop on International Exascale and Next-Generation Computing Programs: Mateo Valero 13 November 2017, 9-5:30 708
Fourth Workshop on Accelerator Programming Using on Directives: Francesc Lordan
13 November 2017, 2-2:30
 710-712
8th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems: Vassil Alexandrov 13 November 2017, 4-4:30 607
RWBC-Oil: Leonardo Bautista 14 November 2017, 10:30-11:00 AIST booth (1211)
Topology-Aware GPU Scheduling for Learning Workloads in Cloud Environments: Jordà Polo 14 November 2017, 4-4:30 405-406-407
Topology-Aware GPU Scheduling for Learning Workloads in Cloud Environments (paper): Marcelo Amaral 14 November 2017, 9:00-12:30 405-406-407
The ARM User Experience: Testbeds and Deployment at HPC Centers (BoF): Filippo Mantovani 14 November 2017, 5:15-7 701
European Exascale Projects and Their Global Contributions (BoF): Marcin Ostasz and Eugene Griffiths 14 November 2017, 5:15-7 501-502
15 November 2017, 9:15-10
Mile High Ballroom
Fourth International Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis – VPA 2017: Judit Giménez 17 November 2017, 8:30-12 404

Papers

2017 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award

Jesús Labarta, Computer Sciences department Director, will be given the 2017 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award for his seminal contributions to programming models and performance analysis tools for high performance computing. Tuesday 14, 8:15 at Mile High Ballroom.

IEEE-CS TCHPC 2017 Award Winners for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing

In addition, the senior researcher Antoni Peña will receive the IEEE-CS TCHPC 2017 Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing on Thursday 16, from 12:15 at Mile High Ballroom.