Post-petascale systems and future exascale computers are expected to continue hierarchical architectures with nodes of many-core processors and accelerators. Existing programming paradigms and algorithms will have to be adapted to fit wider parallel architectures. The increase in heterogeneity of architectures points to a need in cross‐training and collaboration among trainers across centers. Therefore, novel and portable methods of scalable algorithms that better manage the locality of widely distributed data, having fault resilient properties, will become necessary.
The critical need to educate the users to develop on the next generation HPC has been widely recognized both in USA and Europe. The aim of this workshop is to bring together the educators and scientists from the key HPC and Supercomputer Centers from USA, Europe, Australia and worldwide to share expertise and best practices for tackling the HPC skills gap.
The Workshop will include a half day of presentations on best practices for delivering HPC Training through in-person, web-based and asynchronous HPC training and discussions on strategies for ongoing collaboration among HPC Centers worldwide. A Workshop report will be produced highlighting lessons learned and strategies for successful international collaboration on HPC Training development and delivery.
Timeline
May 2015: Setup registration page;
June 2015: Finalize Invited Talks;
January 2016: Finalize publication associated with this workshop.
SC15 HPC Training Workshop Committee:
Scott Lathrop <lathrop [at] illinois [dot] edu>
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Fernanda Foertter <foertterfs [at] ornl [dot] gov>
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Dr. Nia Alexandrov <nia [dot] alexandrov [at] bsc [dot] es>
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Dr. Maria-Ribera Sancho <maria [dot] ribera [at] bsc [dot] es>
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech
Steve Gordon <sgordon20 [at] gmail [dot] com>
Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)
Henry Neeman <hneeman [at] ou [dot] edu>
University of Oklahoma
Rebecca Hartman-Baker <rjhartmanbaker [at] lbl [dot] gov>
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Robert Whitten <rmwjr [at] utk [dot] edu>
National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS)
Richard Gerber <ragerber [at] lbl [dot] gov>
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Barbara Chapman <bchapman [at] uh [dot] edu>
University of Houston
Kjiersten Fagnan <kmfagnan [at] lbl [dot] gov>
Joint Genome Institute (JGI)