High Performance Computing, GRIDS and clouds
An International Advanced Workshop
Cetraro –
Main Aim
Recent
progress in information technology like commodity processing components, multicore, hierarchical memory architectures, fast
communication, increased density, virtualization and other middleware software
and tools, and new paradigms like grid and cloud computing, have the potential
to enable the tools and techniques of High Performance Computing (HPC) to gain
much broader acceptance in wider areas of research and industry, than ever
before. On the other hand, the extremely fast pace this change is happening
causes new kinds of challenges in technological, mental, and even political
areas which have to be addressed to enable wider acceptance and implementation
of these new technologies and paradigms.
Therefore,
the main aim of this workshop is to present and debate advanced topics, open
questions, future developments, and challenging applications related to
advanced high-performance distributed computing and data systems, encompassing
implementations ranging from traditional clusters to warehouse-scale data centers, and with architectures including both grid and
cloud models. In the following, we present just a few examples of topics which
are important to being addressed at the workshop.
Emerging
computing paradigms such as peta-and exa-scale computing, big data, hybrid and cloud computing,
and technologies like virtualization and multi-core/many-core demand new
developments and techniques in system middleware, tools, libraries, and
applications. In addition, “Green ” or
energy-efficient computing is an emerging model in the IT industry at every
level, with the objective to optimize energy consumption. Besides conventional
performance metrics in scheduling such as utilization and throughput, energy
consumption is another metric which is introduced by energy efficient
computing.
One
important topic in this context is resource scheduling in complex distributed
systems like HPC clusters, grids, and clouds. Within the last two decades
schedulers have been designed in such a way to solely optimize packing of jobs
as a means to improve scheduling metrics. However, these packing-based
mechanisms are not context-aware e.g. taking into account interaction of users.
Context-aware scheduling, e.g. user-aware scheduling, is a new generation of
scheduling which has been introduced in recent years. Context-aware scheduling
opens new ways of research taking into account context, resource management,
admission control, pricing strategy and many more.
Another
important topic in HPC is now Cloud Computing. We are seeing more and more
government funded cloud testbeds and projects like DOE’s Magellan or the
Strongly
related to the topic of clouds is Green IT, because clouds are making computing
also more energy-efficient. By storing and running processes on the cloud,
applications can share the resources sitting on a wide network of servers,
which can keep them from going idle and wasting the energy used to power them.
IT consulting firm Accenture estimates that companies could cut energy
consumption and carbon emissions by 30 percent by switching over to the cloud.
Another
trend which goes well together with clouds and with Green-IT is resource
virtualization. Consolidating servers using a virtualization process not
only provides savings in terms of how many physical machines must be bought and
maintained, but also potentially reduces the amount of physical space that a
company needs for its servers or data center. Since
virtualization allows a variety of
operating systems and software configuration settings to be used on a single
machine, application virtualization
provides a much more flexible way for companies to run applications. The
flexibility benefits of virtualization mean that all those operating
systems and applications could potentially be run on a single piece of
hardware. As such, efficiently using hardware is one of the biggest benefits of virtualization.
Summarizing, the aim of this special workshop
is to shed some light on key topics in advanced high performance computing
systems and, in particular, to address the aforementioned contemporary
scheduling topics. For that, the four and a half day program of this workshop
will have about forty invited talks by experts in the field.
Workshop topics
Workshop
topics will be related to advanced and emerging distributed computing systems
and include, but are not limited to, any of the following ones:
·
General
Issues in High Performance Computing
·
Advanced
Technologies for Petaflops Computing
·
Data
and Computing in the Exascale Era
·
Emerging
Computer Architectures and their Performance
·
Programming
Models
·
HPC
and Green Computing
·
Languages
and Compilers for Parallel and multi-core /many -core systems
·
Parallel
Software Tools and Environments
·
Distributed
Systems and Algorithms
·
Parallel
Multimedia Computing Technologies
·
Hybrid
CPU + GPU Computing
·
Virtualization
·
Innovative
Applications in Science and Industry
·
High
Performance Computing for Commercial Applications
·
General
Issues in Grid and Cloud Computing
·
Grid
and Cloud Intelligent Scheduling, Service Level Agreements, and Policy
Management
·
Grid
and Cloud Computing for the
Programme
Over fifty invited papers will be presented at
the workshop. Keynote overview talks will be given together with research
presentations.
Despite significant investments in HPC science
and technology there are many technical and economic challenges that limit the
use of HPC computers. Examples of such challenges are:
(a) limited parallel software
portability;
(b) unclear cost performance metric for
parallel computing;
(c) expensive reengineering of the
sequential legacy software for HPC, Grids and Clouds;
(d) difficult parallel programming;
(e) scaling application performance to
thousands of processors or cores.
If we consider the TOP500 supercomputers
currently in use we will see that the predominant architecture of these
machines is a cluster system. In comparison to clusters MPPs
and vector computers are a minority. This trend may or may not continue.
It will be interesting to see the development
of software tools in scientific and commercial HPC environments and how they
will continue to be able to support efficient application operation on more and
more complex systems.
Several sessions on Grids and Clouds will play
an important role in the workshop programme; invited
speakers from different sectors, public and private, will debate the most
critical issues related to the grid and cloud development strategies for
Research and
International Programme
Committee
Frank Baetke
Global HPC Programs
Academia and Scientific
Research
Hewlett Packard
Palo Alto, CA
USA
Charlie Catlett
Math &
Computer Science Div.
and
Computation Institute of
The
Jack Dongarra
Innovative Computing
Laboratory
Computer Science Dept.
and
Sudip S. Dosanjh
Extreme Scale Computing
at SANDIA National
Laboratories
Ian Foster
Math & Computer Science
Div.
and
Dept of Computer Science
The
Geoffrey Fox
Community Grid Computing
Laboratory
Guang Gao
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Wolfgang Gentzsch
HPC Consultant
Regensburg
GERMANY
formerly
SUN Microsystems and
Sergei Gorlatch
Universitaet Muenster
Institüt für Informatik
Muenster
Gerhard Joubert
Janusz Kowalik
formerly
The Boeing Company
Erwin Laure
Royal
Thomas Lippert
Institute for Advanced
Simulation
Juelich Supercomputing Centre
Forschungszentrum Juelich
Juelich
Miron Livny
Computer Sciences Dept.
Ignacio Llorente
Distributed Systems
Architecture Group
Dpt. de Arquitectura
de Computadores y Automática
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Alberto Masoni
INFN – National Institute of
Nuclear Physics
ITALY
Satoshi Matsuoka
Global Scientific Information
and Computing Center
& Department of
Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Tokyo Institute of
Technology
Paul Messina
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, Illinois
Ken Miura
Center for Grid Research and
Development
National
Peter Sloot
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam
THE
Domenico Talia
Dept. of Electronics,
Informatics and Systems
Amy Wang
Institute for
Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
Tsinghua University
Beijing
CHINA
Organizing Committee
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L.
GRANDINETTI (
Ø
W.
GENTZSCH (
Ø J. DONGARRA (U.S.A.)
Ø
M.
AL BAALI (
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J.
KOWALIK (
Ø
P.
Ø
C.
CATLETT (USA)
Workshop Agenda (provisional)
Legenda:
t.b.d.: to be decided
Monday, June 25th
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9:00- 9:10 |
Welcome Address |
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State of the art and future
scenarios |
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9:15 – 9:45 |
J. Dongarra |
On the Future of High Performance Computing: How to
Think for Peta and Exascale
Computing |
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I. Foster |
Big Process for Big Data |
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G. Fox |
Scientific Computing Supported by Clouds, Grids and Exascale Systems |
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K. Takeda |
Cloud computing for research and innovation |
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Coffee Break |
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A. Szalay |
Extreme Data-Intensive Scientific Computing |
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S. Wallach |
BIG DATA – SO WHAT!? |
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Concluding Remarks |
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Emerging computer systems and
solutions |
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17:00 – 17:30 |
F. Baetke |
Technology Trends in High Performance Computing |
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17:30 – 18:00 |
J.P. Panziera |
Efficient Architecture for Exascale
Applications |
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18:00 – 18:30 |
W. Gentzsch |
Fujitsu and the HPC Pyramid |
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18:30 – 19:00 |
Coffee Break |
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19:00 – 19:30 |
B. Blake |
Supercomputing and Big Data: where
are the real boundaries and opportunities for synergy |
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19:30 – 20:00 |
S. Wallach |
Big Data Approaches At Convey |
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20:00 – 20:10 |
Concluding Remarks |
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Tuesday, June 26th
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Advances in HPC technology and
systems I |
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9:00
– 9:25 |
S. Sherlekar |
Virtual Appliances for HPC A confluence of Technology, Architectures & Algorithms |
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9:25
– 9:50 |
W. Hu |
Godson Processors and its applications in HPCs |
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9:50
-10:15 |
D. Geldart |
Micro-virtualization for HPC |
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10:15-10:40 |
M. Coppola |
From Multi-Processor System-on-Chip to High
Performance Computing |
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10:40-11:05 |
E. D’Hollander |
Programming and Performance of a combined
GPU/FPGA Super Desktop |
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11:05 – 11:35 |
Coffee Break |
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11:35 – 12:00 |
M. Fatica |
Efficient utilization of computational resources in hybrid clusters |
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12:00 – 12:25 |
J. Kowalik |
Is heterogeneous computing a next mainstream technology in HPC? |
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12:25 – 12:50 |
T. Puzniakoski |
Performance of OpenCL |
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12:50 – 13:00 |
Concluding Remarks |
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Advances in HPC technology and
systems II |
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17:00 – 17:30 |
S. Gorlatch |
A Uniform High-Level Approach to Programming Systems with Many Cores and Multiple GPUs |
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17:30 – 18.00 |
G. Gao |
A Codelet Based Execution Model and Its
Memory Semantics |
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18:00 – 18:30 |
M. Bubak |
Environments for Collaborative Applications on e-Infrastructures |
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18:30 - 19:00 |
Coffee Break |
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19:00 -19:30 |
A. Yonezawa |
Applications on K computer and Advanced Institute of Computational
Science |
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19:30 - 20:00 |
K. Miura |
Open Petascale Libraries (OPL) Project |
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20:00 – 20:10 |
Concluding Remarks |
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Wednesday, June 27th
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Session V |
Software, Architecture and
Strategies for Extreme Scale Computing
I |
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9:00 – 9:30 |
M. Seager |
Future Exascale systems, so what’s different? |
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9:30 – 10:00 |
R. Nair |
Software Implications of New Exascale Technologies |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
T. Sterling |
Achieving Scalability in the
Presence of Asynchrony |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
B. Lucas |
Adiabatic
Quantum Computing |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
S. Dosanjh |
Exascale Design Space Exploration |
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12:00 – 12:30 |
T. Lippert |
The EU Exascale
Project DEEP - Towards a Dynamical Exascale Entry
Platform |
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12:30 – 13:00 |
Y. Lu |
Hybrid system architecture and
application |
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13:00 -13:10 |
Concluding Remarks |
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Session VI |
Software, Architecture and
Strategies for Extreme Scale Computing II |
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16:30 – 17:00 |
W. Tang |
Extreme Scale Computational Science Challenges in
Fusion Energy Research |
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17:00 – 17:30 |
N. Bates |
Achieving the 20MW Target: Energy Efficiency for Exascale |
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17:30 – 18:00 |
Coffee Break |
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18:00 – 20:00 |
PANEL DISCUSSION: Five years into exascale
exploration: what have we learned? Chairman: P. |
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Thursday, June 28th
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Cloud computing technology and systems I |
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V. Getov |
Cloud Adoption Issues:
Interoperability and Security |
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9:25 – 9:50 |
R. Martin |
Qos-Aware Management of Cloud Applications |
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9:50– 10:15 |
J. Vazquez-Poletti |
Automatic IaaS Elasticity
for the PaaS Cloud of the Future |
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10:15 – 10:40 |
O. Kao |
Stratosphere - data management on the cloud |
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10:40 – 11:05 |
D. Talia |
A Cloud Framework for Knowledge Discovery Workflows
on Azure |
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11:05 – 11:35 |
Coffee Break |
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G. Fox |
FutureGrid exploring Next Generation Research and Education |
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12:00 – 12:25 |
P. Kacsuk |
Executing Multi-workflow simulations on a mixed
grid/cloud infrastructure using the SHIWA Technology |
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12:25 – 12:50 |
D. Petcu |
Open-source platform-as-a-service:
requirements and implementation challenges |
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12:50 – 13:00 |
Concluding Remarks |
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Cloud computing technology and
systems II |
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15:45 – 16:10 |
Y. Tanaka |
Building Secure and Transparent Inter-Cloud
Infrastructure for Scientific Applications |
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16:10 – 16:35 |
J. Qiu |
Scientific Data Analysis on Cloud and HPC Platforms |
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16:35 - 17:00 |
A. Goldman |
The suitability of BSP/CGM model for HPC on Clouds |
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17:00-17:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session IX |
BIG DATA and Data-Intensive Computing |
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17.30 – 17:55 |
V. Pascucci |
Big Data Analytics for Science Discovery |
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17:55 – 18:20 |
W. Gentzsch |
EUDAT - European scientists and data centers turn to big data collaboration |
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18:20 – 18:45 |
C. Catlett |
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18:45 – 19:10 |
A. Choudary |
Discovering Knowledge from Massive Social
Networks and Science Data - Next Frontier for HPC |
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19:15 – 20:15 |
PANEL DISCUSSION: Cloud Computing
and Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities Chairmen: C. CATLETT and V. GETOV |
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Friday, June 29th
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Challenging Applications of HPC,
Grids and Clouds |
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G. Tallant |
High Performance Computing Challenges from
an Aerospace Perspective |
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9:25 – 9:50 |
T. David |
Macro-scale phenomena of arterial coupled cells: a Massively Parallel
simulation |
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9:50 – 10:15 |
R. Dror |
Overcoming Communication Latency Barriers in Massively Parallel
Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Anton |
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10:15 – 10:40 |
C. Garcia Garino |
Job scheduling of parametric
computational mechanics studies on cloud computing
infrastructure |
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10:40 – 11:05 |
V. Pascucci |
Multi-Resolution Streams of Big Scientific Data: Scaling Visualization
Tools from Handheld Devices to In-Situ Processing |
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11:05 – 11:35 |
Coffee Break |
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Session XI |
Advanced Infrastructures and
Projects of HPC, Grids and Clouds |
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B. Di Martino |
Portability and Interoperability in Clouds: Agents,
Semantic and Volunteer computing can help - the mOSAIC
and Cloud@Home projects |
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A.Wang |
Smart Sensing for Discovering and Reducing Energy
Wastes in Office Buildings |
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A. Shafarenko |
Project ADVANCE: Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) using
coordination programming based on S-Net. |
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Concluding Remarks |
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Speakers (provisional)
Sponsors (provisional)
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IBM |
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HEWLETT PACKARD |
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MICROSOFT |
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JUELICH SUPERCOMPUTING
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Nvidia Corporation |
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Advance project |
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Amazon Web
Services |
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Free Amazon web Service credits for all HPC
2012 delegates Amazon is very pleased to be able to provide $200
in service credits to all HPC 2012 delegates. Amazon Web Services provides a
collection of scalable high performance and data-intensive computing
services, storage, connectivity and integration tools. From GPUs, to tightly coupled workloads on EC2; from 50k core
scale out systems to map/reduce and Hadoop, utility
computing is a good fit for a variety of HPC workloads. For more information, visit our website: http://aws.amazon.com/hpc |
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Bull |
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The Chain Project |
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Convey Computer |
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Cray Inc. |
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E4 Computer
Engineering |
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ENEA – Italian
National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (t.b.c.) |
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eXludus |
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Fujitsu |
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Loongson |
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National Research
Council of ICAR - Institute
for High Performance Computing and Networks |
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Proceedings
All contributions to the Workshop
are invited original research papers
not previously published. It is planned to publish a selection of papers presented
at the Workshop in a book or in a Proceedings Volume or in a well established
international journal.
Workshop venue, address and
logistics
The workshop will be
held at the Grand Hotel San Michele, a charming Hotel on the Tyrrhenian
coast of
The Hotel is very close
to a seaside fisherman village named Cetraro, near
Information as well
as accommodation and other local arrangements will be handled by the workshop
Secretariat supervised by:
Dr.
Maria Teresa Guaglianone
Università della
Calabria
87036 Rende, Cosenza, Italy
guaglianone @ unical.it
lugran @ unical.it
Participation, deadlines and
guidelines
NO REGISTRATION FEES ARE
REQUIRED FOR PARTICIPANTS OF THE WORKSHOP.
This policy encourages wide Workshop
participation in order to increase awareness of the scientific aspects and
practical benefits of HPC Technology, Grids and Clouds, to facilitate
professional relations and to create technology transfer opportunities.
All contributions to the
Workshop are invited original
research papers not previously published.
Since the number of participants will be limited, AN EARLY APPLICATION IS
RECOMMENDED.
Please
use the Registration form here attached.
Enquiries about the technical programme and applications for participation in the
workshop should be sent to:
HPC Workshop 2012
Prof. Lucio
Grandinetti
Dipartimento Elettronica, Informatica, Sistemistica –
Università della Calabria
87036 Rende - Cosenza - Italy
Phone: +39-3351244747
Fax: +39-984-494847
e-mail: lugran @ unical.it
Local arrangements
Information as well as accommodation,
local transportation and other local arrangements will be handled by the
workshop Secretariat supervised by:
Dr. Maria
Teresa Guaglianone
Università della Calabria
87036 Rende,
guaglianone @ unical.it
Accommodation
Two accommodation types are
available at the workshop’s hotel:
1. Rooms in the main hotel building
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Type of Accommodation |
Price in Euros |
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Single
room |
170,00 |
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Double
room (double occupancy) |
140,00 p.p. |
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Double
room (used as single) |
210,00 |
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Suite
(multiple occupancy) |
190,00 p.p. |
All prices are intended PER
PERSON, PER DAY.
They include accommodation and full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner).
The Hotel’s number of rooms available
is limited. The single rooms are very few.
An early booking is recommended.
2. Rooms in the Hotel annex buildings “maisonnettes”
The “Maisonnettes”
are Hotel annex buildings, located within a green park, at a walking distance
from the main building and the congress center.
The “Maisonnettes”
can accommodate one/two/three/four persons.
This type of accommodation
is particularly suitable for small groups or families.
The price is 110 Euro for
single occupancy and 90 Euro for multiple occupancy.
The price is per person, per day, covering both accommodation and full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner).
The price per person in
a double room (main Hotel building) or in a multiple
occupancy (“Maisonnettes”) refers to workshop
participants.
The case of special
arrangements (e.g. children accommodation, suite accommodation, etc.) is
handled by the Workshop Secretariat.
The number of rooms available is very
limited.
An early booking is recommended.
Hotel reservations will be managed by the Workshop Secretariat (lugran @ unical.it)
Please use the ACCOMMODATION FORM
to specify
the accommodation required.
Local transportation
A pick up service will be provided, free of charge, to those who will
fill in the
Website Updating
The information given in this
website and the relevant links will be updated day by day.
Therefore, the interested people are
invited to visit the site frequently.
The final Programme of the Workshop
edition HPC2010 is still available on the website http://www.hpcc.unical.it/hpc2010 for inspection by those who wish to have a
flavour of the HPC Workshop series structure and style.
In addition, the book mentioned
hereinafter, published on August 2011, is based on a selection of papers
presented at HPC2010:
High
Performance Computing: From Grids and Clouds to Exascale
edited
by Ian Foster, Wolfgang Gentzsch, Lucio
Grandinetti, Gerhard R. Joubert
http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=21402