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PRACEdays17
16 May 2017 - 18 May 2017
More attendees, more parallel sessions at PRACEdays17 – all this was successfully embedded as the central event during the 2nd European HPC Summit Week from 16 May to 18 May 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. The fascinating conference included keynotes about European and international HPC strategy, scientific achievements, and industrial applications of HPC. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) provided as local host an enjoyable environment and an excellent organisation.
PRACEdays17 was for the second time part of the European HPC Summit Week which offered a large number of interesting workshops from different actors in the HPC eco-system. The entire EHPCSW 2017 welcomed more than 350 attendees and 270 of them participated in PRACEdays17: a significant growth rate in attendance.
The plenary sessions at PRACEdays17 provided the audience a wide range of keynote presentations: from the European Commission on the European Data Infrastructure (EDI) to an international speaker from China on Innovation of Intelligent Manufacturing Driven by Cloud HPC. Several parallel sessions covered a diversity of HPC related topics from leading speakers from science and industry.
One of the highlights during the plenary session on Wednesday was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between PRACE, RIST (Japan) and XSEDE (USA). Further details can be found here.
The third day offered the attendees an interesting panel discussion on “Support to HPC code: The gap between scientific code development and exascale technology. The software challenges for extreme scale computing faced by the Community” moderated by Inma Martinez.
An overview of PRACEDays16, details of the awards, presentations and posters presented. as well as videos and picture of the event, can be found using the links below.
I am delighted to see the PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference growing each year. I would like to thank all involved – from organisers to attendees – for their support and contribution to making this a successful fourth edition of PRACEdays. I hope to see you all again in Ljubljana next year!
Serge Bogaerts, Managing Director of PRACE aisbl.
An overview of PRACEDays17, details of the awards, presentations and posters presented. as well as videos and picture of the event, can be found using the links below.
PRACEdays17 Presentations
The following set of presentations were presented during the following sessions of PRACEdays17:
- Tuesday 16 May 2017 – Plenary session (1)
- Tuesday 16 May 2017 – Scientific Parallel Track 1: Materials Science
- Tuesday 16 May 2017 – Scientific Parallel Track 2: Life Science
- Tuesday 16 May 2017 – Scientific Parallel Track 3: Fluid Dynamics
- Tuesday 16 May 2017 – Plenary session (2)
- Tuesday 16 May 2017 – Industrial Parallel Track 1: Spanish Industry
- Tuesday 16 May 2017 – Industrial Parallel Track 2: Industry & Engineering
- Tuesday 16 May 2017 – Industrail Parallel Track 3: European Industry
- Wednesday 17 May 2017 – Plenary session (3)
- Wednesday 17 May 2017 – Scientific Parallel Track 4: Energy & Particle Physics
- Wednesday 17 May 2017 – Scientific Parallel Track 5: Astrophsics
- Wednesday 17 May 2017 – Scientific Parallel Track 6: Climate & Environment
- Thursday 18 May 2017 – Plenary session (4)
This session took place Tuesday 16 May 2017.
Title: Opening of PRACEdays17
Speaker
- Serge Bogaerts, Chair of the PRACEdays17 Organisation and Programme Committee
Title: Vlasiator – Understanding near-Earth space in six dimensions
Speaker
- Minna Palmroth, University of Helsinki
Title: Quantitative supply chain optimization using big-data methodologies in the chemical industry
Speaker
- Telli van der Lei, Senior Scientist Supply Chain and Process Modeling, DSM
Title: Presentation of the upcoming Call for proposals of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom 2017
Speaker
- Leonardo Flores Añover, European Commission
Title: Developing European Technology to Serve the HPC Ecosystem
Speaker
- Jean-Pierre Panziera, ETP4HPC
This session took place Tuesday 16 May 2017.
Title: Bioinspired surfaces for robust submerged superhydrophobicity: Insights from molecular dynamics
Speaker
- Alberto Giacomello, Sapienza University of Rome
Title: Optimized Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Algorithms for modelling the self-organization of two classes of materials: Semifluorinated alkanes and semiconducting polymers based on thiophenes
Speaker
- Flora Tsourtou, University of Patras
This session took place Tuesday 16 May 2017.
Title: A multiscale model of chromatin at bp-level
Speaker
- Jürgen Walther, Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona
Title: Rapid, accurate, precise and reliable relative free energy prediction using ensemble based thermodynamic integration
Speaker
- Agasthya Bathi, University College London
Title: PCJ-BLAST – massively parallel sequence alignment using NCBI Blast and PCJ Java library
Speaker
- Bala Piotr, University of Warsaw
This session took place Tuesday 16 May 2017.
Title: Climate change mitigation: Prediction of CO2 dissolution in geological reservoirs
Speaker
- Marco de Paoli, Vienna University of Technology
Title: Large Scale Simulations of Cloud Cavitation Collapse
Speaker
- Ursula Rasthofer, ETH Zurich
Title: Viscosity-modulated breakup and coalescence of large drops in bounded turbulence
Speaker
- Alessio Roccon, TU Wien
This session took place Tuesday 16 May 2017.
Title: Future GEANT network plans in Europe
Speaker
- Mark Johnston, Chief Operations Officer GÉANT
Title: Nonlinear electromagnetic stabilization of ITG microturbulence by ICRF-driven fast ions in ASDEX Upgrade
Speaker
- Felipe Nathan de Oliveira, BSC
This session took place Tuesday 16 May 2017.
Title: Vortex Bladeless: A new way to harvest wind energy
Speaker
- José Viyeira, Vortex Bladeless
This session took place Tuesday 16 May 2017.
- Richard Graham, Mellanox
Title: FTL Systems’ Commercial ExaScale Systems Designed & Manufactured in Europe
Speaker
- Willis John, FTL Systems
This session took place Tuesday 16 May 2017.
Title: FORTISSIMO and SHAPE: Helping SMEs access HPC
Speaker
- Paul Graham, EPCC, Fortissimo
Title: SesameNET Project
Speaker
- Tomi Ilijas, ARCTUR, Coordinator of SESAMENet Project
This session took place Wednesday 17 May 2017.
Title: Innovation of Intelligent Manufacturing Driven by Cloud HPC
Speaker
- Xue-Feng Yuan, Director Institute for Systems Rheology, ISR School of Engineering Science for Intelligent Manufacturing, P.R. China
Title: Modeling of catalysts with industrial applications
Speaker
- Lopez Nuria, Group Leader, Institute of Chemical research of Catalonia, ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain
This session took place Wednesday 17 May 2017.
Title: High Performance Computing for Non-linear MHD Simulations of Pellet Triggered ELMs in Fusion Devices
Speaker
- Shimpei Futatani, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Title: Design and optimization of a portable Lattice QCD Monte Carlo code for heterogeneous HPC architectures, using OpenACC
Speaker
- Enrico Calore, INFN and University of Ferrara
This session took place Wednesday 17 May 2017.
Title: Multi-scale reionization
Speaker
- Iliev Ilian, University of Sussex
Title: State-of-the-art hybrid simulations of plasma turbulence in support of solar and heliospheric space missions
Speaker
- Luca Franci, University of Florence
This session took place Wednesday 17 May 2017.
Title: Multifractal and Dynamic Topology of the Ocean Surface
Speaker
- José Manuel Redondo, UPC Barcelona
Title: Software stack deployment for Earth System Modelling using SPACK
Speaker
- Kim Serradell Marondo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Title: Mixing due to large amplitude internal waves and convection
Speaker
- Sibgatullin Ilias, Moscow State University
Title: How to recruit and retain women in the PRACE HPC community
Speaker
- Toni Collis, EPCC
This session took place Thursday 18 May 2017.
Poster Title: Nonlinear electromagnetic stabilization of ITG microturbulence by ICRF-driven fast ions in ASDEX Upgrade
Poster Authors
- Felipe Nathan, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Poster Title: DNS of Gravity-Driven Bubbly Flows
Poster Authors
- Néstor Balcázar, Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center, CTTC Technical University of Catalonia, UPC
- Jesús Castro, Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center, CTTC Technical University of Catalonia, UPC
- Joaquim Rigola, Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center, CTTC Technical University of Catalonia, UPC
- Assensi Oliva, Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center, CTTC Technical University of Catalonia, UPC
Poster Title: POP: A Transversal HPC Centre of Excellence in Performance Optimisation and Productivity
Poster Authors
- Sally Bridgwater, Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd, Oxford, UK
- Nick Dingle, Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd, Oxford, UK
- Edward Smyth, Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd, Oxford, UK
- Gina Alioto, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Poster Title: ECOSCALE Project: Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous COmputing at exaSCALE
Poster Authors
- Telecommunication Systems Institute, Queen’s University Belfast
Poster Title: Microscopic dynamics and topology of polymer rings immersed in a host matrix of longer linear polymers: Results from a detailed molecular dynamics simulation study and comparison with experimental data
Poster Authors
- Dimitrios G. Tsalikisa, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras & FORTH/ICE-HT
- Vlasis G. Mavrantzasa, Particle Technology Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Poster Title: High Performance Computing: An appealing solution for assessing radionuclide transport in fractured media at a grain-pore scale
Poster Authors
- H. Ebrahimi, Amphos 21 Spain
- P. Trinchero, Amphos 21 Spain
- J. Molinero, Amphos 21 Spain
- G. Deissmann, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
- U. Svensson, Computer-aided Fluid Engineering AB, Sweden
- B. Gylling, Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB, SKB, Sweden
- D. Bosbach, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
- I. Puigdomenech, Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB, SKB, Sweden
Poster Title: Studying of statistical parameters for turbulent wake of a single wind turbine
Poster Authors
- Jackson Tellez-Alvarez, FLUMEN Research Institute
- Sergei Strijhak, Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ISPRAS
- José Manuel Redondo, Applied Physics Dept., UPC Barcelona Tech.
Poster Title: Finite size effects on the dynamics in simulations of lipid membranes
Poster Authors
- Martin Vögele, Department of Theoretical Biophysics, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main
- Gerhard Hummer, Department of Theoretical Biophysics, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main
Poster Title: Towards Embedded GPUs in HPC: A “green” counterpart of server GPUs or something more?
Poster Authors
- Matina Maria Trompouki, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Technical University of Catalonia
- Leonidas Kosmidis, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Technical University of Catalonia
Poster Title: Main Memory Provisioning for High-Performance Computing
Poster Authors
- Darko Zivanovic, Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Departament d’Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Petar Radojković, Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Departament d’Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Eduard Ayguadé, Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Departament d’Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Poster Title: Development of a New Deterministic Neutron Transport Code for Fusion Applications
Poster Authors
- Carles Riera-Auge, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ICREA
- Albert Gutierrez-Milla, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ICREA
- Mervi Mantsinen, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ICREA
