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PRACEdays18
A dynamic PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference (PRACEdays) was again part of the European HPC Summit Week (EHPCSW) which took place from 28 May to 1 June 2018 at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference week was packed with fascinating keynote speakers from academia, industry, and government.
The European HPC Summit Week 2018 – PRACEdays18 welcomed 343 attendees from academia and industry. The University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (PRACE Member and local host) created a pleasant conference environment and provided excellent logistical support.
The plenary sessions offered a range of scientific achievements and industrial applications of HPC, as well as European and international HPC strategy. Parallel workshops were held throughout the week in the frame of the PRACEdays18 as well as the ones organized by other HPC initiatives.
This year PRACEdays18 offered an intensive industrial track including a number of talks by awardees of PRACE SHAPE programme, showing their results.
At PRACEdays18, we heard how Invent Medical, supported by the SHAPE programme, used HPC for the first time to design 3D printed cranial remodelling helmets for babies from 3-12 months old; an inspiring story of how PRACE is helping the most vulnerable in society,
Dr Lee Margetts, Chair of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC).
Under the title “CoEs and HLSTs – What problems can they solve for me?” a panel discussion took place on Thursday between users and representatives of Centres of Excellent and High Level Support Teams.
At the traditional PRACE award ceremony,Sinéad Ryan, Chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), was delighted to present the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC to Xiaoxiang Zhu, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.
The PRACE Award for Best Scientific Presentation was given to Vincent Moureau, CORIA CNRS-UMR6614, Normandie Université, INSA et Université de Rouen, France for his presentation “HPC for the simulation of turbulent combustion in aeronautical engines”.
Hands-on training workshops for students were organised by the local host were a novelty on this year’s programme
Recordings of the User Forum Open Session “PRACE Peer Review Process – How to write a good proposal” and the Panel Discussion “CoEs and HLSTs – What problems can they solve for me?” were live-streamed, can be watched below.
PRACEdays offers a great opportunity to hear about the European HPC strategy and the scientific and industrial applications it enables. The conference continues to build its scientific programme and increase its visibility in the scientific communities, and to demonstrate the strength of European scientific computing.
Sinéad Ryan, Trinity College Dublin, Chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee.
An overview of PRACEDays18, details of the awards, presentations presented. pracedays18 media coverage, as well as videos and picture of the event, can be found using the links below.
Please read the PRACEdays18 Executive Summary to get the flavor of this interesting and inspiring conference.
PRACEdays18 Presentations
The following set of presentations were presented during PRACEdays18:
- Tuesday 29 May 2018 – Plenary session (1)
- Tuesday 29 May 2018 – Parallel Sessions: Industrial Track
- Tuesday 29 May 2018 – Parallel Sessions: CFD & Engineering
- Tuesday 29 May 2018 – Parallel Sessions: Materials & Chemistry
- Tuesday 29 May 2018 – Parallel Sessions: Life Sciences & Chemistry
- Tuesday 29 May 2018 – Parallel Sessions: Plasma & Energy
- Tuesday 29 May 2018 – Parallel Sessions: Astro & Particle
- Wednesday 30 May 2018 – Plenary session (2)
- Thursday 31 May 2018 – Plenary session (3)
This session took place Tuesday 29 May 2018.
Title: The upcoming Call for proposals of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom 2018
Speaker
- Leonardo Flores
This session took place Tuesday 29 May 2018.
Title: DNS of interfacial heat and mass transfer in bubble swarms
Speaker
- Néstor Balcázar
Title: Supercomputing for Everyone: Meeting the Growing Needs of Businesses
Speaker
- Romain Klein
Title: Virtual Prototyping in Development Cycle of 3D Printed Cranial Orthoses
Speaker
- Tomas Karasek
Title: Optimising 2D simulations for faster, better steam turbine design
Speaker
- Nicolas Tonello
Title: CFD software verification on an electric airplane utilizing HPC
Speaker
- Matej Andrejasic
Title: Performance Optimisation of HPCHPC the new normal: from HPC to HPEC
Speaker
- Roberto Siagri
This session took place Tuesday 29 May 2018.
Title: A Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm for sampling extreme events in turbulence and stochastic models
Speaker
- Georgios Margazoglou
Title: HPC for the simulation of turbulent combustion in aeronautical engines
Speaker
- Vincent Moreau
This session took place Tuesday 29 May 2018.
Title: Construction and relaxation of metallic heterointerfaces including point defects for DFT simulations
Speaker
- Roberto Iglesias
This session took place Tuesday 29 May 2018.
- Csaba Hetenyi
This session took place Tuesday 29 May 2018.
Title: High Performance Computing of Non-linear MHD Simulations for Fusion Plasmas
Speaker
- Shimpei Futatani
- Jeronimo Garcia
This session took place Tuesday 29 May 2018.
Title: Multi-scale reionization: the physics of the first billion years of the Universe
Speaker
- Ilian Iliev
Title: Gravitational waves from early universe phase transitions
Speaker
- David Weir
This session took place Wednesday 30 May 2018.
Title: Building a world-class national high performance e-infrastructure for Australian research and innovation
Speaker
- Alan Williams
This session took place Thursday 31 May 2018.
PRACEdays18 Media Coverage
The European HPC Summit Week and PRACEdays18 was well covered by different medias. Please follow the links and read the stories.
HPCwire
- European HPC Summit Week and PRACEdays 2018: Slaying Dragons and SHAPEing Futures One SME at a Time
- PRACEdays18 Keynote Allan Williams (Australia/NCI): We’re Open for Business Down Under!
- Xiaoxiang Zhu Receives the 2018 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
ScienceNode
- The woman who maps the world – Interview with Prof Zhu winner of the 2018 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
- What if you could sleep on sugar? – Interview with Chemist Béla Fiser of the University of Miskolc, speaker at PRACEdays18
- Double trouble. What happens when two neutron stars collide? – Interview with Luciano Rezzolla of Goethe University, keynote speaker at PRACEdays18
- What can you do with a micromachine? – Interview with Marisol Ripoll, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, keynote speaker at PRACEdays18
PRACEdays18 Videos
The User Forum Open Session and Panel Discussion videos can be found here.
For further PRACEdays18 videos go here.
Video of the User Forum Open Session “PRACE Peer Review Process – How to write a good proposal” which took place on Wednesday 30 May (11:45 – 13:00 CEST).
Video of the Panel Discussion “CoEs and HLSTs – What problems can they solve for me?” which took place on Thursday 31 May (11:00 – 12:20 CEST).
