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01.01.13 - 31.12.13 ALL TRAINING COURSES 2013

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0100

Abstract: HLRS together with other HPC centers provide a strong training program in HPC. Topics are message passing with MPI, shared memory parallelization with OpenMP, PGAS languages UPC and CAF, GPU programming, scientific programming in Fortran, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), interative solvers and parallelization, optimization on specific platforms, etc. Details and Registration, see here: All HLRS Courses 2013

2013

Parallel Programming Workshop, MPI and OpenMP (Feb. 4-7 , 2013) (ZIH, Dresden)
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (Feb. 18-22, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart)
Fortran for Scientific Computing (Mar. 4-8, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization (Mar. 11-15, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart)
Cray XE6 Optimization Workshop (Apr. 16-19, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
GPU Programming using CUDA (Apr. 24-26, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
OpenACC Programming for Parallel Accelerated Supercomputers (Apr. 29-30, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF) (May 2-3, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Parallel Programming Workshop, MPI and OpenMP (July 29-31, 2013) (RZ TUHH, Hamburg)
Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization (Sep. 2-6, 2013) (LRZ, Garching)
Parallel Programming Workshop (MPI, OpenMP and advanced topics) (Sep. 23-27, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Cray XE6 Optimization Workshop (Oct. 28-31, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF) (Nov. 4-5, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart)
GPU Programming using CUDA (Nov. 6-8, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart)
Parallel Programming Workshop, MPI and OpenMP (Nov. 25-27, 2013) (JSC, Jülich)
Fortran for Scientific Computing (Dec. 2-6, 2013) (HLRS, Stuttgart)

A list of all HLRS training (including also external HLRS courses) and links to other course-providers (GCS and PRACE) can be found here.

Happy Anniversary, Hermit!

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:04:00 +0200

One year after its official inauguration, HLRS supercomputer Hermit is firmly established in the world of industrial supercomputing: to date Hermit - a Cray XE6 system with 113,664 processor cores - still holds the title as the world’s fastest supercomputer for use in industrial research (TOP500 11/2012, sub-list Industry). Please see here for the complete story

Formula 1 in Schools

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:54:00 +0200

The HLRS sponsored "Panternight-Racing" Team won the constructors championship and an overall third place at the German national championship with their CO² propelled model size Formula 1 car. They therby earned a ticket to Austin, Texas where they will participate in this year's world finals. The team consists of three scholars, Felix Harst, Leo Sandrisser und Luise Hart from the “Mönchsee-Gymnasium”, Heilbronn. Goal of the project is to design, optimize and manufacture a model size Formula 1 car, See Formula1 in schools. They simulated the aerodynamics of their racing car on HLRS supercomputers and analyzed the simulation result in the “CAVE”, a 3D virtual environment, using the visualization software COVISE. Image courtesy of Formel 1 in der Schule gGmbH

Belebende Farbsinfonie - Filder Zeitung 25.04.2013

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:16:00 +0200

Girls' Day 2013

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:36:00 +0200

The IHR and HLRS have introduced one of the world's fastest supercomputers to 16 girls at the age of 14 to 16 years. The girls gained insight in several areas in which simulations are used today and have seen how virtual environments support the engineers' work. They met a ride in our Porsche simulator and went on a modeling and animation software program to setup own applications. For further information please visit the Girls' Day Website

Scientists Compute Expansion of the Compound Catalog

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:21:00 +0200

Cemical processes help create everything from plastic containers to antifreeze to fertilizers. Many products and materials humanity uses daily come from a field only around 100 years old. Through the last century, chemical companies pushing the boundaries of science have often had to play a sometimes hazardous game of trial and error with their compounds. Using Hermit, researchers aim to help not only make the fundamentals of chemical processes safer and more predictable. Please click here for the complete story.

12th HLRS/hww Workshop on Scalable Global Parallel File Systems

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:52:00 +0100

The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, HLRS,

and the Höchstleistungsrechner für Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft mbH, hww,

are organizing the three-day

12th HLRS/hww Workshop on Scalable Global Parallel File Systems

"Storing the Future"

at HLRS.

This workshop will be joined by the

High Performance Networking Forum (HNF) Europe Spring Meeting 2013.

The workshop is to take place in Stuttgart, Germany, on

Monday - Wednesday, March 18 - 20, 2013.

This year's workshop will try and present the major issues and developments associated with the convergence of fabrics, protocols, systems and applications in the computing center, enabling a rich portfolio of distributed storage solutions. Focus this year is on

"Storing the Future"

which means handling future amounts of data in the most efficient and

economic way but considering the boundary conditions of security, safety,

performance, access methods, availability and other negotiated and confirmed service levels.

On Tuesday night, we plan for a joyful Reception and Dinner after visiting one of Stuttgart’s most interesting places. Admission to the workshop is free, as are the meals at the conference site. Depending on our overall sponsoring situation, we might need to ask for a small cost contribution for the dinner invitation.

Further information and registration can be found at the workshop homepage.

Vacancy Scientific Employee

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:15:00 +0100

We are seeking applications for a vacancy in the research group Scalable Programming Models and Tools. As a member of the group you will be working in international research projects on topics such as new concepts for parallel programming tools and concurrent runtime systems. The position is suitable for PhD thesis work. The contract will be issued in accordance with the regulations of the Hochschulrahmengesetz (HRG) and will be issued on a yearly basis.

Your profile

A prerequisite is a university degree (master/diploma) in a natural science, engineering, mathematics or computer science. Important criteria for the position are:

Ability to conduct independent, scientific work
Expertise in C, C++ or Fortran90
Expertise in parallel programming and interest in high-performance computing

Additional relevant skills for the position are:

Expertise in mathematical graph-theory
Experience with MPI one-sided communication

A good command of English, the ability to work in a team and the readiness to travel is expected.

Your Application

Please send your application, with the subject "HLRS_01_2013", by January 20th, 2013, to:
bewerbungen[at]hlrs.de Alternatively, you can send the application to:
Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart
c/o Agnes Lampke
Nobelstraße 19
70569 Stuttgart

01.01.12 - 31.12.12 ALL TRAINING COURSES 2012

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:59:00 +0100

Abstract: HLRS together with other HPC centers provide a strong traing program in HPC. Topics are message passing with MPI, shared memory parallelization with OpenMP, PGAS languages UPC and CAF, GPU programming, scientific programming in Fortran, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), interative solvers and parallelization, optimization on specific platforms, etc. Details and Registration, see here: All HLRS Courses 2012

2012

Parallel Programming Workshop, MPI and OpenMP (February 13-16, 2012) (ZIH, Dresden)
Fortran for Scientific Computing (Mar. 5-9, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization (Mar 12-16, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart)
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (Mar. 26-30, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart)
Cray XE6 Optimization Workshop (Apr. 2-5, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
OpenACC Programming for Parallel Accelerated Supercomputers (May 14-15, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Fortran for Scientific Computing (June 25-29, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart)
GPU Programming using CUDA (July 2-4, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF) (July 5-6, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Parallel Programming Workshop, MPI and OpenMP (Jul.30-Aug.1, 2012) (RZ TUHH, Hamburg)
Message Passing Interface (MPI) for beginners (Sep. 3-4, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Shared memory parallelization with OpenMP (Sep. 5, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Advanced topics in parallel programming (Sep. 6-7, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization (Sep. 10-14, 2012) (LRZ, Garching)
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (Sep. 17-21, 2012) (GRS-SIM, RWTH Aachen)
Cray XE6 Optimization Workshop (Nov. 5-8, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart) [in English]
Parallel Programming Workshop, MPI and OpenMP (Nov. 26-28, 2012) (JSC, Jülich)
GPU Programming using CUDA (Dec. 10-12, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart)
Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF) (Dec. 13-14, 2012) (HLRS, Stuttgart)

A list of all HLRS training (including also external HLRS courses) and links to other course-providers (GCS and PRACE) can be found here.

HLRS Participates in European Initiative to Bridge Clouds

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:48:00 +0100

Together with 13 European partners, HLRS has launched a major research initiative called PaaSage in order to develop an open and integrated platform to support model based lifecycle management of Cloud applications. PaaSage is coordinated by ERCIM, the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics. As of today, Cloud solutions are still insufficient and in particular require a high level of expertise on the part of the developer and the provider to properly exploit the capabilities offered by Cloud technologies. Cloud infrastructures are not standardized and porting an existing application to a Cloud platform is still a very challenging task, leading to a strong interdependence between the client application and the Cloud platform. Developing once and deploying on many Clouds is not a viable proposition as things stand. This is the challenge that the PaaSage consortium will address. PaaSage will deliver an open and integrated platform to support both design and deployment of Cloud applications, together with an accompanying methodology that allows model-based development, configuration, optimisation, and deployment of existing and new applications independently of the existing underlying Cloud infrastructures. “PaaSage will provide the relevant means to significantly improve programmability, usability and performance of Clouds beyond current state of the art approaches”, says Keith G Jeffery, scientific coordinator of the project. “We have to admit that European industry is lagging behind in business creation and development on basis of Cloud computing technologies”, adds Pierre Guisset, project coordinator, “Our objective with PaaSage is to develop the tools that will enable European small and large businesses to take a leading position in exploiting Clouds”. Lutz Schubert, PaaSage project manager at HLRS, explains: “Typically a business will be developing its in-house server cluster to an in-house Cloud to obtain benefits of elasticity and eco-friendliness. However, when elasticity needs to extend beyond the in-house environment to a public cloud there are interoperability problems and provider proprietary solution constraints. These will be overcome by PaaSage”. About PaaSage PaaSage is a collaborative research project co-funded under the ICT theme of the 7th framework programme (FP7) of the European Union. The total investment amounts €8.4m of which €6.3m is funded by the European Union. In particular, PaaSage addresses the findings highlighted by the Commission’s Cloud Computing Expert Working Group (for further information, please see here). About ERCIM GEIE ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative initiatives within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading European research institutes are members of ERCIM. ERCIM is based in Sophia Antipolis, France. About HLRS The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) of University Stuttgart is one of the three German supercomputer institutions forming the national Gauss Centre for Supercomputing. HLRS supports German and pan-European researchers as well as industrial users with leading edge supercomputing technology. HLRS’s HPC system Hermit is the No. 1 supercomputer world-wide used for industrial science and research activities (TOP500, Nov. 2012, sub-list “industry”). For more information http://www.paasage.eu/ http://www.ercim.eu/

Pierre Guisset	+32 4 9686 9019	pierre.guisset@ercim.eu
Tom Williamson	+33 4 9238 5072	tom.williamson@ercim.eu
Keith G Jeffery	+44 1235 44 6103	keith.jeffery@stfc.ac.uk
Michael M. Resch	+49 711 685-87269	resch@hlrs.de