ETP4HPC co-organises Bird-of-a-Feather session on European HPC Technology at SC15

ETP4HPC will be present at SC15. In addition to many of its members being exhibitors, ETP4HPC is co-organiser of a BOF on Exascale challenges : Key Lessons and International Collaboration Opportunities Delivered by European Cutting-Edge HPC Initiatives.

SC15 BOF
Date: Thu Nov 19

Time: 3:30pm-5pm

Room: 13A
The established EU-funded Exascale projects and initiatives (CRESTA, DEEP/DEEP-ER, MontBlanc, NUMEXAS, EXA2CT, EPiGRAM and NESUS) will present their status, lessons learnt and potential cross-region synergies.
In addition, the long-term EU effort to develop, produce and exploit Exascale platforms continues with 19 projects within the first part of the Horizon 2020 programme addressing: HPC core technologies and architectures, programming methodologies, languages and tools, APIs and system software, new mathematical and algorithmic approaches.
A European status update will be presented with an emphasis on international collaboration opportunities and mechanisms needed to integrate different approaches, both in hardware and software.

BOF Structure
1. An overview of the European HPC Technology landscape (both FP7 and H2020 alike)
Jean-François Lavignon, ETP4HPC Chairman and Atos
15 min

2. Presentation of the HPC technology areas the projects are targeting, with an emphasis on their international collaboration potential
30 min

Area 1
Compute
Interconnect
Filippo Mantovani – BSC, Mont-Blanc project Technical Co-ordinator

Area 2
Memory and storage
Data intensive real-time
Prof. Jesus Carretero, Computer Architecture Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Dep. University Carlos III of Madrid

Area 3
Programming tools
Mathematics
Algorithms
Stefano Markidis, Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
3. Panel discussion – International Collaboration Opportunities arising
Discussion Moderator: Sai Narasimhamurthy – Seagate, Staff Engineer, Research
Mitsuhisa Sato – Co-project leader of Post-K.
45 min

A European HPC Technology Project Handbook detailing all the projects will be available.

Note taking: Sabrina Eisenreich and Jean-Philippe Nomine (a report will be produced post-event)