Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2024 – ASHPC24

10 Jun 2024, 14:00 → 13 Jun 2024, 14:00 Europe/Vienna

Eugenia-Schwarzwald-Saal (Seeblickhotel Grundlsee, Austria)

  

 

Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2024 – ASHPC24

ASHPC24 will take place at the Seeblickhotel Grundlsee in Austria, 10–13 June 2024, it will start with a welcome dinner on 10 June 2024, the conference program will start at 09:00 on 11 June 2024.

ASHPC24 will continue the tradition of the annual Austrian HPC Meetings, held 2015–2020, and the Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meetings, held 2021–2023: Bringing together scientists and technicians with a background and interest in supercomputing. ASHPC24 focuses on various aspects of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and provides a great opportunity to discuss HPC-related topics and present your latest results. It will also provide an overview and update on the rapidly improving HPC landscape available to European researchers.

Central European NCCs Workgroup Meeting – CE-NCCs-WG, 10 June 2024

On Monday, 10 June 2024, in the afternoon preceding ASHPC24, there will be a Central European NCCs Workgroup Meeting (for NCC / EuroCC 2 staff only) where the National Competence Centres (NCCs) address their most challenging topics and further regional collaboration.      
 

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Scholarship for Students:

For the first time we offer scholarships for students of 200 €.      
For more information please see at the Call for Abstracts and in the Registration form or contact us.
Application deadline for the scholarships (abstract, enrolment confirmation, motivation letter, registration) is 23 January 2024 and notification about acceptance will be sent out by 20 February 2024.

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ASHPC24 – Booklet of Abstracts

                           DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.463

                           ISBN: 978-3-200-09645-5

                           (EuroCC Austria, c/o Universität Wien)

ASHPC24 – Program

ASHPC24 – Slides & Gallery

                           (restricted access – login for ASHPC24 participants only)

ASHPC24 – Photos for download (.zip, 1.5GB)

                           (restricted access – login for ASHPC24 participants only)           
 

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Monday 10 June

14:00 → 14:30 Get Together & Coffee Break – CE-NCCs-WG (for NCC / EuroCC 2 staff only)

14:30 → 18:30 Central European NCCs Workgroup Meeting (for NCC / EuroCC 2 staff only; + second (breakout) room)

14:30 CE-NCCs-WG Plenary

15:20 Break

15:30 Pimp my LinkedIn Profile – Workshop

Internal workshop for the EuroCC community (online participation possible for all NCCs).

Target audience: Everyone interested in best practices of a professional-looking LinkedIn page.
Will be useful for the communications/dissemination tasks, industry tasks, experts, trainers,
and everyone who is on LinkedIn and wants to improve and optimise personal pages.

1. Business page
• Page fundamentals and best practices (description, banner, call to action, highlight posts).
• Before / after (we'll look at examples of several pages and see how we can improve them).

2. Personal page
• Tips for creating a professional LinkedIn profile with examples.
• Highly recommended for those who do not work in marketing/communications.

Speaker: Natascha Trzepizur (Content Creator, Content Strategist, Social Media & Content Marketing Manager at INiTS – Vienna's High-Tech Incubator)

16:45 Break

17:00 AI Focus

18:30 → 19:00 ASHPC24 Registration

19:00 → 20:30 ASHPC24 Welcome Dinner

20:30 → 22:00 Welcome Reception for ASHPC24 participants, accompanying persons, and our esteemed guests

Convener: Bettina Benesch (University of Vienna and EuroCC Austria)

20:30 10 Years of A(S)HPC Meetings

Speakers: Alexander Ostermann, Claudia Blaas-Schenner

20:45 Inauguration of Austria's new supercomputer “VSCrunchy”

Speakers: Martin Pfister, Simeon Harrison

20:55 "VSCrunchy" Guided Tours & Let's Celebrate Together!

Speakers: all ASHPC24 participants, accompanying persons, and our esteemed guests

Tuesday 11 June

07:30 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 09:00 ASHPC24 Registration

09:00 → 09:15 WELCOME

Convener: Claudia Blaas-Schenner (VSC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria)

09:00 Welcome by the Program Chair

Speaker: Matej Praprotnik (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)

09:07 Welcome by the Organizing Chair

Speaker: Eduard Reiter (Research Area Scientific Computing, University of Innsbruck, Austria)

09:15 → 10:30 ASHPC24 Session 1

Convener: Markus Oppel (Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria)

09:15 KEYNOTE: ParityOS – The operating system for quantum computers

Speaker: Roeland ter Hoeven (ParityQC and University of Innsbruck, Austria)

10:00 Solving the Stable Set problem by D-Wave Quantum Annealer

Speaker: Janez Povh (Rudolfovo Institute and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

10:15 Parallelized Implementation of the Coupled-Trajectory Tully Surface Hopping (CT-TSH) Method for Efficient Molecular Simulations

Speaker: Eduarda Sangiogo Gil (Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:15 ASHPC24 Session 2

Convener: Christoph Dellago (University of Vienna, Austria)

11:00 Beyond LLMs: Small is the new Large – Towards Pipelines of Modular Models – Implications for HPC Systems and Deployments

Speaker: Endri Deliu (University of Vienna and EuroCC Austria, Austria)

11:15 Innovation in business: HPC as an opportunity for SMEs

Speaker: Tina Črnigoj Marc (Arctur d.o.o., Slovenia)

11:30 EXCELLERAT CoE: The European Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications

Speakers: Matic Brank (LECAD, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Tina Črnigoj Marc (Arctur d.o.o., Slovenia)

11:45 HPC and DHInfra

Speaker: Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner (University of Graz, Austria)

12:00 Croatian National Advanced Computing Resources Supek and Vrančić

Speaker: Jurica Špoljar (University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb, Croatia)

12:15 → 12:30 Break

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 ASHPC24 Session 3

Convener: Andreas Rauber (VSC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria)

14:00 KEYNOTE: AI and HPC: Paving the Way for Europe’s Digital Future

Speaker: Jeanette Nilsson (Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Sweden)

14:45 Live resource management in HPC applications: Resilient hybrid computing in IMS’ MBMW processing pipeline

Speaker: David Pfahler (IMS Nanofabrication GmbH, Brunn am Gebirge, Austria)

14:55 Enhancing Computational Throughput in Multi-Beam Mask Writing: Leveraging Celery as a Distributed Task Queue on Heterogeneous Clusters

Speaker: Paul Heistracher (IMS Nanofabrication GmbH, Brunn am Gebirge, Austria)

15:05 High-throughput image processing in multi-beam mask writing

Speaker: Martin Jurkovič (IMS Nanofabrication GmbH, Brunn am Gebirge, Austria)

15:15 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:15 ASHPC24 Session 4

Convener: Barbara Krašovec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

16:00 Leonardo’s Role in the Pre-exascale Era

Speaker: Moreno Guernelli (Cineca – HPC Department, Italy)

16:15 Development and supporting activities on EuroHPC Vega

Speaker: Teo Prica (IZUM – Institute of Information Science, Slovenia)

16:30 Software containers in HPC

Speaker: Dejan Lesjak (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

16:45 Overcoming challenges in building scientific software for HPC

Speaker: Alja Prah (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

17:00 Lessons learned/experience from the battlefield: HPC user support

Speaker: Violeta Šikaleska and Samo Lorenčič (IZUM – Institute of Information Science, Slovenia)

17:15 → 19:00 ASHPC24 Poster Session 1

Convener: Claudia Blaas-Schenner (VSC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria)

17:15 POSTER LIGHTNING TALKS

17:35 POSTER SESSION (posters see above at lightning talks)

19:00 → 19:30 Break

19:30 → 21:00 Dinner

Wednesday 12 June

07:30 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:30 ASHPC24 Session 5

Convener: Janez Povh (Rudolfovo Institute and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

09:00 KEYNOTE: Building large language models: HPC users’ perspective

Speaker: Marko Robnik-Šikonja (Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

09:45 Randomised Optimisation Algorithms in DAPHNE

Speaker: Aleš Zamuda (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia)

10:00 Evolutionary Implications of Multi-Scale Intelligence

Speaker: Benedikt Hartl (Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien, Austria)

10:15 Zettaflops Computing: Why, when, and how?

Speaker: Draško Tomić (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:15 ASHPC24 Session 6

Convener: Aleš Zamuda (University of Maribor)

11:00 Beyond Benchmarks: Comparing Parallel Programming Models in Real-World Scenarios

Speaker: Philipp Gschwandtner (Research Center HPC, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria)

11:15 Transparently Scaling Applications to Multiple GPUs with Celerity

Speaker: Peter Thoman (Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria)

11:30 Optimising routines with sparse matrices on FPGA devices

Speaker: Ratko Pilipović (Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

11:45 What You Always Wanted To Know About C++ Performance Portability (But Were Afraid to Do)

Speaker: Ruben Laso (Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Austria)

12:00 Performance and Portability Assessment of CUDA and SYCL for Particle-in-Cell codes on different GPUs

Speaker: Ivona Vasileska (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

12:15 → 12:30 Break

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 ASHPC24 Session 7

Convener: Alexander Ostermann (Research Area Scientific Computing, University of Innsbruck, Austria)

14:00 KEYNOTE: Advancements, prospects, and challenges in weather and climate prediction: the rise of machine learning

Speaker: Irene Schicker (GeoSphere Austria, Austria)

14:45 iCONtainer: climate and weather simulations with ICON in a singularity container

Speaker: Aiko Voigt (Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Austria)

15:00 Enabling Global Flood Monitoring with SAR Datacubes and the Vienna Scientific Cluster

Speaker: Mark Edwin Tupas (Remote Sensing Research Group, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Austria and Department of Geodetic Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines)

15:15 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:15 ASHPC24 Session 8

Convener: Ernst Haunschmid (VSC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria)

16:00 MUSICA (MUlti-SIte Computer Austria)

Speaker: Elias Wimmer (VSC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria)

16:15 Cython vs. Numba vs. Mojo: A Comparison of Different Approaches to speedup Python Language Execution

Speaker: Benjamin Hackl (Department of Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz, Austria)

16:30 How much memory per CPU core is requested?

Speaker: Alois Schlögl (Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg, Austria)

16:45 Automating Access to OpenID Connect Services from Linux Systems

Speaker: Wiktor Nastał (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland)

17:00 Accelerating Fortran Codes: Merging Intel Coarray Fortran with CUDA and OpenMP

Speaker: James E. McKevitt (Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Austria)

17:15 → 19:00 ASHPC24 Poster Session 2 (same posters as in Poster Session 1, see Tuesday, 11 June 2024))

Convener: Claudia Blaas-Schenner (VSC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria)

17:15 → 19:00 VSC Feedback Session & Discussion

The VSC Team will be available to discuss with the users what they like or dislike with VSC operations and about future systems.

Convener: VSC Team (VSC Research Center, TU Wien)

19:00 → 19:30 Break

19:30 → 21:00 Dinner

Thursday 13 June

07:30 → 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 → 10:30 ASHPC24 Session 9

Convener: Matej Praprotnik (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)

09:00 KEYNOTE: Cell Detection for the 2020s – Computational Pathology and HPC Perspective

Speaker: Dejan Štepec (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Slovenia)

09:45 Implicit Solvation Machine Learning Model for Molecular Simulations of Ionic Media

Speaker: Amaury Coste (Laboratory for Molecular Modeling, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)

10:00 OpenFOAM CFD simulation performance and scalability analysis

Speaker: Kirils Surovovs (Institute of Numerical Modelling, University of Latvia, Latvia)

10:15 Accounting and efficient use of GPUs in a slurm based HPC cluster

Speaker: Thomas Rattei (Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna and Life Science Compute Cluster, University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna, Austria)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 ASHPC24 Session 10

Convener: Philipp Gschwandtner (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

11:00 Molecular Dynamic simulations addressing the missing single collision peak in low energy heavy ion scattering

Speaker: Wolfgang Husinsky (Institut für Angewandte Physik, TU Wien, Austria)

11:15 NCIS-LA, Nature Computer investigative Simulations of Laser Ablation

Speaker: Wolfgang Husinsky (Institut für Angewandte Physik, TU Wien, Austria)

11:30 Checkpointing on VSC

Speaker: Dieter Kvasnicka (VSC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria)

11:45 Exploring Energy-Efficient GPU Computing

Speaker: Siegfried Höfinger (VSC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria)

12:00 → 12:15 CLOSING

Convener: Claudia Blaas-Schenner (VSC Research Center, TU Wien, Austria)

12:00 ASHPC24 Closing by the Program Chair

Speaker: Matej Praprotnik (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)

12:07 ASHPC25 Announcement

Speaker: Urša Vodopivec (ARNES – Academic and Research Network of Slovenia, Slovenia)

12:15 → 12:30 Break

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch