Name: hpc-ch forum on User-Centric View on HPC
Start: 2022-10-06T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2022-10-06T15:35:00+02:00
Location: Campus Biotech

hpc-ch forum on User-Centric View on HPC

Thursday, October 6, 2022 - 8:45 AM

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Thursday, October 6, 2022

8:45 AM Registration (Campus Reception Desk)
Registration (Campus Reception Desk)
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: H8-01-D

9:00 AM Welcome Coffee (H8 foyer)
Welcome Coffee (H8 foyer)
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: H8-01-D

9:30 AM Campus Biotech Visit (meeting point: H8 foyer)
Campus Biotech Visit (meeting point: H8 foyer)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: H8-01-D
10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction - Michele De Lorenzi (CSCS) Keith Harshman (Health 2030 Genome Center) Arnaud Hungler (Health 2030 Genome Center) Ioannis Xenarios (Health 2030 Genome Center)
Welcome and Introduction
- Michele De Lorenzi (CSCS)
- Keith Harshman (Health 2030 Genome Center)
- Arnaud Hungler (Health 2030 Genome Center)
- Ioannis Xenarios (Health 2030 Genome Center)
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: H8-01-D
10:15 AM Genomics and HPC: Use Cases and Challenges - Arnaud Hungler (Health 2030 Genome Center) Ilya Kolpakov (Health 2030 Genome Center)
Genomics and HPC: Use Cases and Challenges
- Arnaud Hungler (Health 2030 Genome Center)
- Ilya Kolpakov (Health 2030 Genome Center)
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: H8-01-D The talk will introduce the data analysis and data management needs at the core of the Health 2030 Genome Center and how we operate an internal HPC cluster and the custom software to address these needs.
10:45 AM How to Nurture the ORD Superheroes? - Oksana Riba Grognuz (SDSC)
How to Nurture the ORD Superheroes?
- Oksana Riba Grognuz (SDSC)
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: H8-01-D In her talk, Oksana will explore what user-centricity means in the context of the Open Research Data (ORD) challenges. The inherent complexity of ORD tasks frequently leads to solutions that are hard to use. Likewise, the inevitable tradeoffs when designing systems for complicated tasks hinder usability. Oksana will exemplify how her team engages with users to co-create solutions that inspire and nudge ORD best practices. She will reveal favored approaches for building user-centered flows to create user experiences that nurture ORD superheroes.
11:15 AM Real-Time Workflow and Application with High Performance by Cloud Security Enabled HPC for On-Demand Activity Calculations for HIPA - Mei-Chih Chang (PSI)
Real-Time Workflow and Application with High Performance by Cloud Security Enabled HPC for On-Demand Activity Calculations for HIPA
- Mei-Chih Chang (PSI)
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: H8-01-D Scientific computing including accelerators, detectors and experiment automation requires large computer resources, therefore running these simulations on HPC is leading to rapid growth. Nowadays, academic research projects and industrial platform solutions proposed infrastructures allow remote high-performance capacity for simulations and data analysis in security. However, these on-demand cloud services explore cloud security leakage and performance degradation issues. The Vis-aS project proposes an efficient workflow, cloud security enabled HPC and data storage to provide the high-performance and security-enabled environment for the Vis-aS project, which has a web application used for activity calculations for the high-intensity proton accelerator (HIPA) at Paul Scherrer Institute ( PSI).
11:45 AM Lunch and Networking
Lunch and Networking
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: H8-01-D
1:15 PM An Alternative to One-Size-Fits-All Programming Environments - Ben Cumming (CSCS)
An Alternative to One-Size-Fits-All Programming Environments
- Ben Cumming (CSCS)
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: H8-01-D The programming environment - the compilers, libraries and tools provided to users building their own applications - is the main interface for the majority of HPC system users. Typically HPC centers provide a single environment that provides a rich set of tools and libraries, configured via module files to meet the needs of individual use cases. As centers offer HPC access to more communities with diverse workflows this "one size fits all" approach becomes very difficult to maintain. This talk will look at alternative approaches for providing use-case specific environments being developed for the Alps system at CSCS.
1:45 PM A Tale of Cattle and Pets - Emmanuel Jeanvoine (University of Lausanne)
A Tale of Cattle and Pets
- Emmanuel Jeanvoine (University of Lausanne)
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: H8-01-D Given the HPC community at the University of Lausanne is highly heterogenous, some users perfectly fit the regular HPC environments while others need some helpers. This talk presents the journey of a new HPC user at UNIL, from the introductory courses, through the computing facility offers, and the craft of customization for specific needs.
2:15 PM Farewell and End of the Meeting
Farewell and End of the Meeting
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: H8-01-D