Welcome and Introduction

• Bastian Bukatz (UZH)
• Michele De Lorenzi

Room: Y35-F-51 Teleteaching

Aligning Vision and Language in Embodied AI Tasks

• Jason Armitage (University of Zurich)

Room: Y35-F-51 Teleteaching A human moving around a busy urban environment is surrounded by signs, driving traffic, and other people. An artificial agent navigating a virtual environment of busy city streets using language instructions is also challenged with determining relevant information. In this presentation, we introduce the research area of embodied AI, focusing on transformer-based agents in navigation tasks.

CSCS Service Catalog on "Alps": Compute & Data

• Maria Grazia Giuffreda (CSCS)

Room: Y35-F-51 Teleteaching

Jupyterhub as a Playground for Everyone

• Loic Hausammann (ETH Zurich)

Room: Y35-F-51 Teleteaching Jupyterhub is a web service that allows developers (scientists) to use their browsers to develop on a remote machine without deep IT knowledge. On Euler, we provide this service on k8s and create the user's sessions with slurm. The key to the success of our implementation comes from its wide range of customization available to both the HPC team and the users. This customization allows us to provide highly customizable Jupyter sessions and other software through a single frontend. By reusing the same simple tricks over and over, we have been able to provide RServer, Tensorboard and CodeServer. In this presentation, I will show how Jupyterhub works with our slum API and explain the different tricks to allow users to customize their instances and run any other type of service.

The First Tenant-Managed "Alps" vCluster - a presentation by CSCS and PSI

• Derek Feichtinger (PSI)
• Hussein Harake (CSCS)

Room: Y35-F-51 Teleteaching

Unlocking the Potential of HPC Systems Use for Optimizing Job Queues, Minimizing Wait Times, and Boosting Efficiency

• Thomas Jakobsche (University of Basel)

Room: Y35-F-51 Teleteaching In this talk, we delve into using High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems to tackle a critical challenge: the unnecessary waiting that hampers productivity due to resource request inaccuracies and job inefficiency. Our exploration centres on: 1. Devising appropriate job queue configurations. 2. Uncovering the relation between resource requests and wait times. 3. Improving the way jobs utilize their allocated resources. 4. Deploying novel methods for automatic detection and reporting of inefficiencies. This work is a data-driven journey through analysing 55 million jobs submitted by 500 users over eight months, all hosted on a University cluster to redefine HPC systems efficiency.

How to Find the Balance between Security and Openness in the Context of Scientific Research Data

• Victor Holanda Rusu (CSCS)

Room: Y35-F-51 Teleteaching The balance between security and openness is an ongoing and evolving challenge. Security encompasses a broad spectrum, including national interests, cybersecurity, personal safety, intellectual property protection, and Research Data. On the other hand, openness embodies transparency, collaboration, and the sharing of information and ideas. Striking the right balance between these principles is essential for fostering innovation and ensuring the resilience of systems in the face of evolving threats. This presentation will touch on the topic's surface and discuss challenges one can face when implementing FAIR principles and Data Management plans for Research projects.

Community Development Room: Y35-F-51 Teleteaching The session will be dedicated to: 1. Members Update: Latest Developments in our Organization. Members are kindly invited to give a short update on their activities. 2. Preparations for the next hpc-ch forum on Business Continuity, Crises Management, and Energy Savings & Efficiency, May 23, 2024 (SWITCH)

Meerkat Guided Tour Room: Y35-F-51 Teleteaching The Meerkat project uses an online platform on ScienceCloud for animal behaviour scientists to access the project's data and perform basic analyses on them.The scientific project stretches back for over two decades and concentrates on capturing audio samples of meerkat communication to understand their behaviour better.