Events

The 6th bwHPC symposium will be held on September 30th, 2019 in Karlsruhe. Its focus is on scientific projects carried out with the help of high performance computing resources supplied within the framework of the bwHPC initiative of the state of Baden-Württemberg. The symposium is free of charge and open to researchers from all scientific fields. Participation from outside Baden-Württemberg is explicitly encouraged.

To present the achievements of the bwHPC initiative to the funding bodies it is important that as many bwHPC users as possible from Baden-Württemberg participate in 6th bwHPC Symposium on 30 September 2019 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Furthermore, this one-day event is the ideal opportunity to get in contact with the operator teams and other users.

In order to allow us to plan the symposium in time, please register as soon as possible just as a participant. Optionally, you can later choose other forms of participation (abstract, lecture, poster), but today is simply about your participation.

Participation in the event is free of charge and open to scientists of all disciplines.

For registration, submission of contributions and further details as well as deadlines,
please visit the following website:

       https://www.bwhpc.de/6-bwhpc-symposium.php

We would appreciate your participation in the conference.

The downtime will also be announced in the "Message of the Day" at login time and on our website http://www.hpc.uni-freiburg.de.

The downtime is required for an upgrade of the MOAB scheduling system so we can properly support the new GPU nodes.

We will use the downtime to apply other pending software upgrades to NEMO.

Job scheduling will be suspended during the maintenance. Login and access to your files cannot be guaranteed during the maintenance.

Reboots of the login nodes can happen at any time during the maintenance without further notice.

You can submit jobs until the downtime starts (27.08.2019, 08:00 AM). The maintenance will be finished at 18:00, possibly earlier.

Please note that jobs projected to finish after the downtime starts will be blocked.

Queued jobs will begin to start automatically after the maintenance is finished.

Due to the nature of the maintenance (upgrade of the scheduler), correct behaviour of the scheduling queue cannot be guaranteed.

If you cannot cope well with lost or cancelled jobs, we suggest you wait with job submissions until the maintenance is finished.

Best wishes,
Your HPC Team

The downtime is a triggered by the facility management's yearly test of emergency power.

We will make good use of this externally triggered downtime by applying all pending software upgrades to NEMO.

Job scheduling will be suspended during the maintenance. Login and access to your files will not be possible during the maintenance.

You can submit jobs until the downtime starts (14.03.2019, 06:00 AM). The maintenance will be finished at 18:00, possibly earlier.

Please note that jobs projected to finish after the downtime starts will be blocked.

Queued jobs will begin to start automatically after the maintenance is finished.

The bwHPC symposium focuses on the presentation of scientific computing projects as well as on the progress and the success stories of the bwHPC initiative. The event offers a unique opportunity to engage in an active dialog between scientists using high performance compute resources, operators of bwHPC sites, and the bwHPC-C5 support centers.

Registration

Registration is now open (https://indico.scc.kit.edu/indico/e/symposium2018).

Call for Participation

Call for contributions is now open (https://indico.scc.kit.edu/indico/e/symposium2018).

• We invite all participants to present their bwHPC-related research as a poster and/or a (short) paper (1000-6000 words or 4-20 pages in LaTeX). Selected contributions will be published in the conference proceedings.
• Talks will be selected by the program committee; a paper contribution to the proceedings is encouraged but not required.
• Please submit in any case a short summary and optionally an abstract in "Call for contributions".
• Proceedings contributions should use the following LaTeX template or the following overleaf link for online editing.
• There is no template for Microsoft Word or Libreoffice contributions, please contact us if you would like to contribute in this format.

Proceedings

The proceedings of the bwHPC symposium 2018 will be published online via the library of the University of Tübingen. The contributions will be peer reviewed. A minimum length of 1000 words (about 4 pages in LaTeX template) is required for a contribution to be eligible for inclusion. Contributions to proceedings are limited to 20 pages (using the LaTeX template) or 6000 words respectively. Preprint versions of the proceedings are planned to be available at the time the bwHPC symposium takes place.

ZKI AK Supercomputing

The ZKI AK Supercomputing Meeting will be held directly after the bwHPC symposium at the same venue on September 25/26. Attendees of the bwHPC symposium are welcome to join the Supercomputing Meeting and vice versa. We kindly ask you to register for both events separately.

Registration link for the ZKI AK Supercomputing Meeting will follow.

Since 2013, the Centre de Calcul de l'Universite de Strasbourg organises an annual seminar in collaboration with the Lycée Marguerite Yourcenar in Erstein near Strasbourg. The students are given scientific lectures to get an insight into potential fields for their future studies and work.

In 2018, using Neurocampus and Eucor as inter-regional frameworks for cooperation in the upper rhine valley, the event takes place at the university of Strasbourg. 

SCHEDULE

09:00 - 09:10 : Opening (R. David, V. Lucas, B. Wiebelt)

09:10 - 09:40 : Didier Rognan (University of Strasbourg) - Medicine 

09:40 - 10:15 : 2 talks of the pupils from the Lycée Marguerite Yourcenar 

10:15 - 10:30 : Break

10:30 - 11:00 : Christoph Heidecker (KIT, Karlsruhe) - Particle Physics

11:00 - 11:30 : Stefan Rotter (Bernstein Center Freiburg) - Computer Simulations in Brain Research