Agenda

Monday 06.06.2022

9:00 – 21:30 Registration open at Kaukametsä
19:30 – 21:30 Welcome Reception at Kaukametsä

  • Welcome by City/Region representative
  • Buffet Service

Tuesday 07.06.2022

08:15 Registration opens at Kaukametsä

Opening

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and Introduction (Kimmo Koski, CSC)


Session I – EuroHPC site updates, chaired by Vangelis Floros (EUROHPC)

09:15 – 09:50 EuroHPC system update (Evangelos Floros, EuroHPC)
09:50 – 10:20 EuroHPC Petascale Site Bulgaria (tbc)
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:20 EuroHPC Petascale Site Portugal (tbc)
11:20 – 11:50 CEA HPC site update – EXA new modular infrastructure (F. Souques, JM. Ducos, CEA)


Session II – Sustainability of Supercomputing Centers (part 1), chaired by Gert Svensson (KTH)

11:50 – 12:20 European Green Deal goals (tdc)
12:20 – 12:50 Whole life cycle carbon footprint (Jean-Olivier Gerphagnon, Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Stephen Shibel, ATOS)
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch


Session III – Site updates, chaired by Herbert Hubert (LRZ)

14:00 – 14:30 Update on RIKEN Exascale site and supercomputer (Fumiyoshi Shoji, RIKEN)
14:30 – 15:00 Update on ORNL Exascale site and supercomputer (Jim Rogers, ORNL)
15:00 – 15:30 Update on LLNL Exascale site and supercomputer (Anna Maria Bailey, LLNL)
15:30 – 15:45 Return to the hotels

Site visit to LUMI EuroHPC at Renforsin Ranta Business Park, hosted by Jukka-Pekka Partanen (CSC)

16:00 – 16:15 Buses to LUMI DC from hotels
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:15 Introduction to LUMI project and Kajaani Datacenter Ecosystem
17:15 – 18:00 LUMI DC tour
18:00 – 18:15 Bus transportation back to hotels

Wednesday 08.06.2022

08:15 Registration opens at Kaukametsä

Session IV – Sustainability of Supercomputing Centers (part 2), chaired by Veli-Antti Leinonen (CSC)

09:00 – 09:30 Introduction to ERF Standard (Mikko Aho, Finnish Data Center Forum, FDCD)
09:30 – 10:00 Talk on waste heat re-usage from a commercial data center provider (Joni Solakuja, Telia Finland)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break


Session V – Quantum Computing (installation/operation requirements), chaired by Jean Philippe Nominé (CEA) (remotely)

10:30 – 11:00 Operation of a programmable neutral atom quantum processing unit (Arnaud Dumas, Lucas Béguin, Pasqal)
11:00 – 11:30 Presentation of Q-Exa Project with IQM (Jan Goetz, IQM)
11:30 – 12:00 D-Wave Quantum Annealer with 5000 Qbits at Jülich (Kristel Michielsen, FZJ)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch


Session VI – Technical topics, chaired by Michael Ott (LRZ)

13:30 – 14:00 News about EEHPCWG (Natalie Bates, EEHPCWG)
14:00 – 14:30 News about the ASHRAE standard (tbd, AMD)
14:30 – 15:00 Huge and very fast power fluctuations of supercomputers and how to deal with them... (Anna Maria Bailey, LLNL)
15:00 – 15:30 Glycol-free operation of warm water-cooling systems (cooling towers, cooling loops, …) at LRZ (Pascal Weibel, LRZ)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break


Session VII – Panel discussion, chaired by Norbert Meyer (PSNC)

16:00 – 17:00 Panel discussion – Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability of Supercomputing Sites


Session VIII – Closing Session, chaired. by N.N. (CSC)

17:00 – 17:30 Wrap up and outlook for next year’s infrastructure workshop
18:00 – 18:45 Bus transportation from hotels to Vuokatti
18:45 – 21:15 Dinner at Brewery and Restaurant Haapala B&B (https://www.haapalabnb.fi)
21:15 – 22:00 Bus transportation back to hotels

Thursday 09.06.2022

08:30 – 08:35 Welcome (Volker Weinberg, LRZ)
08:35 – 09:35
Infrastructure and Energy Efficiency Aspects of PPI4HPC Systems (Dirk Pleiter, KTH; Javier Bartolome, BSC; Mirko Cestari, CINECA; Gilles Wiber, GEN; Eric Boyer, GENCI; Philipp Thörnig, FZJ)
09:35 – 10:15
EAR Power Capping and Energy Modeling (Carmen Navarrete, LRZ)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break


PRACE Session II, chaired by Volker Weinberg (LRZ)

10:45 – 11:05 CESGA (Carlos Fernandez Sanchez, CESGA)
11:05 – 11:20 Summary of Technical Activities in PRACE-6IP/WP5 (Volker Weinberg, LRZ)
11:20 – 11:35 Quantum Computing – A European Perspective (Mikael Johansson, CSC)
11:35 – 11:50 Security in an evolving European HPC Ecosystem (Dirk Pleiter, KTH)
11:50 – 12:05 tbd. (N.N.)
12:05 – 12:25 Infrastructure related Activities in PRACE since PRACE Preparatory Phase (Jean-Philippe Nominé, François Robin, CEA; Herbert Huber, Volker Weinberg, LRZ)
12:25 – 12:30 Wrap-up (Volker Weinberg, LRZ)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch