Tuesday 1st May
Independent arrival in Bologna
17:30 Registration in hotel lobby
19:30 Welcome Dinner at Savoia Hotel Regency
Wednesday 2nd May
8:15-8:30 Welcome by Sanzio Bassini, CINECA
Session I – Site Updates
Chair: Carlo Cavazzini
| 8:30 – 9:05 | SuperMUC-NG – LRZ’s next step towards an improved waste-heat recovery, Herbert Huber, LRZ |
| 9:05 – 9:40 | Surprises and challenges in a relatively new data centre, Tiziano Belotti, CSCS |
| 9:40 – 10:15 | ENI Green Data Centre, Luca Bortot, ENI |
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
Session II – Standards & Regulations
Chair: Ladina Gilly
| 10:45 – 11:20 | Tips, Tricks, and Trends in Liquid Cooling; the State of the Practice, Mike Patterson, Intel |
| 11:20 – 11:55 | Our datacenter world and the challenges ahead of us, Lex Coors, Interxion |
| 11:55 – 12:30 | Update from the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG), Natalie Bates, LLNL |
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Session III – Energy to solution & TCO
Chair: François Robin
| 14:00 – 15:10 | Presentation of the results from the 3 pilot systems of the PRACE pre-commercial procurement. CINES, Jerome Chapelle & Eric Boyer, CINECA, Carlo Cavazzoni JSC, Dirk Pleiter |
| 15:10 – 15:45 | TCO model for HPC procurement assessment, Eric Boyer, GENCI |
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
Session IV – Bologna Science Park and Food experience
Chair: Carlo Cavazzoni
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Bologna science park: an infrastructure for HPC, Gaetano Maron, INFN/CNAF |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Transer to dinner location |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Guided tour of FICO and cocktail |
| 19:00 – 21:30 | Conference dinner at FICO |
Thursday 3rd May
Session V – Heat re-use
Chair: Gert Svensson
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Welcome |
| 9:05 – 9:40 | Making HPC Climate Positive, Erik Rylander, Fortum |
| 9:40 – 10:15 | The World’s First Climate Positive Data Center, Lars Schedin, EcoDataCenter |
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
Session VI – Energy grids & provisioning
Chair: Herbert Huber
| 10:45 – 11:20 | Management of Energy Costs at PSNC, Norbert Meyer & Radoslaw Januszewski, PSNC |
| 11:20 – 11:55 | Advanced Power Measurement and Control for the Trinity Supercomputer, Andrew Younge, SNL |
| 11:55 – 12:30 | Public (WTO) procurement of electricity: the CSCS approach, Ladina Gilly, CSCS |
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Session VII – Technologies
Chair: Norbert Meyer
| 14:00 – 14:35 | Direct Liquid Cooling of Datacenter equipment, Dominik Dziarczykowski, CoolIT |
| 14:35 – 15:10 | Modular Data Centers, Jean-Marc Ducos & Frédéric Souques, CEA |
| 15:10 – 15:45 | Facility Commissioning Experiences for ORNL’s Summit, the U.S. DOE’s 200PF supercomputer, Jim Rogers, ORNL |
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
Session VIII – Vendor Panel
Chairs: Herbert Huber & Ladina Gilly
| 16:15 – 16:30 | A flexible approach for Exascale infrastructure providing best electrical and cooling efficiency for all type of nodes and interconnect fabrics, Jean-Philippe Sibers, Atos/Bull |
| 16:35 – 16:50 | Preparing data centers for exascale, Vincent Pel, Cray |
| 16:55 – 17:10 | The Future of HPC at HPE, Torsten Wilde, HPE |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Liquid Immersion Cooling – A versatile cooling environment, John Wagner, Fujitsu |
| 17:35 – 17:50 | Behind the Scenes of Efficient Cooling, Axel Auweter, Megware |
| 17:50 – 18:05 | Water cooling technology for the Exascale computing era, Karsten Kutzer, Lenovo |
| 18:05 – 18:35 | Vendor Panel Discussion |
18:30 – 18:45 Closing Session
Wrap up and outlook for next year’s infrastructure workshop.
19:30 – 21:30 Dinner at Ristorante Danilo & Patrizia
Friday 4th May
| 8:30 – 14:00 | PRACE closed session and PRACE-5IP Workpackage 5 meeting |