BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260705T123815Z UID:6c093ca9-1b13-4c60-8e78-4930bff9e148 DTSTART:20180213T080000Z DTEND:20180214T143000Z DESCRIPTION:Efficient Use of HPC Systems\n\n13 - 14 February 2018\n\nDescri ption\n\nThe purpose of this course  is to present to existing and potent ial users of PRACE HPC systems an introduction on how to efficiently use t hese systems\,their typical tools\, software environment\, compilers\, lib raries\, MPI/OpenMP\, batch system\, etc.\n\nThe trainees will learn what the HPC systems offer\, how they work and how to apply for access to these infrastructures - both PRACE Tier-1 and Tier-0.\n\nPrerequisites\n\nThe c ourse addresses to any potential user of an HPC infrastructure.  Backgro und in modules\, compilers\, MPI/OpenMP/Cuda\, batch systems\, running tim e consuming applications is desirable.\n\nBring your own laptop in order t o be able to participate in the training hands on. Hands on work will be d one in pairs so if you don’t have a laptop you might work with a colleag ue. \n\nCourse language is English.\n\nRegistration\n\nThe maximum number of participants is 30. \n\nRegistrations will be evaluated on a first-come \, first-served basis. GRNET is responsible for the selection of the parti cipants on the basis of the training requirements and the technical skills of the candidates. GRNET will also seek to guarantee the maximum possibl e geographical coverage with the participation of candidates from many cou ntries.\n\nVenue\n\nGRNET headquarters\n\nAddress: 2nd  Floor\, 7\, Kifis ias Av. GR 115 23 Athens\n\nInformation on how to reach GRNET headquarters ia available on GRNET website: https://grnet.gr/en/contact-us/  \n\nAcc ommodation options near GRNET can be found at: https://grnet.gr/wp-content /uploads/sites/13/2015/11/Hotels-near-GRNET-en.pdf\n\nARIS - System Inform ation\n\nARIS is the name of the Greek supercomputer\, deployed and operat ed by GRNET (Greek Research and Technology Network) in Athens. ARIS consis ts of 532 computational nodes seperated in four “islands” as listed he re:\n\n\n 426 thin nodes: Regular compute nodes without accelerator.\n \n \n 44 gpu nodes: “2 x NVIDIA Tesla k40m” accelerated nodes.\n \n \n 18 phi nodes: “2 x INTEL Xeon Phi 7120p” accelerated nodes.\n \n \n 44 f at nodes: Fat compute nodes have larger number of cores and memory per cor e than a thin node.\n \nAll the nodes are connected via Infiniband network and share 2PB GPFS storage.The infrastructure also has an IBM TS3500 libr ary of maximum storage capacity of about 6 PB. Access to the system is pro vided by two login nodes. \n\nAbout Tutors\n\nDr. Dellis (Male) holds a B. Sc. in Chemistry (1990) and PhD in Computational Chemistry (1995) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens\, Greece. He has extensive HPC and grid computing experience. He was using HPC systems in computatio nal chemistry research projects on fz-juelich machines (2003-2005). He rec eived an HPC-Europa grant on BSC (2009). In EGEE/EGI projects he acted as application support and VO software manager for SEE VO\, grid sites admini strator (HG-02\, GR-06)\, NGI_GRNET support staff (2008-2014). In PRACE 1I P/2IP/3IP/4IP/5IP he was involved in benchmarking tasks either as group me mber or as BCO (2010-2017). Currently he holds the position of “Senior H PC Applications Support Engineer” at GRNET S.A. where he is responsible for activities related to user consultations\, porting\, optimization and running HPC applications at national and international resources.\n\nKyria kos Ginis received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2 003 from the National Technical University of Athens\, Greece. Between 200 4 and 2014 he participated in the european projects EGEE I/II/III and EGI as a grid site administrator of the HellasGrid sites HG-01-GRNET\, HG-06-E KT and HG-08-Okeanos. Since 2014 he works at GRNET as a system administrat or of the ARIS HPC system\, primarily responsible for hardware\, operating systems and file/storage systems. He continues maintaining the HellasGrid sites HG-06 and HG-08\, and supports other GRNET services such as the uni que and persistent identifiers (PID)service\, also part of the EUDAT proje ct.\n\nNikoloutsakos Nikolaos holds a diploma of Engineering in Computer E ngineering and Informatics (2014) from the University of Patras\, Greece. From 2015 he works as software engineer at GRNET S.A. where he is part of the user application support team for the ARIS HPC system. He has been inv olved in major national and European projects\, such as PRACE and EUDAT. H is main research interests include parallel programming models\, co-proces sor programming using GPUs and Intel Xeon Phis.\n\nDr Aristeidis Sotiropo ulos received his BSc in Computer Science in 1998 from the University of C rete\, Greece and his PhD in Parallel Processing and Cluster Computing in 2004 from the National Technical University of Athens\, Greece. His intere sts mainly focus on the fields of Large Scale Computing &\; Storage Sys tems\, System Software for Scalable High Speed Interconnects for Computer Clusters and Advanced Microprocessor Architectures. He has published sever al scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has received the IEEE IPDPS 2001 best paper award for the paper "Minim izing Completion Time for Loop Tiling with Computation and Communication O verlapping". He has worked in several European and National R&\;D progr ams in the field of High Performance Computing\, Grid Computing\, Cloud Co mputing and Storage. In 2013\, he was appointed as the Head of Operations and Financial Management Services\, in charge of 15 people. Currently\, he is managing EC projects at GRNET SA\, the Greek NREN responsible for the provision of advanced e-infrastructure services to the Greek Academic and Research Community.\n\nAbout GRNET\n\nGRNET provides Internet connectivity \, high-quality e-Infrastructures and advanced services to the Greek Educa tional\, Academic and Research community.\n\nThrough its high-speed\, high -capacity infrastructure that spans across the entire country\, GRNET inte rconnects more than 150 institutions\, including all universities and tech nological institutions\, as well as many research institutes and the publi c Greek School Network.\n\nGRNET operates the National High Performance Co mputing system (a Tier-1 in the European HPC ecosystem) and offers user an d application support services\, that provide Greek scientists with the co mputing infrastructure and expertise they need for their research enabling them to perform large scale simulations.\n\nGRNET offers innovative IaaS cloud computing services to the Greek and global research &\; education communities: “ ~okeanos” and “okeanos global” allow users to crea te multi-layer virtual infrastructure and instantiate virtual computing ma chines\, local networks to interconnect them\, and a reliable storage spac e within seconds\, with few\, simple mouse clicks.\n\nGRNET aims at contri buting towards Greece’s Digital Convergence with the EU\, by supporting the development and encouraging the use of e-Infrastructures and services. The right and timely planning strategies\, together with the long experie nce and know-how of its people\, guarantee the continuation and enhancemen t of GRNET’s successful course.\n\nGreek Research and Technology Network – Networking Reserach and Education:\n\nwww.grnet.gr\, hpc.grnet.gr\n\n https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/701/ SUMMARY:Efficient Use of HPC Systems @GRNET URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/701/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR