The commissioning of the new Blue Gene/Q petaflop supercomputer JUQUEEN marked another quantum leap in supercomputer performance at JSC. At the same time, it was recognised that special efforts by the users are necessary in order to get the most out of this unique research tool.

The aim of this hands-on workshop is to support current users of JUQUEEN in porting their software, in analysing its performance, and in improving its efficiency.

It is highly recommended that project PIs send at least one expert on their code to this workshop.

Prerequisites
Participants should belong to a currently active simulation project on JUQUEEN (project-ID!) and should already have an active user account (user-id!). Test runs during the workshop will be done on the participants' own project accounts.

In order to gain maximum benefit from this workshop, participants should have an in-depth (hands-on) knowledge of the algorithms and codes used in their project.
In addition, we also ask participants to prepare a test case to evaluate the initial performance of their code and to monitor the progress.

General outline of the workshop
Day 1, morning: Overview Presentations

Day 1, afternoon and following days


        Work on own application: porting, analysis, and optimisation



        Support by experts from:

            Performance Tools group

            IBM

            Simulation Labs

            JSC application support



        Talks and Breakout-Sessions

            special interest group computational fluid dynamics

            specialized in-depth topics for Blue Gene


The detailed agenda is available as a link on the left hand side.

Application
Registrations are only considered until the 12th of January 2014.
Due to available space, the maximal number of participants is limited.
Participants will be notified early in January 2014.
Note that in the application form we ask for some information about your project and code in order to better plan the workshop program. This workshop is a Prace Advanced Training Centres (PATC) course.Further information
Updated information on this course and information about travel and accommodation can be found at http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/events/juqueenpt14Contact
For any questions concerning the workshop please send an e-mail to [email protected]

https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/219/