36th SPEEDUP Workshop on High-Performance Computing

ETH Zürich, Switzerland,
September 3-4 2007

Scope

The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in high-performance and parallel scientific computing. Presentations will focus on:

Application areas that need high-performance computing
Physical modeling of large-scale problems
Development of scalable algorithms for solving large scale problems
Development of software tools for high-performance computing

The talks of the first day of the workshop will cover the following themes:

Future directions of HPC
Earth Sciences
Life Sciences
Emerging Architectures: The STI Cell Processor
Storing massive data volume

On the second day there will a one-Day IBM Cell Programming Tutorial

Organization

The workshop is divided into 4 sessions, each with two presentations of 40 minutes plus 5 minutes of questions. The 8 speakers come from well-recognized European and US institutions. There will be an apero at the end of the first day.

Directions

The conference will take place in the CAB building of the ETH, located at the following address:

Room G61, Building CAB, Universitätstrasse 6, 8092, Zürich.

Building CAB is located close to the main ETH building. Here you have more information and links:

Directions for the main ETH building
Location of the CAB building
Orientation Support Page for ETH Zurich
This is a picture of the CAB building:
This is the location (where HG = main building):
...and this is central Zurich from the sky:

Program

Monday, September 3

08:30-08:45: Welcome
08:45-10:15: Earth Sciences; Global Seismology, Earthquake Physics and Seismic Hazard in the Frame of High Performance Computing; Domenico Giardini (ETHZ); High-performance computing with weather and climate models; Christoph Schär (ETHZ)
10:15-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-12:15: New techniques 1; "Automatic Program Generation and Optimization in HPC"; Christoph Ueberhuber (TU Wien); Winner of Gordon Bell award 06
Key note speech: Future directions of HPC; Jack Dongarra (UTK)
12:15-13:45: Lunch break
13:45-15:15: Life Sciences; "The Blue Brain project"; Felix Schürmann (EPFL); Emerging HPC requirements for the life sciences; Victor Jongeneel (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
15:15-15:45: Coffee break
15:45-17:15: New techniques 2; Cryptologic applications on the PlayStation3: cell speed; Dag Arne Osvik (EPF Lausanne); Data Challenges and HDF5 - Past, Present, Future; Mike Folk (The HDF Group)
17:15-: Apero

Tuesday, September 4

08:30-17:00: Tutorial; Hema Reddy (IBM); IBM Cell Programming Tutorial

Organization and program committee

Prof. Peter Arbenz (ETH Zürich), e-mail arbenz _AT_ inf.ethz.ch;
Andreas Adelmann (Paul Scherrer Institut), e-mail andreas.adelmann _AT_ psi.ch;
Olaf Schenk (University of Basel), e-mail olaf.schenk _AT_ unibas.ch.