SCHEDULE: NOV 15-20, 2015

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Taking on Exascale Challenges: Key Lessons and International Collaboration Opportunities Delivered by European Cutting-Edge HPC Initiatives

SESSION: Taking on Exascale Challenges: Key Lessons and International Collaboration Opportunities Delivered by European Cutting-Edge HPC Initiatives

EVENT TYPE: Birds of a Feather

EVENT TAG(S): Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding, Exascale

TIME: 3:30PM - 5:00PM

SESSION LEADER(S):Mark Parsons, Jean-François Lavignon, Jean-Philippe Nominé, Estela Suarez, Jesus Carretero

ROOM:13A

ABSTRACT:

The established EU-funded Exascale projects and initiatives (CRESTA, DEEP/DEEP-ER, MontBlanc, NUMEXAS, EXA2CT, EPiGRAM and NESUS) will present their status, lessons learned and potential cross-region synergies.

In addition, the long-term EU effort to develop, produce and exploit Exascale platforms continues with 19 projects within the first part of the Horizon 2020 program addressing: HPC core technologies and architectures, programming methodologies, languages and tools, APIs and system software, new mathematical and algorithmic approaches.

A European status update will be presented with an emphasis on international collaboration opportunities and mechanisms needed to integrate different approaches, both in hardware and software.

Session Leader Details:

Mark Parsons (Primary Session Leader) - Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

Jean-François Lavignon (Secondary Session Leader) - Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

Jean-Philippe Nominé (Secondary Session Leader) - European HPC Technology Platform and French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission