EuroHPC JU at ISC High Performance 2024

ISC is the largest forum in Europe for HPC, high performance data analytics and AI/machine learning. This annual event brings together the international HPC community, providers and users from industry, public institutions and research organisations.

The EuroHPC JU will once again have a stand in the event exhibition and participate to the conference programme. 

EuroHPC in the conference programme:

Tuesday 14th May 2024

EuroHPC - Recent Initiatives, News and Use Cases on Europe's Leading Supercomputers 

10:45 to 12:00
Hall Z - 3rd Floor

This session will focus on the latest initiatives by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, opportunities available to users in enterprises and institutions, reports on the top-performing supercomputers funded by EuroHPC JU, and demonstrations of successful use cases tackling societal challenges. Specifically, the session will cover MareNostrum5 and JUPITER, as well as the "Destination Earth" use case.

• Anders Dam Jensen, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking - "Shaping Europe’s Supercomputing Landscape: EuroHPC’s Latest Initiatives and Opportunities"
• Sergi Girona, Barcelona Supercomputing Center - "MareNostrum 5 - System Acceptance and First Scientific Results"
• Kristel Michielsen, Julich Supercomputing Centre - "JUPITER: AI at scale"
• Ioan Hadade, ECMWF - "Destination Earth: Digital Twins for Weather and Climate"

Full programme details on ISC website.

Thursday 16th May 2024

Workshop: Powering European AI with EuroHPC Supercomputers

9:00 to 13:00
Hall Y4 - 2nd Floor

Agenda:

09h00-11h00- Support of AI in HPC ecosystem

• EuroHPC AI access calls- Evangelos Floros, EuroHPC JU Head of Sector Infrastructure
• AI usages, software and environnement on EuroHPC systems- Lilit Axner, EuroHPC JU Programme Manager - Infrastructure
• Challenges: data management, HPC-AI uptake, heterogeneous architecture software stacks- Mladen Skelin, EuroHPC JU Programme Manager - Research & Innovation
• Q&A
• Presentation of the AI factories - Juan Pelegrin, Head of Sector HPC & Quantum Technology, DG Connect, European Commission
• AI support of NCCs- Laura Morselli,HPC specialist at EuroCC Italy & Solution Architect at CINECA
• Applications support including AI with the EPICURE project- Stéphane Requena, Director of Innovation & Technology at GENCI
• Panel discussion “Putting the puzzles together: How AI factories, AI support centre, Epicure and NCC fit with each other to support AI on HPC”
• Q&A

11h-11h30 Coffee break 

11h30-13h00- AI ecosystem in Europe

• AI in Luxembourg Valentin PLUGARU, LuxProvide Chief Technology Officer
• AI in Norway Gunnar Bøe, CEO Sigma 2, National provider of HPC in Norway
• AI in Italy Laura Morselli, HPC specialist at EuroCC Italy & Solution Architect at CINECA
• AI in France Stéphane Requena, Director of Innovation & Technology at GENCI
• AI in UK Professor Mark Parsons, EPCC Director and Dean of Research Computing, The University of Edinburgh
• Panel discussion "Current challenges of HPC to accommodate AI and future needs of AI"
• Q&A

More details on the workshop, including the abstract, can be found at the workshop-dedicated page. 

Additional sessions in which to find the EuroHPC JU:

Monday 13th May 2024 - European HPC Ecosystem - Updates and Gap Analysis will be joined by the EuroHPC JU's Executive Director, Anders Jensen.
13:00 to 14:00
Hall E - 2nd Floor

Tuesday 14th May 2024 - Super(computing) Heroes, with Lilit Axner, Programme Manager Infrastructure.
11:10 to 12:10 
Hall G1 - 2nd Floor 

Thursday 16th May 2024 - Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) Accelerating AI for Science, with Alexandra Kourfali, Programme Manager R&I.
9:00 to 13:00 
Hall Y9 - 2nd Floor 

Thursday 16th May 2024 - Workshop on Readiness of HPC Extreme-scale Applications, with Linda Gesenhues, Programme Manager R&I.
14:00 to 18:00 
Hall Y10 - 2nd Floor 

Exhibition 

The EuroHPC JU will be present at ISC 2024 as an exhibitor, at booth J30.

At the booth J30, EuroHPC JU will have a presentation corner for EuroHPC projects and supercomputers' hosting entities to showcase their activities and outcomes.

Find here below the schedule for projects' presentation:

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