10th bwHPC Symposium

Published: 24 Apr 2024 by bwHPC Symposium Team

On behalf of the bwHPC initiative, you are cordially invited to participate in the upcoming 10th bwHPC symposium on

September 25th and 26th at the University of Freiburg.

Registration is now open.

If you would like to actively participate in the 10th bwHPC Symposium, you have 4 options:

Presentation (15 minutes)
Lightning talk (5 minutes)
Poster
Paper for the conference proceedings (4-15 pages)

Multiple contributions are possible (e.g. a poster and a presentation). We accept contributions in English and German language.

Researchers are invited to present scientific results and future projects within the framework of bwHPC and bwCloud, two initiatives that provide researchers in Baden-Württemberg with large-scale digital infrastructures. A particular focus will be on sustainability and energy efficiency in the fields of high performance computing, cloud computing and research data management.

The event will offer tutorials and scientific presentations along with opportunities to enter into a dialogue with senior researchers already making use of these significant computational resources.

The symposium is free of charge and attendance is open to researchers from all scientific fields. We welcome participants from outside Baden-Württemberg.

For registration, submission of contributions and further details, please visit the event website.

Please note the deadlines for submissions to the conference. In particular, for paper submissions to be included in the proceedings, the respective deadline is 31.07.2024.

We are looking forward to your participation.

Sincerely, Your bwHPC symposium team

The AMD Genoa, Machine Learning and AI partitions for NEMO2 were delivered on December 4th. The acceptance of the storage has been delayed, so that NEMO2 could not yet start this year. However, calculations with the Milan nodes in NEMO1 are still possible.

The Genoa partition for NEMO2 will be delivered on December 4th, at the same time all old NEMO1 nodes will be removed. To ease the transition, some new Milan nodes will be booted into NEMO1 environment and will remain available until at least January 31st. Users are encouraged to switch to the new Milan nodes and use the ‘milan’ queue for their jobs (-q milan). If demand increases, additional nodes will be added next week. The launch of NEMO2 is delayed due to unavailable storage, with further updates on testing and data transfer to follow once it becomes available.

The Weka Storage and Milan partition have been successfully delivered for the new NEMO2 cluster. Testing, benchmarking, and system configuration will take place in the coming weeks. We anticipate starting with limited functionality and gradually expanding it over time. A portion of the old NEMO cluster had to be shut down to accommodate the installation of the Milan partition.