NorduGrid 2016

Europe/Bratislava
Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5 (Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice)

Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice

Šrobárova 2, Košice, Slovakia
Farid Ould-Saada (UiO) , Jozef Černák (Department of Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Kosice, Slovak republic)
Description
The way forward in distributed computing: evolution or revolution?

The annual NorduGrid conference will be held in Kosice, Slovakia, on June 2-3, 2016. The conference will be preceded by the technical workshop on May 31 - June 1.

This year's theme "The way forward in distributed computing: evolution or revolution?" addresses the challenge faced by many scientific communities: how to survive the data tsunami in the shade of the clouds? The conference will cover different aspects and directions of future distributed computing systems, including:
  • Virtualised infrastructures for data and computng
  • Cluster resource management
  • Exploiting supercomputers and distributed infrastructures
  • New approaches to networked computing

On 4 June 2016 Organizers offer optional trips for conference participants and accompanying persons.

Participants are kindly asked to register and indicate whether they will attend both the conference and the workshop, or either of the events, as well as the social events (the dinner and the trips). The conference is free of charge, however, the common dinner and trips are on own expense.

The organisers offer free lunches in the University cafeteria; please sign up for the lunches using this form.

 

Participants
  • Ajesh Sebastian
  • Albina Dioba
  • Aleksandr Konstantinov
  • Alexander DIRNER
  • Anders Wäänänen
  • Andrej Filipcic
  • Andrii Salnikov
  • Balázs Kónya
  • Barbara Krasovec
  • Borut Paul Kersevan
  • Branislav Brutovsky
  • Christian Søttrup
  • Christoph Hagleitner
  • David Cameron
  • Dejan Lesjak
  • Dmytro Karpenko
  • Eva Cernakova
  • Farid Ould-Saada
  • Florido Paganelli
  • Gabor Szigeti
  • Gianfranco Sciacca
  • Gonzalo Rodrigo
  • Ian Foster
  • Iana Kokriashkina
  • Ievgen Sliusar
  • Ingrid Kulkova
  • Jan Jona Javorsek
  • Jaroslav Hofierka
  • John White
  • Jon Kerr Nilsen
  • Jozef Gajdoš
  • Jozef ČERNÁK
  • Kalle Happonen
  • Ludovit Hvizdos
  • Lukáš Tropp
  • Luís Alves
  • Maksim Gubin
  • Marek Franko
  • Marek Kočan
  • Maros Halama
  • Martin Skou Andersen
  • Martin Vala
  • Martin Šechný
  • Martina Virágová
  • Mattias Ellert
  • Michal Šefčík
  • Milan Žukovič
  • Miloslav Straka
  • Oleksandr Bohomaz
  • Oleksandr Boretskyi
  • Oleksandr Sudakov
  • Ondrej Kridlo
  • Ondrej Trubiroha
  • Pavel Murin
  • Pavol Rak
  • Peter Pisarcik
  • Rob Van Nieuwpoort
  • Roger Oscarsson
  • Samuel Havadej
  • Sandra Bartosova
  • Sigve Haug
  • Tibor Kozar
  • Tomas Valicek
  • ULF Tigerstedt
  • Vaidas Giedrimas
  • Vincent Garonne
  • Zuzana Eperješiová
Organising Committee
    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration 30m Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice

      Šrobárova 2, Košice, Slovakia
    • 09:00 12:00
      Technical meeting session 1 Lecture hall M3 (Univ. Building on Moyzesova 11)

      Lecture hall M3

      Univ. Building on Moyzesova 11

    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h Canteen

      Canteen

    • 13:00 18:20
      Technical meeting session 2 Lecture hall M3 (Univ. building on Moyzesova 11)

      Lecture hall M3

      Univ. building on Moyzesova 11

      • 13:00
        Tuesday afternoon: Performance & Stability 3h Lecture hall M3

        Lecture hall M3

        Univ. building on Moyzesova 11

        - Protection against hanging/timeout external processes in A-REX including the infosys special use-case - Performance data: discussion - AREX behavior under heavy load
      • 16:00
        Coffee break 30m Lecture hall M3 (Univ. building on Moyzesova 11)

        Lecture hall M3

        Univ. building on Moyzesova 11

      • 16:30
        Shifter, an implementation of Linux Environment Containers for HPC 30m Lecture hall M5 (UPJS)

        Lecture hall M5

        UPJS

        Speaker: Doug Jacobsen (NERSC Computer Systems Engineer)
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Tuesday late afternoon: dreaming... 1h Lecture hall M5 (UPJS)

        Lecture hall M5

        UPJS

        - What if we could do real research & development...
    • 09:00 12:00
      Technical meeting session 3 Lecture hall M3 (Univ. building on Moyzesova 11)

      Lecture hall M3

      Univ. building on Moyzesova 11

      • 09:00
        Wednesday morning: Planning for bigger changes 3h
        - 10 years of RTEs: time for replacement? - When can we retire the GIISes? - Resource discovery revisited - Config parsers: discussion
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h Canteen

      Canteen

    • 13:00 18:00
      Technical meeting session 4 Lecture hall M3 (Univ. building on Moyzesova 11)

      Lecture hall M3

      Univ. building on Moyzesova 11

      • 13:00
        Wednesday afternoon: mixed topics 5h
        - Planning for the next major release - Simple ARC CE configurations - VOs & ARC: short status update - Top priority bugs: discussion - AREX and Condor
    • 18:00 20:00
      Board Meeting Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice

      Šrobárova 2, Košice, Slovakia
      Convener: Prof. Farid Ould-Saada
    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration 30m Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice

      Šrobárova 2, Košice, Slovakia
    • 09:00 12:30
      Plenary Session 1 Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice

      Šrobárova 2, Košice, Slovakia
      • 09:00
        Welcome by the Rector and the Dean of Faculty 20m
        Speaker: Dr Jozef Černák (UPJS Kosice)
      • 09:20
        Keynote: Science Services and Science Platforms: Using the Cloud to Democratize Discovery 1h 5m
        Speaker: Ian Foster
        Slides
      • 10:25
        NorduGrid Collaboration 15m
        Speaker: Farid Ould-Saada
        Slides
      • 10:40
        Coffee 30m
      • 11:10
        State of the ARC 20m
        Speaker: Balazs Konya (Lunds universitet)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        ATLAS@Home: ARC-enabled volunteer computing 20m
        Speaker: David Cameron (University of Oslo)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Distributed Computing Evolution of High-Performance Computing 20m
        Speaker: Andrej Filipcic
        Slides
      • 12:10
        Distributed Computing as a Service with ARC 20m
        Speaker: Barbara Krasovec
        Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h Canteen

      Canteen

    • 13:30 20:00
      Plenary Session 2 Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice

      Šrobárova 2, Košice, Slovakia
      • 13:30
        Keynote: Big Data and Big Compute in Radio Astronomy 1h
        Modern radio telescopes are large distributed sensor networks that produce huge volumes of data. Flexibility requirements force us to perform the data processing of these instruments in software. I will sketch how the LOFAR and SKA telescopes are prime examples of this trend. LOFAR currently is the largest radio telescope in the world, and SKA has exascale requirements on both processing and the network. I will focus on two interesting challenges that we face while moving to exascale instruments. First, the data volumes have become so large that they simply cannot be stored any more. This means that we have to switch from off-line processing to a real-time system. Second, changes in modern computer architecture render our current codes and algorithms inefficient. Together, these changes are disruptive, and require us to completely change our pipelines, perform completely different optimizations and redesign our algorithms. An e-Science approach that combines computer science research with domain knowledge is essential to achieve the required breakthroughs.
        Speaker: Rob Van Nieuwpoort
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Software and computing challenges at the high luminosity LHC 40m
        Speaker: Borut Kersevan
        Slides
      • 15:10
        Molecular dynamics simulations in the MolDynGrid Virtual Laboratory by means of “ARC between Grid and Cloud” 15m
        Speaker: Andrii Salnikov
        Slides
      • 15:25
        Simulation of Nonlinear Dynamics in Large Neuronal Networks Using ARC Middleware 15m
        Speaker: Oleksandr Sudakov
        Slides
      • 15:40
        Coffee 30m
      • 16:10
        cPouta - HPC Cloud @ CSC 40m
        Speaker: Kalle Happonen
        Slides
      • 16:50
        ARC as cloud front-end - Swiss experience 20m
        Speaker: Sigve Haug
        Slides
      • 17:10
        Machine Learning Technologies to predict the ATLAS Production System Behaviour 35m
        Speaker: Maxim Gubin (Tomsk (TPU))
        Slides
    • 09:00 12:30
      Plenary Session 3 Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice

      Šrobárova 2, Košice, Slovakia
      • 09:00
        Keynote: Accelerated Computing using OpenPOWER-based Heterogeneous Computing Systems 1h
        Speaker: Christoph Hagleitner
      • 10:00
        ARC as CRAY front-end - Swiss experience 20m
        Speaker: Gianfranco Sciacca (University of Bern)
        Slides
      • 10:20
        Coffee 30m
      • 10:50
        Towards understanding today’s and tomorrow's scheduling challenges in HPC systems 30m
        Speaker: Gonzalo Rodrigo
        Slides
      • 11:20
        Generative software development method of ARC mobile clients 20m
        Speaker: Vaidas Giedrimas
      • 11:40
        Distributed computing at P.J. Safarik University 20m
        The aim of the talk is to present a brief view on the history of the distributed computing at University and partially in Slovakia, and application of the distributed computing approach that enabled us to deliver interesting scientific results. At the end I will present thoughts about a need to increase intelligence of computational systems.
        Speaker: Dr Jozef Černák (UPJS)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Summary & Closing 30m
        Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h Canteen

      Canteen

    • 14:00 15:30
      Football 1h 30m Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Faculty of Science, Lecture hall M5

      Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice

      Šrobárova 2, Košice, Slovakia