Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Assistant Professor of Geophysics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, simulates earthquake sources and the propagation of earthquakes in the greatest detail. Following her keynote at the PASC18 conference, she explains the issues with such simulations and why tsunami early-warning systems may give false alarms. August 15, 2018 – Interview by Simone Ulmer I […]

In this video from PASC18, Michele De Lorenzi looks back at the highlights from the conference. After that, they move on to preview PASC19, which takes place June 12-14, 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland. Next year, PASC19 happens the week before the ISC 2019 conference in Germany. Be sure to catch both shows! Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC […]

In this video from PASC18, conference co-chairs Erik Lindahl and Florina Ciorba describe highlights from the conference and how they are already looking forward to PASC19 in Zurich. Next year, PASC19 happens the week before the ISC 2019 conference in Germany. Be sure to catch both shows! Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video.

In this video from PASC18, the director of CSCS, Thomas Schulthess, provides an update on the centre. Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video.

In this video from PASC18, David Bader from Georgia Tech summarizes his keynote talk on Big Data Analytics. Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video.

In this video from PASC18, Constantia Alexandrou from the University of Cyprus discusses her domain of expertise – quantum chromodynamics.   Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video.

In this video from PASC18, Tessa Carver from the University of Geneva presents: Neutrino Telescope Data Management and Analysis. “(i) The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Composed of more than 100 telescopes of different sizes between 4 and 23 meters in diameter, it will operate […]

In this video from PASC18, Salvatore Vitale from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology presents: Methods and Challenges in the Characterization of Gravitational-Wave Sources. “Advanced gravitational-wave detectors have so far detected signals emitted by the coalescence of two neutron stars or two black holes. Their astrophysical (masses, spins) and extrinsic (position, orientation) parameters have been estimated […]

In this video from PASC18, Sascha Husa from the University of the Balearic Islands presents: Numerical Relativity and its Applications for the Modeling of Gravitational Waves. “The optimally efficient detection of gravitational wave events, and the robust identification of the sources of such events rely on accurate models of the gravitational wave signals for astrophysically […]

In this video from PASC18, Andrew P. Lundgren from the University of Portsmouth presents: Data Quality for Gravitational-Wave Detectors. “Gravitational-wave detectors are extremely complicated and unprecedentedly sensitive machines. We monitor many thousands of sensors and control systems to detect any hardware problems, electronics failures, noise from the environment, and all the many other subtle issues […]

In this video from PASC18, Nils P. Wedi from ECMWF presents: From Weather Dwarfs to Kilometre-Scale Earth System Simulations. “The increasingly large amounts of data being produced b weather and climate simulations and earth system observations is sometimes characterised as a deluge. This deluge of data is both a challenge and an opportunity. The main […]

In this video from PASC18, David Bader from Georgia Tech presents: Massive-Scale Analytics Applied to Real-World Problems. “Emerging real-world graph problems include: detecting and preventing disease in human populations; revealing community structure in large social networks; and improving the resilience of the electric power grid. Unlike traditional applications in computational science and engineering, solving these […]

In this video from PASC18, Yves Robert from École normale supérieure de Lyon in France presents: Recent Results and Open Problems for Resilience at Scale. “The talk will address the following three questions: (i) fail-stop errors: checkpointing or replication or both? (ii) silent errors: application-specific detectors or plain old trustworthy replication? (iii) workflows: how to […]

In this video from PASC18, Tristan Konolige from the University of Colorado Boulder presents: A Parallel Solver for Graph Laplacians. “Problems from graph drawing, spectral clustering, network flow and graph partitioning can all be expressed in terms of graph Laplacian matrices. There are a variety of practical approaches to solving these problems in serial. However, […]

In this video from PASC18, Etienne Lyard from the University of Geneva, Switzerland presents: Handling and Processing Data from the Cherenkov Telescope Array. “The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Composed of more than 100 telescopes of different sizes between 4 and 23 meters in diameter, […]

In this video from PASC18, Christian Engelmann from Oak Ridge National Laboratory presents: Characterizing Faults, Errors and Failures in Extreme-Scale Computing Systems. “Building a reliable supercomputer that achieves the expected performance within a given cost budget and providing efficiency and correctness during operation in the presence of faults, errors, and failures requires a full understanding […]

In this video from PASC18, Robert Searles from the University of Delaware presents: Abstractions and Directives for Adapting Wavefront Algorithms to Future Architectures. “Architectures are rapidly evolving, and exascale machines are expected to offer billion-way concurrency. We need to rethink algorithms, languages and programming models among other components in order to migrate large scale applications […]

In this video from PASC18, Alexander Nitz from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany presents: The Search for Gravitational Waves. “The LIGO and Virgo detectors have completed a prolific observation run. We are now observing gravitational waves from both the mergers of binary black holes and neutron stars. We’ll discuss how these […]

In this video from PASC18, Tobias Golling from the University of Geneva presents: Deep Generative Models for Fast Calorimeter Shower Simulations. “Machine Learning techniques have been used in different applications by the HEP community: in this talk, we discuss the case of detector simulation. The need for simulated events, expected in future High Luminosity LHC […]

In this video from PASC18, Maurizio Pierini from CERN presents: Generative Models for Application-Specific Fast Simulation of LHC Collision Events. “We investigate the possibility of using generative models (e.g., GANs and variational autoencoders) as analysis-specific data augmentation tools to increase the size of the simulation data used by the LHC experiments. With the LHC entering […]

In this video from PASC18, Kamil Deja presents: Using Generative Models for Fast Cluster Simulation in TPC Detector for the ALICE Experiment. “Simulation of the events happening in the particle detector is a key component of many High Energy Physics experiments. Currently used Monte Carlo techniques allow to do it accurately, but their precision often […]

In this video from the PASC18 conference in Basel, Alice-Agnes Gabriel presents: Unravelling Earthquake Dynamics through Extreme-Scale Multiphysics Simulations. “Earthquakes are highly non-linear multiscale problems, encapsulating geometry and rheology of faults within the Earth’s crust torn apart by propagating shear fracture and emanating seismic wave radiation. This talk will focus on using physics-based scenarios, modern numerical […]

In this video from PASC18, Leonardo Bautista Gomez from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents: Easy and Efficient Multilevel Checkpointing for Extreme Scale Systems. “Extreme scale supercomputers offer thousands of computing nodes to their users to satisfy their computing needs. As the need for massively parallel computing increases in industry, computing centers are being forced to […]

In this video from PASC18, Jakub Tomczak from the University of Amsterdam presents: The Success of Deep Generative Models. “Deep generative models allow us to learn hidden representations of data and generate new examples. There are two major families of models that are exploited in current applications: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAE). […]

In this video from PASC18, Fernanda Foertter from NVIDIA presents: Practical Scaling Techniques for Deep Learning. “The need for large scale training of neural networks is stemming from the advent of ever growing labeled datasets in data science combined with the successes of deep learning at achieving super-human performance at pattern recognition tasks and others. […]

In this video from PASC18, Valentin Clement from the Center for Climate System Modeling in Switzerland presents: The CLAW DSL: Abstractions for Performance Portable Weather and Climate Models. “In order to profit from emerging high-performance computing systems, weather and climate models need to be adapted to run efficiently on different hardware architectures such as accelerators. […]

In this video from PASC18, Hatem Ltaief from KAUST presents: Extreme Computing for Extreme Adaptive Optics: The Key to Finding Life Outside our Solar System. “The real-time correction of telescopic images in the search for exoplanets is highly sensitive to atmospheric aberrations. The pseudo-inverse algorithm is an efficient mathematical method to filter out these turbulences. […]

More than 400 scientists from across the globe met in Basel from July 2–4, convening for the fifth edition of the PASC Conference. “Fast and Big Data, Fast and Big Computation” was, with more than 200 talks on the subject, the theme at PASC18. July 10, 2018 More than 400 attendees benefitted from the diverse […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to announce a keynote presentation by Eng Lim Goh(Hewlett Packard Enterprise, US) from PASC18 Platinum Sponsor Hewlett Packard Enterprise. We also would like to remind you that the deadlines for early registration and the Student Volunteer Program are fast approaching. HPE Sponsored Keynote – Prediction: Use Science or History? Traditionally, scientific […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to announce that this year’s panel discussion will be focussed on the central theme of the conference: “Fast and Big Data, Fast and Big Computation.” The panelists, Nuria Lopez(ICIQ, Spain), Matthias Scheffler(Fritz Haber Institute, Germany), Torsten Schwede(University of Basel, Switzerland) and Eng Lim Goh(Hewlett Packard Enterprise, US), will provide […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to announce the publication of the PASC18 program and the opening of the registration site. We look forward to welcoming you to Basel from July 2–4, 2018! The PASC Conference is focused on interdisciplinarity – bringing domain scientists, computer scientists and applied mathematicians together to drive computational science forward […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to announce that this year’s Public Lecture will be held by David Bader from Georgia Tech, USA, and that Basel will host a ComPat Training Workshop on Multiscale Modelling & Simulation on HPC on July 5, 2018, the day after PASC18. PASC18 Public Lecture: Massive-Scale Analytics Applied to Real-World Problems Emerging […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to announce a keynote presentation by Alice Gabriel from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. PASC18 keynote presentation: Unraveling Earthquake Dynamics Through Extreme-Scale Multi-Physics Simulations Earthquakes are highly non-linear multiscale problems, encapsulating geometry and rheology of faults within the Earth’s crust torn apart by propagating shear fracture and emanating seismic wave radiation. […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to invite organizations from industry and academia to take advantage of a range of exhibition and sponsorship opportunities for PASC18, and to announce that the deadline for poster submissions has been extended until February 11, 2018. Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at PASC18 CONFERENCE PASC18 is the fifth edition of […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to announce a keynote presentation by Nils Wedi from ECMWF, and to remind you that the deadlines for student travel grant applications and poster submissions are approaching. PASC18 keynote presentation: From Weather Dwarfs to Kilometre-Scale Earth System Simulations The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) leads a number of Horizon […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to announce a keynote presentation by Marina Becoulet from CEA, and that the deadline for papers submissions has been extended until January 21, 2018. PASC18 keynote presentation: Challenges in the First Principles Modelling of Magneto Hydro Dynamic Instabilities and their Control in Magnetic Fusion Devices The main goal of […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team would like to welcome you in the New Year with an exciting announcement about opportunities for student participation, as well as with a reminder that submission deadlines are rapidly approaching. Opportunities for student participation TRAVEL GRANTS We are pleased to announce that this year for the first time, PASC18 will offer […]

The PASC18 Organizing Team wishes you a happy holiday season and looks forward to welcoming you to Basel from July 2–4, 2018. In this bulletin, we announce the “interdisciplinary dialogue” plenary session at PASC18, our partnership with ISC High Performance and the proximity of our events in 2018, and remind you of upcoming submissions deadlines. […]

ISC High Performance and the PASC Conference are pleased to announce that ISC 2018 and PASC18, two major events in the European HPC ecosystem, are scheduled back-to-back at the end of June and beginning of July 2018. ISC 2018, which will be held from June 24 – 28 in Frankfurt, Germany, will embrace a range […]

Dr. Jack Wells (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US) and Prof. Sabine Roller (University of Siegen, Germany) are chairs of the papers program for the PASC18 Conference. PASC18 is soliciting high-quality original research papers related to scientific computing in any of the eight scientific domains represented at the conference (chemistry and materials, life sciences, physics, climate […]

ACM’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) is a proud sponsor of PASC18, which will be held from July 2 to 4, 2018, in Basel, Switzerland. In this interview, Jeff Hollingsworth, Chair of SIGHPC, discusses the significance of PASC18 to their organization, and invites researchers from academia and industry to submit proposals for […]

Florina Ciorba (University of Basel, Switzerland) together with Erik Lindahl (Stockholm University, Sweden) is co-chair of the upcoming PASC18 Conference that will take place from July 2-4, 2018 in Basel, Switzerland. PASC18 is the fifth edition of the PASC Conference series, an international platform for the exchange of competences in scientific computing and computational science, […]