The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community hpc-ch community building BoF HPC for HPC June 24th, 2014

Background In 2007, the ETH Board developed Switzerland’s National Strategic Plan for High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN Strategy) on behalf of the Swiss Confederation Resolutions adopted in 2009 by the Federal Council and Parliament Investment costs up to 2014 amount to 172.5m CH –New building –Supercomputers (stepwise up to Petaflop) –Networking and Co-design: HP2C (now PASC) 2

hpc-ch In 2009 a group of participants to ISC decided to create a HPC community in order to further develop HPC in Switzerland –The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community. Support and foster the knowledge exchange between providers of HPC systems at Swiss universities – In particular Know the offering and organization of other Swiss HPC providers Exchange best practices Co-ordinate activities Discuss developments in HPC 3

Milestones First gathering together –During final reception at ISC9 in Hamburg (CSCS, Uni Zh, EPFL, Uni Basel) First getting together –October 2009, University of Zurich First forum –Spring 2010, EPF Lausanne Creation of industry branch –Spring

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The Swiss HPC Service Provider Community Channels 6

Blog 7

Twitter twitter.com/hpcch 8

Youtube 9

Forums 2009 –Getting Together (University of Zurich) 2010 –Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods (EPFL) –Parallel File Systems for HPC (ETH Zurich) 2011 –Scheduler and Queuing Systems (PSI) –Use of GPU and Accelerators for HPC (University of Basel) 2012 –Infrastructure for HPC (EMPA) –Handling huge amount of data for HPC (CSCS & USI) 2013 –HPC in Swiss Industry (Novartis) –Hardware Life-Cycle and User Policies for HPC systems (EPFL) 2014 –Cloud computing and virtualisation for HPC (ETH Zurich / Uni Zurich) –Monitoring and reporting in HPC (University of Bern) 10

Booths at ISC and SC First draft for the booth … 11

ISC'11 … and the resulting booth … 12

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