Barcelona Build vs Buy HPC Summit 3B4HPC

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Weather SW/HW Stack - ECMWF  30/06 16:00 to 17:00

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Christine Kitchen

(ECMWF)

Deputy Director of Computing Department, ECMWF

With over 20 years experience in establishing and operating supercomputing centres in the UK, I joined ECMWF at the beginning of 2022 in the role of Deputy Director of Computing. Originally qualified as a Chemist, my first exposure to research computing was during my final year studies and subsequent PhD in theoretical chemistry – working at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals undertaking analysis into Poisson-Boltzmann techniques to aid biomolecular drug design and identification of potential therapeutic candidates. A slight career trajectory change involved inheriting more responsibility for routine system administration of clusters – eventually culminating in technical evaluation of latest research computing solutions (servers - storage – interconnects – cluster management tools), including benchmarking systems to advise UK HEIs in the optimal solutions to support the research drivers and associated procurement processes (technical advisor in UK’s SRIF3 coordinated HPC procurements). Establishing a trusted and impartial technical role was recognized by my peers, resulting in election to chair the UK’s High Performance Computing Special Interest Group (HPC-SIG) and invitations to participate on a number of UKRI panels as an advisor into technology trends and investment strategies. Currently I’m a member of EPSRC’s Archer-2 management board. Prior to joining ECMWF, I spent almost 15 years at Cardiff University – building a new Advanced Research Computing Division, including overseeing the implementation of a datacentre and supercomputing facility. Based on the success and research impact, secured Welsh European Funding (WEFO) to establish a national supercomputing service – HPC Wales and subsequent phase Supercomputing Wales, operated as a partnership across Welsh Universities – recruiting a pool of technical experts to ensure the effective exploitation of resources by the research community (industry and academia). This included challenges of connecting distributed resources and implementation of a dedicated backend network. I’ve joined ECMWF at an exciting time, transitioning operations to a new datacentre in Bologna (Italy) and entering the final stages of the acceptance of the Atos Sequana XH2000 supercomputing facility prior to commencing full operational service later in the year. Outside the workplace, I love to spend time away from technology – enjoying walks and hiking in the Welsh countryside – sometimes with a Springer Spaniel as a companion.

Thomas Geenen

(ECMWF)

Thomas Geenen is the technology partnership lead for Destination earth at ECMWF, focussing on the integration of our evolving digital agenda in the European digital landscape. He brings over 20 years of experience in HPC and HPDA, both working in academia and industry. Before joining ECMWF at the beginning of 2022, he worked at ASML, leading the enablement teams for simulation and large-scale data-analytics as well as managing the globally distributed simulation platforms. Thomas worked on digital twins at ASML in an industrial setting and now combines this with his academic background in solid earth system modelling to create digital twin(s) of the earth.

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John D. Davis is the Director of the Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He has published over 30 refereed conference and journal papers in Computer Architecture (ASIC and FPGA-based domain-specific accelerators, non-volatile memories and processor design), Distributed Systems, and Bioinformatics. He also holds over 35 issued or pending patents in the USA and Europe. He has designed and built distributed storage systems in research and as products. John has led the entire product strategy, roadmap, and execution for a big data and analytics company. He has worked in research at Microsoft Research, where he also co-advised 4 PhDs, as well as large and small start-up companies. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington. He also holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. At BSC, John is leading the MEEP project and is the technical leader of the eProcesor project and the European PILOT project. He also leads several industrial research collaborations, all centered around a full open source ecosystem from software down to hardware, open source processors and accelerators. John is the founder and chair of the RISC-V Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIG-HPC)

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EPAC SiPearl and EPI "How a European Research and Innovation project has become a successful industrial story" - 01/07 9:30 to 10:00

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In this presentation, after a short introduction about SiPearl and the European Processor Initiative, it will be explained the codesign process that has been chosen to create and innovate, while targeting short term technological and industrial objectives

Jean-Marc Denis

(Sipearl)

Jean-Marc Denis is Chief Strategy officer and co-founder at SiPearl. The Company designing the first European HPC microprocessor.

Prior to that, he was Chief of Staff in the Innovation and Strategy division at Atos. Since the middle of 2018, Jean-Marc has been Chair of the Board of the European Processor Initiative (EPI). In 2016 and 2017, he’s overseen BigData Division strategy at ATOS/Bull.

After several positions in the HPC industry, Jean-Marc joined Bull in 2004 to launch the HPC activity. Since that, Atos/Bull has become #3 at worldwide level and #1 European supercomputers vendor.

Jean-Marc is has Master degree in Mathematics from the University of Tours (France), a Master dree in Computer science from the University of Toulouse (France) and an Ingenieur degree from ENSEEIHT (Toulouse, France)

 EPI GPP "RISC-V "accelerator" in EPI - 01/07 10:00 to 10:30

Jesús Labarta

(BSC)

Kristel Michielsen

(Forschungszentrum Jülich)

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HPC Center HW Panel 01/07 11:30 to 13:00

Alfonso Valencia

(BSC)

Alfonso Valencia, Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is ICREA Research Professor and Director of the Life Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB) and head of the Spanish Node of the European Bioinformatics Infrastructure ELIXIR. He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), and former President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). He has served in numerous Scientific Advisory Boards, including the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), of which he is currently Vice Chair, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, among others. He is Co-Executive Editor of Bioinformatics, and member of the editorial boards of eLIFE, PeerJ and FEBS letters and F1000 Prime. He has published more than 450 articles with an h-index of 97 (Scopus profile).

Bastian Koller (HLRS)

Managing Director of the High Performance Computing Centre. Studied computer-science and chemistry, PhD in Enginnering. Since 2004 active in R&D around HPC and associated technologies. Coordinator of EuroCC/CASTIEL and the Centre of Excellence in Engineering.

Chris Kitchen (ECMWF)

Deputy Director of Computing Department, ECMWF

With over 20 years experience in establishing and operating supercomputing centres in the UK, I joined ECMWF at the beginning of 2022 in the role of Deputy Director of Computing. Originally qualified as a Chemist, my first exposure to research computing was during my final year studies and subsequent PhD in theoretical chemistry – working at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals undertaking analysis into Poisson-Boltzmann techniques to aid biomolecular drug design and identification of potential therapeutic candidates. A slight career trajectory change involved inheriting more responsibility for routine system administration of clusters – eventually culminating in technical evaluation of latest research computing solutions (servers - storage – interconnects – cluster management tools), including benchmarking systems to advise UK HEIs in the optimal solutions to support the research drivers and associated procurement processes (technical advisor in UK’s SRIF3 coordinated HPC procurements). Establishing a trusted and impartial technical role was recognized by my peers, resulting in election to chair the UK’s High Performance Computing Special Interest Group (HPC-SIG) and invitations to participate on a number of UKRI panels as an advisor into technology trends and investment strategies. Currently I’m a member of EPSRC’s Archer-2 management board. Prior to joining ECMWF, I spent almost 15 years at Cardiff University – building a new Advanced Research Computing Division, including overseeing the implementation of a datacentre and supercomputing facility. Based on the success and research impact, secured Welsh European Funding (WEFO) to establish a national supercomputing service – HPC Wales and subsequent phase Supercomputing Wales, operated as a partnership across Welsh Universities – recruiting a pool of technical experts to ensure the effective exploitation of resources by the research community (industry and academia). This included challenges of connecting distributed resources and implementation of a dedicated backend network. I’ve joined ECMWF at an exciting time, transitioning operations to a new datacentre in Bologna (Italy) and entering the final stages of the acceptance of the Atos Sequana XH2000 supercomputing facility prior to commencing full operational service later in the year. Outside the workplace, I love to spend time away from technology – enjoying walks and hiking in the Welsh countryside – sometimes with a Springer Spaniel as a companion.

Estela Suárez

(Jülich Supercomputing Centre)

Is research group leader at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre and Professor at the University of Bonn. Her research focuses on HPC system architectures and codesign. As leader of the DEEP project series she has driven the development of the Modular Supercomputing Architecture, including hardware, software and application implementation and validation. Additionally, since 2018 she leads the codesign efforts within the European Processor Initiative. She holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Geneva and a Master degree in Astrophysics from the University Complutense of Madrid.