2017
Agenda - 8th European HPC Infrastructure Workshop
Mendrisio, Switzerland
Tuesday 4th April
Independent arrival in Mendrisio
18:30 Registration
19:00 Welcome Dinner at Hotel Coronado
Wednesday 5th April
8:15-8:30 Welcome
Session I – Site Updates
| 8:30 – 9:05 | Site Update CSCS – Ladina Gilly, CSCS |
| 9:05 – 9:40 | Experiences with Oil Immersion Cooling in a Processing Datacenter 2017 – Michael Garcia, CGG |
| 9:40 – 10:15 | Servers cooling themselves: perspective on adsorption cooling for data centers – Matthias Hoene, Fahrenheit AG |
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
Session II – Standards & Regulations
| 10:45 – 11:20 | EE HPC WG: mobilizing community action to encourage energy conservation, Natalie Bates, Energy Efficient HPC Working Group, LLNL |
| 11:20 – 11:55 | Liquid cooling – Mike Patterson, Intel |
| 11:55 – 12:30 | Residual Current Monitoring (RCM) and Regulations – Frank Riedo, Riedo Networks |
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Session III – TCO
| 14:00 – 14:35 | Ways to decrease TCO and infrastructure related costs – Willi Homberg, FZJ |
| 14:35 – 15:10 | Using TCO considerations in HPC procurements – Gert Svensson, KTH |
| 15:10 – 15:45 | TCO for adsorption cooling – Torsten Wilde, LRZ |
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
Session IV – Site Visit to CSCS
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Bus transfer to CSCS |
| 16:45 – 18:15 | Site visit of CSCS |
| 18:15 – 18:30 | Bus transfer to Ristorante Capo San Martino for dinner |
| 18:30 – 21:30 | Conference dinner at Capo San Martino |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Bus transfer to Hotel Coronado |
Thursday 6th April
Session V – Design & Procurement
| 8:30 – 9:05 | An approach to control the sharp fluctuations of power consumption and heat load of the HPC system – Shoji Fumyjoshi, RIKEN |
| 9:05 – 9:40 | An HPC experience with Design-Build – Steve Hammond, NREL |
| 9:40 – 10:15 | Challenges and opportunities of “slab on grade” data centre design – Jim Rogers, ORNL |
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
Session VI – Energy Storage
| 10:45 – 11:20 | Lead Battery Life Cycle Management – Tiziano Belotti, CSCS |
| 11:20 – 11:55 | Lithium batteries – Morten Stoevering, Schneider Electric |
| 11:55 – 12:30 | Application of fuel cells for UPS – Felix Büchi, PSI |
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Session VII – Technologies
| 14:00 – 14:35 | Power Management framework: A consistent vision to manage your cluster – Abdelhafid Mazouz, Atos |
| 14:35 – 15:10 | ABB Synchronous reluctance (SynRM) motor & drive package – Super premium efficiency for HVAC application – Huy-Hour Lor, ABB ABB Cognisense Motors – Condition monitoring of HVAC LV motors through the Internet of Things – Tom Bertheau, ABB |
| 15:10 – 15:45 | Preventing biofilm in cooling installations with the use of ultrasound – Michael Widegren, Creando (Harsonic) |
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
Session VIII – Vendor Panel
| 16:15 – 16:30 | IoT in the DataCenter – a vision of e2e HPC operations – Martin Hiegl, Lenovo |
| 16:35 – 16:50 | Processor Design Trends and their Implications to Cooling – Wilfried Oed, Cray |
| 16:55 – 17:10 | Path to Exascale – Options and Obstacles – Frank Baetke – HPE |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Bull Sequana – Impact on data center infrastructure of high efficiency and high density servers – Jean-Philippe Sibers, ATOS |
| 17:35 – 17:50 | The IBM – ASTRON DOME microDataCenter technology – Ronald Luijten, IBM research – Zurich |
| 17:50 – 18:30 | Vendor Panel Discussion |
18:30 – 18:45 Closing Session
Wrap up and outlook for next year’s infrastructure workshop.
19:00 – 21:30 Dinner at Grotto Loverciano
Friday 7th April
| 8:30 – 14:00 | PRACE Session – 4IP/5IP Work Package 5 meeting |