Event format: hybrid (at Barcelona Supercomputing Center and online)
The workshop on High-Performance Computing (HPC) Visualization will focusing on cutting-edge tools and techniques for handling the vast datasets produced by large-scale simulations and observational surveys in astrophysics and cosmology.
The growing complexity of astrophysical and cosmological data—whether from massive simulations or large-scale observational campaigns—requires powerful visualization tools to extract scientific insights. However, implementing these tools efficiently on diverse HPC platforms presents challenges such as hardware and software compatibility, scalability, and resource optimization.
This workshop will explore strategies to overcome these challenges and highlight recent advances in high-performance visualization, including:
While the primary focus is on astrophysics and cosmology, these techniques have broad applications across other scientific domains dealing with large and complex datasets. We encourage participation from researchers and developers interested in state-of-the-art visualization methods.
This workshop is an initiative of the SPACE Centre of Excellence, an EU-funded project dedicated to enabling flagship European Astrophysics and Cosmology (A&C) simulation codes to run efficiently on pre-exascale and exascale architectures. Within this framework, we aim to develop advanced software solutions for data access, storage, and analysis, ensuring that HPC visualization keeps pace with the increasing complexity of simulation-driven research.
The High-Performance Computing Visualization Workshop, organized with the support of NCC Czechia and CASTIEL2, will be a hybrid event, held online via Zoom and on-site at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Before the event, technical details will be sent to the accepted registrants.
The on-site capacity is limited to 25 participants, online participation is unlimited. The course is open to participants from the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) and Associated/Other Countries to the Horizon Europe programme.
Participation in the course is free of charge; however, participants must arrange travel and accommodation at their own expense. Registered participants will receive a list of recommended hotels, including special room rates.
Have a look at the detailed agenda and register here!
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ONNX, Open Neural Network Exchange - The open standard for machine learning.
ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) is an open-source framework designed to enable interoperability of machine learning models across various AI tools and platforms supported by many key players in the field. It provides a standard format for representing machine learning and deep learning models. This simplifies deployment and enhances reproducibility of experiments. ONNX supports a wide range of operations and architectures, making it versatile for both industry and academia.
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Level: intermediate, advanced
The training is addressed to researchers working in the field of fluid dynamics as well as astrophysicists interested in structure formation in general. We will first present the main features of the RAMSES code, as well as its current scalability. We will then highlight the science that can be done with RAMSES using Tier 0 resources. Last, we will discuss our work-plan to improve the performance of the code.
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Level: intermediate, advanced
This talk addresses researchers interested in particle-in-cell methods and high-performance computing. We will highlight the pros and cons of the particle-in-cell methods and their applicability in astrophysical environments. This will be followed by a discussion of recent and planned improvements for the iPic3D.
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Level: intermediate, advanced
BHAC: This webinar can serve as an introduction to a state-of-the-art code designed to simulate accretion flows into compact objects. A short intro on how to use and run your first simulation with BHAC will be given. Also, recent developments concerning the code within the SPACE CoE will be briefly presented.
FIL: The webinar will be an introduction to the Einstein toolkit (ET) and FIL. FIL is designed to simulate binary neutron star collisions using high order finite difference methods and tabulated EOS. The tutorial will go through how to compile the ET and run some simple benchmarking simulations using FIL.
Event format: in person and online
The PLUTO symposium 2024 aims at bringing together developers, scientists and users with the purpose of sharing recent numerical algorithms, new code features as well as challenging astrophysical applications. A special focus will given to the GPU porting of the code and its forthcoming release. A hands-on session will also take place in order to help the new users to get used to the code structure.
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OpenGadget is a versatile N-Body/Lagrangian cosmological code that employs smoothed particle hydro-dynamics (SPH) to simulate the evolution of matter under gravitational forces in a cosmological context.
This meeting offered the opportunity for the code users to discuss code advances and development on the road towards exascale.
Event format: in person and online
This training was organized to share an overview on the CINECA infrastructure, providing practical information about LEONARDO & SPACK, the exible package manager supporting multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
The training also focused on performance portability for NVIDIA's GPU, on the usage of the HPC ttol Darshan and on optimization by DDN.
The training is addressed to researchers interested in HPC and the challenges that astrophysics codes present when scaling towards exa-scale. We will discuss both the benefits and difficulties of the ChaNGa code and the Charm++ framework. We will also discuss recent and future improvements of the code.
Read moreThe training is addressed to HPC experts from all domains interested in evolving their codes to "exa-scale". The audience will benefit from the training, discovering how a different community is solving computational problems and implementing algorithms. Conversely, the benefits for the speakers will come from the audience observations, discussions, suggestions, and even error spotting.
Read moreThe training is addressed to researchers working in the field of HPC as well as astrophysicists interested in plasma astrophysics and fluid dynamics in general. We aim at sharing our recent achievements on PLUTO GPU to a larger community in order to foster discussions and possible solutions to common problems and implementation bottlenecks.
Read moreThe objective of this webinar is to present the prototype of a machine learning tool to enable the exploration, analysis, and interpretation of the outputs of large-volume cosmological simulations using Representation Learning techniques.
Read moreThis training will show how to setup a CI pipeline on a local system as well as on an external cluster, starting with a simple example up to a larger full functional pipeline of a real project. It will also present a flexible and robust solution to set up CI that can work in various scenarios.
Read moreThis training will cover the following topics: Introduction to git version control system; Showcase in real time with a few examples of the git usage.
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