Blue Gene Workshop
The first ICHEC-IBM BlueGene workshop took place the 8th and 9th of October 2008 in the IBM Innovation Centre, Mulhuddart, Dublin, building number 6. The aim of the event was to present to the Irish research community the BlueGene machines hosted by ICHEC, and the best way to use them. You can find here the program of the 2 days, and the presentations made. Some presentations are still missing, but should be available soon.
| Wednesday the 8th | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Speaker |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Registration | - |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Welcome | Luke Drury - DIAS |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Introduction to BlueGene | Brendan Boulter - IBM |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | - |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | BlueGene/P: designed to scale | Gilles Civario - ICHEC |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | National capability computing service | Gilles Civario - ICHEC |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break | - |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Compiling and using the double hummer | Prashobh Balasundaram - IBM |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Practical session | - |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Performance libraries | Prashobh Balasundaram - IBM |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | - |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Practical session | - |
| Thursday the 9th | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Workshop | - |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | MPI performances tuning | Guy Robinson - IBM |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | - |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Code performances on BlueGene | Mike Ashworth - STFC/DL |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break | - |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Profiling tools: MPIp, Scalasca & Tau | Prashobh Balasundaram - IBM |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Coffee Break | - |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Practical session | - |
Here are also some pictures of the event:
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