PetaQCD General Meeting

20 janv. 2009, 09:00 → 21 janv. 2009, 18:00 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre Lehmann (LAL-Orsay)

Gilbert Grosdidier (LAL-IN2P3-CNRS)

Kickoff meeting for the PetaQCD project

mardi 20 janvier

General Session: Welcome

1 Informations

- How to come to LAL: General directions Detailed maps - Evening dinner: Paris interactive map (you can locate the parking lot by checking the P button in the lower right corner) Restaurant "Invitez-vous chez nous" 7 Rue de l'Epee de bois 75005 Paris Subway stations : PLACE MONGE (line 7) or CENSIER-DAUBENTON (line 7) Call number : 01 4337 0558

General Session: Session1

Président de session: Philippe Boucaud (LPT)

2 General Strategy

- Une discussion sur notre strategie generale (petaflop, comment l'aborder, outils necessaires, tests hardware). Est-ce que cela est coherent ? - Discussion about our overall strategy (the petaflop target, the path to the petaflop, required tools, hardware tests). Is all this coherent ?

Orateur: O.Pene & P.Roudeau

Slides kick_session1_4.pdf

3 Discussion (Convener: Ph. Boucaud - LPT)

4 Presentation du fonctionnement de l'ANR

Orateur: Ph. d'Anfray

document expose-ANR-CI-janvier-2009.pdf

10:45 Coffee break

General Session: Session2

5 Using abstract langages like 'Fortress'

- Interet, portabilite, eviter un travail trop minutieux sur une architecture particuliere. Comment travailler avec ? Comment tenir compte de l'architecture ? - Why are 'abstract langages' attractive to our project ? Portability issues ? Trying to avoid working on a too specific platform ... How to use them ? How to get to specific hardware backends ?

Orateur: D. Barthou

document DB_PetaQCD_abstract.pdf

6 Discussion (Convener: G.Grosdidier - LAL)

12:15 Lunch break

General Session: Session3

7 Code generators

- Les generateurs de code: conception, validation, part du travail "a la main". - Code generators : design, validation, how to evaluate the fraction of 'non-automated' components ?

Orateur: Ch. Eisenbeis

document 20090120_PetaQCD_CodeGenerators.pdf

Slides 20090120_PetaQCD_CodeGenerators.ppt

8 Discussion (Convener: L. Morin - CAPS)

General Session: Session4

9 Error monitoring, processing and possible recovery strategies

- Checkpointing, sauvegarde locale (sur un noeud), globale. - Checkpointing, local (on one node) and global backups.

Orateur: P. Gallard

document cr.pdf

10 Discussion (Convener: H.-P. Charles - PRISM)

16:15 Coffee break

General Session: Session5

11 Hardware Architectures

- Discussion generale sur les architectures, heterogenes ou homogenes, obstruction des bus memoire. - General discussion about hardware architectures (homogeneous and heterogeneous) and comparison, memory bus bottlenecks.

Orateur: A. Seznec

Slides ProcHPC-PetaQCD.ppt

12 Discussion (Convener: P.-F. Honore - IRFU)

mercredi 21 janvier

Scientific Committee: Introductions

13 PetaQCD Project Overview

Orateur: G. Grosdidier

Slides PetaQCD_Overview.ppt

14 Alchemy team

Orateur: Ch. Eisenbeis

Slides Alchemy.pdf

15 CAPS-Entreprise team

Orateur: L. Morin

Slides CAPS_CodeGen.ppt

16 INRIA Rennes team

Orateur: A. Seznec

Slides ALFforPetaQCD.ppt

17 LAL team

Orateur: P. Roudeau

Slides kick_lal.pdf

18 LPSC team

Orateur: J.-C. Angles d'Auriac

document LPSC_ang_lequipe.pdf

19 LPT team

Orateur: O. Brand-Foissac

Slides LPTteam.pdf

20 PRISM team

Orateur: D. Barthou

Slides PetaQCD_UVSQ.ppt

21 CEA/IRFU team

Orateur: P.-F. Honoré

Slides petaQCD20090121.ppt

22 Kerlabs team

Orateur: P. Gallard

document kerlabs.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

Scientific Committee: Discussions with SC Experts

23 Discussion with SC Experts

Discussion between the 4 Experts (K. Jansen, A. Malony, P. Sadayappan, R. Tripiccione) and the representatives of the 9 PetaQCD teams.

12:15 Lunch break

Scientific Committee: Closed session for the Experts

15:30 Coffee break

Scientific Committee: Feedback from the Experts

24 Feedback

Feedback from the 4 experts to the PetaQCD consortium.