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Power.org in academia

New series of seminars begins at JSCC in Moscow

The first of Power.org's newly-announced series of technical seminars was held on November 30th at the Joint Supercomputer Center (JSCC) in Moscow, Russia. The JSCC seminar featured technical presentations about Power Architecture technology, Linux®, the latest technical information about the MareNostrum system in Barcelona, JSCC and other leading Russian university research, academic research conducted on Power Architecture, and much more. Members can download the presentations

About the JSCC

The Joint Supercomputing Center is a state scientific institution that was founded in 1996 by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russian Federation Ministry of Science and Technologies, Russian Federation Ministry of Education, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). The goal is to provide HPC-services to Russian academic researchers and help researchers to maximize utilization efficiency of HPC-systems and to use advanced information technologies. The Joint Supercomputer Center integrates Russian scientific and educational society using high performance computations.

JSCC is the most powerful and largest supercomputer center in Russia. Since 2002, JSCC computers have been present in the Top500 list of supercomputers. In the current list, JSCC is represented with two: the MVS-15000BM is currently ranked number 56 in the world and number 1 in Eastern Europe. JSCC supercomputers are used to solve complex scientific problems in the physics, chemistry, fields of life and earth sciences, and others.

The agenda

The day began at 10am local time and ended at 6:15pm, after closing and refreshments.  The following were the topics presented and the speakers. 

Downloads of the presentations are available in the Power.org Member area. 

Topic	Presenter
Welcome	Nigel Beck, Power.org chairman
IBM: HPC and Power, from Blue Gene to Cell Broadband Engine	Dr. L. Brochard, IBM Distinguished Engineer
JSCC experience with Power Architecture	Dr. B. Shabanov, JSCC deputy director
High-performance applications development and performance scalability analysis for IBM pSeries 690 Regatta	Dr. N. Popova, Moscow State University
Cell Broadband Engine: How to use the simulator	J. Osterkamp, IBM Boeblingen lab
Lunch	Provided by Power.org
Running LINPACK benchmarks on Linux on Power	A. Bokovoy, IBM LTC Russia
Parallel software project GIMM: Numerical simulation of complex CFD problems	Dr. B. Chetverushkin, S. Polyakov, M. Iakobovski, Institute for Mathematical Modelling RAS
Running parallel library for discrete optimization problems on IBM systems	Dr. M. Posypkin, Institute for System Programming RAS; Dr. I. Sigal, Dorodnicin Center RAS
Break
Optimizing MPI collectives for Linux-based POWER clusters	Dr. V. Grishagin, A. Kurylev, A. Linev, University of Nizhniy Novgorod
Creating the system software for parallel supercomputers	Dr. V. Korneev, A. Kiselev, A. Baranov, D. Semenov, Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics RAS
Barcelona Supercomputing Center: Details of the system	Francesc Subirada, BSC deputy director
Closing/refreshments

About Moscow

Moscow is the barometer and nucleus of the changes sweeping through Russia. Nowhere are Russia's contrasts more apparent than here: ancient monasteries and ultra-modern monoliths stand side by side. The populace now prefer impromptu street markets to monolithic department stores, and the beautiful churches vandalised or abandoned during the Soviet era of hardline atheism are being lovingly restored. But the real flavour of this city is in its nooks and crannies, each of them unique.

Moscow's climate really consists of two seasons: winter and summer. Russian winter, if you're prepared, can be adventurous: furs and vodka keep people warm, and snow-covered landscapes are picturesque. A solid snow pack covers the ground from November to March. The lowest recorded temperature is -42°C (-43°F), although it's normally more like -10°C (14°F) for weeks on end. Occasional southerly winds can raise the temperature briefly to a balmy 0°C (32°F). Days are very short.

Places to see: Gorky Park, Kuklachev Cats Theatre, Lenin's Tomb, Novodevichy Convent, Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, St Basil's Cathedral, and more.