• Public deliverables

• Memorandum of Understanding signed for the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) (April 2007)

PR material

• PRACE brochure 2009 (pdf)

• PRACE brochure 2008 (pdf)
• PRACE flyer (pdf)
• PRACE logo (jpg)
   

Newsletters

• PRACE newsletter 8 (4/2009) (pdf)

• PRACE newsletter 7 (3/2009) (pdf)

• PRACE newsletter 6 (2/2009) (pdf)

• PRACE newsletter 5 (1/2009) (pdf)

• PRACE newsletter 4/2008 (pdf)

• PRACE newsletter 3/2008 (pdf)

• PRACE newsletter 2/2008 (pdf)

• PRACE newsletter 1/2008 (pdf)
  

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General presentations

• PRACE - General presentation (2009) (pdf)

• PRACE - Applications (pdf)
• PRACE - Project (pdf)
• PRACE - Prototypes (pdf)
• PRACE - Strategy (pdf)
• PRACE - Training needs (pdf)
• PRACE evaluates Technologies for Future Multi-Petaflop/s Systems (pdf)

 Presentations at events:

PRACE networking session at ICT 2008.

PRACE Workshop “New Languages & Future Technology Prototypes” (March 1-2, 2010)

• "Overview of Languages", Iris Christadler, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (pdf)

• "Future Technologies" (WP8) Prototype Evaluation & Research Activities, Dr. Herbert Huber, Iris Christadler, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (pdf)

• "mixed MPI-OpenMP EUROBEN kernels", Filippo Spiga, CINECA (pdf)
• "HMPP port",Guillaume Colin de Verdière, CEA (pdf)
• "CUDA/OpenCL - Introduction and Results", Hans Hacker, TUM - Department of Informatics (pdf)
• "Rapidmind & PGI Accelerator Compiler",Dr. Volker Weinberg, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (pdf)
• "QPACE: Energy-Efficient High Performance Computing", S. Rinke, W. Homberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich" (pdf)
• StarSs: A Programming Model for the Multicore Era", Jesus Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (pdf)
• "Cell programming", Maciej Cytowski, ICM (pdf)
• The PetaPath-Clearspeed system - Experiences and observations", Aad van der Steen, NCF/HPC Research (pdf)
• "FPGA prototype 'Maxwell'”, James Perry, EPCC (pdf)
•  "Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages - Incorporating parallelism into C and Fortran", Reinhold Bader, Alexander Block, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (pdf)
  
• "Productivity Analysis of Integrated Compilers for PGAS languages", Sadaf Alam, CSCS (pdf)
• "The Chapel Language", Jose Gracia, HLRS (pdf)
• "X10", Walter Lioen, SARA (pdf)
• "CEPBA-Tools", Jesus Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (pdf)
• "The ApexMAP Benchmark", Dr. Volker Weinberg, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (pdf)
• "KTH-SNIC Prototype - Energy Efficiency with Standard components", Lennart Johnsson, Daniel Ahlin, KTH/SNIC
• "Energy Efficiency Investigation (Power & Performance)", Igor N. Kozin, STFC (pdf)
• "Research on energy-efficient computing solutions"
  Norbert Meyer, Radoslaw Januszwegski, PSNC (pdf)
• "Wrap Up and Future Work", Iris Christadler, Filippo Spiga, Carlo Cavazzoni, Maciej Cytowski, Igor Kozin and others (pdf)
  
  
  

  SC09 (November 14-20, 2009)

• “Future Technologies” (WP8) Prototypes, Iris Christadler, Dr. Herbert Huber Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany (pdf)

• Evaluation of new Languages, Iris Christadler, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany Carlo Cavazzoni, Giovanni Erbacci, Filippo Spiga, CINECA, Italy (pdf)

Second industry seminar "Europe goes HPC" presentations (September 7-8, 2009)

• "European HPC Infrastructure: a stimulus for industrial competitiveness", Kostas Glinos, EC (pdf)

• Virtual prototyping at BMW Group by F. Christel (BMW Group) (pdf)
• "HPC usage on acoustics modeling" by R. Pesseau (Free Field Technologies) (pdf)
• High Performance Computing - a collaborative approach by JM. Thomas VP Airbus France and AeroSpace Valley Chairman (pdf)
• PRACE WP4 ("Distributed Systems Management") by R. Murri (CSCS) (pdf)
• "HPC usage on a energy modeling SME" by C. Chauvet (Prospect FS) (pdf)
• Speech by P. Cohen Mayor of Toulouse (pdf)
• "Europe Goes HPC" a presentation of PRACE by T. Lippert (FZJ) (pdf)
• Welcome speech by C. Riviere (GENCI) (pdf)
• HPC in Finance : a field report by T. Koschnick (Subnetz Computing) (pdf)
• PRACE WP3 ("Dissemination, Outreach and Training") presentation by A. Turunen (CSC) (pdf)
• PRACE WP6 ("Software enabling for Petaflop/s Systems") presentation by M. Parsons (EPCC) (pdf)
• PRACE WP8 ("Emerging Technologies") presentation by I. Christalder (LRZ) (pdf)
• "Second Industry Seminar Wrapup" by F. Subirada (BSC) (pdf)
      

Presentations at PRACE ISC'09 networking session (24, May, 2009):

• Thomas Lippert (FZJ): Ab Initio Determination of Light Hadron Masses (pdf)

• Thomas Eickermann (FZJ): PRACE - high end computing service for Europe (pdf)

• Sergi Girona (BSC): Opportunities and challenges of novel architectures for HPC (pdf)

Presentations at DEISA PRACE Symposium (11-13, May, 2009):

• Kostas Glinos (EC): e-infrastructure: EC perspective (pdf)
• Abani K. Patra (NSF, USA): Supporting Computational Discovery at Scale - (Managing Complexity)⁴  (pdf)
• Ryutaro Himeno (RIKEN, Japan): Japan's Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Project and Grand Challenges in Life Science (pdf) 
• Horst Simon (DoE, NERSC, US): Science Drivers, Current HPC Software Development Plans for the USA (pdf)
• Ben Evans (ANU-SF and NCI National Facility, Australia): Toward Petascale Computing in Australia (pdf)
• Vladimir Voevodin (MSU, Russia): MSU Petascale Facilities and Perspectives for HPC Infrastructure in Russia (pdf)
• Peter Coveney (Life Sciences, UK) DEISA-PRACE & The Virtual Physiological Human (pdf)

• Maria F. Ramalho (EC): e-infrastructure: The European HPC service (pdf)
• Achim Bachem (PRACE): PRACE - On the way to a persistent European high-end computing service (pdf)
• Stefan Heinzel (DEISA): Towards a European HPC Infrastructure for Petaflop Applications DEISA and its contributions (pdf)
• John Towns (TeraGrid, NCSA, US): TeraGrid and the Path to Petascale (pdf)

• Sylvie Joussaume (Climate Research, France): High-performance computing for climate modelling (pdf)
• Frank Jenko (Fusion Research, DE): Extreme computing in support of ITER (pdf)
• Carlos Frenk (Cosmology, UK): Simulating cosmic evolution (pdf)

• Aad van der Steen (NCF, the Netherlands): Directions in HPC Technology (pdf)
• Mark Bull (EPCC, UK): A Survey of HPC Systems and Application in Europe (pdf)
• Timothy Stitt (CSCS; Switzerland): Towards a European HPC Training and Education Infrastructure for Petascale Computing (pdf)

• Harm Jonker (Weather and Climate Research, the Netherlands): PINNACLE: Pinning down the growth-rate law of Atmospheric Convective Boundary Layers (pdf)
• Hans-Joachim Bungartz (Engineering, Germany): Efficient Algorithmic Approaches for Flow Simulations on Cartesian Grids (pdf)
• Hannu Häkkinen (Materials Science, Finland): Golden superatoms and quantum dots (pdf)

• QCD Breakthrough 2008: Zoltan Fodor (Germany): The origin of the mass of the visible Universe (pdf)
• Rosa Dominques-Tenreiro (Astrophysics, Spain): Modeling Galaxy Formation in the Universe: the Need for Supercomputing (pdf)
• Jean-Philippe Laval (Engineering, France): Direct Numerical Simulations of converging-diverging channel flow (pdf)
• Michele Migliore (Computational Neuro Sciences, Italy): Large-scale simulations of the olfactory bulb (pdf)

• Matthias Krack (Materials Science, Switzerland): Extending the time and length scale of ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations (pdf)
• Luís O. Silva (Plasma Physics, Portugal): Laser Plasma Accelerators towards the energy frontier with transformative simulations (pdf)
• Rainer Spurzem (Astrophysics, Germany): From Newton to Einstein - relativistic dynamics of black holes in dense star clusters (pdf)
• David van der Spoel (Comput. Bio Sciences, Sweden): Large Scale Biomolecular Dynamics Simulations (pdf)

Miscellaneous presentations 2009:

• Pedro Alberto's presentation at ICNSP09 in Lisbon (pdf)

• Sergi Girona's PRACE presentation in Barcelona on 7.10.2009 (pdf)

• Peter Michielse's presentation at Workshop on "Universe in a Box: LHC, Cosmology and Lattice Field Theory" Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, the Netherlands on 27th August 2009 (pdf)

   

•  Jean-Philippe Nomine's (CEA) presentation at ASTRONUM2009 on 3 July, 2009 (pdf)
• Peter Michielse's White Paper "Application Analysis and Porting in the PRACE Project" given at IESP Workshop, April 7-8, 2009, Santa Fe, NM, USA (pdf)
• Lennart Johnsson's presentation at OGF25 / EGEE User Forum "Evolvement of US and European HPC Infrastructures" session on March 5th, 2009, Catania, Italy (pdf)

Presentations at 1st scientific workshop (26/11/2008):

Networking session at ICT 2008: "Scientific Computing in the Petascale Regime: a European HPC Infrastructure":

• "HPC Ecosystem", Dr. Kimmo Koski (CSC)

• "PRACE Prototypes Approach towards a pan-European Petascale Computing Infrastructure", Dr. Jean-Philippe Nominé (CEA)
  

• "Development of a Seismic Imaging Tools (BSIT) on Cell Architecture, Dr. Mauricio Araya (BSC)

• "HPC-Europa and HPC-Europa2 transnational access selection: a possible model for Tier-0 access", Dr. Sergio Bernardi and Dr. Francesca Garofalo (CINECA)

Evening session presentations:

• "The PRACE Infrastructure. How European Researchers Can Use The Infrastructure", Dr. Thomas Eickermann (FZJ)
• "Towards a European HPC Training and Education Infrastructure for Petascale Computing", Ph. D. Timothy Stitt (CSCS)
• "Full Scale Kinetic Modelling of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas with Petascale Systems", Prof. Ricardo Fonseca (Instituto Superior Tecnico and ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal)

ICT 2008:

• "ICT infrastructure for science: virtualising global research, ICT 2008 conference, Lyon, France, November 25th, 2008", Dr. Kimmo Koski (CSC)
  

ICT-BIO-conference:

• "PRACE – A Petaflop Computing Research Infrastructure for European Scientists and Engineers", Dr. Thomas Eickermann, ICT-BIO 2008, October 23-24, Brussels, Belgium

Presentations at 1st Industry Seminar:

• Industrial Competitiveness: Europe goes HPC, P. Aerts (NCF), "Seminar Opening", 3 September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pdf)

• Industrial Competitiveness: Europe goes HPC, A. Bachem (Forschungszentrum Jülich, PRACE Coordinator), "PRACE - Europe goes HPC", 3 September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pdf)

• Industrial Competitiveness: Europe goes HPC, J.F. Hamelin (EDF): "HPC in Energy: Getting ready for Petaflop capacities and beyond, a utility perspective", 3 September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pdf)

• Industrial Competitiveness: Europe goes HPC, J. G. San Luis (Repsol): "The Kaleidoscope Project: Breaking the Sound Barrier in Seismic Imaging", 3 September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pdf)

• Industrial Competitiveness: Europe goes HPC, F. Robin (CEA/GENCI): "HPC Trends", 3 September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pdf)

• Industrial Competitiveness: Europe goes HPC, H.J. Van den Herik (Tilburg University), 3 September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pdf)

• Industrial Competitiveness: Europe goes HPC, T. Lippert, (Forschungszentrum Jülich): "Results and Lessons Learnt", 3 September, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (pdf)

Presentations at ISC08, Dresden:

• ISC'08 Birds-of-a-Feather Session: Building the HPC Ecosystem, Managing Director Kimmo Koski from CSC - the Finnish IT center for science, presentation slides from 18 June, 2008 at ISC'08 Dresden (pdf)
• ISC'08 Birds-of-a-Feather Session: Building the HPC Ecosystem, Dr. Hermann Lederer's, from the Max Planch Society in Germany, presentation slides from 18 June, 2008 at ISC'08 Dresden (pdf)

• ISC'08 Birds-of-a-Feather Session: Building the HPC Ecosystem: Deputy Manager Rob Pennington, from National Center for Supercomputing Applications, presentation slides from 18 June, 2008 at ISC'08 Dresden (pdf)

Presentations at different events (2008, 2007):

• PRACE project coordinator, Dr. Prof. Achim Bachem's presentation slides at the Ter@tec symposium, June 3-4, 2008, Evry, France (pdf)
• Patrick Aerts's presentation at SURFnet Relations days, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, May 15, 2008 (pdf)

• PRACE project coordinator, Dr. Prof. Achim Bachem's presentation slides at the Finnish Ministry of Education seminar on May 15th 2008 in Helsinki, Finland (pdf)
• PRACE - an introduction: Ph. D. Timothy Stitt's presentation slides at the The Cray User Group, CUG 2008, May 5-8, 2008, in Helsinki, Finland (pdf)
• PRACE overview presentation: Dr. Thomas Eickermann's presentation slides at the DEISA Symposium, on April 28th 2008, in Edinburgh, UK (pdf)

• PRACE at SC07: Alain Lichnewsky's presentation launched the preparatory phase project. PRACE was represented at the SC07 exhibition on the booths of its partners. (November 2007)