ARCHER News
Tuesday 9th Jaunuary 2018
- “Spectre” and “Meltdown” Processor Vulnerabilities
- PASC18 - Call for Submissions
- Supercomputing MOOC
- Training : Upcoming ARCHER Training Opportunities
“Spectre” and “Meltdown” Processor Vulnerabilities
Cray are actively working with their suppliers to gather more information and are obtaining updates as they address these vulnerabilities. Further information can be found at: https://www.cray.com/company/news-and-media/spectre-and-meltdown-processor-vulnerabilities and we will be back in touch when we have any further updates.
PASC18 - Call for Submissions
The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is pleased to announce that submissions are open for the PASC18 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Submissions are invited for papers, minisymposia and poster presentations. PASC18 will be held from July 02 to 04, 2018, at the Congress Center Basel, Switzerland.
Conference
PASC18 is the fifth edition of the PASC Conference series, an international platform for the exchange of competences in scientific computing and computational science, with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, application challenges, and novel techniques and usage of high performance computing. The theme of PASC18 is Fast and Big Data, Fast and Big Computation, emphasizing our vision of the close coupling of data and computation. Exposing and expressing massive and irregular parallelism in computational problems are key challenges for exploiting the massive and heterogeneous parallelism available in current, and expected in future, HPC systems, as well as to find new ways of generating scientific insight from data and models. Through its rich and interactive program, PASC18 aims to highlight the computational approaches that computational scientists, computer scientists, and practitioners employ today and will employ over the next decades to address these challenges.
Contributions
PASC18 welcomes submissions for minisymposium, paper, and poster contributions that demonstrate innovative research in scientific computing related to the following scientific domains:
- Chemistry and Materials
- Life Sciences
- Physics
- Climate and Weather
- Solid Earth Dynamics
- Engineering
- Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
- Emerging Applications Domains (e.g. Social Sciences, Finance,…)
Upcoming Submission Deadlines
- Papers: January 19, 2018
- Posters: February 4, 2018
Further details are available on the conference website.
Supercomputing MOOC
Begins 15th January 2018.
Discover how supercomputers work and the real-life scientific breakthroughs made possible by today's computer simulations.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/supercomputing/
Upcoming Training Opportunities
Registration will open early in 2018
- Message-Passing programming with MPI Online over four Wednesday afternoons Starting Wednesday 31st January 2018
- Data Analytics with HPC Belfast 28 February - 1 March 2018
- Porting and Optimisation Workshop Oxford 8 March 2018
- Efficient Parallel IO on ARCHER Cambridge 20 - 21 March 2018
- Threaded Programming Southampton 20 - 22 March 2018
- Scientific Programming with Python ATI London Dates tbc April 2018
- Message-Passing programming with MPI Southampton 11 - 13 April 2018
Full details and registration at http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/index.php
